Comments on: Mokele-Mbembe: 2008 News

By: cerebus

cerebus — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:38:31 +0000

Hello. As regards the “giant spiders” of Africa, I recall reading about an incident reported by Ivan Sanderson where he was walking up a jungle trail and saw what he took to be a small, hunched old pygmy on the trail ahead of him. Apparently he rushed ahead to ask the “pygmy” a question and was horrified to see that the creature in question was actually an enormous giant spider! I will have to look through my books to locate the exact source, but this has always piqued my own curiosity as well…

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:38:36 +0000

BTW:

I’m aware that Hovind and others like him are considered “controversial.” I’m simply relaying information.

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:36:17 +0000

RED_PILL_JUNKIE:

My inner child is screaming too.

SAUSAGE1:

I don’t know about Mokele-mbembe, but I did read in KEN GERHARD’S book BIG BIRD! that natives in a certain part of Africa identified from a drawing of a pterosaur the flying creature that had been seen near the villages and would regularly attack them. Or something to that effect. Kent Hovind (Dr. Dino) also talked about once giving a lecture on living dinosaurs and being approached afterwards by a student from Kenya who claimed that pterosaur-like flying creatures were seen regularly near his village. The student also said he had no idea that this creatures were considered extinct. This bit of info is also form GERHARD’S book.

Maybe it is NOT a pterodactyl-type creature. Could actually be a giant, previously undiscovered bat. At least that is what Ivan Sanderson claimed was what attacked him on an expedition in 1932. Heuvelmans, as far as I know, also tended to think it was more of a giant bat. Whether it is a pterodactyl, giant bat, or giant bird, SOMETHING that is big and can fly is to be found in Africa.

By: olejason

olejason — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:10:49 +0000

Haha, that would be humorous.

I’m not sure how large a tarantula-like spider can get without the exoskeleton breaking down under its own weight. The bird eaters are what, 12 to 14 inches across?

By: Spinach Village

Spinach Village — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:25:15 +0000

Cool…

Yeah they called the Billi Apes “the king of (something)” or something to that extent, huh? Kind of similar to how some Native Americans refer to Sasquatch as the king of the animals, I think.

Yeah me too, I would love to know more about the Giant Spiders. What if they were so big that humans could get tangled up in their webs? lol

By: red_pill_junkie

red_pill_junkie — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:06:09 +0000

I LOVED the movie Baby when I was a kid!

I have a very big soft spot for Mokele Mbembe, and I would really like it to be a living dinosaur deep in the Congo. However, my more adult knowledge of dinosaur physiology contradicts many of the things that make part of the Mokele legend. The Mokele seems right out of a XIX century paleontology book, when people used to think of these animals as big cold-blooded slow reptiles that dragged their tails on the floor and needed to live on lakes or rivers to support their weight. We now know these ideas were erroneous.

But there’s still room for hope, my inner child screams

By: Bob Michaels

Bob Michaels — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:38:56 +0000

The Bili apes were supposed to be Lion Killers, perhaps a new species, they had a sagittal crest like a Gorilla but otherwise was Chimp like. i believe thru DNA analysis it was determined to be a sub-species of the Central african Chimpanzee,( schweinfeldi)

By: sausage1

sausage1 — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:11:17 +0000

In the BBC documentary ‘Congo’ the crew showed Congolese pygmies a wildlife book and they clearly identified a rhinoceros as mokele-mbembe. The same programme also showed how the jungle regularly recedes, leaving vast grassy plains, and then advances, leaving small pockets of isolated grassland. Mokele-mbembe is a folk memory from centuries ago when there was more grassland.

I haven’t seen or read anything that contradicts this, has anyone else?

By: olejason

olejason — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:31:22 +0000

Can anyone comment on the ‘giant spider’ mentioned in the post above? I don’t think I’ve ever read anything on it

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:56:30 +0000

I don’t remember where I first heard about the bili apes (here or unknown country), but not only are they walking upright–they are intelligent as well. How recent are the drawings above? They look like something drawn near the beginning of dinosaur discovery when everyone thought there was such a thing as a brontosaur (like the movie Baby I believe it was called(?)).