Mbenga (or Mokèlé-mbèmbé)

cryptid · Congo · Central Africa

Mokèlé-mbèmbé ('one who stops the flow of rivers') is a cryptid of the Congo Basin reported since 1913 by German Captain von Stein. Described as a long-necked, herbivorous, elephant-sized creature with smooth skin, it supposedly lives in riverbank caves and attacks canoes.

Open in the interactive archive →