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The Ghost of Tokai

Posted by Graham Russon (Cape Town, South Africa) on 12 May 2008 in Architecture and Portfolio.

Found some information on this house. It was a Manor House designed by Michel Thibault in 1795. (see link below)

The Ghost of Tokai
At one of Petrus Eksteen's festive New Year's Eve banquets, a young gentleman, thought to be the son of the house, mounted the precipitous stoep steps of the Manor House on horseback for a wager.
On their descent, to the horror of onlookers, horse and rider slipped and fell to their deaths.

Now, on New Year's Eve, some say, the pair can be heard cantering through the forest to repeat their foolhardy bet

I found this information on a most informative web site by Peter Groves, you can visit it at this link:
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Trails/6676/tokai.htm

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