3 Haunted Places in Kenya
Every case file on record in Kenya — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
Finch Hatton's Grave — Lions at the Obelisk
A · Ngong Hills, Kajiado, Kenya — The obelisk over Denys Finch Hatton, Karen Blixen's lover, stands on the first ridge of the Ngong Hills — the grave that closes Out of Africa, where Maasai reports put a lion and a lioness standing gu…
Menengai Crater — Kenya's Mountain of the Devils
B · Nakuru, Kenya — A vast dormant caldera above Nakuru whose Kikuyu name, Kirima kia ngoma — the place of devils — reflects generations of disappearances and bewilderments.…
Tsavo — The Man-Eaters of 1898
B · Tsavo, Coast Region, Kenya — Where two maneless lions halted the British Empire's Uganda Railway for nine months by eating its workers — the most documented man-eating in history, and a legend that still stalks the bridge.…