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This deserted African mining town is almost flooded by sand… and ghosts

Cecilia Jamasmie | June 09, 2014 | 4:32 pm Africa Europe Diamond 

Namibia’s ghost town of Kolmanskop, abandoned when diamond-mining operations ceased half a century ago, is slowly disappearing under mountains of sand that have failed to cover what some claim to be its main attraction: haunted spirits. In the early 1900s,...

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