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Speaker 1: Lost worlds have always tugged firmly on the human imagination.

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Speaker 1: For millennia, we've shared tales of forgotten places where time

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Speaker 1: has not kept pace with history, where the clutter and

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Speaker 1: most famous of all lost worlds is the mythical Atlantis,

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Speaker 1: first introduced in Plato's Dialogs to Maeus and Critius around

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Speaker 1: Atlantis is an allegory for the inevitable downfall that follows

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Speaker 1: lost to antiquity, but shining still in the imagination. There

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Speaker 1: are other similar stories of sunken lands around the globe.

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Speaker 1: Limyria a nation submerged beneath the Indian Ocean, move a

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Speaker 1: rooted and universal desire to maintain some mystery in the world,

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Speaker 1: technological development, and the human urge to explore, to fill

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Speaker 1: But if the romance were squeezed out of our cartography,

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Speaker 1: it snuck back in through our fiction. In eighteen eighty five,

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Speaker 1: h Rider Haggard wrote King Solomon's Minds, often regarded as

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Speaker 1: Western tradition, at least in it, Haggard's explorers, led by

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Speaker 1: the undauntable Allan Quartermaine mount an arduous trek through an

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Speaker 1: In Joseph Comrade's seminal novel The Heart of Darkness, Sailor

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Speaker 1: Charles Marlowe speaks of his boyhood lust for adventure. Now,

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Speaker 1: when I was a little chap there were many blank

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Speaker 1: will go there. But there was one yet, the biggest,

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Speaker 1: the stereotypical mystery and untamed wildness long attached to Africa

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Speaker 1: in the white European mind. The story is essentially an

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Speaker 1: account of Marlow's steamship journey up the Congo River in

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Speaker 1: But as is so often the case, what Marlowe had

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Speaker 1: told over centuries by local Congolese and explorers alike, a

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Speaker 1: In You're listening to Unexplained, and I'm Richard McLean Smith.

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Speaker 1: In the seventeen sixties, abbe Levan Bonaventure Proia, a French

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Speaker 1: Years later, after returning to France, he wrote a book

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Speaker 1: missionaries knowledge of its natural wonders. No doubt, this book,

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Speaker 1: one enigmatic passage. Missionaries Proyar Rites have observed passing along

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Speaker 1: Other accounts present the macklay and bembey as a very

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Speaker 1: while local tribespeople spoke of the mochle and Bembe as

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Speaker 1: the apparent monster, coupled with its eating habits, hinted at

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Speaker 1: an alluring, alarming question. Does a dinosaur live on the

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Speaker 1: so called lost world of the Congo basin? One man

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Speaker 1: Having grown tired of the endless, unrewarded search for NeSSI,

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Speaker 1: Mackell turned his attention to Africa after his friend, the

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Speaker 1: herpetologist James Powell, related a story he once heard from

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Speaker 1: a Bantu folk healer. The healer had told Old Powell

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Speaker 1: Paw presented the healer with a picture book of animals.

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Speaker 1: The healer looked on passively as Paw turned the page

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Speaker 1: It was a picture of a Diplodocus, a sauropod dinosaur

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Speaker 1: measuring on average twenty seven meters long and four and

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Speaker 1: by the implications, Macaw and Powell made their way together

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Speaker 1: Their guide was Marion Nicole, a local pigmy whose help

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Speaker 1: the Likohala Swamp region is highly suitable for a large

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Speaker 1: prehistoric species to survive and breed in small populations. Not

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Speaker 1: only is it supremely isolated, it has remained almost unchanged

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Speaker 1: Macal argued a herd of dinosaurs could potentially go was

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Speaker 1: as McAll and Powell quickly discovered while they trekked from

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Speaker 1: followed by a serpentine neck and broad ruddy back, just

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Speaker 1: hunter named Nicholas Mondongo described a ruddy red river monster

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Speaker 1: and he too recognized the mochelae and bembe in the

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Speaker 1: eagerly to pictures of surapods, he flew home with a

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Speaker 1: determined to find definitive roof This time, he headed up

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Speaker 1: and pastor Eugene Thomas, an American missionary who'd lived in

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Speaker 1: for reasons unknown, he and Macaw fell out, and he

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