Cryptozoologists are always looking for new species not accepted by the mainstream, and

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Such was the case when an extremely unusual great ape was discovered in the Congo, not

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The Belie-Ape of the Congo

In the darkest jungles of the Congo is said to lurk a recently discovered great ape, large,

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