The Tsavo Man-Eaters

The Morbid Curiosity Podcast

Hallie Lloyd

Cryptid, Serialkiller, Science, Disease, Medicine, Scary, Skeleton, Historyofmedicine, Social Sciences, Ghost, History, Medical, Anthropology, Monsters, Archeology, Murder, Creepy, Skeptic, Paranormal, Prison

4.8 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

TW: Colonialism, Big Game Hunting, Animal Attacks

In 1898, two lions began systematically killing and eating Indian workers building a British train line over the River Tsavo in Kenya. Their stealth and cunning made them incredibly difficult to stop. In this episode, Hallie discusses the 9-month incident, the downfall of the lions at the hands of Lt. Col. Patterson, and why the lions may have gone after humans in the first place.

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0:00.0	This episode was suggested by Basic Nature Witch. If you'd like to suggest an episode, you can do so on Facebook and Instagram at Morbid Curiosity Podcast, on Twitter, at Morbid Podcast, and on our website, www.morbidCuriositypodcast.com.
0:18.0	This episode contains discussions of violent colonization, racism, animal attacks, descriptions of mauled human remains, and big game hunting.
0:27.8	If these aren't something you want to hear about, this may be a good episode to skip. Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved.
0:50.3	Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity, and it has
0:56.7	gripped millions of people throughout the ages. I am one of those people. My name is Halley,
1:03.3	and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast.
1:13.6	Thank you. It may not be a good It may not be common knowledge that most carnivorous animals don't usually hunt humans.
1:33.3	However, this is true.
1:36.3	Humans aren't generally the target or prey of hungry carnivores.
1:40.3	We frighten them with our lights, our sounds, and our weapons. But still, we fear them.
1:46.0	We know they could easily kill us with their superior strength and inbuilt weapons, like claws and teeth.
1:53.0	Sometimes large carnivores do kill and eat humans.
1:56.0	We in Western countries don't often hear about it, as it usually occurs in rural areas
2:01.6	where modern technology and security are not the norm.
2:05.5	When a rare extreme case does happen, thanks to the Internet, it makes international news.
2:12.0	One instance made international news at a time when the Internet wasn't even a dream. This instance involved two man-eating
2:19.8	lions in the Savo region of Kenya. The nine-month-long saga occurred in 1898 during construction
2:27.7	of a British railway line from the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya to Lake Victoria. Most of the
2:33.9	deaths occurred during bridge construction
2:35.9	at the Savo River, where two male lions without manes started systematically hunting and
2:42.0	killing the Indian workers during the night. The lions were so stealthy and so coordinated
2:47.6	that the workers began to refer to them as devils and demons.
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