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

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, after the discovery of diamonds in the southern Namib desert, German miners flocked to the area, developing this unique town known as Kolmanskop.