Case file · High strangeness
Mungo Park lost at the Bussa rapids
In 1806 the Scottish explorer Mungo Park and his last companions disappeared on the Niger; his guide Amadi Fatouma later said they drowned at the Bussa rapids under attack.
1806 CE · 10.05, 4.55 · status: explained
The account
For years rumours held that Park was alive in the interior. In 1830 the Lander brothers found relics of him at Bussa. The old town and rapids now lie under the Kainji reservoir; the plotted point is approximate.