Places, Africa
Republic of the Congo
TaleLikouala, Republic of the Congo, 1776 to 1997
Mokele-mbembe, report by report, since 1776
The oldest text behind Mokele-mbembe is a 1776 note on claw prints. The name reached print in 1929, in a report that kept the animal out of the Likuala rivers.

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