Tourists and visitors have also claimed sighting ghosts and hearing ghostly sounds of unknown people calling out strange names along the escarpment of death. The number of elders who died at the Sheu Morobi escarpments is not documented, but the elders estimate the figure at 5,000.
The practice ended during the colonial times after British colonialists and missionaries discouraged the Nandi from killing their elders. British colonialists and missionaries help end the practise The ceremonial rituals at the cliffs were conducted periodically between five and 10 years and set strategically after the harvesting period to ensure the elders were well fed before embarking on their spiritual journeys to the dead land. My Sweet Curse cast and characters “Elders were known to curse their descendants if they felt neglected thus, elders who had lived a prolonged life past their hundreds were encouraged to die at Sheu Morobi before planting curses at their descendants,” Ngetich further said explained.
