The Man-Eaters of Tsavo

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

Comedy, Paranormal, True Crime, Dark History

4.4 • 100.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In the spring of 1898, the British government began a large-scale infrastructure project, building a bridge connecting Uganda to Kilindini Harbor in Kenya. The ambitious project involved building a large railroad bridge across the Tsavo River in the Coast Province of Kenya. Just days after the bridge project began, workmen on the construction crew began disappearing, their remains turning up mangled days later, if they turned up at all. In time, it was discovered that two male maneless lions in the region were stalking, killing, and eating the men working on the infrastructure project.

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0:00.0	Hey, weirdos, I'm Ash.
0:01.9	And I'm Elena.
0:02.9	And this is a podcast called Morbid.
0:17.9	Have you heard of it?
0:19.3	I've heard of it.
0:20.2	You have because you're here. It's been my livelihood for a few years.
0:22.8	It's true, for a few years. A handful of years. Yeah. Actually, it's been quite a few years. It's been almost a decade. This is my longest job that I found. Whoa. I know. I mean, I was a youth when we started this. I listened to, first of all, if you just started listening to Morbid and you caught up like super duper fast,
0:39.2	thank you so much because in the early episodes, I sound like I don't
0:43.2	give a shit about anything. I sound, I was just like, yeah, I was at work today and like, blah, blah,
0:50.9	like, and this happened. You loved that. Ew.
0:55.5	No, it worked.
0:56.1	I know.
0:57.4	The people stayed.
0:59.4	It must have been for you at that point.
1:00.6	If you stay, probably not.
1:02.8	If you stay.
1:06.7	Let's face reality.
1:07.7	I said, uh-uh.
1:08.8	I don't know what it was.
1:10.1	It was our charm, I guess.
1:30.1	If you stayed, you're a real one. You're the realist one. I appreciate you. I always did, but now I sound like it. It, like, really, really hits when we listen to the older episodes. How much you, how much you just, like, hung in there and what we put you through. It is crazy that it will be like a decade and not that many years. Yeah, that's nuts.
1:30.7	It's crazy.
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