Sakété Forest (sacred forest sites near Sakété / Koditan)

Sakété (Sakété commune in Plateau Department, southern Benin) contains remnant forest patches described in conservation literature as rainforest patches targeted for restoration and protection of threatened plant species. Peer‑reviewed conservation work and project summaries list Sakete among locations in southern Benin where reconstituting rainforest patches and protecting threatened plants are priorities, indicating ongoing ecological interest and interventions. (See conservation source listing Sakete.) Culturally, photographic and ethnographic material documents the use of named sacred groves in Sakété (for example the sacred forest of Koditan) as loci for Egungun/masquerade performances and oracular invocation. One photographic/arts source describes participants "emerging from the sacred forest of Koditan, in Sakete... Called upon by the forest's oracle... Embodying ancestors in order to settle familial disputes," indicating active ritual roles for these forests in local customary life. These descriptions are presented as cultural/ritual practices rather than as independently verified paranormal incidents. The provided sources do not supply eyewitness reports of hauntings, named supernatural entities described as haunting the forest in the Western paranormal-investigator sense, or precise geographic coordinates for a single contiguous "Sakété Forest". Conservation and cultural sources together show the site’s cross‑disciplinary significance for traditional religion, anthropology, and conservation biology. No sources in the provided set document specific haunted incidents tied to Agbonou or otherwise; such claims remain unconfirmed by the supplied material.