Lord Milner hotel in Matjiesfontein South Africa

My cousin and his wife and daughter visited Matjiesfontein museum and the Lord Milner hotel during the holidays. When they went though the pic's, the photo taken inside the old Lord Milner Hotel had a strange white light behind her daughter and hotelier.

When zoomed in it appears to have hot and colder areas. Could it be one of the 2 ghosts ladies, that is said to still haunt the hotel?

Lucy is a vague specter with rumors of her floating around the passages and the stairs, wearing a negligee. They speculate that perhaps it’s someone who died in the building. Whoever she is, she’s friendly, and too ethereal to be frightening.  It appears that Lucy has never checked out of her room on the first floor!

We also wonder if Lucy could be one of the voices that can be heard from time-to-time emanating from one of the rooms in the dead of night. A loud quarrels erupts and shatters the Karoo tranquility, even more effectively than a goods’ train clattering past. That’s not all that’s shattered: it also sounds as if hundreds of glasses and plates are being smashed inside too. But when someone goes to investigate, everything is quiet and there’s nothing that has been broken...

Kate, as the story goes, was a young nurse who used to enjoy playing cards in this room with convalescent patients.  Whether this was in the days of the British officers’ hospital, which seems unlikely if it was a lookout, or later when the hotel was popular as a health resort, is not clear.  But play cards Kate did, as part of the therapy for the people she was looking after.

Then Kate, aged 19, died mysteriously.  And strange things have happened in the turret room and below it ever since.  One young hotel guest saw a woman floating around one of the lower passages at about 7.45 one evening.  A few minutes after that the guest and her friend went up the narrow steps to the card room.  “I felt that there were people in there”.  And as they walked into the room, which was empty after all, the locked door leading to the roof started rattling and carried on for about a minute.

One of our housekeepers had another experience, a woman not given to hysteria or over-imitativeness, who went into the card room at the hour of 12.30pm.  Something brushed past her.  She turned around and saw a woman in a long white dress or a nurse’s uniform.  Almost immediately the apparition faded away.  The housekeeper also scuttled down to the other members of staff, gasping out her story while her hair, she said “stood on end”.  Kate, looking for her patients or perhaps a game of cards?

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