Mysterious Creatures : A Guide to Cryptozoology

Sudan
Bahr el ’Arab. See LAU.
Bahr al Ghazāl. See LAU.
Bahr al Jabal. See LAU.
Bahr al Zerāf. See LAU.
Lake No. See LAU.
Tanzania
Mount Meru, lake near. Charles Stoneham
came across crocodile-like tracks far from any
river. Charles Stoneham, Africa All Over (London:
Hutchinson, 1934), p. 276.
Rufiji River. See KIPUMBUBU.
Lake Tanganyika. See CHIPEKWE, PAMBA.
Tunisia
Wadi Majardah. See SAHARAN CRESTED SNAKE.
Zambia
Lake Bangweulu. See CHIPEKWE.
Bangweulu Swamp. See NSANGA.
Lake Chilengwa, near Ndola. In 1900, William
Kennelly heard stories of a terrifying snake monster
called the Funkwe. C. P. Chesnaye, “A Journey
from Fort Jameson to the Kafue River,” Geographical
Journal 17, no. 1 (1901): 42–48.
Lake Ishiku, near Ndola. A snake monster.
Tom Dobney, “Myths and Monsters,” Horizon
(Harere) 6 (September 1964): 24–26.
Kafue Flats. See CHIPEKWE.
Kafue River. A 50-foot monster called Itoshi,
with a crocodile’s body, a man’s head, and fins like
a fish. Edwin W. Smith and Andrew Murray Dale,
The Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia
(London: Macmillan, 1920), vol. 1, p. 120, and
vol. 2, pp. 128–129.
Lake Kashiba. A monster reported here, called
Chitapo, eats people’s shadows. Brian Siegel,
“Water Spirits and Mermaids: The Copperbelt
Case,” paper presented at the Southeastern Regional
Seminar in African Studies (SERSAS),
April 14–15, 2000, Cullowhee, North Carolina,
on line at http://www.ecu.edu/african/sersas/
Siegel400.htm.
Luanshya River. A snake monster named Nsanguni
was held responsible for flooding and deaths
during the development of the Roan Antelope
Mine in the late 1920s. Clement M. Doke, Lamba
Folk-Lore (New York: American Folk-Lore Society,
1927), p. 324; F. Spearpoint, “The African
Native and the Rhodesian Copper Mines,” Journal
of the Royal Africa Society (supplement) 36 (July
1937): 3–8; Kathaleen Stevens Rukavina, Jungle
Pathfinder (New York: Exposition Press, 1951),
pp. 233–244.
Luapula River. See CHIPEKWE.
Lukulu River. See CHIPEKWE.
Lake Mweru. See CHIPEKWE.
Lake Shiwa Ngandu. See CHIPEKWE.
Zambezi River. See ISIQUQUMADEVU.
Zimbabwe
Lake Kariba. A lake spirit called Nyaminyami
by the Tonga, with a snake’s body and fish’s head,
was held responsible for mishaps during the construction
of the Kariba Dam in 1957 and 1958.
Frank Clements, Kariba: The Struggle with the
River God (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons,
1959); Nyaminyami: The Zambezi River Spirit,
http://www.zambezi.com/nyami.html.
Asia
Bhutan
Jigme Dorji National Park, lake in. Former king
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck saw a white, fast-swimming
animal in a lake in this park. Desmond
Doig, “Bhutan,” National Geographic 120 (September
1961): 384, 391–392.
China
Lake Changhai [Long Lake], Sichuan Province.
A Chinese scientist saw a 10-foot “miracle animal”
with a horse’s head and a huge body on October
12, 1984. Janet and Colin Bord, Unexplained Mysteries
of the 20th Century (Chicago: Contemporary
Books, 1989), p. 355; UNEP-WCMC, Protected
Areas Programme, http://www.unep-wcmc.org/
sites/wh/juizhaig.html.
Chon-Ji Lake [also called Tian-chi, Changbai,
or Dragon Lake], Jilin Province. See GUÀI WÙ.
Er Hai Lake, Yunnan Province. John Kirk, In
the Domain of Lake Monsters (Toronto, Canada:
Key Porter Books, 1998).
Lake Hanas, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
See GIANT SALMON.
Jianzhuhai Lake, Sichuan Province. UNEP-
WCMC, Protected Areas Programme, http://
www.unep-wcmc.org/sites/wh/juizhaig.html.
Nuorilang Lakes, Sichuan Province. UNEP-
WCMC, Protected Areas Programme, http://
www.unep-wcmc.org/sites/wh/juizhaig.html.
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