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I like taking night time tours, so when I heard about the one the Johannesburg Zoo (http://www.jhbzoo.org.za/) offers and the Mystery Ghost bus tour , I just had to sign up for them. My husband doesn’t understand my fascination with doing things at night, so he stayed back at our room in one of the Johannesburg boutique hotels while I went and enjoyed the night life.

The Johannesburg Zoo ferried me around to peer at the glowing scorpions, the red pandas, raccoons, the genets and of course, the big beautiful cats. The lions stared at us intently, like they were sizing us up for a late night snack. I also got to roast marshmallows over a huge blazing bonfire and drink some hot tea after the tour. I found out that I could’ve book for a safe sleep over in the zoo, but I would’ve needed my own tent and gear and provide my own meal. Which I couldn’t have done anyway.

The next night, still without my husband, I went on the Mystery Ghost bus tour, and no, the bus isn’t haunted. We got to explore the Braamfontien Cemetery where De Melker’s spirit still hangs around, and then we went to the 7th ward of the Transvall Children’s Hospital, also where De Melker is known to linger about. I didn’t see anything or feel anything. But was glad to go find our second ghost, Bubbles Schroder, she was a prostitute who was murdered in 1949 under mysterious circumstances. Her killer was never found and it’s believed her spirit haunts several houses n Sandton. There too, I didn’t see anything or feel anything, but I wasn’t the only one. At least, I got to hang around fellow ghost hunters. That was fun, better than being with my humdrum husband.

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