diff --git a/sql-plugin/src/main/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/GpuCast.scala b/sql-plugin/src/main/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/GpuCast.scala
index 6cae021bafa..6a3f8624a8d 100644
--- a/sql-plugin/src/main/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/GpuCast.scala
+++ b/sql-plugin/src/main/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/GpuCast.scala
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 package com.nvidia.spark.rapids
 
 import java.text.SimpleDateFormat
+import java.time.DateTimeException
 
 import ai.rapids.cudf.{ColumnVector, DType, Scalar}
 
@@ -784,8 +785,27 @@ case class GpuCast(
               convertTimestampOrNull(sanitizedInput, TIMESTAMP_REGEX_YYYY, "%Y"))))
 
       // handle special dates like "epoch", "now", etc.
-      specialDates.foldLeft(converted)((prev, specialDate) =>
+      val finalResult = specialDates.foldLeft(converted)((prev, specialDate) =>
         specialTimestampOr(sanitizedInput, specialDate._1, specialDate._2, prev))
+
+      // When ANSI mode is enabled, we need to throw an exception if any values could not be
+      // converted
+      if (ansiMode) {
+        closeOnExcept(finalResult) { finalResult =>
+          withResource(input.isNotNull) { wasNotNull =>
+            withResource(finalResult.isNull) { isNull =>
+              withResource(wasNotNull.and(isNull)) { notConverted =>
+                if (notConverted.any().getBoolean) {
+                  throw new DateTimeException(
+                    "One or more values could not be converted to TimestampType")
+                }
+              }
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      }
+
+      finalResult
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/tests/src/test/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/AnsiCastOpSuite.scala b/tests/src/test/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/AnsiCastOpSuite.scala
index 81dfee6fa1b..4f0206e657a 100644
--- a/tests/src/test/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/AnsiCastOpSuite.scala
+++ b/tests/src/test/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/AnsiCastOpSuite.scala
@@ -17,10 +17,11 @@
 package com.nvidia.spark.rapids
 
 import java.sql.Timestamp
+import java.time.DateTimeException
 
 import scala.util.Random
 
-import org.apache.spark.SparkConf
+import org.apache.spark.{SparkConf, SparkException}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.{DataFrame, SparkSession}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.{Alias, AnsiCast, CastBase}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.execution.ProjectExec
@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ class AnsiCastOpSuite extends GpuExpressionTestSuite {
     .set(RapidsConf.ENABLE_CAST_FLOAT_TO_STRING.key, "true")
     .set(RapidsConf.ENABLE_CAST_STRING_TO_INTEGER.key, "true")
     .set(RapidsConf.ENABLE_CAST_STRING_TO_FLOAT.key, "true")
+    .set(RapidsConf.ENABLE_CAST_STRING_TO_TIMESTAMP.key, "true")
 
   def generateOutOfRangeTimestampsDF(
       lowerValue: Long,
@@ -420,6 +422,37 @@ class AnsiCastOpSuite extends GpuExpressionTestSuite {
     frame => testCastTo(DataTypes.TimestampType)(frame)
   }
 
+  test("ANSI mode: cast string to timestamp with parse error") {
+    // Copied from Spark CastSuite
+
+    def checkCastWithParseError(str: String): Unit = {
+      val exception = intercept[SparkException] {
+        withGpuSparkSession(spark => {
+          import spark.implicits._
+
+          val df = Seq(str).toDF("c0")
+              .repartition(2)
+              .withColumn("c1", col("c0").cast(DataTypes.TimestampType))
+
+          val result = df.collect()
+          result.foreach(println)
+
+        }, sparkConf)
+      }
+      assert(exception.getCause.isInstanceOf[DateTimeException])
+    }
+
+    checkCastWithParseError("123")
+    checkCastWithParseError("2015-03-18 123142")
+    checkCastWithParseError("2015-03-18T123123")
+    checkCastWithParseError("2015-03-18X")
+    checkCastWithParseError("2015/03/18")
+    checkCastWithParseError("2015.03.18")
+    checkCastWithParseError("20150318")
+    checkCastWithParseError("2015-031-8")
+    checkCastWithParseError("2015-03-18T12:03:17-0:70")
+  }
+
   ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   // Writing to Hive tables, which has special rules
   ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////