Case file · Cryptid
The dingonek of the Migori River
In 1907 the hunter John Alfred Jordan reported seeing a scaly, tusked river creature about 15 feet long in a river flowing into Lake Victoria; local people called it the dingonek.
1907 CE · -1.06, 34.47 · status: account
The account
The story was told by the American writer Edgar Beecher Bronson in 'In Closed Territory' (1910), and further accounts were printed in the East African press. Jordan said he shot at it and it roared and dived. Writers later compared it to a giant monitor, a walrus-like animal or a surviving reptile. The point is approximate, on the lower Migori.
The sceptical view
Single hunters' tales retold by a popular writer; a large crocodile or hippo seen badly fits most details.