On Halloween’s eve 2014, we walk
into Claremont graveyard just as the clock struck 12!
It was eerily quiet and as we
walked deeper into the cemetery on a grassy road, I felt like I was
intruding. I turned to my partner and
asked: “I wander if any spirits are following us”.
Orbs in Claremont Cemetery
I turn without warning and
started snapping pictures. What a
surprise I had, when I had a look at my camera screen.
The whole screen was full of
orbs. But not just normal orbs, they
were of all colors and sizes. Some of
the orbs even had cores with different colors.
When going through the picture
again, on a later stage, a friend noticed a shape looking like a man with a
beard and a red coat standing by the tree.
You can even see his eyes, beard
and red coat. Apparition in Claremont Cemetery
One of the famous people to be
buried in Claremont cemetery was Sir. John Moltno, the first Prime Minister of
the Cape Colony.
Molteno was unusually tall and
powerfully built. He acquired the
nickname the "Lion of Beaufort" and the "Beaufort Boer",
which his British opponents referred to him in private. The nicknames were both
reportedly due to his deep booming voice, his height, and the large beard he
grew in later life.
John Molteno - Lion of Beaufort
Soon afterwards the death of his
first wife Maria, Molteno left his vast Nelspoort Estate and joined a Boer
Commando that was heading for the frontier mountains to fight in the 1846
Amatola War. In the early 1860s when
Molteno moved back to Cape Town, he remarried and bought Claremont house, an
estate of orchards and and vineyards, which later become the busy Claremont
suburb we know today.
Could the apparition be of Sir John Molteno
standing in his red uniform, still keeping a watchful eye over Claremont or
maybe just some lost soldier keeping guard?
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