The Mngwa: The Grey Ghost Cat of Tanzania
About 6 min readIn the 1920s, a British official in Tanganyika wrote of villagers mauled by a cat the size of a donkey — grey, brindled like a tabby, silent, and neither lion nor leopard. The victims were found clutching tufts of its grey fur. The mngwa, the ‘strange one’, has haunted Tanzania for a thousand years.