crocodile which he branded a "man-eating dinosaur" after he trapped the 15ft beast. Garrett Wales was on a 10-day hunting trip when he was told the tale of a mysterious crocodile that supposedly lurked in a local lake in the Savé Valley of Zimbabwe.The hunter, from Brock, Texas, had made several kills before he set his sights on the "monster" croc at the Humani Ranch. READ MORE Woman discovers 'shark with wings' only to find it's sex-mad 'Jurassic Park' moth He recalled: “As we were getting ready to head out, they had been talking to some other locals in the village.“They came back and said ‘hey, these guys are saying there’s this crocodile out in an irrigation pond’."Now, when we say irrigation pond, it’s full of vegetation.
There was this legend of this croc that lived there, but no one we knew had actually seen it.”Despite the rumours that surrounded the pond, locals continued to fetch water and bathe themselves.However, Garrett decided to hunt the creature without any concrete evidence, on the off chance that it was real and posed a threat to the area.With the help of some guides, the hunter positioned some bait and returned to find nothing had been eaten the next day.But in a turn of events, Garrett noticed the beast hiding within the reeds.He said: “This thing was sunning in the reeds.
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