3 Haunted Places in Zimbabwe

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. 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.…

2. 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…

3. 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…