That's One Big Croc!

Actually, I’m glad we’re not familiar with the infamous mammoth man-eating croc of Africa’s wetlands locals have named “Gustave”. Estimated to weigh over 2,000 pounds, and said to be around 40 feet long, the monster crocodile has reportedly killed and eaten over 300 people along the banks of Lake Tanganyika in the state of Barundi in Africa. Gustave is too smart to be captured, although many have tried! Well-known herpetologist Patrice Faye has spent many years tracking and studying this beast. He even built a very large steel trap rigged with a live goat for bait and placed along the water’s edge in the attempt to capture Gustave. Faye’s trap failed, the trap being found wrecked, and the poor goat gone! Again, Gustave proved to be too smart for his captors!

Gustave has been estimated to be well over 80 years old! He was last spotted in 2009. Reportedly, he was last seen in 2015 dragging an antelope into the murky water, whether this was really Gustave or not, no one knows. Indeed, his legend remains to live on!

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