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Mokele-mbembe is a sauropod-like cryptid that has been luring cryptozoology's most optimistic explorers into some of the world's most remote swamps for over a century, and yet the evidence remains, to put it generously, thin. Whether this creature was born from colonialist interpretations of local legends, or wishful thinking during the dinosaur craze of the early 20th century, one thing is clear: somewhere in the Congo River Basin, a living dinosaur is de…
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I know what hippos are, and I would argue they are monsters. Oh, yeah. Like if you described a hippo to somebody and their behavior, it'd be like, that is a monster.
“three feet in circumference is probably like, well, it's one foot times 3.14, right? So it's, yeah, like only a foot across. Way less impressive.”
“the description's kind of funny, because immediately I see it, and it's like, well, an elephant with a long, flexible neck, like, elephants have trunks that they stick up in the air. So, like, it kind of seems like it's the size of an elephant, and it has a long thing that sticks up in the air. Could it just be an elephant?”
“they say, you know, this folklore has existed with the Bantu people for hundreds of years, for centuries, but then you can't find like any recountings of the actual indigenous stories.”
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