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  2. Apr 19, 2017 · Their names were "The Ghost" and "The Darkness," and 119 years ago, these two massive, maneless, man-eating lions hunted railway workers in the Tsavo region of Kenya. During a...

  3. v. t. e. The Tsavo Man-Eaters were a pair of large man-eating male lions in the Tsavo region of Kenya, which were responsible for the deaths of many construction workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway between March and December 1898. The lion pair was said to have killed dozens of people, with some early estimates reaching over a hundred deaths.

  4. Lt. Col. John Henry Patterson shot the lions (a 1996 movie, The Ghost and the Darkness, dramatized the story) and sold their bodies for $5,000 to the Field Museum in Chicago, where,...

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  5. The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 American historical adventure film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. The screenplay, written by William Goldman , is a fictionalized account of the Tsavo man-eaters , a pair of male lions that terrorized workers in and around Tsavo , Kenya during the building of the ...

  6. Jan 11, 2024 · Home History. The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story. British railway workers in Kenya were terrorized by two lions: maneaters that defied the laws of nature and, by some estimates, killed over one hundred people. Jan 11, 2024 • By Kassandre Dwyer, M.Ed History.

  7. Feb 10, 2018 · Museum staff restored the lions to their former glory—minus the appetite—by mounting them as taxidermy specimens and displaying them in a diorama. In addition to Patterson’s written account, several movies are based on his tale of the man-eating lions, including The Ghost and the Darkness.

  8. The book has been adapted to film three times: a monochrome, British film of the 1950s, a 1952 3-D film titled Bwana Devil, and a 1996 color version called The Ghost and the Darkness, where Val Kilmer played the daring engineer who hunts down the lions of Tsavo.

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