For the Shina people around Karanga, Zimbabwe there are tales of the Njuzu (Water-Sprite).
Recently several photo’s have turned up around the web purporting to be a ‘Njuzu’ found dead at Lake Mutririkwi in the Masvingo region.
According to legend, the Njuzu are guardians of fresh water and inhabit areas where pure water naturally collects.
If a person goes to collect water, they should use clean containers as the Njuzu get upset if their water is contaminated by dirty utensils. If they get angry, they are apt to grab you and drag you into the watery depths.
Njuzu’s are also sensitive to loud noises. It is said that if a person creates a loud noise near their abodes, they will leave and the water will dry up.
If a Njuzu is disturbed or angry, they can rise up in the air and wrap themselves in dark clouds. Once in the air, they can create huge winds and pounding rain which causes wide spread damage to those who have upset them.
In some areas, the local population have been known to offer human sacrifices to the Njuzu’s. A child is offered to the Njuzu. If accepted, the spirit of the child will become a Njuzu.
Other legends of their origins vary from area to area. Some say that they are born in mountain caves where the rivers originate from. Others say that they are the spirits of the dead. Continue reading »
On 14th September, 1994, a UFO streaked across the sky over Southern Africa. Several witnesses reported what they had seen, but two days later something even more weird happened.
It was the morning of the 16th September at Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe. The teachers had just begun their morning meeting and outside 62 children were playing unsupervised in the schoolyard on their morning recess.
Suddenly some of the children stopped playing and looked up into the sky. There they saw 3 approaching lights. These objects would appear and disappear in the sky. The strange objects got closer and closer until finally they landed in a bushy area next to the schoolyard, about 100 meters from the children.
(There is some controversy as to whether the object landed on the ground or hovered above it.)
As the children watched in astonishment, a small man, only about a meter in height appeared on the top of one of the objects. He was described as having a scrawny neck, long jet black hair coming below his shoulders and huge eyes. The little man was dressed in a tight-fitting black suit which was ‘shiny’ according to an 11 year old girl.
He started moving across the ground towards them.Suddenly he looked up at the children and vanished, only to reappear behind the ‘UFO’. A few seconds passed and the man vanished again and the object took off and vanished into the sky.
Clip from ‘Sightings’ about this case
The terrified children called for help. They thought that the small man was a ‘tokoloshe’ (click here to see my previous article) who would kidnap them and eat them. By the time the adults arrived, the object had disappeared. The whole encounter had taken about 15 minutes.
The following day, UFO investigator Cynthia Hind contacted the school and asked the headmaster, Colin Mackie, to get the children to draw pictures of what they had seen. When she arrived at the school, she had a collection of 35 pictures waiting.
One small girl told Cynthia: ‘I swear by every hair on my head and the whole Bible that I am telling the truth.’ Continue reading »
