THE HAUNTED ATLAS / COUNTRY FILE4 RECORDS

4 Haunted Places in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe · graded case files, legends and skeptic reports

Every case file on record in Zimbabwe — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.

  1. Ariel School, Ruwa — The Morning the Children Drew the Same Thing

    B · Ruwa, Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe — On the morning of 16 September 1994, at a private school outside Ruwa, Zimbabwe, sixty-two children between six and twelve years old reported watching a craft descend beyond the playground fence and b…

  2. Chinhoyi Caves — The Pool of the Fallen

    B · Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe — A cobalt-blue sinkhole pool held sacred and feared for two centuries — named for the murdered, said to hold a monster, and still dived by the brave.…

  3. Great Zimbabwe — The City of the Mhondoro

    A · Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe — The largest ancient stone ruin south of the Sahara — the Shona royal city of the eleventh to fifteenth centuries, its great walls and hill fortress a national emblem — where the Hill Complex was the s…

  4. Pioneer Cemetery — The Marching Boots of Mbare

    C · Harare, Zimbabwe — The colonial-era cemetery in Harare's Mbare township where, after dark, residents avoid the ground — saying they hear the heavy thud of military jackboots marching through the grass and whispers in an…