Every country has its unexplained beasts, or cryptids. Scotland has Nessie, the Pacific Northwest has Bigfoot, the Himalayas have the Yeti. South Africa’s contribution to the world’s cryptid canon is less famous internationally, but no less colourful: a trunked sea monster that fought killer whales, a storm serpent that lives behind a Midlands waterfall, and a red-furred, cave-dwelling “water baboon” that farmers in the North West have been reporting since the 1880s.
None of the three has ever produced a body, a bone, or a clear photograph. All three have survived a century or more of retelling. Here is what actually happened, and what almost certainly didn’t.
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