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If hecklerspray ever had to fight a crocodile, we’d start out by giving it our famous one-two punch, follow up with our world renowned triple-round-house kick, and then we’d force its tail into its own mouth making it chew until it was nothing more than a little scaly donut.
Don’t try that at home, kids. We’ve had training.
If we ever had to fight Mahamba, on the other hand, we’d probably do all the same things except with construction cranes instead of our hands. That’s because Mahamba is reported to be a 50′ long croc. It’s been sighted in the Congo, and some say it’s a remnant from a very ancient age.
We have a strange quote for you today – strange because we can only read it ourselves through Google’s Translator tool. It gives the account of a man who encountered Mahamba in the wilds of the Congo. He’d gone to hunt ducks, but saw this alligator/crocodile thing he estimated to be 15 metres long.
He only had a wussy gun with him as he came to hunt tiny little ducks, but he had a better weapon in his vehicle. He sent a kid to get his bigger gun. The is where Google translator kicks in. The original text is in German, and is found on Kryptozoologie-online.de:
“After the boy after a long time came, [the hunter] decided to brave because of the apathy of the crocodile which it had apparently not noticed, a little closer in his direction to crawl. Unfortunately, [the croc was] alerted by the ducks, which immediately aufflogen him, given his scant stock to a rapid, led untargeted shot. It was like it had come, because the giant crocodile-like flight left just before him like the ducks down the sand bank into safe water and disappeared into the murky waters.”
Probably the most coherent thing ever to appear on this website, right? Did you catch the part where the great white hunter was actually crawling towards this thing? Yeah, we did too. The story goes on:
“Hardly two or three days later ran the adventurers on a sand bank. After just one meter of scarce water under the keel of the boat was, waggled it unusually fierce and would not be the low water level would have assumed he almost rammed a river horse to have. Suddenly ran an approximately twelve meter-long crocodile, apparently uncomfortable by his boat taken quickly into deeper water. The animal had them after the Belgians later thought, already heard and escaped going to be in the direction in which her boat on the sandbank auflief. At the collision the animal had a speed of 64 Kmh added.”
As we understand it, a few days later the same crew got beached on a sand bar. One of these huge alligators freaked, shook their boat a bit, and then swam off. It’s kind of a tough read. Now for some plain English quotations. This is off of the website AmericanMonsters.com:
“Probably hailing from the Lake Likouala swamp region, this animal may, in fact, be a completely new species of heretofore undiscovered large, central African crocodile. That having been said, rumors of this animal’s prehistoric origins still persist, convincing some investigators that the animal might be a freshwater variety of the presumed extinct, aquatic reptile known as mosasaurs.”
Other than what we’ve already told you, there doesn’t seem to be a lot known about the Mahamba – by the western world, anyway. The natives could probably expound on the subject quite a bit.
When they get more internet savvy, we’ll update you all.
Eugene says
The largest accurately measured Nile crocodile on record was just under 7 metres long. So it sounds like the size of this one is being *slightly* exaggerated.
Ben says
I will just add this, “things always look bigger, when your scared shitless.”
mike says
So what you’re saying is ‘before getting naked in front of my wife, I should scare the shit out of her first! I think this is a common case of “eye witness” 50 foot crock that is likely an 18’ croc. Brings to mind the Hogzilla claims that proved to be grossly exagerated when he was dug up and measured.
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Ronald Sanders says
I think it was slightly smaller in length.The crocodile he saw could have survived the changes of earth occouring from 65 million years ago up to the present day.It is very unlikley, but possible.The only problem is that the animal you saw could only ave grown 1.8 ft in length a year, making it longer than its own age is.But maby some changes in the earths atmosphere may have reduced its growth.I think you saw an ancient reptile said to grow 37-40 ft long at its adult age called sarcosuchus A.K.A. supercroc and if it was a female it is possible there is more than one in that area.
Just hope that im wrong…………..