A young soldier who was cut in half in a tragic accident at the Sandown Fort, has been seen in recent years by zoo staff and keepers. Since his agonising death in 1888, the unfortunate soldier's ghost has been sighted at the old gun emplacement in the fort and near the moat. The young man was working on one of the fort's 18-ton guns when it rolled backwards, cutting him in two. Eerily, in an earlier tragedy at Sandown Barracks, a master gunner went insane, shot his wife and child, and cut his own throat.