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Wednesday 16 October 2013

TOUR DE FORCE, HEBREWS 11: 37-38. C3Q67 PRESAGE 74.

river monsters. below.

The Mokele-Mbembe

A bit more well-known than the Mahamba, the Mokele-mbembe is described as having a long neck and tail, with round shaped tracks with claws. It is believed to be a modern dinosaur due to the fact that it matches these characteristics of a dinosaur that was alive sixty-five years ago, the sauropod. The natives of central Africa gave it its name, meaning "one that stops flow of rivers." The natives have also given it the description of being a reddish-gray color, about ten meters in length, having legs like an elephant, a snake like head, and a neck that stretches as if it were a snake itself.

Just like the Mahamba, there is great fear of the Mokele-mbembe. Natives have claimed it to be a killer, and sometimes avoid deep waters in fear of encountering it.

In this video, Africans discuss their fear of the water when they see the "water ghost" in the Congo River. The people being interviewed in the video firmly believe in it's existence, describing it as a dinosaur.

https://youtu.be/l2nPRLXdhMs

https://youtu.be/viCsoaw66mk

Sightings of this modern dinosaur have been occurring for over 200 years. “In 1776, French missionaries passing through the forests reported finding huge footprints in the ground. The clawed prints were three feet in circumference and were spaced about seven feet apart” (Strickler). Normally one would assume the tracks just to belong to an elephant, but elephants do not have claws. After further talking with the natives, the French missionaries knew they had come across a monster of some sort. This assumption continued all the way to 1913 when a German explorer claimed to see a sauropods, and again in 1932 when “world famous zoologist and biologist, Ivan T. Sanderson” made a discovery (Strickler). "The most terrifying sound I have ever heard, which sounded like an on-coming earthquake or an exploding, nearby robot, suddenly greeted us from a large underwater cave” (Strickler).

Sanderson summed up his journey as:
"I don't know what we saw, but the animal, the monster, burned itself into my retinas. It looked like something that ought to have been dead millions of years ago. As a scientist, I should have been happy, of course, but this encounter was so frightening, so nasty that I never want to see it again."

After Sanderson’s publishing, the world began to become fascinated with the Mokele-mbembe, and more and more expeditions were occurring. An American scientist conducted a second expedition in 1932, when there was a discovery of a “large-hippo like animal” in the water (True). In 1972 and 1976, another American scientist made two expeditions, talking with the local natives about this monster. A German engineer made a trip to Lake Tele in 1980, claiming that he had seen the 30-35 foot creature and photographed it. American, German, and British expeditions all continued into the 1980s, never discovering new information. A few have claimed to have taken photographs of the dinosaur, all of which have been disproved.