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Building a new railroad was hot, hard, dangerous work. In just nine months, some 135 men died. But these men weren’t killed on the job.
 The workers were killed and eaten by lions. The railroad project was in Kenya, in East Africa. The year was 1898. The man-eaters were two large maneless male lions. They struck at night in the railroad workers’ camps, pulling screaming victims from their tents. The cats seemed to appear out of nowhere. They attacked without warning, then disappeared back into the night. Some people called them ghosts. Legends about the mysterious lions continue today.
MAIN |HUNTING THE HUNTERS|NIGHT STALKERS|RESEARCH REVELATIONS
Text by Margaret Zackowitz
Photograph by Robert Caputo (lion)
Photograph by East African Railways (railroad workers)
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Think you know it all? After you’ve read the story, quiz yourself with our Lion Ghosts Brainteaser!
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