Mount Nyangani - "The Mountain That Swallows People"

In local Zimbabwean tradition, Mount Nyangani is inhabited by powerful ancestral spirits and is a sacred place.

The mountain has long been feared by the people of the region, a place to be approached with caution, and there are numerous rules that must be followed when venturing there.

A rash of such disappearances occurred here in the 1980s. In 1981, the two young teenage daughters of a former government official named Tichaendepi Masaya vanished without a trace on the mountain, and a massive air and ground search turned up not a single shred of evidence of what had become of them. Their disappearance remains a complete mystery.

A few years later there was the mysterious vanishing of a 12-year-old schoolboy named Robert Ackhurst, who wandered off from a group on a school field trip and seems to have completely stepped off the face of the earth. Robert’s teacher was so upset that he had lost a child under his care that he committed suicide the following year.

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