African Mysteries

Deep in the Congo Basin, local tribes describe a living dinosaur with total consistency across generations.

Zambian fishermen describe a flying reptile with leathery wings and teeth that capsizes their boats.

In the Congo, locals describe a spider with a leg span wider than a grown man is tall.

Zanzibar's most feared entity attacks at night and demands that victims tell others, or it returns.

Millions of South Africans still raise their beds on bricks to stay out of reach of this invisible dwarf.

South African legend says the gods made a creature so powerful they had to split it into elephants and snakes.

A massive white carcass with an elephant-like trunk that washed ashore in South Africa.

Something in the Congo swamps kills elephants with a single horn and has no interest in eating them.

Nine bodies pulled from a South African river in 1997 were all missing their faces and brains.

West African elders say that anyone who sees this swamp dragon dies shortly after.

When devastating storms hit KwaZulu-Natal, the Zulu say a giant winged serpent is rising from the falls.

In the forests of Ghana, something with iron teeth and bat wings sits in the treetops, legs dangling like bait.

Kenyan tribes fear a nocturnal beast that kills for one thing only: the brain.

A gray, brindled cat the size of a donkey has been mauling people in Tanzania since the 1900s.

In Togo, a vampire disguised as a glowing firefly slips through locked doors to feed on the sleeping.

Across East Africa, multiple credible witnesses have reported small, rust-colored ape-men walking upright.

A saber-toothed, armored aquatic predator was reported in a Kenyan river by a big-game hunter in 1907.

In a remote Kenyan river valley, locals describe an armored, club-tailed reptile that has no business still existing.

In Zambian lakes, a massive horned beast surfaces with enough force to capsize fishing boats.