Case file · Haunting
Lord Egerton's castle
Lord Maurice Egerton began a fortress-style mansion near Nakuru in 1938, reportedly for a woman who had rejected his first house as too small; she rejected him again, and local legend says his lonely ghost walks its rooms.
1938 CE · -0.28, 35.97 · status: legend
The account
Egerton, a wealthy bachelor who founded the agricultural school that became Egerton University, was said to have banned women from the estate after the rebuff. The castle was finished in 1954 and became a national monument in 1996. Guides tell of footsteps and a figure at the windows.
The sceptical view
The love story is told by guides and has no firm source; the ghost tales are typical of a remote, empty great house.