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Dit het dieselfde konsep as die radioprogram gevolg en hulle of die publiek (hoofsaaklik inwoners van Drakenstein) het spookstories vertel.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>N\u00e1 &#8216;n klomp spookstories waarna Brand geluister en wat sy aandag geprikkel het, het hy besluit om die stories in boekvorm om te skep, waar hy sy eie navorsing oor die spookstories gedoen het en selfs &#8216;n paar van die plekke waar dit afspeel, soos byvoorbeeld by die Lord Milner-hotel in Matjiesfontein \u2013 die spookagtigste dorp in Suid-Afrika \u2013 besoek het.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brand vertel die boek vat lesers op &#8216;n &#8220;road trip&#8221; van Kaapstad in die Wes-Kaap na die noorde van die land na provinsies soos Gauteng, Noord-Wes en Limpopo, waarna dit weer eindig in die Wes-Kaap by Kaap Agulhas.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens hom het hy nog altyd &#8216;n passie vir spookverhale en rillerrolprente gehad en is dit vir hom &#8216;n mylpaal dat sy stokperdjie tot &#8216;n boek kon ontwikkel.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens Brand is een van sy gunsteling-spookstories een wat in die Lord Milner-hotel afspeel \u2013 die spook genaamd Kate, wat glo &#8216;n verpleegster was voordat sy op 19 dood is. 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