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African Mysteries

The continent with the most undocumented biodiversity on Earth. Local communities report creatures that Western science has never classified. Some match no known animal.

19 creatures

Adze

Adze

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

Folklore onlyAfrica
Agogwe

Agogwe

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

Repeated sightingsAfrica
Chipfalamfula

Chipfalamfula

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

Eyewitness reportsAfrica
Dingonek

Dingonek

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

Eyewitness reportsAfrica
Emela-ntouka

Emela-ntouka

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

Eyewitness reportsAfrica
Grootslang

Grootslang

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

Folklore onlyAfrica
Inkanyamba

Inkanyamba

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

Photo/video claimsAfrica
J'ba Fofi

J'ba Fofi

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

Eyewitness reportsAfrica
Kongamato

Kongamato

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

Eyewitness reportsAfrica
Mamlambo

Mamlambo

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

Eyewitness reportsAfrica
Mngwa

Mngwa

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

Repeated sightingsAfrica
Mokele-mbembe

Mokele-mbembe

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

Eyewitness reportsAfrica
Muhuru

Muhuru

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

Eyewitness reportsAfrica
Nandi Bear

Nandi Bear

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

Repeated sightingsAfrica
Ninki Nanka

Ninki Nanka

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

Eyewitness reportsAfrica
Popobawa

Popobawa

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

Eyewitness reportsAfrica
Sasabonsam

Sasabonsam

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

Folklore onlyAfrica
Tokoloshe

Tokoloshe

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

Folklore onlyAfrica
Trunko

Trunko

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

Photo/video claimsAfrica

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