Cryptid of the Day: August 13th
Mokele Mbembe
From MokeleMbembe.com - "In the jungles of the central African countries of Congo, Cameroon, and Gabon are reports of an animal with a long neck, a long tail, and rounded shape tracks with three claws. The closest known animal that has these characteristics is a sauropod dinosaur. When some of the local people of the Likouala region would draw in the dirt or sand a representation of Mokele-mbembe, they drew the shape of a sauropod dinosaur. When shown a picture of a sauropod dinosaur they said that picture is Mokele-mbembe. Mokele-mbembe means 'One that stops the flow of rivers.' French priests in the region called it 'monstrous animal.'"
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