NYANGANI MOUNTAIN-THE BEAUTIFUL AND MYSTERIOUS PRIDE OF MANICALAND

 

Nyangani Mountain Eastern Highlands Zimbabwe

Nyangani Mountain is found in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe

It is the highest mountain in Zimbabwe standing at 2.592 meters (8.504 ft) and is in the Nyanga National Park North West of the Manicaland Provincial Capital and Eastern Border City of Mutare.

Africa's second longest waterfall Mutarazi Falls is in Nyangani Mountain.

Nyangani mountain is mostly covered by mist throughout the year and the vegetation is evergreen along the slopes of the mountain.

The mountains annual rainfall is  2200 mm during the warm and  rainy summers and it gets cold and dry winters from May -August.

Mysteries of Nyangani Mountain

A lot of mysteries have happened in Nyangani Mountain most of them involving the disappearence of tourists and locals leading to most historians and traditionalists  associating the disappearances with some mythical explanations of sacredness of the holy mountain .

The Traditional Chiefs of Nyanga mainly Chief Tangwena, Chief Saunyama and Chief Katerere have been asked to perform some traditional ancestor appeasing rituals in many cases where tourists who visit the mountains goes missing without trace.

In 1981 a former Zimbabwean top government official Tichaendepi Masaya lost his 2 little daughters in that mountain and they have not been found up to this day.

Another mysterious disapperance is of an 8 year old white tourist Robert Ackhurst who vanished in that mountain never to be seen again.

Zayd Dada a mountain hiker of Asian descent also mysteriously disappeared he proceeded with the hike when his wife and another couple gave up the hike halfway.

Mysterious disappearances in the mountain are real but there is a huge debate among people from different beliefs

Some traditionalists thinks that there is a vindictive spiritual presence on the mountain that makes those who mocks the ancestors or say or do certain things that angers them to disappear.

Some local people say that there is a "strange colourful snake" a smoldering clay pot with no fire burning around it that needs to be ignored when you see them as showing signs of shock or pointing at the mystery leads to your forever vanishing.

Other group believes that since Nyangani Mountain is home to a lot of leopards,venomous snakes and other dangerous wild animals those who disappeared could be victims of such.

Also there are a lot of slippery areas that could see tourists slipping into deep places after one single stepping mistake.

Rock boulders also fall from the mountain summit and roll down to the foot which may result in fatalities if they are to meet human beings or animals during the process.

Rusape Dam-Graves and Mermaid Stories

Drought exposes unknown graves 

Rusape dam also known as Lake Rusape  has been surrounded by many unanswered mysteries for a long time.

From Daniel the man popularly believed by many who hail from Makoni district and beyond to magically switch from being a human being to a Hippopotamus,  to the stories of a mermaid that grabs and kills a resident from the town every year!!!

Located in the Land between Rusape and Tsanzaguru the dam is used to supply water for Rusape urban residents and irrigation water for farmers living downstream. 

The mighty Rusape river (which is believed by historians that be where the town got its name) supplies water into the dam throughout the year.

However many young and older  Rusape residents don't know that before the dam that whole lake was occupied by people who were later relocated to pave way for the dam construction. 

These people had their deceased relative's graves in that area and possibly weren't offered a chance to exhume the bodies of their beloved relatives for reburial in their newly found homes when they were relocated. 

As the water started to increase in the man-made structure the graveyards became submerged and stayed underwater for a very long time until a drought came and water levels started to decrease, -nature has a way of exposing the hidden. 

The exposure of those graves wasn't spared from being linked to the mermaid mysteries.

Rumour has it that every year there is a mermaid that lures a Rusape resident to the dam and kills him/her.

Most residents from this town are convinced that the mermaid exists but with the exposure of these graves another school of thought now says there is no mermaid in Lakeview. 

They believe that the restless spirits of the deceased people whose graves lie meters under the water need to be appeased and they are the cause for the mysterious deaths of people at the dam which some are accusing the mermaid they have never seen.

Do you believe that the deaths are caused by the mermaid or they are caused by the restless spirits of those lying in the submerged graves?

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