NEW: Two days before Christmas in 1919, Captain Leicester Stevens and his rescued war dog Laddie set off from London on a ten-thousand-mile journey into the heart of Africa to hunt for a dinosaur.
Read my latest true story, "The Dog and the Dinosaur" 🐕 🦕
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2/ There had been a flurry of reported sightings in the Belgian Congo of a huge monster, identified by witnesses as a brontosaurus. Newspapers reported a $5 million reward for its capture – dead or alive. It was an improbable quest that would grip the world.
3/ My latest feature-length true story is about an extraordinary dinosaur-hunting frenzy, and also about family and how we connect (or fail to connect) with our ancestors. In a remarkable coincidence, Leicester's granddaughter is a palaeontologist. She is also a dinosaur hunter.
4/ You can read "The Dog and the Dinosaur" over at @Medium.
It's a #longread, so why not save it to @Pocket?
I've no idea what Twitter's new algorithm will do to this thread, but I'm grateful for retweets.
@Longreads @sundaylongread @DVNJr @JacobFeldman4
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5/ The great brontosaurus hunt was given credence by the world's most respected newspapers and experts.
The search for a dinosaur in the Congo continues... @forteantimes @karlshuker @CryptoLoren @cryptidfactor @Nat_Cryptid_Soc @SmlTownMonsters 🐕🦕
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Paul Brown
@paulbrownUK
Writes about stuff: history, football, true crime, rocketbelts. New book: The Tyne Bridge: tynebridgebook.com Newsletter: singulardiscoveries.com
