# Sahara desert. Lost travellers helped by mysterious saviour

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 14, 2017, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sahara-desert-lost-travellers-helped-by-mysterious-saviour/798850 "2017-10-14T19:35:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nansbread1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Nansbread1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nansbread1)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sahara-desert-lost-travellers-helped-by-mysterious-saviour/798850/1 "2017-10-14T19:35:07Z")

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As a child in the seventies i read a few stories about how travellers lost for days in the Sahara desert were saved by someone miraculously appearing and guiding them in the right direction. No one knew who that saviour was but the description was always the same. Local tribes and herdsmen seemed to know of these stories.

Searching on google does not bring these stories up.

Anyone remember reading these mysterious tales?

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sahara-desert-lost-travellers-helped-by-mysterious-saviour/798850/2 "2017-10-14T19:52:33Z")

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Since the OP is looking for personal recollections, let’s move this to IMHO.

Colibri  
General Questions Moderator