The “CHICUALACUALA COBRA KID”

A forgotten expedition.

During september 1987 scientist Carl J. Sorevich led a research expedition to Mozambique along with a team of 25 other members. The expedition, officially financed by the government although secretly organized by Esax Pharmaceutics , was supposed to follow the Limpopo river up to the Chicualacuala district, entering the core of the Limpopo National Park in order to collect evidence of new and unknown species potentially useful to Esax’s research . What they found was in fact a new species but not the one they were looking for.

       On the second day of trip the expedition’s van drove over a landmine, eventhough nobody got injured, Sorevich and his all team were forced to move on a small village hidden inside the thickjungle named Ticalagua, where they were supposed to spend the night waiting for a new vehicle. At 2pm the all team was woken up by someone screaming as they were all sharing and old war bunker used as a dormitory. They immediatly found biologist Nicolas Stross lying lifeless on the ground, the skin tissue of his face appeared completely melted and his neck looked as if it were stabbed multiple times. Chemist Laura Chavari managed to take some samples in wich she found traces of a very strong paralyzing neurotoxin mixed to an unknown corrosive agent. The agent’s corrosive action was so strong that in less than an hour the whole head was completely missing. At this point Sorevich and a couple of his team members decided to interrogate the guides, trying to under stand what happened. They looked frightened but one of them suddenly started shouting “E’ pah! Cuspideira cranca! The Naja Kid did it sir! ”. Eventhough the guide didn’t want to say more about it, Sorevich forced him, discovering an old legend talking about a mysterious tribe of snake kids hiding in the jungle. “They used to be normal kids, children of the old Ticalagua tribe ya no sir, but one day they saw something falling from the sky, they went searching for it in the thickjungle and… they all… desaparecidos…”. Sorevich wasn’t taking it too seriously until the guide took out of his pocket an old black and white photo in wich something could be seen hiding behind a three, it was clearly too big to be a snake but it definitely didn’t look like a kid. The day after Sorevich, intrigued by the guide’s story, decided to put aside his mission priorities to investigate the alleged “crash site”, so he left at the crack of dawn with two of his own and a local guide. They were never seen again. After a week of searching all they could find was Sorevich’s bag, containing his private diary and his camera. The camera contained photos of what looked like an old soviet container covered by some sort of space material and almost completely grown over by vegetation. The last words on Sorevich’s diary were “it’s incredibile! this thing has clearly been manufactured for genetic hybridization, but they never thought it would have crashed in one of the world’s oldest and most diverse tropical ecosystems on earth. What we’re dealing with is something extremely dangerous, something which, alike the naja mozambika, has the ability to spit venom, although in this case the venom appears to be mixed up with some kind of extremely powerful digestive enzym and a paralyizing toxin like we’ve never seen before. Nonetheless… this thing appears to have… human limbs. We’ve set up our base camp near the structure, on the first night Finnegan went looking for evidence, he disappeared into the jungle. I’m a scientist, not a soldier, i’m starting to realize this is out of our control, we gotta find our way back to Ticalagua as soon as we can”.
       The scientific expedition officially ended because of the highly dangerous situation due to the civil war between mozambique and the neighbouring states. The remaining members never spoked about their experience in Chicualacuala.

This is the only photographic evidence of what might have killed Sorevich and part of his team:

source: http://www.timothyburstoff.com/