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Ghost Mountain: part one

6/12/202635 min

Seventy one-year-old British tourist Lorna McSorley went out for a walk near South Africa's Ghost Mountain. She never returned. 

In the first episode of this three-part investigation, we travel to the remote, superstitious heart of Eastern South Africa to retrace Lorna’s final steps. As official searches hit a dead end, bizarre rumours about what happened to her begin to emerge.

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Host: Jane Flanagan.

Producer: Harry Stott.

Executive Producers: Taryn Siegel and Kate Lamble.

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First 90 seconds

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  5. Jane Flanagan· Host1:00

    [instrumental music plays] Is that Ghost Mountain?

  6. Francois Nel· Guest1:11

    That's Ghost Mountain, yeah.

  7. Jane Flanagan· Host1:12

    Tell me a bit about that mountain.

  8. Francois Nel· Guest1:15

    The name Ghost Mountain comes from people staying there, and it was a secret burial place, and they said that the mountain was haunted.

  9. Jane Flanagan· Host1:25

    At the southern end of the jagged Lebombo Mountains is a peak

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