Case file · Cryptid
The Gbahali on Expedition Mungo
In 2017 the Animal Planet series Expedition Mungo opened with a search for the Gbahali, a 6 to 9 m crocodile-like predator that Liberians say kills people who stray into rivers.
2017 CE · 7.00, -9.60 · status: claim
The account
Descriptions give it a body carried higher off the ground than a crocodile and a lizard-like mouth; an American working in Liberia compared it to the Triassic reptile Postosuchus. No location is given in the sources; the plotted point is in central Liberia.
The sceptical view
Karl Shuker notes that Liberia has four known crocodilians, including the Nile crocodile, which can reach about 6 m and moves upriver in the rains; a large crocodile or monitor fits the reports.