013: Place of Slaughter
Pleasing Terrors
Mike Brown
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The railroad tracks over the Tsavo river are flanked on either side with lush grasses. A picturesque river runs below, providing a calming base for the trains that rush from Uganda to Kenya and back again. During it's construction, men from all over India and far parts of Africa gathered at the Tsavo river, working for months on end. At first, the men were oblivious to the twin pairs of golden eyes stalking them from the grasses… until half-devoured bodies and screams in the night became commonplace.
From a distance, from a viewpoint high above the clouds, the Kenya-Uganda Railway snakes its way across deserts and through forests of thorns, trailing bloodshed and pain in its wake.
Episode Highlights:
- Demons in the Forest of Thorns
- Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson and the Tsavo River
- Devoured men and lion prints: A campsite surrounded
- Patterson's hunt for a pride of unordinary lions
- The figure on the platform
- Blood on the desert sand
- The price of the railroad
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| 0:00.0 | Some stories were never supposed to be told. |
| 0:14.0 | Stories that exist in the twilight between science and the supernatural, |
| 0:20.0 | between history and horror. |
| 0:23.0 | Stories that speak of terrifying things. |
| 0:27.0 | Stories that you want to hear. |
| 0:30.0 | Stories that you need to hear, |
| 0:34.0 | stories that will sink their teeth in |
| 0:37.1 | and never let you go. |
| 0:39.6 | My name is Mike Brown, and this is pleasing terrors. |
| 0:45.0 | Episode 13, Place of Slaughter. slaughter. The year is 1898 and an iron skin serpent choose its way through a forest of thorns. |
| 1:17.0 | Its movements are slow but unrelenting. |
| 1:21.0 | The forest is inhabited by monsters, fearsome beasts of myth and legend, |
| 1:28.9 | conjured out of the superstitions of the past, and for a time the path of the servant is blocked. |
| 1:38.1 | The snake has many servants, but the monsters are hungry, and a festival of carnage ensues. |
| 1:45.0 | Soon the trees are decorated with human flesh and blood. |
| 1:51.0 | One of the servants is both a hunter and a business. and |
| 1:55.0 | he raises a tower in the |
| 1:58.0 | he raises a tower in the midst of the thorns |
| 2:01.0 | and waits through the long dark hours of the night. He waits for death to arrive. |
| 2:10.0 | On the night of December 28, 1898, a man sat alone atop a rickety platform staring into |
| 2:18.4 | the inky darkness of an African forest. |
| 2:22.4 | His senses were strained to their limits, hoping to catch some hint of movement, |
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