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2 episodes with mokele mbembe
2 episodes with mokele mbembe
2 episodes with mokele mbembe
2 episodes with mokele mbembe
2 episodes with mokele mbembe
2 episodes with mokele mbembe
2 episodes with mokele mbembe
This is part two of our two part look at Dragons and how these mythical beasts are being used to promote Creationism. Our guest is Dr. Philip Senter and he's the author of a new book about this topic. We use the word bullsh!t a lot in this episode so I slapped an explicit tag on - but I don't think it's too explicit otherwise. Get Dr. Senter's book here: The Real Story of Dinosaurs and DragonsNews story about Mokele Mbembe being compromised by CreationistsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523/support.
Back in 1955, a quiet Kentucky farmhouse became ground zero for one of the wildest alien encounter stories ever—complete with glowing-eyed creatures, a shotgun standoff, and a mystery that still baffles skeptics today.IN THIS EPISODE: It's considered one of the most bizarre and convincing extraterrestrial events ever reported… we'll look at the alien encounter in 1955's Hopkinsville, Kentucky that was experienced by two terrified families. (The Hopkinsville Encounter) *** In the deep jungles of the Congo, natives tell of a giant creature that, once described, sounds exactly like a long-necked dinosaur. But how could this be? And is it pure legend? Perhaps not, as one noted biologist from the area saw it with his own eyes and reported it. We'll look at the supposed real sighting of Mokele-Mbembe, the living dinosaur of the Congo! (Dinosaur Observed In The Congo) *** Running a club during prohibition was extremely lucrative… and extremely dangerous, as one Theodore Lakoff would've learned… had he been awake when he was murdered. (The Mysterious Death of Theodore Lakoff) *** Benjamin Franklin was known not just as one of the father's of the United States of America, but also as an inventor, a womanizer, and a man with a bit of an ornery streak in him – as is evidenced by a series of letters he wrote to the New England Courant, where he pretended to be a woman. (Who Was Mrs. Silence Dogood?) *** The internet is a vital part of modern life. Without web access, all kinds of businesses and jobs would be unable to function. So, as you can imagine, there are plenty of people who would love to see the internet crumble. And many have tried. (Taking Down The World Wide Web) *** In 1983 sightings poured in from people on the California coast who claim they saw a sea monster. (The California Sea Monster)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Disclaimer and Lead-In00:01:28.184 = Show Open00:03:58.030 = The Hopkinsville Encounter00:14:14.872 = Dinosaur Observed in the Congo00:27:31.586 = Taking Down The World Wide Web00:37:10.602 = The Mysterious Death of Theodor Lakoff00:43:44.912 = Who Was Mrs. Silence Dogood?00:49:37.945 = The California Sea Monster00:55:56.067 = Show Close, Verse, and Final ThoughtSOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…“The Hopkinsville Encounter” by Hannah Collins for Ranker.com's Graveyard Shift: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yp8pnfx7“Dinosaur Observed in the Congo” by Richard Greenwell for the ISC Newsletter: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yc3r3mpp“The Mysterious Death of Theodore Lakoff” by Kathi Kresol for HauntedRockford.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ku5x3cat“Who Was Mrs. Silence Dogood?” by Bipin Dimri for HistoricMysteries.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p868eac“Taking Down the World Wide Web” by Benjamin Thomas for ListVerse.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/c85j5cau“The California Sea Monster” by Malcom Smith for Malcom's Cryptids: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yc2wts7h=====Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicateInfo on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScreamInfo on the next WEIRDO WATCH PARTY event. https://weirddarkness.com/TV=====(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)= = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.=====Originally aired: December, 2021EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/KellyHopkinsville
Hoy nos adentramos en lo más profundo del corazón de África para descubrir la leyenda del Mokele-Mbembe, el supuesto dinosaurio vivo que ha fascinado a exploradores, científicos y buscadores de lo desconocido durante más de un siglo.
On today's episode, we're going off the beaten path to the remote swamps of Central Africa. Here, local legends talk about an enormous, long-necked creature that STALKS the murky waters of the Congo. This elusive beast is referred to only as 'Mokele Mbembe'... and whatever you do... don't eat it's meat.Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTubeJoin our Secret Society Facebook CommunitySupport us on Patreon.com/ThisParanormalLife to get access to weekly bonus episodes!Buy Official TPL Merch! - thisparanormallife.com/storeIntro music by www.purple-planet.comEdited by Philip ShackladyResearch by Ewen Friers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
You ever go to one of those Sportsman shows were there are animal heads on the walls and all sorts of weird meat and jerky to sample? What if there was a secret, deep underground convention for only the most extreme hunters and food connoisseurs? The convention is filled with patrons with only the most sophisticated pallets, adventurous appetites, or sub-par IQs; those who are no longer satisfied with a meager burger, or average steak. I'm referring to a very specific group of individuals. I'm referring to The Cryptid Eaters. This week we take a look at people that have allegedly dined on the flesh of the most mysterious beasts this world has to offer. Would you taste of the meat of the mighty Mokele Mbembe? Are you brave enough to snake on the cooked leg of the dreaded J'ba Fofi? In these circles, it's eat or be eaten. Which side will you be on?thank you for listening!www.thewhatcast.comwww.patreon.com/thewhatccast
Criaturas fascinantes Juan Jesús Vallejo nos transporta a las leyendas sobre animales gigantescos que, según diversas historias, han habitado la Tierra. Nos habla de la leyenda del kraken y de cómo pasó de ser un mito a una posible realidad gracias a hallazgos realizados en el siglo XIX. También menciona al monstruo del lago Ness, al Mokele-Mbembe y al Mapinguarí.Gracias a las expediciones del biólogo Fernando González, podemos comprender el origen de estos monstruos y las leyendas que los rodean.¡Descubre más sobre estas criaturas enigmaticas en un nuevo episodio de Noche de Misterio!
▬ Die Themen im Überblick▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 Einleitung 01:05 Mandela Effekt: Phänomen einer kollektiven falschen Erinnerung? 08:19 Blinder Passagier überlebt 9.000-Kilometer-Flug am Rad eines Jumbojets 11:43 Mokele-Mbembe: Der letzte Dinosaurier versteckt im Dschungel Afrikas 15:17 Zusammenhang zwischen Knochenbrüchen und Schutzengeln: Psalm 43 17:05 Shadow People: Die Person im Raum 22:14 Entführung und 100 Kugeln: Das grausame Ende von Hugo Figueroa In dieser Episode tauchen wir in das Unbekannte ein und widmen uns faszinierenden Phänomenen, mysteriösen Wesen und tragischen Geschichten, die zum Nachdenken anregen und für Gänsehaut sorgen. Wir beginnen mit dem Mandela Effekt, einem verblüffenden Phänomen, bei dem Menschen kollektiv falsche Erinnerungen teilen. Wir gehen den Ursachen und möglichen Erklärungen für diese kollektiven Erinnerungslücken auf den Grund. Danach widmen wir uns einer unglaublichen Überlebensgeschichte: Themba Cabeka, ein blinder Passagier, der einen 9.000-Kilometer-Flug im Radkasten eines Jumbojets überlebte. Wie hat er dieses waghalsige Abenteuer durchgestanden, und was können wir daraus lernen? Weiter geht es mit der Legende des Mokele-Mbembe, einem angeblich letzten lebenden Dinosaurier, der tief in den Wäldern Afrikas verborgen sein soll. Was steckt hinter dieser Legende, und gibt es wissenschaftliche Hinweise auf seine Existenz? Ein ungewöhnliches Thema erwartet euch im nächsten Abschnitt: Gibt es einen Zusammenhang zwischen Knochenbrüchen und Schutzengeln? Mit einem Blick auf Psalm 43 und spirituelle Interpretationen hinterfragen wir, ob göttlicher Schutz in unserem Alltag eine Rolle spielt. Dann werfen wir einen Blick in die Schattenwelt und besprechen die mysteriösen Shadow People. Wer hat nicht schon einmal das Gefühl gehabt, im Dunkeln nicht allein zu sein? Sind sie ein Produkt der Fantasie oder vielleicht doch etwas mehr? Zum Abschluss beleuchten wir die tragische Geschichte von Hugo Figueroa, einem prominenten Mann, dessen Entführung und grausamer Tod durch 100 Kugeln die Welt schockierte. Was führte zu diesem brutalen Verbrechen, und welche Konsequenzen hatte es für die Beteiligten? Eine Episode voller Rätsel, Geschichten über das Überleben und einem Hauch des Unbegreiflichen. Schaltet ein und begleitet uns auf dieser außergewöhnlichen Reise! ▬ Social Media ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ►TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cankerltv ►Instagram: https://instagram.com/cankerltv ►Patreon: https://patreon.com/CankerlTV ▬ Website, Datenschutz, Impressum ▬▬▬▬▬▬ Website: https://cankerltv.com/ Impressum: https://cankerltv.com/impressum/ Datenschutz: https://cankerltv.com/datenschutz/ ✉️Kontakt: kontakt@cankerltv.com
Steve & Izzy continue DINOvember, where they celebrate movies featuring everybody's favorite creatures to ever roam the Earth, as they are joined by Jason of the History of Bad Ideas Podcast to discuss 2012's "The Dinosaur Project" starring actors you've probably never heard of & more!!! How amazing was GoPro technology in 2012? What fun expos are coming up in the Cincinnati area? Mokele Mbembe, found footage, low budget, missing reels of actual action, set in the Congo, could this be the greatest movie ever made?!? Let's find out!!! So kick back, grab a few brews, realize that Crypto is fake, and enjoy!!! This episode is proudly sponsored by Untidy Venus, your one-stop shop for incredible art & gift ideas at UntidyVenus.Etsy.com and be sure to follow her on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram & Patreon at @UntidyVenus for all of her awesomeness!!! Try it today!!! Twitter - www.twitter.com/eilfmovies Facebook - www.facebook.com/eilfmovies Etsy - www.untidyvenus.etsy.com TeePublic - www.teepublic.com/user/untidyvenus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Send us a Text Message.Hello little Ghoulies! Get ready to dive into the shadows and uncover the secrets of the unknown in this thrilling episode! Join us as we explore and discuss our top favorite cryptid monsters, those elusive creatures that haunt folklore and ignite our imaginations.From the eerie Loch Ness Monster and the enigmatic Bigfoot to the chilling Chupacabra and the mysterious Mokele-Mbembe, we'll delve into the lore, legends, and reported sightings of these fascinating beings. We'll share spine-tingling stories, examine the evidence (or lack thereof), and debate the plausibility of these legendary creatures.Whether you're a seasoned cryptid enthusiast or just curious about these mysterious monsters, this episode promises to be an exhilarating journey into the world of the unexplained. Buckle up and prepare for a wild ride through the most intriguing and elusive cryptids in history!If you enjoy this episode feel free to give us a rating below and drop a review! Keep up with all your amazing cohosts to see what spooks we are up to even after the episode ends!www.covenofscreams.com https://www.instagram.com/hellzone_tv/ https://www.instagram.com/technowizrd/ For an expert's point of view on Cryptids please give these amazing individuals a follow and dive deep into the rabbit hole!https://www.instagram.com/creepyconfidential/https://www.instagram.com/strangetalkradio/ Support the Show.
Today, we're back on our dinosaurs & dragon's bullsh*t, delving deep into the rich tapestry of global folklore to explore the fascinating possibility that ancient dragon myths may be rooted in real-life encounters with dinosaurs. From the mist-shrouded peaks of China to the dense jungles of Central Africa, legends of dragons abound in cultures worldwide. Could these stories, steeped in heroism and adventure, hold more truth than we ever imagined? Join us as we investigate the extraordinary claims and evidence that suggest dragons might not be as mythical as we think. In this episode, we'll journey through time and across continents, examining intriguing historical accounts and folklore. We'll look at how ancient texts, such as those from Pliny the Elder and Marco Polo, describe dragons in vivid detail. We'll also explore modern sightings and reports of dragon-like creatures, like the Mokele-Mbembe in the Congo and the Dragon of Lake Tianchi in China. These stories, rich with cultural significance, offer a tantalizing glimpse into the past and challenge our understanding of history and science. Whether you're a skeptic or a believer, this episode promises to ignite your curiosity and expand your horizons (or trigger you uncontrollably, nonstop, depending on how chill you are). We'll present the information, share incredible tales, and let you decide if there's a connection between dragons and dinosaurs. However, for the sake of entertainment, open your mind a little, you close minded stubborn human being, good grief. We'll see you on the inside. ---- TIME STAMPS: 0:00 - Let's Get Even Weirder, Shall We? 2:19 - Spooky Dragon's Were Probably Dinosaurs Intro, No Doubt 3:38 - Let's Talk Dragons: We're Dragon Sightings of Old Actually Dinosaurs? 4:22 - Names & Descriptions of Dragons Across The World 8:02 - Christian Is Clearly Not Paying Attention 8:28 - Excerpt of Article From Brian Thomas 9:24 - Christian Begins His Interruption / Assault on Religion Campaign Early 11:02 - Pliny The Elder Recounts Dragons in India 15:02 - Oral Traditions & Habits 20:02 - Carl Sagan Was Threatened By The Existence of Dragons 20:48 - Quote From Carl Sagan's The Dragons of Eden 21:30 - This Show Has Spiraled Out of Control (You're Welcome) 22:37 - My Neighbor Steve Starts His Lawn Mower. Doesn't Last Long. 25:00 - Historical Accounts of REAL Dragon Sightings! (Steve Stops Mowing His Lawn) 25:55 - Alexander the Great Slays a Dragon..? 27:52 - The Dragon of Mokele-Mbembe 32:02 - The Dragon of Lake Tianchi 34:35 - The Dragons Found within Marco Polo's Writings 35:25 - Apologies to Our Chinese Listeners 36:53 - Tasteful Flight of the Conchords Ref. 37:12 - Konrad Gesner: Father of Modern Zoology 40:46 - Dragon Accounts from Flavious Philostratus 44:58 - Modern Day Dragon Sightings 46:02 - The Dragon of Bear Lake 49:30 - Red Dragon in the Sky 51:37 - Sighting From Rebecca Dear in the U.K. 54:54 - Recap & Wind Down -------- If you want to become a producer, visit this link: http://bit.ly/3WZ3xTg Episode Producer: Eric Long -------- Armed with nothing more than a non-sensical soundboard, a fascination for all things unexplained, and a heaping dose of dry humor; TFD is a weekly paranormal comedy podcast featuring real ghost stories, Cryptid lore discussions, and true paranormal experiences catering to the week's theme. Fresh episodes drop every Thursday across all podcast platforms, and feature perspectives from both believer and skeptic sides of the aisle. So if you're a fan of haunted places, terrifying paranormal activity, and true ghost stories from real people, you're in the right place, friend. Recorded in an undisclosed location somewhere in the beautiful woods of Wasilla, Alaska. ++SUBMIT YOUR STORY FOR OUR LISTENER STORY EPISODES++ Email: thegang@thefreakydeaky.com Voicemail: 801-997-0051 ++WEBSITE & MERCH++ Website: www.thefreakydeaky.com Merch: www.thefreakydeaky.com/store ++FOLLOW OUR SOCIALS FOR EXCLUSIVES++ YouTube: https://bit.ly/3goj7SP Instagram: https://bit.ly/2HOdleo Facebook: https://bit.ly/3ebSde6 TFD Facebook Group: https://tinyurl.com/tfdfb TikTok: https://bit.ly/35lNOlu
La gente de la parte media del Africa, insiste en que una criatura extraña habita en las soledades y las espesuras, muchos lo han visto, otros han sido devorados. La descripción, la de un dinosaurio.Conviértete en un seguidor de este podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/relatos-del-lado-oscuro--5421502/support.
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In Folge 31 von "Gottloses Gelaber" sprechen Randy Robot und Felix Krull ausführlich über Felix‘ Besuch im SWR Nachtcafé. Außerdem geht es um Mokele Mbembe, Michael Ballacks Freundin, das seltene Ereignis einer primären Endosymbiose und um die Serie Ripley. Enjoy and LG
IN THIS EPISODE: It's considered one of the most bizarre and convincing extraterrestrial events ever reported… we'll look at the alien encounter in 1955's Hopkinsville, Kentucky that was experienced by two terrified families. (The Hopkinsville Encounter) *** In the deep jungles of the Congo, natives tell of a giant creature that, once described, sounds exactly like a long-necked dinosaur. But how could this be? And is it pure legend? Perhaps not, as one noted biologist from the area saw it with his own eyes and reported it. We'll look at the supposed real sighting of Mokele-Mbembe, the living dinosaur of the Congo! (Dinosaur Observed In The Congo) *** Running a club during prohibition was extremely lucrative… and extremely dangerous, as one Theodore Lakoff would've learned… had he been awake when he was murdered. (The Mysterious Death of Theodore Lakoff) *** Benjamin Franklin was known not just as one of the father's of the United States of America, but also as an inventor, a womanizer, and a man with a bit of an ornery streak in him – as is evidenced by a series of letters he wrote to the New England Courant, where he pretended to be a woman. (Who Was Mrs. Silence Dogood?) *** Most of us are familiar with the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the 17th century – but what they saw as witchcraft then, and what we see as witchcraft now, hardly compares to witchcraft in the fourteen hundreds! (The Hammer of Witches) *** The internet is a vital part of modern life. Without web access, all kinds of businesses and jobs would be unable to function. So, as you can imagine, there are plenty of people who would love to see the internet crumble. And many have tried. (Taking Down The World Wide Web) *** In 1983 sightings poured in from people on the California coast who claim they saw a sea monster. (The California Sea Monster)SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…“The Hopkinsville Encounter” by Hannah Collins for Ranker.com's Graveyard Shift:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yp8pnfx7“Dinosaur Observed in the Congo” by Richard Greenwell for the ISC Newsletter: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yc3r3mpp“The Mysterious Death of Theodore Lakoff” by Kathi Kresol for HauntedRockford.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ku5x3cat“Who Was Mrs. Silence Dogood?” by Bipin Dimri for HistoricMysteries.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p868eac“The Hammer of Witches” from JustHistoryPosts.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckmrv3y“Taking Down the World Wide Web” by Benjamin Thomas for ListVerse.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/c85j5cau“The California Sea Monster” by Malcom Smith for Malcom's Cryptids: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yc2wts7hWeird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library. = = = = =(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)= = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2024, Weird Darkness.= = = = =Originally aired: December, 2021PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.com/kelly-hopkinsville-shootout-with-aliens/
One of Matts favorite cryptids!!! Mokele Mbembe is a dinosaur around the Congo. Here is what Wiki said about it..... In several Bantu mythologies, mokele-mbembe (also written as "mokèlé-mbèmbé") is a mythical water-dwelling entity that is believed to exist in the Congo River Basin. Variously described as a living creature or a spirit, mokele-mbembe's descriptions vary widely based on conflicting purported eyewitness reports, but it is often described as a large quadrupedal herbivore with smooth skin, a long neck, and a single tooth or horn, much like the extinct species sauropods. In the early to mid 20th century, the entity would become a point of focus among adherents of cryptozoology and young Earth creationism, resulting in numerous expeditions led by cryptozoologists and/or funded by young Earth creationists and other groups with the objective to find evidence that invalidates or contradicts the scientific consensus regarding evolution. Paleontologist Donald Prothero remarks that "the quest for Mokele-Mbembe ... is part of the effort by creationists to overthrow the theory of evolution and teaching of science by any means possible". Additionally, Prothero noted that "the only people looking for mokele-mbembe are creationist ministers, not wildlife biologists." Most mainstream experts believe that mokele-mbembe, as reported by Congolese natives, was probably inspired by the black rhinoceros, which once thrived in the region. Historian Edward Guimont has argued that the mokele-mbembe myth grows out of earlier pseudohistorical claims about Great Zimbabwe, and in turn influenced the later reptilian conspiracy theory.
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In the first part of this episode of the Curious Realm host Christopher Jordan welcomes Jason McLean, host of Jason McLean Questions Everything, and author of the book Metroplex Monsters to discuss the truth behind modern sightings of dinosaurs! From Pteranodons flying across Texas, to sightings of Mokele-Mbembe in the Congo River basin, what is to be made of these out of place animals in our modern world? In the second part of the episode we welcome researcher and remote viewer, Lyn Buchanan. Member of US Government's now famous “Project Stargate”, using remote viewing for gathering of intelligence, Lyn has spent the better part of his life using this amazing mental martial art, and teaching others how to tap into their unseen mental powers. Join the Curious Realm as we delve into the topics of modern dinosaurs with Jason McLean and remote viewing with Lyn Buchanan. Curious Realm is a proud member of the HC Universal Network family of podcasts. For more great shows and content subscribe at HCUniversalNetwork.com. Curious Realm would like to thank the continuing support of our listeners and sponsors including PodcastCadet.com, Use Code Curious20 to save 20% off today! Curious Realm has teamed up with True Hemp Science, Austin, TX based suppliers of high-quality full spectrum emulsified CBD products and more. Visit TrueHempScience.com TODAY and use code Curious7 to save 7% off your order of $50 or more and get a free 50mg CBD edible! Website live streams powered by Web Work Wireless. For the best in home and business WiFi solutions visit WebWorksWireless.com. Intro music “A Curious Realm” provided by No Disassemble find more great music and content at: NoDisassemble.com. #curiousrealm #hcuniversalnetwork #podcastcadet #truehempscience #webworkswireless
In the first part of this episode of the Curious Realm host Christopher Jordan welcomes Jason McLean, host of Jason McLean Questions Everything, and author of the book Metroplex Monsters to discuss the truth behind modern sightings of dinosaurs! From Pteranodons flying across Texas, to sightings of Mokele-Mbembe in the Congo River basin, what is to be made of these out of place animals in our modern world? In the second part of the episode we welcome researcher and remote viewer, Lyn Buchanan. Member of US Government's now famous “Project Stargate”, using remote viewing for gathering of intelligence, Lyn has spent the better part of his life using this amazing mental martial art, and teaching others how to tap into their unseen mental powers. Join the Curious Realm as we delve into the topics of modern dinosaurs with Jason McLean and remote viewing with Lyn Buchanan. Curious Realm is a proud member of the HC Universal Network family of podcasts. For more great shows and content subscribe at HCUniversalNetwork.com. Curious Realm would like to thank the continuing support of our listeners and sponsors including PodcastCadet.com, Use Code Curious20 to save 20% off today! Curious Realm has teamed up with True Hemp Science, Austin, TX based suppliers of high-quality full spectrum emulsified CBD products and more. Visit TrueHempScience.com TODAY and use code Curious7 to save 7% off your order of $50 or more and get a free 50mg CBD edible! Website live streams powered by Web Work Wireless. For the best in home and business WiFi solutions visit WebWorksWireless.com. Intro music “A Curious Realm” provided by No Disassemble find more great music and content at: NoDisassemble.com. #curiousrealm #hcuniversalnetwork #podcastcadet #truehempscience #webworkswireless
You've heard of the Loch Ness monster, but did you know deep in the River Congo, in Africa, there lurks another dinosaur? Maybe. There are many tales about the Mokele-Mbembe, but is there actually any proof for this large swimming dinosaur? Or has everyone just got very confused about some rhinos? Once again Athena and Tiernan take to the case to gather all the evidence so you, our Chief Detectives can figure out the truth. Just make sure you get in touch to let us know your thoughts. Brought to you by Small Wardour, makers of some of the best podcasts for kids. *** If your chief detectives want to hear more from the investigations, including more compelling evidence and extra fun facts, then you can become a paid subscriber of the show. Just click Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or visit patreon.com/bustortrustpodcast to get access to weekly bonus episodes, ad-free and early listening and exclusive extras. Your support will help us to investigate even more amazing mysteries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In past QAA cryptid episodes, we typically find a creature thought to be real, but then is later debunked by modern science. For this week's Spectral Voyager, we thought it would be interesting to do the opposite: Start with a creature once believed to be a myth, until scientists were able to actually prove its existence. The Giant Squid has fascinated Jake since he was a young boy, and he, Brad, and Julian will pour through the animal's legendary sightings dating all the way back to the fifteen hundreds. Follow us along on the nearly five hundred year journey to prove the existence of one of the greatest mysteries the ocean has to offer us. We'll also be exploring the Mokele-Mbembe in Brad's “Cryptid Corner” – a potentially prehistoric reptile that might very well haunt Lake Tele, deep in the jungles of Africa. To listen to the full episode, and gain access to our other mini-series such as Manclan and Trickle Down, you can subscribe for just five bucks a month at: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous The Spectral Voyager theme composed by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe, and Jake Rockatansky. Editing by Corey Klotz. QAA's website: http://qanonanonymous.com SOURCES: The Hunt for the Giant Squid | The New Yorker First-ever observations of a live giant squid in the wild - PMC (nih.gov) 1882 - Report on the cephalopods of the northeastern coast of America - Biodiversity Heritage Library (biodiversitylibrary.org)
Is there a Sauropod living in the dense habitats of the Congo River basin? Living dinosaurs fascinate and inspire us. You all love the first Jurassic Park, don't lie...but can they actually exist?Support the showSongs used in the episode by Kevin MacLeod are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300030The song "beyond the lows", by the whole other also featured. Artist: http://incompetech.com/
What is the Mokele Mbembe? Legend or Real brachiosaurus relic living in the Congo. Resources Resources Birthday Shout Out Form Instagram Resources, Books, Photos, Coloring pages and more! Mysterykidspodcast.com Become a Patron Or a Subscriber on Spotify! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themysterykidspodcast/message
Today, Laura, Krysta and Dean go to Africa in search of the legend of the Mokele-Mbembe, a thirty five foot long dinosaur-like cryptid. It is a creature famed to the Bantu in the region for stopping the flow of rivers when it nests at bends in the river. It is reputed to fight and kill hippos, elephants and crocodiles. footprints have been found and the locals see the creature regularly. We discuss the gorilla, which at one point was considered a cryptid and from there go to the Mokele-Mbembe itself. We discuss all the information we discovered about the creature as well as Josh Gates search for the beast, Rodgers and Hmmerstein's Cinderella, how the brontosaurus became the apatosaurus and so, so much more.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4670465/advertisement
Alex Brecher is an international communications expert, writer and documentary filmmaker. After graduating in communication and film studies in France, Alex embraced a career in international development, working with various international organizations in Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Pacific.He lived for three years in Cameroon, during which time he shot two feature-length documentaries, MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE and THE EXPLORER.In THE EXPLORER Alex documents cryptozoologist Michel Ballot's attempts to find the legendary Mkele-Mbembe, deep in the Congo basin. The creature is described as resembling a sauropod dinosaur!You can watch THE EXPLORER here: Vimeo.com/ondemand/theexplorerfilmAlex visits with Dean to talk about his fascinating film, the dangers of the Congo, evidence which he has documented of the Mokele-Mbembe's existence, and details about the plans he has for another expedition to find the elusive cryptid!
Send us a Text Message.The boys discuss 3 creatures that may or may not exist in the realm of reality. Cryptids lie just beyond the line of fact and fiction. We'll give the facts and let you decide. Sources Cited:- LiveScience / Mongolian Death Worm: Elusive Legend of the Gobi DesertBenjamin Radford 2014-Ancient Origins / Searching for the Terrifying Mongolian Death WormLiz Leafloor July 6, 2019-Liveabout.com/ The Giant Thunderbird Returnsby Stephen Wagner 5/24/2019-Unexplained!: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomena by Jerome Clark 2012-Lifescience/ Mokele-Mbembe: The Search for a Living DinosaurBy Benjamin Radford published August 13, 2013-Tetrapod Zoology /Misreading the Mokele-Mbembe (the Mokele-Mbembe, Part 1): There aren't living sauropod dinosaurs in the Congo. But why did people ever think there were? By Darren Naish on June 8, 2018Email- Beyondtheshadows207@gmail.com Beyond the Shadows (@beyondtheshadowspodcast) | Instagram profilePodcast Merchandise https://beyond-the-shadows.myspreadshop.com/Beyondtheshadowspodcast.comIntro by C10 C10 | Spotify C10 | Omaha NE | FacebookFirepit music by Lucid Dixon Lucid Dixon | SpotifyThanks for listening and please consider giving us a good review on apple podcast!
In this episode, we explore the case of the Mokele Mbembe, a supposed living dinosaur purported to dwell in the remote regions of central Africa. Will we have our own awe-struck Jurassic Park moment?... or is this cryptid about as believable as a T-Rex not skipping arm day at the gym?
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Help spread the darkness! VOTE FOR THIS EPISODE at https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mvjsnkbz – you can vote up to 3X per day! Find Weird Darkness in your favorite podcast app at https://weirddarkness.com/listen. PLEASE SHARE WEIRD DARKNESS® in your social media and with others who loves paranormal stories, true crime, monsters, or unsolved mysteries like you do!IN THIS EPISODE: In the deep jungles of the Congo, natives tell of a giant creature that, once described, sounds exactly like a long-necked dinosaur. But how could this be? And is it pure legend? Perhaps not, as one noted biologist from the area saw it with his own eyes and reported it. We'll look at the supposed real sighting of Mokele-Mbembe, the living dinosaur of the Congo! (Dinosaur Observed In The Congo) *** Running a club during prohibition was extremely lucrative… and extremely dangerous, as one Theodore Lakoff would've learned… had he been awake when he was murdered. (The Mysterious Death of Theodore Lakoff) *** Benjamin Franklin was known not just as one of the father's of the United States of America, but also as an inventor, a womanizer, and a man with a bit of an ornery streak in him – as is evidenced by a series of letters he wrote to the New England Courant, where he pretended to be a woman. (Who Was Mrs. Silence Dogood?) *** Most of us are familiar with the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the 17th century – but what they saw as witchcraft then, and what we see as witchcraft now, hardly compares to witchcraft in the fourteen hundreds! (The Hammer of Witches) *** The internet is a vital part of modern life. Without web access, all kinds of businesses and jobs would be unable to function. So, as you can imagine, there are plenty of people who would love to see the internet crumble. And many have tried. (Taking Down The World Wide Web) *** In 1983 sightings poured in from people on the California coast who claim they saw a sea monster. (The California Sea Monster) *** It's considered one of the most bizarre and convincing extraterrestrial events ever reported… we'll look at the alien encounter in 1955's Hopkinsville, Kentucky that was experienced by two terrified families. (The Hopkinsville Encounter)SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…“The Hopkinsville Encounter” by Hannah Collins for Ranker.com's Graveyard Shift:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yp8pnfx7 “Dinosaur Observed in the Congo” by Richard Greenwell for the ISC Newsletter: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yc3r3mpp “The Mysterious Death of Theodore Lakoff” by Kathi Kresol for HauntedRockford.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ku5x3cat “Who Was Mrs. Silence Dogood?” by Bipin Dimri for HistoricMysteries.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p868eac “The Hammer of Witches” from JustHistoryPosts.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckmrv3y “Taking Down the World Wide Web” by Benjamin Thomas for ListVerse.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/c85j5cau “The California Sea Monster” by Malcom Smith for Malcom's Cryptids: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yc2wts7h= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library. Background music provided by Alibi Music Library, EpidemicSound and/or StoryBlocks with paid license. Music from Shadows Symphony (https://tinyurl.com/yyrv987t), Midnight Syndicate (http://amzn.to/2BYCoXZ) Kevin MacLeod (https://tinyurl.com/y2v7fgbu), Tony Longworth (https://tinyurl.com/y2nhnbt7), and Nicolas Gasparini (https://tinyurl.com/lnqpfs8) is used with permission of the artists.= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46WeirdDarkness™ - is a production and trademark of Marlar House Productions. © 2023, Weird Darkness.
Did Noah save the dinosaurs from extinction? We conclude our two-part series on the legend of the Mokele-Mbembe with a visit to a creationist museum, Keelin shares banana diet tips from Congo Bill, and Dana gets traumatized by a terrible 1980's movie about humpin' in front of dinosaurs. Saddle up your brontosaurus and prepare to take the Bible literally, because it's time to finish our prehistoric quest for a living dinosaur!Join the Museum: https://patreon.com/paramuseumVisit Our Website: https://hauntedobjectspodcast.comSubscribe on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/25xf92nxFollow Greg NewkirkTwitter: https://twitter.com/nuekerkInstagram: https://instagram.com/nuekerkWebsite: https://gregorynewkirk.comFollow Dana NewkirkTwitter: https://twitter.com/weird_danaInstagram: https://instagram.com/weird_danaFollow Connor J. RandallTwitter: https://twitter.com/connorjrandallInstagram: https://instagram.com/connorjrandallFollow Keelin MathewsTwitter: https://twitter.com/arowitch SHOW NOTES:- The Dino Trek Patches Up Close: https://tinyurl.com/4ut2cuk5- Ray Mackal's Research Files: https://tinyurl.com/2p99anbh- Read Mackal's Expedition Resumes: https://tinyurl.com/yyr2ysu6- University of Chicago on Roy Mackal's Legacy: https://tinyurl.com/yc3cvwwj- Roy Mackal's “A Living Dinosaur?”: https://amzn.to/41MRHf6- Japanese Dinosaur Video: https://youtu.be/XCMQbxNG_xk- Read Bill Gibbons Adventures: https://amzn.to/3LA3LKQ- Diarrhea bananas: https://tinyurl.com/3uakm3xa- For more on Mokele Mbembe: https://tinyurl.com/2ddnser9 Copyright 2023 Planet WeirdHosted by Greg and Dana NewkirkProduced by Connor J RandallPhotography by Karl PfeifferArt by Dustin WilliamsTheme by Adam Hayman"The Disembodied Voice" by Chuck Fresh
Seriah is joined by author and paranormal researcher Travis Watson. Topics include cryptids in Canada, Fortean events, the wood bison, “Lazarus” species, the massive size and small population of Canada, the possibility of a physical relic hominid/undiscovered ape, high strangeness and Sasquatch, an encounter with an apparent dinosaur in the wilderness, Mokele Mbembe in Africa, a Canadian upright panther, the strange melanistic mountain lions, “Catman”, giant snakes, John Warms, Indigenous lore, weird holes in the ground, giant beavers, an encounter with a giant wolf, Ivan T. Sanderson, Linda Godfrey, the “bear wolf” in Wisconsin, dire wolves, an encounter with a huge upright wolf, Dogman, psychic messages from cryptids, bipedal canines, man-wolves, werewolves in magickal tradition, John Keel, Skinwalker Ranch, the multiverse, portals, perception and the unknown, spirits, geo-magnetic fields and paranormal sightings, Slenderman, “the Shadow” tulpa, black dogs and psi, lake monsters, Ogopogo, offerings and the consequences for not making them, a primitive extinct whale, underwater cryptids, lake monsters occurring along a certain parallel, Champ, the “Vast Horizon” sci-fi podcast, sea monsters, the Oz effect, strangely calm waters, a “water lion” sea monster, an encounter preceding a shipwreck, a blue-eyed sea giraffe, aggressive sea serpents, giant eels, flaps in different types of paranormal phenomena, cycles of flaps, the difficulties of compiling Fortean data, black dog phenomena, strange mists, Sasquatch in Canada, and much more! This is a fascinating discussion with so much information that it will be continued!
Did Noah save the dinosaurs from extinction? We conclude our two-part series on the legend of the Mokele-Mbembe with a visit to a creationist museum, Keelin shares banana diet tips from Congo Bill, and Dana gets traumatized by a terrible 1980's movie about humpin' in front of dinosaurs. Saddle up your brontosaurus and prepare to take the Bible literally, because it's time to finish our prehistoric quest for a living dinosaur! Join the Museum: https://patreon.com/paramuseumVisit Our Website: https://hauntedobjectspodcast.comSubscribe on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/25xf92nxFollow Greg NewkirkTwitter: https://twitter.com/nuekerkInstagram: https://instagram.com/nuekerkWebsite: https://gregorynewkirk.com Follow Dana NewkirkTwitter: https://twitter.com/weird_danaInstagram: https://instagram.com/weird_dana Follow Connor J. RandallTwitter: https://twitter.com/connorjrandallInstagram: https://instagram.com/connorjrandall Follow Keelin MathewsTwitter: https://twitter.com/arowitch SHOW NOTES: - The Dino Trek Patches Up Close: https://tinyurl.com/4ut2cuk5 - Ray Mackal's Research Files: https://tinyurl.com/2p99anbh - Read Mackal's Expedition Resumes: https://tinyurl.com/yyr2ysu6 - University of Chicago on Roy Mackal's Legacy: https://tinyurl.com/yc3cvwwj - Roy Mackal's “A Living Dinosaur?”: https://amzn.to/41MRHf6 - Japanese Dinosaur Video: https://youtu.be/XCMQbxNG_xk - Read Bill Gibbons Adventures: https://amzn.to/3LA3LKQ - Diarrhea bananas: https://tinyurl.com/3uakm3xa - For more on Mokele Mbembe: https://tinyurl.com/2ddnser9 Copyright 2023 Planet WeirdHosted by Greg and Dana NewkirkProduced by Connor J RandallPhotography by Karl PfeifferArt by Dustin WilliamsTheme by Adam Hayman"The Disembodied Voice" by Chuck Fresh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Do dinosaurs still walk the earth? Some scientists believe it. In this special two-part episode, we trek deep into the heart of the Congo's impenetrable jungle in search of the Mokele-mbembe. Along the way, the gang relates to soft nerd people, Connor embraces his inner-dinosaur, and Keelin continues her quest to become the world's greatest cryptozoologist. Plus: a real, live encounter with the Mokele-mbembe captured on camera! Join the Museum: https://patreon.com/paramuseumVisit Our Website: https://hauntedobjectspodcast.comSubscribe on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/25xf92nxFollow Greg NewkirkTwitter: https://twitter.com/nuekerkInstagram: https://instagram.com/nuekerkWebsite: https://gregorynewkirk.comFollow Dana NewkirkTwitter: https://twitter.com/weird_danaInstagram: https://instagram.com/weird_danaFollow Connor J. RandallTwitter: https://twitter.com/connorjrandallInstagram: https://instagram.com/connorjrandallFollow Keelin MathewsTwitter: https://twitter.com/arowitch SHOW NOTES:- The Dino Trek Patches Up Close: https://tinyurl.com/4ut2cuk5- Ray Mackal's Research Files: https://tinyurl.com/2p99anbh- Read Mackal's Expedition Resumes: https://tinyurl.com/yyr2ysu6- Willy Ley's “Exotic Zoology”: https://amzn.to/3Jg6wiV- Lake Tele: https://tinyurl.com/3sw9e89m- University of Chicago on Roy Mackal's Legacy: https://tinyurl.com/yc3cvwwj- Roy Mackal's “A Living Dinosaur?”: https://amzn.to/41MRHf6- Roy Mackal & James Powell Annoy a Taxi Driver: https://youtu.be/_KdnTkq4q2s- See the Hand-Drawn Expedition Map: https://tinyurl.com/mtsdt8wu- 1981 Article About the Dino Trek: https://tinyurl.com/ydy87jjr Copyright 2023 Planet WeirdHosted by Greg and Dana NewkirkProduced by Connor J RandallPhotography by Karl PfeifferArt by Dustin WilliamsTheme by Adam Hayman"The Disembodied Voice" by Chuck Fresh
Do dinosaurs still walk the earth? Some scientists believe it. In this special two-part episode, we trek deep into the heart of the Congo's impenetrable jungle in search of the Mokele-mbembe. Along the way, the gang relates to soft nerd people, Connor embraces his inner-dinosaur, and Keelin continues her quest to become the world's greatest cryptozoologist. Plus: a real, live encounter with the Mokele-mbembe captured on camera! Join the Museum: https://patreon.com/paramuseumVisit Our Website: https://hauntedobjectspodcast.comSubscribe on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/25xf92nxFollow Greg NewkirkTwitter: https://twitter.com/nuekerkInstagram: https://instagram.com/nuekerkWebsite: https://gregorynewkirk.com Follow Dana NewkirkTwitter: https://twitter.com/weird_danaInstagram: https://instagram.com/weird_dana Follow Connor J. RandallTwitter: https://twitter.com/connorjrandallInstagram: https://instagram.com/connorjrandall Follow Keelin MathewsTwitter: https://twitter.com/arowitch SHOW NOTES: - The Dino Trek Patches Up Close: https://tinyurl.com/4ut2cuk5 - Ray Mackal's Research Files: https://tinyurl.com/2p99anbh - Read Mackal's Expedition Resumes: https://tinyurl.com/yyr2ysu6 - Willy Ley's “Exotic Zoology”: https://amzn.to/3Jg6wiV - Lake Tele: https://tinyurl.com/3sw9e89m - University of Chicago on Roy Mackal's Legacy: https://tinyurl.com/yc3cvwwj - Roy Mackal's “A Living Dinosaur?”: https://amzn.to/41MRHf6 - Roy Mackal & James Powell Annoy a Taxi Driver: https://youtu.be/_KdnTkq4q2s - See the Hand-Drawn Expedition Map: https://tinyurl.com/mtsdt8wu - 1981 Article About the Dino Trek: https://tinyurl.com/ydy87jjr Copyright 2023 Planet WeirdHosted by Greg and Dana NewkirkProduced by Connor J RandallPhotography by Karl PfeifferArt by Dustin WilliamsTheme by Adam Hayman"The Disembodied Voice" by Chuck Fresh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Seriah is joined by author and paranormal researcher Travis Watson. Topics include cryptids in Canada, Fortean events, the wood bison, “Lazarus” species, the massive size and small population of Canada, the possibility of a physical relic hominid/undiscovered ape, high strangeness and Sasquatch, an encounter with an apparent dinosaur in the wilderness, Mokele Mbembe in Africa, a Canadian upright panther, the strange melanistic mountain lions, “Catman”, giant snakes, John Warms, Indigenous lore, weird holes in the ground, giant beavers, an encounter with a giant wolf, Ivan T. Sanderson, Linda Godfrey, the “bear wolf” in Wisconsin, dire wolves, an encounter with a huge upright wolf, Dogman, psychic messages from cryptids, bipedal canines, man-wolves, werewolves in magickal tradition, John Keel, Skinwalker Ranch, the multiverse, portals, perception and the unknown, spirits, geo-magnetic fields and paranormal sightings, Slenderman, “the Shadow” tulpa, black dogs and psi, lake monsters, Ogopogo, offerings and the consequences for not making them, a primitive extinct whale, underwater cryptids, lake monsters occurring along a certain parallel, Champ, the “Vast Horizon” sci-fi podcast, sea monsters, the Oz effect, strangely calm waters, a “water lion” sea monster, an encounter preceding a shipwreck, a blue-eyed sea giraffe, aggressive sea serpents, giant eels, flaps in different types of paranormal phenomena, cycles of flaps, the difficulties of compiling Fortean data, black dog phenomena, strange mists, Sasquatch in Canada, and much more! This is a fascinating discussion with so much information that it will be continued! - Recap by Vincent Treewell of The Weird Part Podcast Outro Music is Arrows of Alchemy by Meka-Nism Download
In the Congo, locals report sightings of a large dinosaur-like creature. Our merch: https://bizarre-junkeez.myspreadshop.com/ Be part of the conversation and join our discord: https://discord.gg/C2FBzsnWtC Follow Bizarre Junkeez on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bizarrejunkeez/ Follow Bizarre Junkeez on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bizarrejunkeez?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc Follow Bizarre Junkeez on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bizarrejunkeez --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bizarrejunkeez/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bizarrejunkeez/support
On this episode, Frank & Skylar dive in to mythical creatures and cryptozoology. From the well known Bigfoot, to the lesser known dinosaur of the Congo, Mokele-Mbembe. This was an interesting one. Enjoy!
Meeting Mokele Mbembe: Join us for another exciting episode of "The Hidden Creatures Podcast" as we venture deep into the heart of Africa to explore one of the most elusive creatures in cryptozoology - Mokele Mbembe. In this episode, we'll examine the evidence and eyewitness accounts surrounding Mokele Mbembe, and explore the scientific theories that have been put forward to explain its existence. We'll also look at the history and culture of the people who have encountered this mysterious creature, and see how it fits into the larger world of cryptozoology. Additionally, we'll also be taking a look at two other fascinating creatures - the Okapi and the Hoop Snake. We'll examine the evidence and scientific explanations for these unique creatures, and see how they fit into the larger world of cryptozoology. So join us for this exciting episode of "The Hidden Creatures Podcast" as we explore the world of Mokele Mbembe, the Okapi, and the Hoop Snake, and discover the truth behind these elusive creatures. Written, Edited and Produced by - Edward James Script Editor - Saskia Whelsey Music - Pixabay Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokele-mbembe http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2016/03/does-mokele-mbembe-exist.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16306902 http://www.livescience.com/38871-mokele-mbembe.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCMQbxNG_xk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi http://www.newanimal.org/okapi.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoop_snake http://hoaxes.org/animals/comments/hoop_snake
In this episode of M3w/E5 we're talking about the living dinosaur, Mokele-Mbembe. A "modern day" prehistoric transplant, living in the Congo. Join us as we talk about the origins and the probability of it being true. Follow Epyon5 on instagram @epyon5 www.epyon5.com the show @electricmonsterpod or the co-host @aerosoulpro music by Epyon5 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/electricmonster/message
In this week's episode, we're looking at the legendary African cryptid of the Congo, the Mokele Mbembe! How does this monster link to Nessie? And how are Germans the leading authors on this monster? Find out this week!Support the show
This week we travel to Africa to take a look at the cryptid known as Mokele Mbembe. My introduction to this creature came about in a 1980's movie called Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend. Basically there are slightly smaller versions of apatosauruses roaming the Congo River Basin. Sightings started in the 1700's and still continue today.Vote for us in the Paranormality Magazine's Top 10 Paranormal Podcast List!To see photos we discussed in this episode, please follow us on our Social Media platforms:Lurk on FacebookLurk on TwitterLurk on InstagramWe have a new Facebook Group join in the discussion! Lurk Podcast Facebook GroupWe are also now found on YouTube- Lurk on YouTubeWe've got Merch!Get Lurk MerchBackground Music Royalty and Copyright Free MusicIntro and Outro music purchased through AudioJungle with Music Broadcast License (1 Million)Support the show
Long-necked and massive, the Mokele-mbembe is said to be a living dinosaur hiding out in the Congo Basin. With so much territory to inhabit, it's no wonder the creature is elusive. If you happen to catch sight of it, best to turn heel — before it catches you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Be sure and check out DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT! We're excited to talk with paleontologist Matthew Kolmann about a fish whose legendary ferocity ranks with the shark and the barracuda - the piranha! Are they capable of turning an animal into a skeleton in minutes? No. But they're still wicked cool. And don't worry - we manage to throw in some cryptid stories too! Content Warning: We do talk a bit about testicles being bitten off by fish. Teddy Roosevelt's book about his trip to South America, Through the Brazilian Rainforest. Then there's the weird back-story about his seeing a cow eaten by the fish, apparently part of a staged event. The legend of the Swedish pacu fish that eats testicles came from a 2013 article that was referencing a less reputable paper that was, in turn, reprinting an urban legend. Pacu don't eat people's testicles, although they do eat nuts. The Piranha film series has done little to further our cultural understanding of these fascinating fish. I slightly messed up the title of the film about Mokele Mbembe. It's Baby - Secret of the Lost Legend (1985). Boto Encantado - the magical shape-changing river dolphin Were-Jaguars are quite common in legends of South & Central America. Here's an academic paper on the topic, specifically referencing the shape changing Kanaima. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Deep in the Congo, people have long reported sightings of a reptile-like creature with a long neck and tail, and possibly a single horn. They call it the Mokele-mbembe. But does it actually exist? Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn't think we could do a full episode on, and often sent in by you guys! There's bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast store: https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshopify.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/WitchesMagicMurderMysteryPodcast Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16306902 https://www.historicmysteries.com/mokele-mbembe/ All Witches, Magic, Murder, & Mystery episodes are a mix of Kara and Megan's personal thoughts and opinions in response to the information that is publicly available at the time of recording, as well as, in some cases, personal accounts provided by listeners. In regard to these self-reported personal accounts, there can be no assurance that the information provided is 100% accurate. If you love the Trash Witch art (see our Patreon or the Podcast store), Tiffini Scherbing of Scherbing Arts created her. Find her art page on Facebook! Check out @witchesmagicmurdermystery on Instagram, or find our Facebook group by searching “Witches, Magic, Murder, & Mystery Podcast Discussion Group.” Email every single weird story you've got to witchesmagicmurdermystery@gmail.com. Get to know us better: Kara: @atoakandmain Megan: @meganmakesjokes on TikTok Theme music: Chloe's Lullaby by Robert Austin. Available on Spotify, Google Play, YouTube, Bandcamp, and Patreon!
Hey all! This week's episode was requested by David, so we're talking about Mokele-Mbembe and it's across the river neighbor, Emela-Ntouka! LINKS: https://linktr.ee/Cryptidbaddie Music by Mike Villars!
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Drums Along the CongoWiki links:Mokele-mbembephantoms and monstersSound effect credits: https://freesound.org/people/IchBinJager/https://freesound.org/people/jamesrodavidson/https://freesound.org/people/nickerick03/Loose Transcript:Wooo hooo Welcome back everybody, to Nightmare Now, I'm your Host Erik Byrne and if this is your first night terror with us, welcome aboard, please keep arms and legs severed or otherwise, inside the podcast at all times. Today we're getting into a subject near and dear to my heart, Cryptozoology, or is it palentology? Or just zoology? I guess it depends on the evidence we can pull together and a certain willingness to suspend disbelief. If you're not willing to suspend disbelief, I'm glad you're still listening. We're gonna get into some more true historical stuff next week. Probably. Basically as I predicted would happen as a chronic procrastinator I have completely squandered the buffer I had by prerecording the first few episodes. I figured hey I'll throw a few in the tank and it'll give me a bit of time to really knock it out of the park and give me time to go on vacation or something later but I guess (F--k it we'll do it live!) So here we are, merely a day or two ahead of airtime. My laptop is throwing up errors, my fan died, not any of you guys, just the little USB one that keeps me cool in the Airquotes “Studio”. It's really just a glorified closet, and if you want to see a picture come say hi on our instagram page @nightmare.now it'll be there. Speaking of which, with this being the first recording post launch I am flabbergasted with the amazing response I've gotten, I hit 100 Downloads within the first week, I have a bunch of people checking out the instagram and twitter and I get texts from a few listeners within hours of an episode releasing. Thanks mom! For links to all that social media bulls--t and how to get in touch with me check out the icons at nightmarenow.com and pretty please gimme those juicy 5 star ratings and reviews wherever you're listening it helps out a ton.With all that housekeeping out of the way finally we can lumber in to today's topic. I'd cue the jurassic park theme here but the real nightmare would be john williams copyright claim on my show and nobody wants that. Maybe I'll pull a vanilla Ice in post and add a high hat cymbal to exonerate myself from any kind of intellectual property infringement. (insert track) That's better. I'm gonna do my best movie trailer voice now. It's amazing how annoying your voice sounds on a recording versus in the reverberations of your own skull, but it's something I'll just have to live with. Here we go: BWAAAA IN A WORLD. EXACTLY LIKE TODAY'S WORLD BECAUSE IT IS TODAYS WORLD BWAAAAATHERE ARE SECRETS ANCIENT SECRETS BWAAAAALYING IN WAIT WAITING TO BE REVEALED. SECRETS 66 MILLION YEAR IN THE MAKING(for copyright reasons) BWAAADEEP IN THE CONGOLESE JUNGLE,IN THE DEPTHS OF LAKE TELEA BEAST SLUMBERS BWAAATHIS TUESDAYMOKELE-MBEMBE RISES ONCE MORE (ROAR)TO APPEAR ON A PODCAST(BWAAA) That's right folks we have a real treat set up for you today, we're looking at Mokele-mbembe, the god beast and potential surviving dinosaur, or colony of dinosaurs deep in the jungle in the heart of Africa. Our main source today is the book drums along the congo where journalist and explorer rory nugent documents his own personal quest to get a glimpse at the beast itself. I'll throw a link in the show notes if you want to check it out yourself, it's not a long read and it's a fun little swashbuckling on site adventure through the jungle.Who, or what is mokele-mbembe though? There are accounts from westerners all the way back in 1776 when french missionaries found huge unexplainable footprints in the congo. Before you say anything, it's bigger feet than bigfoot, he's gonna get his own episode or two later. Later on mokele-mbembe was first reported widely in the western world in 1909 by a zoologist named Carl hagenbeck in his book beasts and men, soon after picked up by the washington post in 1910. I managed to find the news article actually, that'll be in the notes but it describes the possibility of a half elephant half dragon monster. Later zoological expeditions heard terrifying thunderous sounds and roars in the region and still others found clawed footprints larger than an elephants. Elephants are present in this region but they don't have claws. Mokele-mbembe means “one who stops the flow of rivers” in the local language of lingala. The congo river basin and lake tele is certainly a more ancient, more primordial area of the planet. Featuring giant prehistoric ferns and temperatures that never really drop below seventy degrees and rarely come out of the high eighties. Fahrenheit for you non yanks, that's 26 to 28 degrees celsius. I need to be conscious of my global audience now that we're world wide, according to my analytics we've got listeners in france, india, sweden, the uk, new zealand, canada and here at home across the US. Thank you all! The humidity hovers around 85-100 percent, making it incredibly muggy all the time. Huge jungle trees stretch to form distinct layers of jungle in the canopy, mid canopy and the ground. As a biologist I found all this stuff super fascinating when rory covered it in drums along the congo, where you have, you know, a hundred square feet of jungle forest and effectively three or more different ecosystems the higher into the trees you go. Different amounts of sunlight, heat and whole separate sets of species populate each zone. In the interest of not making a three hour show just about jungle ecosystems I'll refer to this stuff only where it's relevant, or horrifying, as you'll see later once we get into the jungle parasites and other dangers just to get out to lake tele to even try to find mokele mbembe, man that's fun to say. So even before we get our boots wet in a neverending crocodile infested mire, get arrested by congolese authorities, get attacked by poisonous snakes or leopards, (for more about why big cats are scary check out episode one!) and become riddled with malaria, we have to know what we're even looking for. Now, descriptions of mokele-mbembe have varied over time but the central concept is usually the same. He, or she I suppose, is effectively a sauropod dinosaur. For those of you who weren't as obsessed with paleontology as I was when I was a kid. And still am, let's be honest, sauropods are the big long neck dudes. Tons and tons of flesh and muscle in a lumbering body, a huge tail, and a head atop a ridiculously long neck. Little foot for my land before time fans out there. So mokele mebembe basically fits that description. A sauropod dinosaur ranging in size from a hippopotamus to a towering thirty five feet tall or so. After that general description we kind of have a pick and choose smorgasbord of trims and upgrade packages for it. Many accounts describe a single sharp tusk or horn, picture something like a narwhal for that. Among those accounts it uses the tusks to poke around and slice off it's alleged favorite food, the malombo fruit. It's kind of like a cross between a soft coconut and a lemon. They grow on vines. Other less herbivorous accounts depict mokele mbemebe spearing hippos, elephants, leopards, crocs and especially people on its tooth and drowning them in its waters. Don't piss it off I guess. Most descriptions agree that he's a brownish, greyish or rusty color, but beyond that some say it's scaly, some say slimy and still others say it has short slick fur like a seal. I don't think anyone has been able to get close enough to touch it and live to tell the tale though. After that you start to get out to the more fringe descriptions, like a line of sharp spines along its spine. Along with spikes at the end of its muscular tail. The locals mention that it has deep blood red eyes too.Mokele-Mbembe lives in and around lake tele, and also supposedly in underground caves in the region. Now I love this idea, I'm definitely going to do a future episode on the accounts of hollow parts deep within the earth supposedly housing mammoths and dinosaurs and other crazy s--t, it's one of my favorite parts of esoteric crypto lore and I have some cool books on that stuff kicking around somewhere. Anyway, the lake, caves and perhaps most importantly the rivers is where mokele mbembe makes its home. It uses the rivers to get around, because they snake throughout the entire region and give access to it's full territory and malombo fruits without it having to knock down a ton of trees and stomp through the forest. Skeptics would point to this as a convenient lack of evidence, but generally, f--k skeptics. Live a little. Or listen to the more accurately historically sourced episodes. Some people say it's a physical, undeniable biological creature, a relic from the late jurassic period. Obviously it wouldn't live that long and would have to breed or otherwise reproduce until now. The climate and jungle ecosystem could technically support such a creature, maybe not at the upper range of its size descriptions but certainly at a large elephant size. It wouldn't have many if any natural predators and other animals have survived relatively unchanged for much longer and are taken for granted. Obviously we have the living fossil coelacanth, but think too about other animals. Sharks, alligators and crocodiles, other species of fish and lizards. Some stuff survives and justs gets smaller. The animal kingdom goes the same way as freakin ipods. You got the big prehistoric chunkers that could hold eight songs and eventually you get the ipod mini. Same applies to dinosaurs. It's science. What's the alternative though? To a living fossil? Local tribes and even more developed settlements in the area revere mokele-mbembe as a god-beast. A Spirit of the jungle and river. In a survey done in 1980, over half of the respondents there reported that they were christians, but even 90 percent of them reported seeing a witch doctor at least twice each year. This is a region dominated by ancient tradition and a lot of the voodoo stuff that us Americans attribute to Haiti and the Caribbean really originate here. I won't dive too deep into that today because I've got a whole episode planned on haitian voodoo and the zombie phenomena there where I'll go more in depth on all that craziness. Scopolamine is a helluva drug though I'll give you that much as a little teaser. But anyway the people, in this region especially of the congo, believe that spirits control everything. There's spirits for water, for air, for weather, for food, for guns, for love, for life, for the trees, for the sky, for the spring, for the animals, for families, you f--king name it. So many people consider mokele-mbembe to be either a spirit given form or some sort of spirit flesh hybrid. In a way we're all spirit flesh hybrids aren't we? This could explain certain lacking physical evidence even in the face of numerous eyewitness accounts.There's one part in the book we're rory and his guide are talking about death and spirits and the like that really made me laugh where he's talking to his guide, and the guide is upset because they receive news that a guy in a neighboring village has died. Turns out it's worse that it's the guides enemy than if it was his friend because now his family is gonna get cursed by the dead guys family and accused of spirit murder because they'll think his family cursed the dead guy. Rory asked him if they did curse the dead guy and he's just like “hell yeah we did, f--k that guy!” turns out the congolese justice system isn't exactly the most efficient machine around so most people turn to spirits and voodoo curses in lieu of litigation. In short, even among the christian or undecided population of the congo, old traditions based around fetishes voodoo and witch doctors carry a hell of a lot of importance in peoples day to day lives.I've also heard people describe the loch ness monster and other more dinosaurian cryptids as ghosts of dinosaurs so that's a fun third option for the people playing along at home, I don't really think that's the case here but their guess is as good as mine. Then of course there's the possibility of it all being bullsh-t entirely but if that's the case I'm out a show. Towards the end I'll probably throw in some skeptical explanations just to be fair and balanced. For the purposes of the rest of the show however, I think we'll be looking at it as if it truly is a lost dinosaur lineage, avoiding capture and death deep in the jungle for millions of years. I think now is as good a time as any to paraphrase rory nugent's trip through the congo, mostly because his book was the highest rated and available on kindle versus a lot of the more referenced texts on mokele-mbembe being out of print or prohibitively expensive. WHAT ARE THE PUBLISHING COMPANIES HIDING? THE PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW! So my man rory has listed himself as a journalist slash explorer, personally I would lead with explorer but that's just me. He takes a couple of courses in jungle survival and spends a night in central park without getting mugged basically. After that it's basically off to the races. Imagine a cutaway to to an indiana jones cutaway with the planes and the bum ba dumm dumm ba ba daaa, man I'm really trying to get sued by john williams today huh? So you see the plane flying across the atlantic, maybe the plane stops in france and then pops down to africa. Into the southwest region of the congo. He starts taking pictures of birds and s--t because he's into that kind of thing and is immediately arrested for being a capitalist spy. He's apparently got a high enough charisma roll to talk himself out of it, if you'll forgive the expression, I started a dnd game with a few friends so that stuff has been at the front of my mind. It helps because it's another more creative energy keeping me sane while I slave away as a lab analyst. Why do you think I started this show anyway? So Rory gets arrested and basically for the remainder of his trip he is assigned chaperones for his time in the congo. Kind of like the pope episode a few weeks back I really don't want to get into the politics of the Congo and why they're worried about capitalist spies. Suffice to say that Russians, Cubans and the Chinese had a pretty big hand in the development of the present day congo. As far as I knew about the Congo before I started researching this episode was the sh--y Congo movie from 1995 with the gray cannibal apes, a cyborg gorilla and tim curry almost saying the N word. That movie and like twenty eight pages of joseph conrad's heart of darkness. I'll finish it someday. Luckily I learned a lot about the region and culture and potentially fake monsters dwelling within it. Again we're a global show. Rory gets assigned a chaperone and there's a lot of great scene with this dude, Ambroise constantly busting his balls because truth be told he doesn't want to be hanging around babysitting this dumb mundele, that's the word for insincere whitey in lingala, all day long. He's giving him s--t about how if he has to go into the jungle he gets overtime and stuff, and this expedition is gonna help finance his new refrigerator. He gets into all kinds of little adventures in the capital of the congo, brazzaville while he's trying to secure a travel permit to get to the wild northern region where mokele-mbembe supposedly lives. And he completely confirms the westaboo trope. In every non american country there's always a few people that base their whole identity on american culture, they do a great version of this in that show welcome to sweden. In fact there's this whole subculture over in sweden called the raggare that go all out for 1950s americana. I really hope that they've committed heinous crimes or something so I have an excuse to cover them. Anyway rory meets all kinds of people obsessed with american movies from 20 years earlier and more importantly the huge sporting event that was the rumble in the jungle. A famous boxing match between george foreman and muhammad ali that ali won in a big upset in 1974 in zaire. Which eventually becomes the democratic republic of the congo. Some people were so obsessed that they had the entire radio broadcast memorized. The fact that rory had once shook hands with ali, was actually a huge help in securing those permits. Even still there were times when he had to wait in a sweltering office for nine hours only to have the secretary be like, ssss ahhh, the paperwork guy isn't in today cest la vie huh? Eventually he acquires the permit and ships up north. Not before getting a blessing from a witch doctor near brazzaville. The witch doctor told him what to do and he said OO EE OOOH AAHHH AHH TING TANG WALLA WALLA BING BANG. not really, just as soon as anyone mentions a witch doctor some MKULTRA programming from the alvin and the chipmunks movie kicks in and that's all I can think of, the old one not the weird uncanny valley cgi ones. He would've been better off with the s--tty gimmick song though because what really happened to get the witch doctor's blessing was much worse. He had to strip down, and no it's not brazzersville perverts, nobody was stuck in a washing machine. He had to strip down and the witch doctor screamed and spit in his face and dumped a fanta bottle of crocodile oil and honey all over him, again modern society and ancient tradition clashing with the fanta bottle, I love it. This concoction was an invitation to every winged insect within a mile to crawl around on him and suck up the honey and by extension any evil spirits. You know with a bunch of parasitic wasps crawling around my dick and balls I'd probably take my chances with the evil spirits. I guess it's better than having robert liston operate on you. Unfortunately for ambroise and his fridge though they said f--k you and your overtime and sent him off with a dude named innocent. Him and innocent take a plane north to impfondo and fly over this city that I would love to do some more research on that's just a bunch of barges lashed together and stacked on top of each other in the congo river. The pilot has a little extra fuel and flies them over lake tele so they get the aerial view before touching down on a tiny airfield in the jungle. From above tele is a serene black lake surrounded by a black mire with twisted and gnarled trees on all sides. Through the swamp weaves dozens of inlets and rivers and coves, all potentially housing the lost sauropod. They say they haven't had anyone fly in in over six months because the airfield is only usable if it doesn't rain for three days, a rare occurrence in the jungle. They are effectively stuck there and locked in once they land and their pilot takes off. It's a hundred and eighteen degrees when they touch down and from here on out it's all on foot or by canoe. Rory has some pens and pencils and bubble gum to offer the children of the villages and the tribes and everyone one of them is just like f--k off, cash or nothing. I love that juxtaposition he encounters in all these villages. Like it's still a primitive way of life but not untouched like out on sentinel island or anything like that. So there's people fishing with spears and clutching voodoo fetishes but at the same time they're wearing nike tracksuits and Rams Super bowl champions two thousand two hats, sorry tflo if you're listening, at least you got yours this year! One of the biggest parts of the cargo they're lugging around is literally crates of liquor and pounds of salt, because the traditional gift to a tribal chief is a handful of salt and a bottle of booze. He brings a whole crate of scotch to each village to get in with them and that leads into more than a few hangover style shenanigans where he wakes up suspended in a tree or in a pile of wriggling fish. But hey? When in rome right? They pick up a couple of jungle guides and other people on their quest whilst they go around placating all the surrounding village with booze and cigarettes. Eventually they hop in some canoes and hit the river towards lake tele, but not before being scammed five or six times by different villages.In one of the first major outings on the canoes they run into a giant crocodile that they annoy with a thrown spear. After getting hit with a spear the croc takes a beeline at the canoe and innocent hits it in the neck with another spear at the last possible moment. If he hasn't realized it by now, rory sees that the travel through the jungle aint gonna be a walk in central park. Of course they cook and eat the croc because at this point they need to hunt for food. Speaking from personal experience, alligator tastes like, well, it unironically tastes like chicken. Just a rubbery, greasy chicken. According to the book, the crocodile didn't taste much different.After this the book reminds me of a game of amazon trail. It was like the oregon trail but instead of dying of dysentery in a covered wagon, you got eaten by piranhas in a canoe. I know I know, the amazon is in south america and the congo is in africa but many of the same principles apply, give me a break ok? Eventually they hit a few random encounters with a poachers canoe and try to scare off a poacher by just blasting their ak-47 into the air. He's apparently not around, it's more tense in the story but it's not really important to the mokelembembe plot. Later on down the river they see a jaguar lapping up water and even see a pair of pygmies hiding in the water watching them, using reeds to breathe. That's scary as f--k. They could just pop out and hit you with a blow dart and eat you. Maybe they wouldn't eat you but nugent recalls tales he read in his youth about the yakas in this region that would kill and eat people traveling through this region. I've got a couple of episodes planned about cannibals, in fact I originally had an idea for a podcast about cannibals called to serve man, but f--k that would be depressing right? That tangent is basically just to illustrate how f--king scary it is to run into the more remote and warlike tribes out there in the jungle. It's one thing to sit in a closet and make jokes and talk s--t but it's another thing entirely to glide through the water in canoe, trying to remain silent as you see small humans watch you through yellowed eyes, under the river water like you're in the f--king dead marshes in middle earth. Good lord that's terrifying. Eventually he runs into a few brits doing their own expedition to lake tele for a geological survey and to see if they can find any new species or what have you and they're led by this dude colonel rothermel, and I'm basically picturing rourke from disney's atlantis, just some former military guy leading a bunch of nerds through a hostile environment. I know at least a few of my listeners will know exactly what I mean. The brits are one their way back from the lake and they pretty much laugh their asses off at the fact that rory and innocent are looking for mokele mbembe and offer to offload some of their equipment. Here rory talks about some other expeditions to lake tele throughout the last few hundred years. I think it's worth doing the same The brits didn't see s--t. Back in the eighties a guy named roy mackal went out there and got a picture of it… that got ruined by water. He was also some kind of young earth creationist, and his book was like thirty bucks so I wasn't getting that. Later on another expedition that partially inspired rory's came back and gave a presentation in new york, and much to everyone's quote unquote surprise, their only pictures were also… ruined by water. At this point I'm like what the f--k, why are we reading this still but I'm here for the jungle adventure, I'm also locked in because I don't have another topic prepped. And I believe god damn it! There's dinosaurs out there! At least according to hundreds of schizo blogspot pages I came across, and they can't all be wrong right? Finally they come to the last, sort of “civilized” village. And with a little help from scotch and salt they narrowly secure a vote to allow them into the deepest part of mokele mbembe's sacred lair. One of my favorite parts of this exchange is when innocent translates what the village council says after the vote. He's just like “They ask mokele-mbembe not to kill us and thank us for the booze.” right on. Rory asks the witch doctor in that village if mokele-mbembe might be a goddess rather than a god and he just laughs in his face and is like no way mudele!The group of six gatherers their last bit of supplies and gets ready for weeks in the wilderness by foot and canoe. They sit through one coming of age ritual in a village and head off, with only one village saying that they should go home, the rest effectively sponsoring their quest. Here, and several other spots in the book, he talks about skin borers. Disturbingly matter of factly. These are parasites that burrow into your skin and get into the bloodstream. I'll quote the book here holy f--k.“These worms begin life no larger than a match head, but given the right conditions, they can grow to the size of a small snake within the leg, their growth arrested only by knee joints and ligaments. Eventually they eat through the calf and exit from the skin just below the knee.” He never gives a proper name for these parasites so I really couldn't find anything more about them, skin borers just comes up with a bunch of wood boring beetles on google. Compared to parasites that eat your f--king knees, they're well, boring. I've got a great book on parasites I'll eventually do an episode on, sarah you don't need to listen to that one, it's fine, I understand. They continue on playing another few days of congo trail, avoiding death by malaria, and nile crocodiles and skin borers. The only food some nights is fried grubs like they're in the f--king lion king, Slimy, yet satisfying. A lot of disney this episode huh? Other nights they've got monkey or crocodile, with one of the guides making sure to make a slurry of the brains for desert. He says it's the only way to gain the creatures power and spirit. With that I feel entirely vindicated in trying to convince people that eating the eyes of the lobster is the only way to gain it's grip strength for all these years. To my gym bro listeners, monkey brain protein shakes? Yes or no? Let me know at nightmarenowpodcast@gmail.com! One thing that he goes out of his way to mention is identifying monkeys by their vibrant scrotums. I felt it was worth including because we've had a lot of scrotum talk on this show, why stop now?Watching the monkey cook kind of gives me the impression of a cartoon where people are trapped on a deserted island and you envision your compatriots as succulent hams. Rory describes the monkey skin tightening over the fire and looking more humanlike and more tasty each minute. The jungle really can change a mofo. They eat all kinds of crazy s--t out in the jungle, monkeys, hogs, monkey's hogs, snakes, Which I've also eaten and taste like greasy chicken, grubs, plants and more. They use dirt for seasoning, I might have to try that next time I do pulled pork.One day rory goes off on his own to collect some butterflies and look at birds and he hears a huge roar and a bunch of small trees being knocked over. This is effectively the climax of the book so buckle the f--k up. He starts joggin through the muck and mire of the swamp around lake tele. After whatever monster is tearing through the trees. When he eventually catches up to it he sees a massive heaving grey and black creature grabbing at some fruit. It's a f--king silverback gorilla. It looks at him inquisitively, perhaps sensing a primate kinship, and then roars, he gets the hell out of there and runs headfirst into a forest clearing where everything is freakishly quiet. Within seconds five pygmies surround him from the underbrush. Yellowed teeth and eyes glaring from behind armed, presumably poisoned crossbows, spears and blowguns. They're only four and a half feet tall, one on one he might have a chance to whack one and get out but not surrounded. All his memories of stories of cannibals and mutilations come flooding back and he tries to reason with them by pointing to a bird he recognizes and flapping his arms. They hoot and holler at him. He slowly pulls out a harmonica and plays a s--y bit of piano man for them which they seem to like and hands off the harmonica to the one that seems to be the leader, who blows a few sour notes into it and smiles.This likely saved his life, so follow up on at least one creative pursuit or two in your life. Get that charisma score up! While screwing around with the harmonica, they didn't immediately murder him. He notices the leader has an infected cut on his foot and pulls out his medical kit to try to treat him on his knees. Immediately negotiations go sour when he tries this, the leader shrieks and kicks him in the throat. Rory backs up slowly and desperately tries to show them the bird sitting in the tree. I s-t you not this is how he escapes: he flaps his arms like a lunatic and points at the bird, they all finally look and he just takes off running. Literally LOOK OVER THERE! POCKET SAND! Jesus christ I hope he brought extra pants because I would be s--tting myself, running through the jungle hearing the whoops and shrieks get further and further behind you. They know the jungle but 3 foot legs can only carry you so f--king far. He's still lost too! After tracking the gorilla he lost his way and wandered until nightfall. Forcing him to sleep alone in the jungle. I can't believe he could even sleep. The next morning he awakes with a lungfish flopping against his face. That means water is nearby! He finally makes it back to his canoe and finds the rest of the group the next morning. With one more monkey brain protein shake they finally reach the shores of lake tele. After spending a little time on the shore they see something far off break the surface of the water. Like a periscope breaching the ocean. The group goes wild and they all fall to their knees, rory goes crazy too, offering them ten, then fifteen thousand francs to get him closer in the canoes. They ignore the offer and tell them to shut the f--k up and get on his knees, this is the moment. Innocent tells him the others are cursing him and to go for it so rory gets in one of the unoccupied canoes and shoves off towards the anomaly. He gets ten, twenty, thirty feet out when he hears an unmistakeable sound (CERCHICK) the rest of the group has their weapons trained on him and innocent. Rory snaps two blurry ( of course they're blurry) photographs and comes back to shore. One of the guides, Gabriel, admonishes him. “God can approach man, but man NEVER approaches GOD. He would have killed us all.” After he got back to shore the whole group was just relaxed again. No mention about the fact that they were in a mexican f--king standoff five seconds ago. They all watched the beast about a half a mile away for seven minutes and thirty two seconds before it submerges again. I'll put that picture in the shownotes. After that it's basically denouement, de new maw? I honestly am less confident in that word than I am in all the local lingala words. Let's unpack. First. I'm pissed nobody got speared by mokele mbembe's tusk, so that was kind of a let down. Second I can't get f--king oo ee ooo ahh ting tang wall walla bing bang out of my head. Maybe I'll cover that in the parasite episode. Third. One of my favorite stories about mokele-mbembe I couldn't find a good place to shoehorn in yet that I want to make sure I mention. So one of the BBC expeditions back in the seventies made a much more cordial contact with the pygmies. They showed them a book of animal pictures and they're flipping through them and they're like leopard, hippo, elephant, crocodile sure sure we see that s-t all the time, and then they show a picture of a moose and they're like WHAT THE F--K IS THAT THING! Later on after showing a gorilla and a few other monkeys, they throw in an apatasaurus and they just are like matter of factly yeah that's a gorilla that's mokele-mbembe. I love that, they have no modern schooling, they can recognize all the animals in their region and a f--king dinosaur like it's nothing and then they see a moose or bear and they think it's the devil. They treat mokele-mbembe like a foregone conclusion. Sigh.. I guess I gotta cover the skeptical point of view. I'm fine cutting that off for a brief second to shill for a minute. I'm so grateful for all of you guys listening truly madly deeply. I'm living the dream and swearing on the radio, nobody tell my boss. We're already starting to build a community across social media and s--t, but I've got some homework for you guys before next week. Last week I think I asked you to subscribe wherever you listen.This week I want you to throw me a 5 star rating wherever you're listening. I work hard on the show! If you want to give me less than five stars I guess you can keep that to yourself or email me at nightmarenowpodcast@gmail.com to tell me how to improve, I'm always looking for feedback! Next week I'm gonna ask you to share the show with your friends and family or something crazy.Brr I just blacked out for thirty seconds, must have been the marketing persona taking over. Anyway, why might moklele-mbembe not be real slash alive. A lot of the arguments overlap with nessie, it's very tough to keep a breeding population going for 65 million years, especially without turning up any bodies. But taking that apart, this is an animal with potential mystical powers so we can just that to any of the rest of the debunking the deboonkers points. Furthermore, many large animals are capable of burying there dead. Look no further than elephant graveyards, a wild phenomena on its own. Let alone in the jungle with potentially the fastest natural decomposition in the world. As for the breeding cycle I have no earthly idea. Dinosaurs lay eggs generally I guess, maybe in the caves? Another option is literally seeing an elephant in the water. From far off a trunk could be a neck and they're a greyish brown color. Fair enough. They still don't have claws like the found footprints. Lastly the stories of mokele-mbembe might have been unfairly signal boosted. Remember the pokemania of the 90's or later on in twenty sixteen when pokemon go first came out? That was basically the late eighteen hundreds but for dinosaurs. Everyone and their grandma wanted to see dinosaurs. Because the first dinosaur bones had only recently been found. Maybe I'll cover the bone wars, that's a really interesting story in and of itself. Oh and one more thing, I couldn't really fit this anywhere else, but there are tales from some of the tribes and villages that a few pygmies managed to spear and kill a dinosaur. Everyone that ate the meat died though. Kind of anticlimactic, kind of hilarious. Anyway, I'll leave it up to you to decide if dinosaurs still walk the earth, at least until I cover the texas pteranodons. Heh. I've got a huge smile across my face. I love this s--t! Until next week, I'd say sweet dreams, but we all know it's only gonna be nightmares now!
In cryptids in the news and other oddities, KJ covers the legend of the dinosaur-like cryptid from the Congo River Basin called the Mokele-MBembe. Bill covers an account from some hikers in the Pacific Northwest that witnessed a brawl between two bigfoot. And some great listener mail from many of you so please join us! Thank you for listening! www.bigfootterrorinthewoods.com Produced by: "Bigfoot Terror in the Woods L.L.C."
In cryptids in the news and other oddities, KJ covers the legend of the dinosaur-like cryptid from the Congo River Basin called the Mokele-MBembe. Bill covers an account from some hikers in the Pacific Northwest that witnessed a brawl between two bigfoot. And some great listener mail from many of you so please join us! Thank you for listening! www.bigfootterrorinthewoods.com Produced by: "Bigfoot Terror in the Woods L.L.C."
This week we're talking about some folklore, some mythology, some monsters! We discuss the truth behind the legend of the Pukwudgie, made popular by Harry Potter but originating from Delaware and Wampanoag folklore. We also discuss the Mokele-mbembe, also known as the Lost Dinosaur, A water-dwelling entity that supposedly lives in the Congo River Basin. _____________________________ Kate is a psychology graduate & Abbie is a demonologist. Together they talk about all things scary, strange and silly. Welcome to Myths, Magic and Murder! Website and merch - mythsmagicandmurder.com Support us on Patreon to help us keep creating podcasts! We upload extended versions of a video podcast here. https://www.patreon.com/mythsmagicmurder Follow us on social media! @Mythsmagicpod on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook email us at mythsmagicandmurder@gmail.com __________________________________ MUSIC CREDIT: INTRO - Spook by PeriTune (Royalty Free Music) Music provided by No Copyright Music: https://www.youtube.com/c/royaltyfreezone Music used: Spook by PeriTune https://soundcloud.com/sei_peridot/spook Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ VOICE OVER BY RICKY WHELAN - Added to Spook by Peritune. ENDING MUSIC by Myuu iTunes ● http://bit.ly/1PnVqID Bandcamp ● http://bit.ly/1GQMSk6 https://youtu.be/zV-P1xa8rGI ___________________________________ Thanks for listening !
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