One of the best ways to determine what we will find in the future is to look at the past. In the twentieth century many unexpected creatures were brought to light. Many reports came out of Africa about a creature that was half giraffe and half zebra. The reports were mostly coming from the native populations where this creature was supposed to live. They were routinely ignored by western scientists, however, who viewed this creature as just too bizarre to be real. Then, in 1900, the Okapi was finally verified as a real species. One wonders how much sooner it could have been discovered if the "sophisticated" scientists had listened to the natives. That is a lesson that has not been lost on our group.

Shortly after the discovery of the Okapi an even more unexpected discovery was made, the Komodo Dragon. These creatures certainly remind one of the so-called age of the dinosaurs. Which brings up the question, if Komodo Dragons are still around, aren't we still in the age of the dinosaurs? In case there was any doubt, in the last 150 years the Tuatara of New Zealand has been classified as a reptile that is more closely related to the dinosaurs than to modern lizards. (It looks the part, too!)

Due to the especially sharp eye of a visiting paleontologist, who spotted a familiar-looking fin, and was able to recognize it under some sharks in a tank on the coast of Madagascar, we had what was undoubtedly the greatest moment for cryptozoological finds in the last century: The Coelacanth was discovered alive and well in 1938 after having been dismissed as extinct for as long as 200 million years. The embarrassing thing about that for evolutionists was that it was thought to be a foundational species for the transformation of fish into amphibians and as such, should be extinct, since foundation species are not supposed to continue surviving past their progeny. The Coelacanth paid no attention to those scientists and just kept right on "keeping on" to the present day.

Those are just some of the more spectacular discoveries of the last century or so but there are many others. It should be noted that these finds were largely the result of accidental discoveries. There were not many concerted efforts made to follow up on reports that came out of the undeveloped places of the world. And no advanced technology was used in seeking out those unknown creatures.

One question that always pops up when discussing any creature supposed to be long gone but suspected by us or some other cryptozoologists as still being around is, "Don't you think that if these creatures were still around they would have been found by now?" And I'll admit that before I got involved in this, it was a question I had as well (although I think I was a little more open-minded than some people are). Let me answer that question this way: Scientists estimate that we are losing one percent of our species every year, and this has been going on at an accelerated rate for several hundred years now as mankind has spread out upon the earth and started occupying areas formerly known as jungles or deserts. The lion population in Africa has gone from over 250,000 in the 1970s to about 27,000 today. This is typical of what has happened with other animals. The human population of the world has skyrocketed in the last two hundred years from about one billion people to over six billion. In 1500 the world population was under 500 million and most of that population was concentrated in Europe, the Indian subcontinent and China. There were vast areas of the earth where there was almost no human population. Those areas had large populations of many varied kinds of animals. As an example, just look at the American Midwest. Two hundred years ago there were large herds of bison and antelope. There were just a few native Americans that lived off these animals. Predatory animals like wolves and bears were common too. All of these animals would be completely gone today if there hadn't been a concerted effort by conservationists to preserve small remnants. On our last expedition to Africa, we went about 60 miles past the point of the last human habitation and could have gone another 200 miles without seeing any sign of human beings. So, there are some places in the world that are still not over-run by human beings and those are the places where we think that some of the mystery animals exist today.

The dragons of the past in Europe and Asia were very likely dinosaurs of various kinds. It should be remembered that the information doesn't come to us from misty legends that are told around the campfire. They are, for the most part, from historical accounts that appear in many different forms. Some are from government records, others from what we would call newspapers today. They describe animals that don't exist today but are very good descriptions of creatures in the paleontological record. Adding credibility to the reports is the fact that the animals are described as rare even at that time.

It is our belief that some of the creatures of the world, when they started feeling the encroachment of man, began the long process of retreating further and further into the backwoods and have been able to survive quite nicely that way. Since man seldom if ever goes into those areas, we are not even aware of their existence.

When I actually got to the target area in Africa my thoughts were the opposite of that question asked above. My thoughts instead were, "How in the world will we ever find a mokele mbembe out here?" It is like looking for a needle in a haystack. We have a rain forest area the size of Oregon and Washington that is largely impenetrable, and we are looking for a creature that spends most of its time in the water. If anything sticks out of the water it is generally only the head, which just looks like that of a big snake. If it wants to avoid us it can stay under the water for an hour or two at a time. Of course, given its reputedly shy nature and the fact that we have to travel by boat, it will be aware of us before we see it, so if it is out of the water it will have ample time to get in the water before we get to where it is.

Pastor Eugene Thomas was a missionary in the heart of the Likouala swamp for forty-two years. During that time he had numerous friends and former students tell him of their sightings of mokele mbembe. I asked Gene how many mokele mbembes were left. His reply was, "less than 200."

In the whole time that westerners have been searching for this sauropod dinosaur, if you were to add up the total number of days in all of the expeditions where a search party was actually in an area where there was a possibility of seeing one of these creatures, the sum would probably total less than 60. Not very good odds for making a discovery in such a vast, inaccessible area.

One should remember that for the most part, the only ones searching for many cryptozoological creatures are creationists and we didn't exist a few years ago! I should clarify that to say that active creationists who were involved in this kind of research were few and far between. Most evolutionists aren't searching for these animals. They don't believe that they exist! And if they did find one it would just wreak havoc with their beloved theory, so there is no motivation for the evolutionist. There have been a few people who have sought out these creatures just because of their curiosity, but the point is that there really haven't been very many people motivated enough to undertake a very expensive expedition like this and go through the hardship and danger that it entails. So really, the answer to the person who asks why they would not have been found is that they haven't been looked for to any great degree.

All of this is about to change here in the 21st century! The local populations who live closest to these creatures are the ones who occasionally have sightings because they are the ones who spend the majority of their time in a place where they might actually see one. Fishermen and hunters who spend all day everyday out in the bush are by far the most likely people to see one of these mystery creatures. We need to take advantage of this fact and seek out their help, equip them with cameras, give them access to phones so they can quickly alert us when a sighting has been made. We can then go there in our four-wheel drive vehicle on a moment's notice.

Technological improvements could have a profound effect on our results but it is often expensive to incorporate those ideas into our expeditions. Remote viewing cameras, sonar, quiet running electric outboard motors that won't spook the animals, and the internet, can be helpful in many ways. The internet could be another channel of communication for us for contacting our sources of information but also for keeping our supporters informed. Our expeditions have always been done on a shoestring because we had no money to spare. I think sometimes that has also caused the expedition to not be successful. A good example would be the January 2006 expedition. We covered 110 miles using the quietest outboard motor we could find, but it must be remembered that we were going into an area where these creatures may never have heard any sounds of modern civilization. Any sound will drive these animals into hiding, and I've already explained how good they are at doing that.

Our purpose with this website is to inform you about what is going on in the world of cryptozoology and to collect information from people who may have tips that will help in our next search. We also have a need for funds to make all of these projects successful. As I stated previously it requires a fair amount of money to do these things right. The good news is that we are a 501-C non-profit corporation so we are able to grant tax credits for all money donated to the cause.

In case there is any doubt about our motivation for this work I should tell you that we feel that the discovery of any of these creatures will be an earthshaking event. It is our belief that eliminating common objections regarding why the Bible canʼt be trusted, and demonstrating the historical and scientific accuracy of Scripture will naturally lead people to the next logical step in thinking: If the Bible is true in other respects, what does that tell us about its spiritual ramifications?

When the evolution hypothesis was proposed 150 years ago, it was with the expressed intent of destroying the church and Christianity along with it. If a wrench of this kind could be thrown into the machinery of evolution it would go a long way toward turning people back to the only real truth, the Word of God.

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