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 The book of Job
If you get the book of Job. The book of Job has 42 chapters. Just about dead center in the Bible, just before Psalms. You will find a very fascinating book. In Job chapter 1 (v. 1) it says: “Job was a perfect man. He feared God and hated evil.” By the way that is good advice, ok. “And Job had seven sons and three daughters. And Job had thousands of sheep, and camels, and oxen, and asses.” (v. 2-3) The guy was rich, really rich. Job was probably written after the Flood, but before the Law was given in the days of Moses. Before the Flood they lived to be 900. After the Flood they lived to be 400. You see Job lived long enough to have 10 kids all grown, out of the house, they all died, he had 10 more kids and saw his great-great-grandchildren from his second family. (Job 42:16) So you got to be living a long time to accomplish those things, ok. So, those are the reasons why most people think the book of Job was written after the Flood during the time when they were still living to be, you know, 400, anyway...
There is a verse you probably never heard preached on ever. Ephesians chapter 5 (v. 33) talks about, you know, “Husbands love your wives, and wives submit yourselves to your husband.” You probably have that part preached on, but you never heard this part, “Let the wife see that she reverences her husband.” Treat him like a God. Offer him burnt sacrifices, three times a day, ok.... hey man, alright. Chapter 2, verse 10: “Job said, You speak like one of the foolish women. Can't we receive good at the hand of God, and not evil?”
So, Job is sitting there scraping the pus out of the boils, by the grave of his ten dead kids thinking: “God, would you please answer me, why did this happen to me?” (Job 31:35) Folks, you don't have to live on this planet very long before you'r gonna be asking that question. God, why did you do this to me? Now, I don't want to drag skeletons out of anybody's closet, ok? But maybe you have had tragedy in your life. I know a little bit about what I am talking about, I have three kids here and three in heaven already, ok. Yes, tragedy comes to good people trying to do right. It happens, alright. But if something bad happens, what's your response? Job said: “I wish the Lord would answer me.” You see, Job didn't know about Romans 8:28. God said: “We know all things work together for them that love God, to them that are the called according to his purpose.” Now, this verse does not say everything that happens is good; it doesn't say that. It says it'll work together for good. I'll show you. Has anybody ever been hungry? Have you been hungry before? Suppose you come to my house, you knock on the door: “Hey, Hovind, I am hungry.” I'll say: “Come on in man, and I'll give you a cup of flour.” - “That don't sound too good.” - “I've got it, how about a spoon full of salt. Now, that'll feel you up.” - “No, that ain't gonna help.” - “I've got it, how about a spoon full of baking soda. Now that will wake you up in the morning.” You are probably getting pretty dry by now, so let's pour down a half cup of Crisco [oil]. And chase it down with a cup of buttermilk. You would say: “Brother Hovind that would taste terrible.” How about if we mix them all together and make biscuits? Did you know the individual ingredients for biscuits taste lousy, but they work together for biscuits. And did you know that everything that happens to you may not be good but it will work together for good if you love God and you are called according to his purpose. See the Christian life is so simple. Keep your heart right with God. That's it. Now that'll be tough to do because “the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.” (Jer. 17:9) Job is sitting there scraping the pus out of the boils saying: “God, would you please answer me.” And in chapter 38 (v. 1): “The Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind.” You know if a tornado starts talking to me, I am gonna pay attention. The Lord said: “Who is this that darkeneth council by words without knowledge?” (Job 38:2) Hey Job, your four friends did not know what they were talking about! And by the way be very careful about getting any Bible doctrine from the book of Job, ok. It's true that the guy said it, but what they said was not true. And cults are always good at picking a verse out here; you better read the whole chapter, ok. I believe the Bible is the word of God, but the Bible contains some lies. It accurately records the lies of men. It is true that they said it, but what they said was not true. That is the case of these four guys, anyway....
God asked Job 84 questions. Job never answered one. These are the kind of questions that don't need an answer. The question was designed to change the person's attitude. These are the same kind of questions you dads have to ask your kids. See, I have three kids, one of each. I know what I am talking about. Kids get to a certain age and they get kinda cocky and think, you know, they should make the rules around the house.
I think that's what God is doing to Job. God asked Job 84 questions. Job never answered one, but Job got an attitude adjustment. See Job had the same problem that most of us have. He did not have a good appreciation for who God was.
Look at the next verse: “His strength is in his loins, his force is in the navel of his belly.” (Job 40:16) The biggest part on him is his belly. And they say elephants have a big belly. Yes, I know. Hippopotamus have a big belly. Brachiosaurus had a big belly. He has a big belly. So does he! That is just sick-sick, who would pose for that?, anyway... It says: “He moveth his tail like a cedar.” (Job 40:17) Now, hold on a minute, his tail is like a cedar tree. Have you ever seen an elephants tail? Would that remind you of a cedar tree? Or a hippo tail? Not like a cedar tree. Now a brachiosaurus tail, yeah, that's more like a cedar tree than the rest of them, ok. You know, before they put those footnotes at the bottom of the Bible, I think they should be required to read the passage at least once, and then comment on it, ok. By the way, you preachers, if you are gonna preach on a passage, at least read it once before you preach on it, ok. Yeah, alright; anyway...
By the way, speaking of government projects, I got to share with you my new invention. It's gonna make me the richest man on planet earth. I am gonna save so much money for the highway department, construction crew, utility companies, and the military. And all I want is 10% of the savings, and I'll be the richest man on planet earth. I have invented a shovel that will stand up by itself. You won't need to pay these guys to lean on it any more. Ah, thank you, I know haha... Next verse says (Job 40:19): “He is the chief of the ways of God.” He's the chief, that's the Hebrew word re'-shiyth. He is chief, he's the principle; he's the biggest animal God ever made. Well, that would not be the elephant or the hippopotamus. That would be the Brachiosaurus. And that kind of fits the pattern for the way the Devil works, you know. Whenever God makes things, the Devil tries to destroy them. God makes beautiful things, and Satan always tries to destroy them.
“God created them male and female.” (Gen. 1:27) Did you know God invented marriage and the family and sex. He invented the whole thing, and he wants it to be wonderful? So He put some rules down; boys don't touch the girls until you are married to them. (I Cor. 7:1-2) Now if you don't want to touch them then stay away from me. I saw your kind at San Francisco. God put the rules down. He put the rules down, because he wants the best for you. He said: “...the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.” (Proverbs 6:26) God doesn't want you to be hunting for a precious life. He wants you to have a precious life. Do you know why these Hollywood folks have to get married again every six months?
Do you know why they got to get married again after 6 months? They are hunting for the precious life. They don't have it. Now listen carefully; don't pay any attention to Hollywood. They don't have a clue, not a clue in the world how to have a precious life. If you want to have a precious life, you keep yourself pure till you walk down that aisle and the preacher says “wilt thou,” and you wilt. Whatever they do. And then you stay faithful to that one for the rest of your life. That is the precious life. Don't believe Hollywood for a second. They don't have a clue, alright.
But for the next 4,000 years the dinosaurs became more rare. They were dying off or being killed off or whatever, as some of the reasons they died. By 1809, they were just nearly extinct and somebody found the bones and put one together. In 1809, the first dinosaur that we know of was put together for a museum. Satan was there that day and said: “Wow, here is my chance.” These critters have always lived with man, I know that and God knows that. But these people don't know that. So the Devil said: “I think I am going to tell everybody that they lived million of years ago.” And if they believe it will make them doubt the Bible. And boy, has that worked good.
 Could a few dinosaurs still be alive today?
There were reports in that swamp from the 1700s, when the missionaries went in there. They said: “Man, there are dinosaurs still living in that swamp!” Dinosaurs still alive? 1910 New York Herald ran an article about dinosaurs still living in Africa's swamps.
A missionary friend of mine was there for 43 years as a missionary, Eugene Thomas. He is in Ohio now. Here is his phone number, call him up.
There is an article here in the Boston Herald newspaper about a group going over to look for the dinosaurs still alive in the Congo swamp.
The two suspected dinosaurs Mokele-Mbembe and N’Goubou, are observed and encountered on a regular basis. I questioned an older Baka couple that work on Pierre's plantation. Like most pygmies they are very familiar with the flora and fauna of the region. I presented them with our book of known Missionary Cal Bombay was there for years in Kenya. He said he and his wife saw one of these creatures. But the plates on the back were bigger; more like a Stegosaurus. Down in South America they got the Amazon jungle which is huge. “In 1907 the British army sent Colonel Fawcett to mark the boundary between Brazil and Peru. He was an officer in the royal engineers and was known as a meticulous recorder of facts. In the Beni Swamps he said, he saw what he believed to be a Diplodocus.” The natives and the tribes around there said: “Oh yeah, that animal still lives out here in the swamp.” Colonel Fawcett's son made sketches of the footprints.
In 1883, Scientific American ran this article, before they got committed to evolution. An article like this would never make it in Scientific American today. Because now they are dedicated to preserving the theory. But they said: “The Brazilian minister at La Paz, Bolivia, had remitted to the minister of Foreign Affairs in Rio photographs of drawings of an extraordinary saurian killed on the Beni after receiving thirty-six balls. By the order of the president the dried body had been preserved and was sent to La Paz. It was twelve meters long (39 ft) from snout to point. It had scale armor, the neck is long, the belly large, and almost dragging the ground. Professor Gilveti, examined the beast, said it's a member of a lost species. The indians in that region make small earthen vessels in the same shape, probably copied from nature.” Vaughn Goff called me three days ago, because I was driving up here to Indiana. He said, Yeah, the natives in his area talk about a lizard that is 30 ft long (9 m), and 5 feet tall. It makes a thundering noise to startle its prey. The native Waiwai Indians call it ‘Urufere’ and they are terrified of this creature.
Alexander Campbell was the game warden for Loch Ness for 47 years. He said he saw it 18 times. There's the sketch he drew of it.
All you got to do, you know, is watch T.V. programs once in a while where they talk about the Loch Ness monster. There are thousands of people who will go on record and say: “I have seen it.”
Morgawr, the Cornish sea serpent
In 1934 this thing washed up on the beach in Normandy, France. There's a guy standing there and looking at it for scale.
This thing apparently is a doctored photo of a shark. In 2004, a bunch of people over in Papua, New Guinea reported a creature like a dinosaur. 10 feet tall with a tail like an alligator, a head like a dog. It was right on the island in the city of Kokopo. One lady said she saw it, she ran for her life seeing a 3 meter tall creature with a head like a dog and a tail like a crocodile. You can read all about it on the Internet about this creature seen just in 2004. Issie Japan reports some of these creatures. The north island Hokkaido reports them. In China there's reported one called USO, Unidentified Swimming Object. Norway has several reported sightings, as do Swedish lakes, a couple of Swedish lakes up there. They call it, ...may speak Swedish, know how to say that? ...storjordan... close enough, yeah, ok, you don't speak Swedish do you? ...You're lying, ok. [‘Storsjöodjuret’, odjuret = ‘the monster’ in Storsjön =‘great lake’]. In Norway they got a creature that they say is very similar to Loch Ness Monster.
Ogopogo
I interviewed John Casorso.
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Parker's Cove: This thing washed up in Parker Cove, Canada. Lake Memphremagog creature I interviewed Jacques Boisvert for three hours.
Creatures have been seen in the Potomac River. There's a island off Connecticut , Rhode Island called Block Island where many folks claim they've seen creatures swimming around out there. They call it the ‘Block Ness Monster’. One washed up in 1996. Lake Erie's monster
California, 1925, this critter washed up on the beach. Why is that so hard to believe? You know why people resist explanations like that? It goes against their theory. They like the evolution theory because it gives them freedom from God. That's why they like that theory. And we can spend all day on cryptozoology stuff. I have studied this for years, and love... I have interviewed now a hundred people that claimed they've seen a living dinosaur.
New Port: New York, 1969, the Harbor police chased something much bigger than a whale up river. They never did catch it.
There's a lake between New York and Vermont called Lake Champlain. Where many people claimed they have seen the Lake Champlain monster. Fifty eight people on the Ethan Allen, which capsized earlier a couple months ago, you know, some people think; they all ran to one side to see something and... swissh, it flipped the board over, or I don't know. Maybe it's just too many Twinkies, but... The captain on board back in 1998 said: “If you think what I saw was a fish, it weighed 3,000 to 5,000 pounds (1300-2300 kg).” The Bible talks about “the dragons of the waters.” (Ps. 74:13) “He shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.” (Is. 27:1)
Panama City, there has been something seen there that was similar. A youth director of a Lutheran Church told me his whole youth group was in the van, and they saw a creature like that in Panama City Harbor. Pterodactyls
There could be some Pterodactyls still alive. The natives call the animal the ‘Kongamato’ if you're in Congo. Oh, we could cover dinosaurs still living for hours. Buth there've been lots of reports of Pterodactyls still around. I get calls about this from people all the time about Pterodactyls being seen in Papua, New Guinea, or in Indonesia, or in Venezuela. I wish we had time to cover all that about all these Pterodactyl sightings.
One missionary told me when I was preaching in Bloomington, Illinois, that he was spear fishing under the water and his wife was holding a flashlight in the canoe so he could see. And this creature with about a four-foot wing span came in there and hovered over the top of her and was glowing. And whatever was glowing was dripping off. All that they could figure was that it must have been some kind of bioluminescent creature. When this animal goes and hangs in a cave little creatures get on its skin and as the animal flies they fall off. No one knows for sure. But the reports are that it glows in the dark.
Thunderbird But the indians got a legend called the ‘Thunderbird’. They said: “A giant bird got hit by lightening.” When they found it three days later the buzzards had picked the bones clean. But they said the wing span was 20 feet (7 m) and had a bony bump on the back of its head. The Indian prayer sticks to this day, have a head of a Pterodactyl on them. Henry Ford put an eagle on the tail light, it was a Thunderbird. It should have been a Pterodactyl. You blew it Henry.
Piasa bird A French explorer Jacques Marquette and Joliet stopped where what is now the town of Saint Louis. They reported they saw a big ugly bird painted on the cliff on the other side in Alton, Illinois. The Indians said: “Oh, it was a Piasa bird. The great chief killed him years ago.” They painted the picture up there for years. They finally put a big metal plaque. There's me there for scale; they later took it down for fear that the plaque would fall. I guess they just recently put it back up, I don't know. You go to Alton, Illinois, you will see the word Piasa, you know, Piasa Diary Queen, etc. It's pretty famous over there, whatever the Piasa bird was, ok.
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People say: “Brother Hovind, why do you speak about dinosaurs?”
Now, the Bible also talks about Leviathan. (Job 41.1) But that's a whole other story, we will cover Leviathan some other time. So basically God made everything in six days. Dinosaurs lived with man, people have killed most of them. There could be a few still alive, and Christians need to quit worrying about dinosaurs, and should start using them for God's glory. We'll cover more on that in the next session.
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Ok, let's take up where we left off about dinosaurs in the Bible. People say: “Come on now, dinosaurs aren't in the Bible!” Well of course, the word is not in there. They did not make up the word until 1841. The word ‘computer’ is not in there either, but there really are computers, ok. But yes, dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible. You say: “I didn't see them in there.” Well, you need to read carefully, ok. 
“One day the messenger came to Job and said, Job, I got some bad news. The oxen and asses were stolen. And your servants got killed, and the sheep got burned up, and the camels got stolen too.” (Job 1:15-17) Stock market crash. Get it, stock?, never mind. Another messenger came and said: “Job, your kids all died. All 10 of your kids are dead.” (v. 18-19) Job is having a bad day. “Then Job said, The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord.” (v. 21) Man, what kind of guy is this anyway? Hey, do you do that when bad things happen to you? “Then Satan gave him boils from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet.” (Job 2:7) And a boil's like the world's worst zit. And Job was covered in them, and his wife turned against him. (Job 2:9) You know man can handle just about any tragedy in life, but that's the toughest one, right there. 
And then Job's four friends came to visit him. One of those guys was the shortest man mentioned in the Bible, “Bildad the Shuhite.” (Job 2:11) That is pretty short. These four guys came and talked to Job for 35 chapters. Most of the book of Job is these guys explaining to Job, why everything went wrong. They had to be Baptists, the way I got it figured. They said: “Job you must have sinned,” I mean. Eliphaz said: “Who ever perished being innocent?” “Job, the reason why bad things happened to you is because you sinned.” (Job 4:1,7) 
Now folks, that is the wisdom of the world, ok, that is not true. See, if something bad happens to somebody, you don't know why it happened. You should love ’em and pray for ’em, encourage ’em, and shut up. Don't go to the hospital when they get their gall stones out and say: “Hey brother, these are not gall stones these are tithes and offerings, God's getting them out of you one way or another.” Don't do that, ok! Let God take care of why everything went wrong, he can handle them just fine, alright. 
The kid comes in one day and says: “Hey dad listen, I believe I should be allowed to stay out until 4:00 in the morning with my friends; after all I am 10 now.” Dad says: “Hold on just a minute kid, you'd like to know why you can't stay out to 4:00 in the morning. Well son, let me ask you a couple of questions: ‘Who pays the electric bill around this house? Who's paying for the house? Who paid for them clothes you are wearing, son? Who paid for the bed you slept on last night? Who pays for the food that you eat and eat and eat and eat and eat and eat? Who paid for that hot water and soap that you took a shower with, about a month ago?’ Let's just get it straight son, the Bible is very clear: ‘He who payeth the bills maketh the rules!’ II Opinions
Come to chapter 40. God said: “Behold now behemoth.” (Job 40:15) What on earth is a ‘behemoth’? Well, what ever it was, Job could behold it, because God never tells you to do something you can't do. You see, God would not say: “Behold now behemoth,” if he could not behold now behemoth. That is deep theology, I know, ok, but think it through, alright. Some reference Bibles say behemoth is probably the elephant or hippopotamus. Oh, that is ludicrous. I believe behemoth is the long necked dinosaur. 
Now, there are 13 different long neck dinosaurs, ok. There's the brachiosaur, the apatosaur, the ceatosaur, he's got the big seat, ok. There's the ‘blondosaur’, you have to talk to her kind of slow, ok. I think behemoth is the brachiosaurus. It says: “It eats grass as ox.” (Job 40:14) Some people say: “Hey, my Bible says elephants, and elephants eat grass.” Well, duh... Bunny rabbits eat grass too, ok; a lot of animals eat grass, right. 
Now, this'll be kinda complicated, so listen carefully. The reason he had such big toe bones is because he had big toes. How many can figure it out with no help? Four, five, six, ok. And the reason he had those big toes is because he had a big foot. There's a kid taking a bath in a brachiosaur footprint. The picture is right here in the book on the steps. And the reason he had that big foot is because he had a big leg to hold up. His front leg is 20 feet (6 m) tall. The biggest dinosaur found so far is 60 feet (18,3 m) till the top of the head. Found in Oklahoma.
They say it is gonna take them 20 years to dig all the bones out of the ground, because it is a government project. They say: “When it was alive it probably weighed a hundred tons.” Now, a hundred tons is equal to 14 school buses put together. That means if he was to come by and step on you, you would be deeply impressed by him. You would be road pizza. 
Hey question: “How big is your God?” I mean, do you ever think about that? When you stop and pray and you say “Heavenly Father,” do you have any idea who you are talking to!? Have you ever just stopped and think about that? Who are you about to talk to? I mean, you sit down for lunch and you are going to pray, “Ok Lord, bless the bunch, as they crunch the lunch. Amen.” We expect God to come like a puppy dog when we call, don't we? “Ok God, I have time for you now, pay attention, here are my prayers. Give me this, give me this, give me this, give me this, and give me this, and give it quick.” That is about what it boils down to, isn't it? Have you ever stopped and really thought who you are talking to? How big is your God? Hey, is your God big enough to tell you what to do? And do you simply do it, without question? 
God created the living creatures, every living creature, as it says in Genesis 1:21. God made the dinosaurs. He made them. And Satan said: “You know, there has to be some way that I can use dinosaurs against God.” But he couldn't fool Adam; not with dinosaurs. Adam named them. Can you imagine the Devil walking up to Adam and saying: “Hey Adam, did you know that dinosaurs lived millions of years ago?” Adam would say: “Are you stupid?” There's one in the backyard right there eating on the cherry tree! What do you mean “million of years ago”? The Devil could not fool Noah, he fed them everyday during the year of the Flood. 
You know, for the last 200 years kids have gone to kindergarten and they get a book like this, I can read about dinosaurs. Would anybody like to take a wild guess what is the first sentence in the book says? “Millions of years ago...” How many kids are being taught that in your town? At your expense you are paying for the destruction of the next generation. Now maybe that does not bother you, but it bothers me. And if you think that I leave my gorgeous wife and travel all over the world, I have been gone over 200 days per year, for years now. I flew 215 times last year, spoke over 900 times. If you think I leave my gorgeous wife and my 4 grandkids, because I like being gone, you are mistaken, ok. I would much rather be home, but there is a war going on! Somebody has got to warn the troops: “Hello, to arms! Pick up your guns, let's go!” 
There are kids by the billions being brainwashed on this planet, and Satan is using dinosaurs to do it. Nearly all the books say “millions of years ago” and then we got some Christians that totally ignore the subject, because they don't have an answer. Well, “Study to shew thyself approved unto God...” (II Timothy 2:15) Get the answer and go share it with somebody. “Millions of years ago,” the book says. I go to museums all the time; it just makes my blood boil. You see hundreds and hundreds of kids coming past these incredible displays, I mean, beautiful dinosaur skeletons. And guess what the sign says at the bottom? “Million of years ago...” Christians don't seem to understand this, the museums and science centers, that is their church. They are preaching their gospel just like you are trying to preach your gospel. And they are using your tax dollars to preach their gospel. That's how it happens. “Millions of years ago...” 
The Bible says: “Behemoth lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.” (Job 40:21) Now, the word ‘fens’ is an Old English word that means, the swamp. Do you know the biggest swamp in the world is right in the middle of Africa? It is called the Likouala swamp. That swamp is huge. Most Americans don't appreciate the size of Africa. Here is what Africa looks like next to the entire United States. Africa is gigantic, ok. That swamp is bigger, is the same size of the state of Florida, 55,000 square miles (140,000 sq km). That swamp is huge. Did you know that swamp is today is 80% unexplored? In 1885, Congo in Africa was taken over by Belgium; and it was called the Belgian Congo for many many years. In 1960 the communists liberated them. You know, the communists liberate countries; kill everybody... “Ok, you're free now.” Anyway... 
Roy Mackal went there 1980, on an expedition; he spent a quarter million dollars. Went back again the next year; went to that swamp. He said: “It is the most miserable swamp on planet earth.” The mosquitoes landed on them at the rate of about a thousand an hour, constantly, I mean like swarms of dust around you, blood thirsty mosquitoes. 95° F (35° C), 95% humidity all the time. As they traveled around the swamp the natives talked about this animal called, Mahamba. He said: “What's that?,” and they showed them a crocodile. “Oh yeah, Mahamba, right there, Mahamba.” He said: “How big does it get?” And they paced it off on the sandbar, 50 feet long (15 m). Now if you're a pygmy 4'4" (1.3 m), a 50 foot (15 m) crocodile looks really big to you, ok! And everybody says: “No, crocodiles never get past about 17 feet (5.2 m).” Oh, I don't think that's correct. Earlier in the summer of 2005, they killed a 24 foot (8 m) crocodile in that swamp. Of course, the natives will say: “Oh, you should see the big ones!” 
The natives also talk about an animal they call, Mokele-Mbembe. Mokele-Mbembe? What on earth is that? Well, if you show them a picture of an apatosaurus, they'll say: “Yeah, that's it, Mokele-Mbembe.” The natives claim these animals live under water. They are very rare, of course they are in the swamp in Africa. Nobody goes out at night anyways. And there is no lights over there, at night. But, the animals are seen mostly early-early morning or late in the evening when they come out, and their favorite plant is the Molombo plant. There is Dr. Mackal holding a Molombo plant. Dr. Mackal was a University of Chicago Microbiology professor. And he went over there and studied this carefully. He came back and wrote a book called, A Living Dinosaur ? He believes in evolution, but his book is great about the evidence for dinosaurs still living in African swamp. They found footprints of the creatures. 
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William Gibbons has been there 4 times now to the Congo Swamp. He and I wrote this book together for kids, Claws, Jaws & Dinosaurs. William Gibbons wrote me a letter, he said: “According to our guide, Pierre Sima, we were the first white men to actually penetrate the forest and swamps bordering the Boumba River. Our informants almost all of them Baka Pygmies, with the exception of an elderly Cameroonian Muslim, are perfectly familiar with all the known and unknown animals of the swamps. While they do not regard the Le’Kela-bembe,” that's a different language, ok, “...as being an unusual animal, they do fear the creature because of its ferocity, in attacking hippos, elephants and crocodiles. The animal appears to be completely intolerant of any other large creature that shares the river and controls large stretches of the river, particularly where its food supply is present. 
African animals and dinosaur illustrations. About 98% of the dinosaur illustrations were rejected, except for two. Which they picked out without hesitation, that they had observed. A sauropod dinosaur and a Triceratops.”
the military hunted down after it had killed and eaten 2 soldiers. The head was 5 feet (1½ m) long.
There is a lake in Scotland called Loch Ness. Has anybody ever heard of Loch Ness? Loch Ness is a huge lake 24 miles long (39 km), 1-1½ mile wide, up to 900 feet (275 m) deep. Loch Ness is big enough that everybody on planet earth could go drown in it at the same time. You would hold the entire population of the world. 6 billion people would fit into that lake. It's huge. In 1933, a roadbed was cut into the side of the mountain. Because before 1933; if you wanted to see the lake; you got to climb over the mountains, or go up river 7 miles (11 km) in your boat. So not many people went there; very sparsely populated. 1933, the first year the road was put in, there were 52 sightings of the Loch Ness monster.
But Sir Peter Scott is a member of Parliament and he said he saw it. He believes it is a Plesiosaur. Almost everybody that sees it says: “It is this animal right here!” A Plesiosaurus, long neck, four big flippers. One guy wrote a book, and he said: “Some people think Nessie is a Plesiosaur. There is one thing wrong with this theory. Plesiosaurs are believed to have become extinct 70 million years ago.”
Arthur Grant nearly ran into Nessie on his motorcycle one night. He said: “I had a splendid view of the object. In fact I almost struck it with my motorcycle! It had a long neck, and large oval shaped eyes, on top of a small head. The tail would be 5 to 6 feet (1½-2 m) long.” He described it 15 to 20 feet long (4.6-6 m) altogether. 
He said: “Knowing something about natural history,” he was a veterinarian student, ok. He said: “I have never seen anything like it in my life!”
Many people have tried to catch the Loch Ness monster. They have used everything you can imagine for bait and some things you could not imagine. So far nobody has caught it. I mean, the lake is huge, but there have been many, many sketches drawn. 
MacLeod said he watched it for 9 minutes through his binoculars, made four sketches of it, of what he saw.
There are other lakes besides Loch Ness. There's Loch Lochy. There's Loch Morar. There are many other lakes reporting creatures. 
A couple of scientists reported this creature swam past their boat in Brazil in 1905. They reported the whole thing in a scientific journal. The creature had a dorsal fin was 6 feet (1,8 m) long, 2 feet (60 cm) high, a small head on a neck about 7 or 8 feet long. Two experienced British naturalists reported the thing. Again we can go all day on reported sightings. 
This thing in 1977, a Japanese fishing boat pulled this up in their net. It was 32 feet (10 m) long, 4,000 pounds (1,800 kg). They said: “What on earth is that?” Captain said: “I don't know, but it stinks!” When they set it down on the deck it broke in half, and pus oust out everywhere. So they made a bunch of sketches, took a bunch of pictures, and shoved it overboard.
Russians report a creature in a lake up there called “Mystery of the Lake,” here. Well, it looks like a dinosaur washed up on the beach in Russia, 1994. It was 39 feet long (12 m).
Canada has reported sightings of these creatures, Canadian lake monsters. Nessie's Canadian cousin. There's a lake in the town of Kelowna called Lake Okanagan. It is a huge Lake, it's 80 miles long (130 km). I have been up there twice to speak in the town of Kelowna. The natives call this creature Ogopogo.
There is one in Cadboro Bay, British Columbia. There's a book about that if you want to read more. A baby Caddy was found inside of the stomach of a sperm whale. They say it has short pointed front flippers, and it's a long necked beast with a horse-like head. One guy caught a baby one with his dip net, drew a sketch of it before he released it. He didn't know what it was, so he let it go.
Nova Scotia: I interviewed this guy for an hour.
Newfoundland: This thing washed up on the beach in Newfoundland. Sometimes big blobs wash up. Sometimes it is whale skin actually. The whale dies, gets eaten, and the layer of blubber, you know, washes up sometimes. Sometimes it's a basking shark.
Lake Erie's apparently got one. “Erie's Besse matches Nessie.” They say: “It's 35 feet long (11 m)” and they say: “It has a snakelike head.”
Massachusetts: I interviewed the sheriff that was the first guy that saw the Scituate Harbor monster. 50 feet long (15 m) when it washed up on the beach.
Arkansas has been reported many times, up until 1973. And apparently it disappeared. Arkansas Senate passed a resolution, it said: “It says it is unlawful to molest, kill or trample the White River monster.”
In Pensacola where I live, five teenagers went scuba diving back in 1962. One survived the trip. Here is what he said. They were going out to the sunken ship in the Pensacola Harbor called the Massachusetts. And here is what he said. Uh, we got tons of stuff on this. He said:
That's the sketch Brian McCleary drew of what he saw that killed his four friends. I was speaking in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, one time. And Valerie Bill came to me and said: “Mr. Hovind my stepson Larry Bill was one of the kids that was eaten. That story you are telling is correct.” But the Pensacola News Journal said; after they interviewed him; they said: “This is a beach town; you know, people come here to go swimming. We are not gonna report that your friends got eaten by a dinosaur. We are going to report that they drowned.” So that's what the newspaper said: “Four teenagers drowned.” 
Kongamato or Batamzinga
Dave Woetzel went there and said: “Man, the natives kept talking about this flying ‘Ropen’.
There is an island called Seram off the coast of New Guinea an Indonesian island chain. Missionary Tyson Hughes told William Gibbons (my friend in Canada) that local people say there is a creature down there four and a half feet tall that has leathery wings. They call it Orang-Bati, which means, man with wings. They say the creature comes especially when you are fishing. He tries to steal your fish away from you. It's not a seagull. Carl Baugh has made several trips to Papua, New Guinea where there are many reports of a creature like the Pterodactyl. And again they say its favorite food is decaying humans and it glows in the dark!
A missionary from Venezuela came to me a few months ago in November of 1998. His name is Adam Hutchison. He said: “Mr. Hovind, I'm a missionary in Venezuela. The natives in our area keep talking about this animal that they are scared to death of. A big flying animal. They killed one of them about 30 years ago.” Here is the story he told me: “There is a giant bat that they feared greatly. It was said to capsize canoes and even carry off Indians!” Adam told me that, “Indians, terrified of this great ‘bat’ had sent their bravest men to the head of the river where they killed the creature about 30 years ago and buried it near the Muwada River. (Muwada means bat dung in their language) When Clint (another missionary) showed the indians a picture of a Pterodactyl their eyes got as big as saucers and they said: ‘That is the bat!’ They positively identified this ‘extinct’ dinosaur as the bat that lived just a few miles from their village. Even today the indians will not fish or drink from the river for fear of this creature.” Here is Adam's phone number 615-612-2586, you can call him and talk to him about it. He's a missionary down there.
A couple of cowboys apparently shot a Pterodactyl in Arizona. It appeared in the Tombstone newspaper about 100 years ago. They said: “Nobody's going to believe us! We shot a giant bird with no feathers!” So they cut off part of the wings and took them back to the saloon and showed the boys at the saloon. Saying look what we did fellows. We shot a giant bird with no feathers. It's in the Tombstone Epitaph newspaper, April 26, 1890.
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