Kongamato

The Account

Kaonde people of Zambia describe a reddish flying reptile with a beak of teeth. Frank Melland recorded the accounts in 1923. Every so often, a fisherman does not come home.

From the Public Record

The Kongamato is a cryptozoological, pterosaur-like creature reportedly seen by members of the indigenous population and researchers in the Jiwundu Swamps in the Mwinilunga district of western Zambia, Angola, and Democratic Republic of the Congo. It has been suggested that it may be a modern-day Rhamphorhynchus, an unidentified bird, or a giant bat. No photographs have been taken of it. Most accounts are based on large wounds and eyewitness accounts.

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