Top Secret: US Navy SEAL’s Cryptid Ape Video
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I’ve learned, through a confidential source, that at least one unit of the US Navy SEAL (Sea, Air, Land) has had a remarkable recent encounter with unknown apes in Africa. And a video was taken. We are seeking additional confirmation and other eyewitnesses. Have any hints of this story come your way?

Due to the sensitive nature of this former US Navy SEAL’s intelligence-gathering work, at this time we cannot reveal his identity. Hopefully our posting this initial information will develop other sources and confirmations from current and former SEAL members involved, and from interested researchers with hints of the story.

What the former SEAL relates is that he was involved in covert operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1997 and 2002. According to his account, his team observed a group of thirteen "chimpanzee-like" creatures between 4.5 to 5 feet tall, uniformly gray all over their bodies, with rows of seemingly porcupine-like quills running the length of their backs.

The unidentified apes walked bipedally and were observed by the SEAL team in the act of killing another animal. When the creatures became excited or agitated, the quills or spines stood erect from their bodies.

According to this informant, the US Navy SEAL team took three minutes of video footage of these creatures, but this tape apparently has been classified, due to their mission. This SEAL member still has his mission maps and is able to pinpoint the area of the encounter with this large group of bipedal apes.

The involvement of a US Navy SEAL team would indicate that their activity employed water as a means of transportation, and/or they were working in an area involving a lake, river, or swamp.

What could these strangely-haired unknown apes be? Their description, overtly, sounds like similar hairy short upright creatures (with bizarre spiked hair) known to inhabit areas near certain bodies of water and from specific islands. Various regional names (chupacabras, kappa) hide the fact they all resemble each other in their number of digits, spiked hair, aggressiveness, and aquatic habits. But let’s just look to Africa alone, today.

Weird rumblings have been heard from the Congo for decades. In Ivan T. Sanderson’s Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life, there is mention of animal collector Charles Cordier finding the small tracks of what the locals called the kakundakari in the Congo in 1961.

I have previously written about an African hominoid that matches the Congolese reports of the Navy SEAL, those of the Madagascar natives’ kalanoro, a short, three-toed, bipedal, water-dwelling, mean, scruffy-hair hominoid.

All the tribes of island of Madagascar, located off the east coast of Africa, know of the Kalanoro, according to folklorist Raymond Decary, who researched the common themes connecting the stories of the Kalanoro back in the 1950s. In 1889, a capture of a Kalanoro was reported to the Royal Geographical Society. In 1924, Chase Salmon Osborn described his sighting of two Kalanoro mating.

The Father of Cryptozoology also took an interest in them. These “legends may be fantastic," wrote Belgium cryptozoologist Bernard Heuvelmans in 1955, but "they are found all over Madagascar, and it would be odd if they were utterly without foundation," especially given the fact that "some areas of Madagascar are still almost unexplored, such as the Ambongo reserve and the lonely Isalo mountains, and there are still some 3 or 4 million hectares of virgin forest…”

The aggressive nature of the Kalanoro comes through in a few accounts, and mirrors the behavior in the SEAL’s account. The Kalanoro are also known to abduct children, and search Madagascar’s villages for food.

How recent are the encounters with these hairy, three-toed Kalanoro with their hooked fingers and aggressive habits? Professor Joe Hobbs of the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Department of Geography, studied them, while he was with the local tribes in the Ankarana Special Reserve, Madagascar, during the late 1990s. On May 15, 2000, when Hobbs wrote his report, he talked of how the people of the village of Ambalakedi consider Andoboara Cave “sacred because on three separate occasions, most recently just two years ago, grief-stricken parents whose children had wandered into the forest had recovered them alive here" after food was left out for the Kalanoro in exchange for their children’s return.

If the US Navy SEAL report is correct, there may be something quite similar to the Kalanoro living in the Congo area too.

And if the Congo SEAL encounter was so very extraordinary, others may have talked about, it in passing. Since this "unknown hominoid" piece of the mission does not involve national security, but may extend cryptozoological knowledge, it is time to learn more, release the video footage, and analyze what was seen.

Do you have further information on this US Navy report? Please send what you’ve heard our way, via the comments’ section or let us know you want further contact through back channels.






Harry Trumbore’s drawing of Africa’s kalanoro, from the forthcoming The Field Guide to Bigfoot, to be published by Anomalist Books. Copyright 2006, Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe.


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Pic on website

strange, would be cool if it were true though.

it reminds me of the chupacabra...

I saw this on Loren's site yesterday.
The pic sure looks like Chuppa. Quite a few others agree.

wow...

It may as well not exist. I think it would better if these things were buried by the Government, that they stay buried.
All this only leads to speculation and theories, and the story can forever be hidden behind a 'conspiracy' theory.

If we never can find the truth, why bother, it's just another urban legend. I think we should pursue possibilities that could actually happen - did anyone also notice on Loren's site that the Mockle-Mbembe expidition left on the 12th? I believe they have some good satellite images of where........ooops cross posting, better start a thread

l agree , it looks more like a chupacabra then an ape .

I thought there was a vid clip available.
Did I miss something?

This story just really makes me want to see the video! arrghh! this better not be one of those stories that just kind of gets forgotten and nobody really talks about it anymore, because i want to see that video!
Yeah, the porcupine quills seem kind of strange. also, did it say what kind of animal they were attacking and killing? also, did it say how they were killing it?

It could possibly be the chupcabra but who actually knows what it looks like any way.

Three feet tall? Maybe it's a young bigfoot? Once they are proven to exsist, we'll probably wipe them out. Look at the Dodo and at what we've almost done to the mountain gorilla.

What on earth would a Navy Seal do in the Congo forest? This site says they were there to gather intelligence... Of what? The gorillas, the chimps or the bushmeat traders? There is nothing in the Congo that would interest the US Government, this story is not too convincing for me.

Not to be rude or anything but how do you know what would interest the government? they run top secret missions all the time. I would wait and see if this video turns up before dismissing it completely.

Whatever it was we'll never find out thanks to the damn goverment, they wanna keep somtn secret, trust me they will violate every bithgiven right to keep it one, cheers to the free land of america!

I agree it looks like Chupa. I don't think that video will see the light of day for along time unless the Congo operations are expanded to the point that there in the news. It's just the way the government operates about these kind of things it's not some sort of conspiracy.

Firstly.. I think if the Seal team found something in teh Congo, they would have taken a few personal snaps of it that could have leaked out before now.

However saying that, I have spent a lot of time in the Congo, I followed accurate maps that lead me to massive lakes, ranges, jungles and swampland that were not even documented on the maps and when you consider the vast majority of the Congo as not seen or been influenced by the Western world... anything could and probably does exist there.

he saw them mating? mmm how embarrasing!

i had to reply to this, i even registered JUST so i could reply

one word; "gravelings"

three words; Dead Like Me

i feel so much better now!

“When the creatures became excited or agitated, the quills or spines stood erect from their bodies.”

That's just wrong!

“In 1924, Chase Salmon Osborn described his sighting of two Kalanoro mating.”

Hey animals get horny too...lol ewwww...

“On May 15, 2000, when Hobbs wrote his report, he talked of how the people of the village of Ambalakedi consider Andoboara Cave “sacred because on three separate occasions, most recently just two years ago, grief-stricken parents whose children had wandered into the forest had recovered them alive here" after food was left out for the Kalanoro in exchange for their children’s return.”

Okay, when an animal gets that smart it’s time to go hunting. Just kidding, but that is extremely interesting. Sounds a little far fetch don’t you think? I mean how would they communicate with the parents that the wanted food for the safe return of their child? Send the parents a ransom note? This is probably what a ransom note would look like:

"Dear parents of *some dumb ass kid who wander in the forest alone name* we the Kalanoro have your child, If you don’t not give us food; your child will be next on our menu. Bring the food at the edge of the forest and your child shall be safely returned to you.

Have a lovely day,

The Kalanoro"

Coleman obviously does not know much about SeALs. They have no reason to be around water. SeAL means sea, air, land. They will deploy from anywhere into anywhere. This, amongst with the fact that there are no hominids that had quills ever and the only coroborating evidence is from a legend makes the whole thing sounds bogus. You see, to anyone who says you can't dismiss it until the tape shows up I say there is no tape (evidence) so I dismiss it. Any kook can write anything to any cryptid website. This garners no credibility. Close-up clear video or a body. That's it.

Did you happen to read that in my post?

Well, according tot his.....

Kalanoro is a swinging single mom......
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=e...6lr%3D%26sa%3DG


But seriously....

SEALS are commandos, not zoologists. When they reported 'quills' on the ape's back, you don't need to automatically equate them with porcupine quills. It might just be bristly hairs in a ridge.

With regard to to '“On May 15, 2000, when Hobbs wrote his report, he talked of how the people of the village of Ambalakedi consider Andoboara Cave “sacred because on three separate occasions, most recently just two years ago, grief-stricken parents whose children had wandered into the forest had recovered them alive here" after food was left out for the Kalanoro in exchange for their children’s return.”

Grief-stricken parents sums it up nicely. That doesn't really point toward a cryptid, OR some unsubstantiated local legend. The people are just pleading for their kids to be returned. That's not affirmation or denial of what the Kalonoro is.

Yeah I'm also starting to question cryptomundos reliabilty there is this and I have been in three different threads on various crypto board that have photos are already been proven fake else where and cryptomundos still trying to pass them as being real.

Hmm, Seals in the Congo. Not out of the realm of possibility...maybe some faction seen to be a threat to the US was there. But during 97-02?

I dunno how good the govt is at keeping secrets...seeing as how there are so freaking many leaks to the press every couple of weeks. This ape thing doesn't sound like something that would even be in the interest of National Security...sounds like letting the cat out of the bag about operations in the Congo would be as much a breach to operational security than the ape-upine story.

That show rocks!




Agreed...
The apes or whatever they are, have nothing to to do with national security. It's all about location. If a video is released, then people are going to want to know where they were filmed. From that point, they'll want to know why the SEALs were in that area in the first place. If the film does exist, they aren't trying to hide the fatc these whatever things exist, just their mission is all.

The SEAL shoulda pwn*d 'em & brought one back for analysis. & it's also a shame that the video is classified.

TeraLink Was Here!

that show did rock

i dunno why they didn't just grab one, but i suspect it might have had something to do with the fact that they'd have to find a way to carry a crazed, frightened wild animal around

Chupa!

There could be any number of reasons why the SEALS would be in the Congalese jungle. Tracking al-Qaeda, looking for a training camp, a weapons cache, an arms smuggler's trail.

Why didn't they shoot one, and bring it back?

That would be a hilarious scene, wouldn't it?

Just envision this......

A black Sea Stallion chopper, tricked-out with all kinds of top-secret stealth tehcnology settles in over the mist-shrouded jungle canopy, just as five dark figures emerge from the trees.

The man at the door, thorugh his night-vision goggles notices one of the SEALS is carrying a lifeless form over his shoulder.

He shouts back to the pilot. "Looks like the've had some trouble! We'd better inform the base that we have a man down."

As the chopper descends into the clearing below, the men approach. One by one, they hop in. Each man, once inside, hleps the man behind him to enter the helo.

The last man lays a hairy form on the floor of the Sea Stallion.

"WTF?" says the crewman at the door?

"It's a mystery monkey." replies the SEAL. "I heard Animal Planet was doing a documentary about them. So I figured I'd help them out.'


INSTANT SECTION-8!!!!!

And probably a reprimand, too!!!