Review: Special doc series explores SA mysteries, secrets

Henry

TRAILS OF DEATH: THE UNEXPLAINED SECRETS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
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With Wouter Botes
Producer and director: Wouter Botes
Restriction: Parental supervision
(AfriForumTV)

Now here is a special series that will make people sit up straight. It’s so captivating and interesting, you’ll be sorry it’s not longer!

Wouter Botes is a pilot, researcher and producer of format. He did almost everything in this series himself, and never reveals the secrets. He leaves it up to the viewer to draw their own deductions and conclusions, but he provides ample information that can lead to solid debate, and possibly keep you busy speculating for a long time. Or maybe you know what really happened?

Wouter, who presents nicely personally and authoritatively, begins with the murder of Bubbles Schroëder. She was a beautiful young girl who actually wanted to become a film star in 1949, but was strangled. Who did it, and why?

Then there is a touching episode about people who were in prisoner of war camps during the Anglo-Boer War, and who were buried anonymously. Episode 2 is called “Secrets of the Anglo-Boer War”.

The other episodes talk about what may have happened to two conscripts who disappeared in 1980 in the God’s Window area near Graskop, Mpumalanga, and whether the Kruger millions really exist. Then he asks: Are there real ghosts, and how are strange spirits and phenomena explained? And what happened during the Krugersdorp tunnel robbery in the late seventies?

Dead ends can be seen on AfriForumTV. Register for free and then watch a new episode in the series every Thursday.