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Episode 51: Mokèlé-mbèmbé
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Episode 51: Mokèlé-mbèmbé

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Episode 51: Mokèlé-mbèmbé
Legends of the Hidden Horde
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There are places on this Earth where the water does not hurry. This is where we heading in Episode 51.


In the northern Congo Basin the rivers thicken into swamp. They lose their banks. They forget which way is downstream. Blackwater slides under a roof of trees so dense the sun arrives already tired. The air tastes of peat and iron. At the sharp bends, the current has chewed caves into the clay, and the caves hold their breath.


People who live with those rivers have always known that something lives in the pause between current and stillness. Not a tourist’s monster. Not a poster dinosaur. A presence with a job. They call it, Mokèlé-mbèmbé. One who stops the flow of rivers.


Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokele-mbembe


https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokélé-mbembé


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Tele


https://abookofcreatures.com/category/republic-of-the-congo/


https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/tetrapod-zoology/misreading-the-mokele-mbembe-the-mokele-mbembe-part-1/


https://www.iflscience.com/mokele-mbembe-the-living-dinosaurs-people-thought-lived-in-the-congo-70121


https://www.livescience.com/38871-mokele-mbembe.html


https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16306902


https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-congos-dinosaur-of-discord/


https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/congo-basin-mokele-mbembe-deforestation


https://skeptoid.com/episodes/727


https://www.encyclopediaofinvisibility.com/entries/mokele-mbembe


https://mythlok.com/mokele-mbembe/


https://www.discoveryuk.com/mysteries/the-legend-of-mokele-mbembe-africas-hidden-dinosaur/


https://www.geo.fr/animaux/mystere-du-mokele-mbembe-dragon-monstre-mythique-du-centre-de-afrique-loch-ness-cryptozoologie-216027


https://www.anomalist.com/reports/mokele.html


https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/a-french-missionarys-eighteenth-century-account-of-mokele-mbembe


Mackal’s book, if you want the primary expedition text: Roy P. Mackal, A Living Dinosaur? In Search of Mokele-Mbembe (Brill, 1987). For the skeptical historical reading: Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero, Abominable Science!