Case file · Cryptid
Marcellin Agnagna at Lake Tele
In 1983 Congolese zoologist Marcellin Agnagna said he had watched a Mokele-mbembe in Lake Tele for about 20 minutes and filmed it, but that the film was ruined because the camera was set wrongly.
1983 CE · 1.35, 17.15 · status: claim
The account
Agnagna, of the Brazzaville zoo, had joined Herman Regusters's 1981 expedition and led his own government trip in 1983. His account described a reddish-brown animal with a long neck and small head in the middle of the lake.
The sceptical view
Paleontologist Donald Prothero called the story suspicious; Lake Tele is shallow, and later expeditions found nothing.