Of all the shows I've seen on this subject no one comes close to your dignified demeanor and delivery which are impeccable. I've lost count of how many times I've listened to it. Totally compelling. Thanks again.
Thank you VERY MUCH for posting this epic story and narrating it so excitingly. Others have tried with this story but nowhere as good as you did. You had me on the edge of my seat by the way you told it.
I hope that I find you safe and well...Great shout Mary! Seven years have passed since your recommendation, and I have just now purchased this book on-line. Thank you.
iam the devil and the devil has come to tsavo with me,interesting word's there by Michael Douglas in the movie the ghost & the darkness really captivating story.
Today Is 18th March The Date Peterson Landed In Tsavo Kenya To Face The Lions Called The Ghost And The Darkness Oh What A Throw Back Still Reverend Today
To this day lions kill natives in Tanzania along major rodes on bikes and on foot. Speculation over 20 a year. A lady discovered why. Not year round. Killed in dry season when game moved away from water holes. Lions are territorial and do not move. So they have small game left.
Great info Steve! That make a lot of clear sense. Some historians say that the old 'slave trails' that run from the interior to the coasts, gave many large predatory creatures a penchant for human meat, viscera, and bone in the earlier days.
Stephens Dygert I’m sure it will one day. If paramount can release that African movie Congo on bluray, then I’m sure paramount will come across the ghost and the darkness and release it
I really don't know if this was reel but juts to listen to this story seems more like if i was ther but only one thing i cand get the full video i really whant to se the move thy had it on tv but i was working that night and i really am lots interesting in this story.
coming from you that's funny. any person with common sense would know that I was referring to the 2 lions of Tsavo. hence we are on that page/video. right? once again, you're not thinking.
JustinBieber They are real dumbass. They were reconstructed from the rugs that Col. Patterson had made them into. Although portions had to be substituted due to aging shrinkage, the bulk of the lions in the Chicago Field Museum are the real lions of Tsavo.
does anyone think Predator...when you see the lions lair in the film "Ghost and the Darkness" human skeletal remains kept as trophies all scattered round! its obvious those lions did it for the pleasure =/ ...
Yeh apparently they looked for this lair and were able to find the cave eventually, but found no skeletons or human remains..so they questioned if this was exaggerated. Hard to gauge which parts of the story are fact or fiction :s
***** That's what I had heard before even coming upon this video. That's what interested me the most but it still scared the living daylights out of me lol!
kiikiikhan it is amazing and terrifying ur so correct :) its crazy how two lions can throw nature out of balance and claim so many lives. No matter how hard man tried the lions prevailed until their demise. It makes u step back and look at ur life and say "damn I got it good" compared to then. It is a good story.
***** Indeed. But I hate how we people are making animals extinct with overpopulation. I find the world without wilderness even more horrible than the cruelty of these 2 lions and anything animals can do. I love and respect nature. When me and my buddies went camping into the bear country, I was scared shittless during the night, but I wouldn't blame a bear for killing us:) We came to his home. He he was kind to let us leave:) Well I made weapons for protection, but I wouldn't kill an animal unless in self defence and for food:)
Poor indians They are already been hunted by tigers and leopards in india that time! How pity they are also got hunted down by tsavo lions so far in africa
The voice read the foreword which mentions a 1996 film called "The Ghost and the Darkness" starring Val Kilmer (which the voice mentions by name), so unless Colonel Patterson haunts this world as a ghost with enough interest in modern cinema, then I don't think the voice is him.
I have no doubt that history shows from many witness that the col. shot two juvenile male lions that had started eating the thousands of workers camped around the railroad nothing bad about the col. but his accounts of the events are tainted by the typical british self serving upper class of the time government ghost writer I'm sure I would love to have met the col. and hear the humble version
yz450223 they were stuffed and still sit in a museum. recent test on their hair shows they ate at least 35 ppl. they think one lion 10 the other around 25. you may be tainted by your opinons of history viewed through the humanity of today.
They did but it assumed that both lions ate a majority of the victim but Patterson mentioned that the lions were very picky in what parts they ate and this is why when they tried to poison the lion it didn’t work as they didn’t eat enough of the bait for a lethal dose he said this to people who asked him about poisoning
Because those workers were not only highly disposable, but training and equipping thousands of people to be competent with firearms of the period would cost, and would take quite a lot of time. Especially with language barriers.
Brits used Indians in such harsh and deadly conditions. Shame on you. At the same time salute to the brave Patterson, who risked his life to save his fellow men.
That's my exact take! This john Patterson is self aggrandizing making it sound like all other men there were mice scared to death of the savage cats....yikes! Why not also include the participation of others??? I am not buying his assumed heroism....
The Ghost and the Darkness, starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas, was most definitely NOT a good description of this book The Man Eaters of Tsavo. Absolutely no where in the book is there any reference to the character Charles Winchester played by Michael Douglas. The movie itself was no more than a B level, definitely not either actors best work.
