Case file · Cryptid
The 'Kasai rex' photograph
In 1932 a story appeared, said to be from the Rhodesia Herald, that a Swedish plantation owner had watched a giant reptile like a tyrannosaur kill a rhinoceros in the Kasai valley, with a photograph of the scene.
1932 CE · -5.00, 21.50 · status: hoax
The account
The plantation owner's name appears as Johanson or Johnson. The photo shows a lizard-like beast over a carcass. The story was revived by cryptozoology books and websites.
The sceptical view
The photograph is a crude composite of a monitor lizard on another picture, and no copy of the original newspaper article has been verified; it is treated as a hoax.