Located in the depths of the long-extinct Mount Elgon volcano on the Kenya-Uganda border, Africa's Kitum Cave has long been the subject of controversy and research.
You probably remember the rules of the "water truce" from the book by R. Kipling about Mowgli. After a drought, when the river bed was filled with water, predators and herbivores converged to a watering hole, drank the water and calmly went home.
Something similar happens in the Kitum cave. At certain times of the year, animals massively go deep into the bowels of the cave, not paying attention to potential prey.
Scientists managed to find out that on the walls of this cave there is a salt deposit, which contains minerals necessary for life, washed out of the scanty desert soil. They are the reason for this animal pilgrimage.
But not all come out of the cave. Elephants and buffaloes easily come back. The only possible obstacle for them is a narrow gap, which they overcome without problems. But antelopes and smaller animals are literally swallowed up by the cave with only one exit.
People who entered this cave testify that it is absolutely empty and there are no traces of bones. However, these daredevils themselves, who had visited Kitum at different times (P. Cardinal and C. Monet), soon died in terrible agony from a rare disease known as the "Marburg virus". Further careful studies of the cave did not reveal any traces of the killer virus, but among experts there are suspicions that AIDS came to the world from these places.
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There is also an assumption that such caves can be a kind of warehouses for "sleeping" viruses that are activated with the appearance of living things. It is possible that some of the bacteria act as a kind of glue on the body, calcifying the insides or making them look like a salt crystal. The animal turns into a homogeneous petrified mass, which then crumbles.
Another hypothesis of the disappearance of living beings in the Kitum cave is the presence of a special energy field there, which literally incinerates the body without a trace. This can be the action of electromagnetic waves of the corresponding frequency, reaching an explosive effect.
This version is in doubt, since no one can give an answer to the question: why do these forces act only on certain types of animals? Elephants and buffaloes remain unharmed, and the rest awaits certain death, after which the animals dutifully wander into the cave for many thousands of years in a row.
Scientists could provide an answer if they knew what to look for. But so far only pieces of this puzzle remain: the Kitum cave, disappeared animals and unharmed elephants. It is not yet possible to understand the real picture of what is happening.