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Other / Unknown · Congo · 1920

CON-1920ID case-c8f13bff7fFallback locationAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
Creature
Other / Unknown
When
Jul 1920to the month
Where
Congofallback location
Reports
10 documents1 independent

The account

The naturalist heard fearful stories from native hunters about a monster in the French and Belgian Congo.

Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect

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Details

Creature
Other / Unknown
Where
Congo
mapped to country level · from the country named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the country named in the report (exact place not found).
When
Jul 1920
Account
Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by
1 independent source (10 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map
Oct 9, 2026
Case id
case-c8f13bff7f

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Source trail (2)

Down the rabbit hole → 10 documents, and how they connect

Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.

  1. Image 6 of The Progress-itemizer (Water Valley, Miss.), July 30, 1920
    Newspaper · 1920-07-30
    Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
  2. Image 3 of The Hays free press (Hays, Kan.), August 5, 1920
    Newspaper · 1920-08-05

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Further reading

Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.

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