013: Place of Slaughter

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The railroad tracks over the Tsavo river are flanked on either side with lush grasses. A picturesque river runs below, providing a calming base for the trains that rush from Uganda to Kenya and back again. During it's construction, men from all over India and far parts of Africa gathered at the Tsavo river, working for months on end. At first, the men were oblivious to the twin pairs of golden eyes stalking them from the grasses… until half-devoured bodies and screams in the night became commonplace.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From a distance, from a viewpoint high above the clouds, the Kenya-Uganda Railway snakes its way across deserts and through forests of thorns, trailing bloodshed and pain in its wake.</span></p> <p><strong>Episode Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Demons in the Forest of Thorns</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson and the Tsavo River</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Devoured men and lion prints: A campsite surrounded</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Patterson's hunt for a pride of unordinary lions</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The figure on the platform</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blood on the desert sand</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The price of the railroad</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Enjoyed this episode? Please support the show by rating, reviewing, and subscribing on</span> <a href= "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pleasing-terrors/id1141063625?mt=2"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">iTunes</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Please visit</span> <a href= "http://www.pleasingterrors.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Pleasing Terrors</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, the podcast behind Old Charleston's best ghost tour, on</span> <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/pleasingterrors/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Facebook</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and</span> <a href= "https://twitter.com/pleasingterrors"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Twitter</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">!</span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p>