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Living Dinosaurs In Wikileaks Video And The Likouala Swamp In The Congo

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All over the world there are rumors and stories of living dinosaurs.  One of the key areas is the  Likouala swamp region of the Congo which is supposed to be home to the Mokele-mbembe may also contain another dinosaurian: the Emela-ntouka (literally “killer of elephants”). This stout rhinoceros-like creature is reputed to have a penchant for killing elephants with its single horn.

Mokèlé-mbmbé, meaning “one who stops the flow of rivers” in the Lingala language is a legendary water-dwelling creature of Congo River basin folklore, sometimes described as living creature, sometimes as a spirit, and loosely analogous to the Loch Ness Monster in Western culture. It is claimed to be a sauropod by some cryptozoologists. 

Expeditions mounted in the hope of finding evidence of the Mokèlé-mbèmbé have failed, and the subject has been covered in a number of books and by a number of television documentaries. According to skeptic Robert T. Carroll, “Reports of the Mokèlé-mbèmbé have been circulating for the past two hundred years, yet no one has photographed the creature or produced any physical evidence of its existence.” The Mokèlé-mbèmbé and its associated folklore also appear in several works of fiction and popular culture.

 
Mokèlé-mbèmbé,

Credit: www.mokelembembe.com Artwork by Bill Rebsamen

Emela-ntouka

The Emela-ntouka is an African legendary creature in the mythology of the Pygmy tribes, and a cryptid purported to live in Central Africa. Its name means “killer of the elephants” in the Lingala language. In other languages it is known as the Aseka-moke, Njago-gunda, Ngamba-namae, Chipekwe or Irizima.

Lucien Blancou, chief game inspector in French Equatorial Africa in the 1950′s wrote of a ferocious creature in the Congo, larger than a buffalo, that was considered the most dangerous animal by the Kelle pygmies. “…the presence of a beast which sometimes disembowels elephants is also known, but it does not seem to be prevalent there now as in the preceding districts. A specimen was supposed to have been killed twenty years ago at Dongou, but on the left of the Ubangi and in the Belgian Congo.” (translated by Heuvelmans, Bernard, On the Track of Unknown Animals, 1959.)

Credit: Genesis Park

Mahamba is a cryptid rumoured to lurk in the People’s Republic of the Congo, around the Lake Likouala swamp region. It is purported to be an enormous crocodile; reaching lengths of up to 50 feet (15 m). Some have speculated that it is a freshwater relic of the mosasaurs  huge, sea-dwelling lizards which were presumed extinct by the end of the Cretaceous period.

Credit: carnivoraforum.com

The Bobangi aboriginals have proclaimed this animal to be unlike any other they have seen, and have only compared it to other creatures, such as aNkoli (the Bobangi word for crocodile) or the legendary Nguma-monene for the sake of comparison. It is also been reported to attack and devour rafts and canoes

Two testimonials of sightings of Nguma-monene exist that were done near the Dongu-Mataba (tributary of the Ubangi River) in the Republic of the Congo. The first was done in 1961; the second ten years later in 1971 by pastor Joseph Ellis. He estimated the length of the (visible) tailpart as 10 meters long (equal to his dugout, no neck or head could be seen), and a diameter of 0.5 to 1 meter. Its color was tending to greyish-brown. When back in the village, it appeared that the subject was taboo. The above and other sightings were gathered by University of Chicago biologist Roy P. Mackal, who led two expeditions to the Likouala swamps in the Republic of Congo, while searching for the Mokele-mbembe

Purported image of Nguma-monene 

 Credit:  cryptozoologie.xf.cz

Missionary Cal Bombay and his wife told Roy P. MacKal, the author of “A Living Dinosaur” that they watched a creature like thisthe one picture below,  supposedly a Nguma-monene,  for 15 minutes in Kenya. The missionary said the plates were bigger than those in the drawing shown here.

These alleged living dinosaurs  were part of a Wikileaks release according to YouTube user WeirdWildSpooky·

 

“The Chinese have had legends for thousands of years of flying reptiles called dragons, and flying snakes as well- something apparently different. Flying reptile dragon images in China are so prevalent, they can easily be considered amongst the most common of motifs. Are they stylized depictions of real flying animals? The ancient Chinese certainly thought they were,” says David Hatcher Childress

“Similarly, most countries of Europe and the Mediterranean have myths and legends of heroes battling flying reptiles-or dragons. Often depicted as winged snakes or winged alligators, these dragons were a common image as well, and are still used in the crests of royal families. Did dragons-flying reptiles-pterodactyls-still exist in small numbers, even up to the Middle Ages?,” he adds. 

According to one news report at Modern Living Pterodactyls, short-tailed featherless creatures fly over a valley, in daylight, deep in the interior of New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea. This is a different kind of pterosaur than was seen by the American World War II veteran Duane Hodgkinson, in 1944. Umboi Island Expedition Of the two expeditions on Umboi Island in 2004, the first one was led by the American cryptozoologist Jonathan Whitcomb. He later wrote a scientific paper on apparent living pterosaurs in Papua New Guinea. The report was published in a peer-reviewed journal of science

Wikileaks Pterosaur filmed in flight, Yantai City, Shandong Province, China.

Many states of the U.S.A. have eyewitnesses of flying pterodactyls, more properly called “pterosaurs.” Lately Georgia has been a hot spot state for sightings, to be precise in Towns County and in Loganville, according to the authors at Live Pterodactyl Blog.    

Other areas in Georgia where people have seen the flying creatures in recent years include the towns of Canton, Lithonia, and Franklin, and a highway between Winder and Athens.

Sighting in Franklin, Georgia

A lady and her two sons were driving on Highway 27, at about 8:15 am, on July 18, 2012, when they saw a “flyin dinosaur.” After yelling at her boys to look at it, she heard confirmation from her older son: It was a pterodactyl. As it glided across the road, they could see that it had a long tail.

Sighting in Northern Georgia

In Towns County, northern Georgia, David Schroder has had two sightings within the past few years. His July 2010 encounter was with two flying creatures with wingspans possibly as great at twenty feet. The man’s wife also witnessed them.

 

 

A pterosaur sighting need not be in a remote tropical rain forest. According to a recent analysis, by cryptozoologist Jonathan Whitcomb, of 128 sighting reports, 75% of the reported encounters with apparent pterosaurs were in the United States of America, and 5% were in Papua New Guinea. This does not mean that many more of the flying creatures live in the USA; many more Americans have easy access to the internet and email, and are proficient in English, compared with third-world countries like Papua New Guinea.

 

Sketch by the eyewitness Eskin Kuhn (Cuba, 1971)

Credit: http://www.livepterodactyl.com/blog/

Alleged photo of pterosaur killed in the Civl War era. 

 

 
Visit Live Pterodactyl Blog for more recent sightings in the U.S. 
 
More on the Emela-ntouka

The Emela-ntouka is claimed to be around the size of an African Bush Elephant, brownish to gray in color, with a heavy tail, and with a body of similar shape and appearance to a rhinoceros, including one long horn on its snout. Keeping its massive bulky body above ground level supposedly requires four short, stump-like legs. It is described as having no frills or ridges along the neck. The animal is alleged to be semi-aquatic and feed on Malombo and other leafy plants. The Emela-ntouka is claimed to utter a vocalization, described as a snort, rumble or growl. 

Horn

The structure of its horn is debated among writers on the subject.[citation needed] The debate runs thus: if the “horn” is ivory, then it would be a tusk (tooth) and not a horn at all. Some rhinoceroses do have tusks, especially the Asiatic one-horned kinds; yet these are not known to inhabit Africa. If the horn is made of bone, then the creature is a reptile, as many fossil reptile groups, such as the ceratopsians, had horns made of bone. Finally, the horn could be made of keratin, as are the horns of African rhinos. However, without a specimen to examine, any attempt to classify the emela-ntouka by this method can only be speculative.

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This cryptid is alleged to mainly inhabit the vast shallow waters in the swamps and lakes of the Congo River basin, especially in the Likouala swamps in the Republic of the Congo, and possibly Cameroon. It is also said to inhabit Lake Bangweulu in Zambia. They are claimed to be solitary, herbivorous animals. The inhabitants of the area are alleged to treat the creature with great fear.

History

J.E. Hughes published his book Eighteen Years on Lake Bangweulu in 1933, in which he reported that an animal that fits the description of an Emela-Ntouka (although not referred to by this name) was slaughtered by Wa-Ushi tribesmen, along the shores of the Luapula River, which connects Lake Bangweulu to Lake Mweru.

Credit: Wikipedia

The Emela-Ntouka was mentioned by name for the first time in 1954, in an article in the journal Mammalia, authored by former Likouala game inspector Lucien Blancou. He stated the Emela-Ntouka was “larger than a buffalo” and dwelled throughout the Likouala swamps. It was also Blancou who first mentioned the fact that an Emela-Ntouka kills elephants, buffalos or hippos when disturbed, much like the Mokele-mbembe’s allegedly renowned hatred for hippos. While both animals are supposedly herbivorous, they also supposedly share a fierce sense of territoriality, and it is for this reason the pygmies are claimed to “fear it more than any other dangerous animal”. In about 1930, an Emela-Ntouka was supposedly killed near Dongou.

Later evidence was contributed by Dr. Roy P. Mackal, who led two expeditions into the Congo in 1980 and 1981. He gathered details on various other cryptids. 1987 saw the publication of Mackal’s book, A Living Dinosaur, wherein he summarized the expeditions.

A planned season two episode of the New Zealand documentary World Mysteries included an interview with a man who claimed to have encountered a dead Emela-Ntouka. He claimed to still possess the animal’s horn, which he removed from the body. The episode was filmed but never aired. 

Possible explanations

A popular speculation is that the mythical monster is in fact a relict ceratopsian. Proponents of this idea believe that the Republic of the Congo is home to many prehistoric animals such as living dinosaurs, including the Mokele mbembe and Mbielu-Mbielu-Mbielu (possibly sauropod or stegosaur dinosaurs). 

In 1981, Dr. Roy Mackal while searching the Congo for the Mokele-mbembe, collected accounts of the Emela-ntouka. Mackal initially considered that Emela-ntouka might be a Monoclonius, or a Centrosaurus, both ceratopsians. As such, it might be related to the Ngoubou, which might be a six-horned Styracosaurus. However, Mackal also noted the pygmies did not report a neck frill, which he would have expected on a ceratopsian. Furthermore, the Ceratopsia are absent from Africa’s fossil record. Author Loren Coleman suggested that the Emela-Ntouka is not saurian, but a new species of semi-aquatic rhinoceros

Ceratopsia or Ceratopia   is a group of herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs that thrived in what are now North America, Europe, and Asia, during the Cretaceous Period, although ancestral forms lived earlier, in the Jurassic. The earliest known ceratopsian, Yinlong downsi, lived between 161.2 and 155.7 million years ago. The last ceratopsian species became extinct in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, 65.5 million years ago

 

 

Visit Live Pterodactyl Blog for more recent sightings in the U.S. 
Visit Live Pterodactyl Blog for more recent sightings in the U.S. 



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    • Anonymous

      if you believe this youre an idiot

    • Human Shield

      So idiotic a cavman can believe it … seriosly though, wheres the caveman footage?

    • LAYNALAND

      evolution is a MYTH!…Creation is documented in the Bible…I think I will stick with the Bible.

      I do believe there are still areas where some lines of prehistoric creatures may have survived down thru the centuries.

      But, even if that were not true – fossils have been found and scientists in secret have cloned many creatures and I am sure, that some have been released, as an experiment in their survival, etc., and or escaped, the confines of their created habitats of science.

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      • icelandicaxe

        shut up

      • Anonymous

        “evolution is a MYTH!”

        in your case, yes.. it seems so.

      • Gojiroiscoming

        Really? You’re gonna trust a book compiled by a bunch of guys who refused to think the Earth was round? Put guys to death for even suggesting it?

        You realize there is no scientific evidence supporting the timeline of creationism, right? Even creationists cant agree on their own timeline. Some say the Earth is 6,000 years old, others say 13,000 years old. Some even say the Earth actually is 4.5B years old but to God billions of years passed in the blink of an eye.

        Science and religion are trying to find answers to the same questions: Who are we and why are we here? Where did we come from? What is our purpose?

        Basically science and religion have become an old married couple that are both interested in finding the same result, but fight about every little thing along the way.

        • All Natural

          Science was created to try to figure out how God thinks…..but you propably never heard that. The simple fact we have measurement of anything points towards creationism. Now have evil MEN twisted everything up to benefit themselves throught history….Yes.

        • Confederate

          Got news for ya Pal “they” never said the earth was flat! In fact look at early Christian works of art & they are holding a ball with a cross on top. The ball is a THE EARTH! This myth of Columbus wanting to prove that the earth was not flat is a MYTH! It was made up by Washington Irving in 1828, a man who wrote fantasy stories!
          So instead of ridiculing Christians for their beliefs why don’t YOU learn some historical facts! I also notice that people like you don’t ridicule (P)Islam for their belief that the sun sets in a pool of muddy water every night!

        • Theron

          You have been mislead. Here is an Idea. Use the scientific method and actually STUDY that of which you speak.
          Job 26:10, Prov 8:27, Isaiah 40:22, Amos 9:6. Shows the Bible teaches not a flat earth but round.
          Your ignorance is showing. :lol:

        • Realist

          Christians are delusional, deranged idiots. This world would be a much, much better place if someone were to, shall we say, “take care” of christians.

          Guantanamo Bay is too good for you, christian scum.

      • Willie Boy

        the “Bible” is a myth….try reading Zecharia Sitchen…Summerian clay tablets (12,000 years old) tell a story….”The Epic of Gilgamesh”….Gilgamesh can be Jesus, Allah, Buddah, or your favorite Hollywood star…. The point being, Reptilian Annunaki came first…cloned us (their DNA with apes), then handed the first generation (illuminati) the User Manual for ‘control” of the rest of us “useless eaters”… In you case, I see it has worked. Not to insult your devotion or yearning for truth…. But just because the “holy” books and their deities are not real…does not mean that “god” is not real…God is just something much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much….bigger.

        • All Natural

          Zecharia Sitchen?!?!?! ahahahhahahah Why don’t YOU go read about Sitchen’s phony ass before you go telling people to read stuff.

    • londoner

      Believing anything without sufficient evidence is idiotic – however, people might like to verify that it took decades for the Giant Panda to be located – even when they knew they what they were looking for.

    • That_was_Random

      This is %100 disinformation.

      • All Natural

        I agree. If this is in the government archives as proof of dinosaurs…..We have problems. Terrible quality and the film is actually cut off. The Pteradactyl video actually looks blurred on purpose to distort that it’s fake.

    • Anonymous

      The pterodactyl photo was a Civil War Re-enactment and part of a B movie cast with a company called Haxan Films. As for the others well lets just say that CGI and photoshop can do wonders these days. The video of the ostrich looking creature reminds me of blurry grainy UFO videos and photos, and we all know that that kind of media is spelled HOAX.

    • Anonymous

      While most of this is hoowee, the basis for these creatures living in the Congo region is based on local testimony, and therefore should be treated as a probable. Do you live there?

      • Willie Boy

        Ostrich, dino…either way…too much dark meat…I prefer Aliens…..taste like chicken…

    • Don't be hating!

      Batman lives!

    • Quantum Kev

      YYYYYYYyyeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh… I think we all saw the movie “Jurassic Park” – and the effects were a LOT better in it. LAME.

      And I think it’s horrible that someone saw Dick Cheney out there hunting in the bush, and referred to him as a “dinosaur” ! Lol

    • Willie Boy

      STOP INSULTING “WIKILEAKS”…JESUS! WIKILEAKS REVEALED THAT “STRATFOR” SELLS UN INSIDE INFOMRATION ABOUT HAARP AND WEATHER CONTROL TO BANKSTERS AND 1% TO MAKE TRILLIONS BY SHORTING COMMODITIES….does anyone care?

      HEY LOOK! A living dinosaur….Michelle’s Big Butt!!! Doy!!!!Duuugh, where?????

    • An Observer

      The “Civil War” photo is from a crappy FOX TV show from like 99, cant remember the name of it, but this photo was on the website and it was not meant to make you think it was real, its a fake photo, 100%. I hate seeing crap that was made for TV being taken as real.

      Just like the “WTC UFO footage”, that is blatantly fake too, it was made for a Sci-Fi channel commercial in the late 90s, and if you could see it in high quality like it aired originally, not the pixelated quality that gets posted online, you would see it is very poor CGI, that could not possibly trick you, like most Sci-Fi channel stuff from the 90s.

      People constantly spreading dis-info and they don’t even know it :(

    • godisSMEG

      Some comments;

      Needs better pictures/ Vids. The Pterodactyl was a model air plane test to determine how they may have flown. Pull your head out. Bad journalism. All alligators and crocodiles are dinosaurs. This is of very bad quality top to bottom.

      On the religion side, a new rule, if you believe in god you therefore must now also agree to believe in Santa, the Easter bunny, tooth ferry and of course sasquatch. I think though their are more reasons to believe in Santa, there’s historical proof of Santa.

      Oh yes of course Aliens are real but, I don’t think they’re on this planet. We’re really not that interesting. That would be like going to the southern US in search of people with all their teeth. Pointless, stay home.

    • FunSpoiler

      The footage is taken from Jurassic Park so its 1993 not a KGB plot. It has been reversed and cropped, but it is readily matchable to the scene where Sam Neill and the kids meet a gallimimus flock just before it is ambushed by a t-Rex.

      Check http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM-RPO10aPY at about 0:20 secs.

      Yes, someone is lying to you but it’s not the scientists, or even Vladimir Putin boy KGB Agent, but most likely one of the people who rail about conspiracies and the govt not telling the truth. You might want to ask the man [?] defending it so much – WeirdWildSpooky – what his motives are in lying and perpetuating frauds.

    • HolyRoller

      If you don’t believe in dragons, then you don’t believe or read your bible. You are not a Christian. God said he will release the dragon upon the world. Study your bible. You are a doubting Thomas. He did not believe Jesus rose from the dead.
      You are going to he’ll, but that’s ok the bible says let the IGNORANT be ignorant.

    • JESUSISLORD

      The Devil is a liar a theft and a manipulator. A confessor dinosaurs are real and they exists the bible is 100% True do not let satan confuse your mind DO NOT BELIEVE THE DEVIL LIES AND TEMPTATIONS HE IS DEFEATED ALREADY JESUS DEFEATED HIM ON THE CROSS HE TOOK BACK THE KEYS OF DEATH AND DIED FOR ALL OUR SINS SO WE CAN BE HERE JOHN 3:16 he came to save us the world not condemn it . GOD BLESS All facts are true from the bibleThe Bible mentions two dinosaurs by name and describes them in great detail. “Behemoth” (Job 40:15-24) and “Leviathan” (Job 41:1-34). Trust in God Repent for the Kingdom of God is near do not be deceived from the enemy the devil. JESUS GOD HOLY SPIRIT ALMIGHTY POWERFUL.

      JESUS IS LORD I LOVE JESUS GOD HOLY SPIRIT HE LIVES IN ME AND I AM HIM HALLELUJAH THE THE BLOOD AND LAMB OF GOD THE LION OF JUDAH. JESUS LIVES AND IS REAL EVERY WORD OF GOD IS REAL AND SHARPER THAN ANY TO EDGED SWORD BELIEVE AND I PROCLAIM HE IS MY LORD, MY GOD, AND MY SAVIOR MY EVERYTHING. GOD BLESS. I BIND AND REBUKE ALL LIES FROM THE ENEMY IN JESUS NAME AND BLOOD HE IS ALREADY DEFEATED THE BLOOD OF JESUS HOLY GHOST FIRE!!!!!! :) GOD BLESS MAY GOD PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL.

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