Roy Mackal

A biologist and expedition leader who went looking for living legends. In 1980 and 1981, Roy Mackal led expeditions into the Congo in search of the Mokele-mbembe, joined by Marcellin Agnagna and J. Richard Greenwell. Those trips gathered many native reports but no sightings. In 1981 Herman A. Regusters was meant to join him at Lake Tele. The two fell out over money and leadership, and Regusters went his own way. Mackal also weighed in on the 1972 Loch Ness flipper photographs. He wondered whether the animal might be a giant embolomere.

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The Loch Ness Flipper Photographs (Rines, Urquhart Bay, 1972)

c. 1972 · Urquhart Bay, near Temple Pier, Drumnadrochit, Loch Ness, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources · 2 photos

39Partially documented

Herman and Kia Regusters' Mokele-mbembe sighting at Lake Tele

November 28, 1981 · Lake Tele (Lac Télé), Likouala department

Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources

27Thinly documented

Biologist and rival expedition leader who disputed the claims

Marcellin Agnagna's Mokele-mbembe sighting at Lake Tele, 1983

May 1, 1983 · Lake Tele, Likouala Department

Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources

26Thinly documented

Led the 1980 and 1981 expeditions that Agnagna joined; author of A Living Dinosaur?