S6 E14: The God in the Water - A TRUE CRYPTID STORY from West Africa
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The episode explores a chilling cryptid story from West Africa involving a creature known as 'The God in the Water'.
In this episode of That Would Be Rad, we travel deep into West Africa for a chilling cryptid story, a strange eyewitness account, and one of the most unsettling monster legends we’ve ever covered: The God in the Water. In Burkina Faso, there is a place called Dafara. A hidden chasm in the earth. A rocky ravine. A murky pool. And according to the people who lived near it, something was waiting beneath the water. Not a statue. Not a myth carved into stone. Not a symbol. A living thing. A creature. A god that had to be fed. In the summer of 1986, Pastor Robin Swope visited Dafara while serving as a missionary in West Africa. What he found there sounded like something from a nightmare: the smell of blood and rotting flesh, animal sacrifices at the edge of a dark pond, villagers who feared the water, and a terrifying warning passed down through generations: Do not go in. The god will eat you alive. Join Woody and Tyler as they descend into the mystery of Dafara, the West African legend of a creature beneath the pond, and the eyewitness account that claims something large, black, smooth, and unknown rose from the water to feed on raw flesh. Was it a giant African catfish? A…
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