Sheetal Kumari
September 10, 2024
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In 1898, two lions dubbed the Ghost and the Darkness killed around 35 railroad workers in Kenya before being killed by engineer John Patterson.
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In the early 1900s, the Champawat Tigress killed over 400 people before hunter Jim Corbett ended her reign, later killing two more man-eating tigers.
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Gustave, a Nile crocodile, terrorized Burundi's Ruzizi River, killing over 300 people. Despite failed capture attempts, the 18-foot croc was last seen in 2015.
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The Leopard of the Central Provinces killed nearly 150 women and children in India in the early 1900s before being shot dead.
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Michael Crichton's Jaws was inspired by July 1916 New Jersey shark attacks that killed four people. It’s believed multiple sharks were involved, not just one.
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In the 1930s, a pride of unusually aggressive lions in Njombe, Tanzania, killed over 50 people, mostly women and children, before being hunted down.
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In the 1970s, piranhas in the Suriname River killed several people, including children, before local fishermen eradicated them. The exact death toll remains unknown.
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