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The Welcome back everyone to one thousand one heroes, legends, histories, and mysteries podcast.

This is your host, John Hagadorn, and the Man Eating Lions of Savo, Part 2.

The Trap is ready.

Thanks to the many of you who responded to our Facebook page at 1001 Heroes.

I posted this story there, encouraging all of our fans there to listen to this story,

because unlike the 1996 movie, The Ghost and the Darkness,

this story uses the actual autobiography that Lieutenant Colonel Patterson gave us,

combined with my research, to give you the authentic history surrounding that event

with the facts the movie either left out or altered.

The effect I wanted was to have Patterson sharing his story with us and to make you feel

that you were there.

We ended part one just as Lieutenant Colonel Patterson finished the building of the lion trap,

which was a huge task.

Honestly, I thought the movie did a good job with that.

We have a ton of good story ahead

as it covers the last two months of the terror and the hunting. At this point, both lions are

alive and both are grabbing victims almost nightly. There is much to tell before the trap

gets sprung, however. In his autobiography, the man-eaters of Savo, Patterson writes,

When the trap was ready, I pitched a tent over it in order further to deceive the lions,

and built an exceedingly strong boom around it. One small entrance was made at the back of the

enclosure for the men, which they were to close after going in by pulling a bush in after them. And another entrance was made just in front of the enclosure for the men, which they were to close after going in by pulling a bush

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