Bonus: Mokele-Mbembe
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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🗓️ 13 January 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Brian Dunning from Skeptoid discusses the legend of "Mokele-Mbembe." What evidence do cryptozoologists have for a sauropod roaming modern Africa?
Get the full episode, and more details of the myth in Skeptoid Episode 727 “Hunting the Mokele-Mbembe" at https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4727
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| 0:40.9 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. |
| 0:45.0 | This bonus episode comes courtesy of Skeptoid. |
| 0:51.6 | Skeptoid has consistently been one of the top-ranked social science podcasts since 2006. |
| 0:56.9 | They've won multiple awards, including the best educational podcast from the podcast awards and the best science podcast from the Stitcher Awards. This episode, hunting the |
| 1:04.0 | Mochale Mbembe, covers the myth of a dinosaur living in the African rainforest. You might have |
| 1:09.8 | heard of Mochale Mbembe before. |
| 1:12.2 | It pops up from time to time when people are talking about sauropods. |
| 1:15.7 | The skeptoid episode has a very similar feel to me because I feel that it's similar to |
| 1:20.1 | Sabrina's dinosaur of the day, but instead of being a real dinosaur, it's a dinosaur myth. |
| 1:24.7 | And that's really Skeptoid's wheelhouse, getting into all the nitty-gritty |
| 1:28.7 | details about fantastical claims and then boiling them down to where they came from. |
| 1:35.3 | So without further ado, here is a clip from Skeptoid episode 727 hunting the Mokele Mbembe. |
| 1:44.5 | The Mochale Mbembe is said to hide in the rivers and lakes of the Congo basin and other places throughout Africa. |
| 1:51.8 | In 1992, one Japanese film crew flying over a lake took some footage of something leaving a wide V-shaped wake as it moves across the surface of a lake. |
| 2:02.6 | Though it was much too far away to make out any detail in the blurry standard definition video, |
| 2:08.1 | it's often shown freeze-framed on a shot that shows what appears to be a long neck |
| 2:12.5 | sticking out of the water ahead of a large blob. Most people who watch it feels it looks more like two people in a canoe. |
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