3 Haunted Places in Cameroon
Every case file on record in Cameroon — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
Lake Nyos — The Killer Lake of the Ancestors
A · Menchum, Northwest Region, Cameroon — The deep crater lake above the Oku volcanic plain that on 21 August 1986 exhaled a cloud of carbon dioxide and killed some 1,700 people overnight — a disaster the local Bafmen say their geomythology h…
Mount Kupe — The Mountain of the Nyongo Estates
B · Bakossi land, Southwest Region, Cameroon — The cloud-forest massif of the Bakossi people — a mountain whose dark forest patches are said in Grassfields belief to hide the estates of the Nyongo, the witch-societies whose members work invisible …
Ndelaa Shrine, Bafut — The Queen Buried Alive Under Her Own Throne
B · Bafut (near Bamenda), North West Region, Cameroon — The sacred square three hundred metres from the Bafut palace where, around 1650, the woman who found the land and planned the kingdom was buried alive on a ceremonial stool — and where, four centuries…