Has Lizardman Returned?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 7th, 2011
People in Lee County, South Carolina are asking the question, “Has the Lizardman returned?”
Remember what happened in July 1988?
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It appears a new incident occurred on July 4th, 2011:
On Ida Lane in rural Lee County, they’re struggling to explain what took place Monday morning.
“I ran into the house and told my wife to call the police because something happened to the car,” explained Leon Marshall.
“The tooth marks went completely through the fender,” added his wife Ada.
Early that morning the Marshall’s woke up to find their car mauled by something.
“That’s metal! And it just bent it up. Like it was a piece of tissue paper,” said Ada.
The question is by what?
“We have no idea. No idea. No idea what-so-ever.”
To former Lee County Sheriff Liston Truesdale, this sounds all too familiar.
“This part here is how it all started in 1988,” explained Truesdale. “We got a call to come and look at something that had mauled a car. I went out there and looked at that damaged car, and I haven’t seen anything like that before.”
About that same time there were bizarre calls coming in.
“They had been seeing a large creature about 7 feet tall, with big red eyes, with three pointed fingers.”
So he started asking residents, “have you seen anything like a big tall creature round there? And the guys said, ‘what you mean that lizard man?’ That’s how it started and you got it from the horse’s mouth.”
Back then, there was a media frenzy.
“Everyone thought they were going to get a glimpse of the Lizard Man but he didn’t appear.”
The damage on the Marshall’s car is almost identical to the damage on the two cars from back then.
Was it the Lizard man?
“I’m skeptical about that. I’m not gonna go that far. I’ll believe it when I see it,” said the Marshalls.
“Everything it laid off on the poor lizard man,” jokes Truesdale. “But at this point, he must have grandchildren!”
Whether you believe in the Lizard Man or not, he certainly did generate a lot of buzz. In 1988 it’s estimated that about 50,000 visitors came to Lee County in hopes of spotting the creature. Credit WLTX
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Really interesting. There were sightings back in 2008 too, right? Could be some type of prank. Like they said, everything gets blamed on the Lizardman. Could just be hysteria.
From the pictures I had seen of the chewed up fender, I might look closer at the idea that a cat (perhaps) may have been running away from a dog who was REALLY eager to get at it. It hid on the wheel under the fender and the dog made a valid attempt to extract it. Seems a lot more plausible than a lizard man trying to snack on a car.
No eyewitnesses.. could be anything from hubby not reporting a his fault fender bender on wifey’s car or vis versa, to a feral pit bull, escaped alligator/caiman, large cat exotic, or a Cryptid going after a rodent that ran up the wheelwell or a racoon or cat sleeping in the engine bay, or a poachers stray shot, or juvenile delinquent’s buckshot, steel waterfowl shot, tungsten shot “test”.
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My vote would be an alligator. Wasn’t there a news item a few months ago about an alligator bitting into a bumper? The story may have not been posted here, but I did see the news on a web site.
Things are tough all over , the last monster craze brought 50 thousand people into town ! i know several busness’s there still sell tshirts ! like i said,… things are tough all over,…
SHOW ME THE SLEESTACK !!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, we can only hope he’s back. Been a quiet summer after all.
Lizard man or over zealous bear or canine, it’s scary to leave your house in the morning knowing that a nocturnal visitor strong enough to chew through your car’s metal work is prowling the neighborhood! Yikes!
It does seem though that lots of critters would have the ability to damage a car. Even small dogs with attitude problems can tear apart your house or apartment, after all. We should always remember Occam’s razor and look for the simplest and most direct explanation that fits the data at hand. Known animals are likely the culprit. If they had DNA evidence and photos to go with it, that would be food for thought…
You know, getting back to the original root of all this, and having been a resident of the Carolinas myself – the type of hardwood/conifer forest with high water table swampishness that characterizes much of the lowland Carolinas is rather reminiscent of Cretaceous/Jurassic land plant flora.
The Carolinas is also the periphery of Cherokee & other Southern Amerindian tribes who had a long standing legend of a dangerous animal known locally as the (great) anole. A giant lizard with glittering scales that could run as fast as a man, climb into trees, prey upon Indian children and dogs, but only cougars were the only animal capable of killing it. Being a former herper as other members here and having kept anole lizards, the ambiguous original modern sightings report(actually 2nd) where the green scales and 3 toes and 3 fingered hands with long claws are the only parts clearly seen, get even more interesting with a Colonel in the Army Corps of Engineers. Having reported seeing a half-dinosaur, half-man running alongside his car late one night after having spent years at the Pentagon, about to be promoted to General, Robert Cooper saw a death sentence to his military career. Google Robert Coopers police sketch of lizard man.
As engineers are accomplished technical draftsmen with moderated artistic talents, the Colonel’s sketch of the entire creature seen partially in the car attack sighting looks alarmingly like a bipedal anole lizard 7 feet tall with therapod 3 fingered digits & alligator belly, in contrast to the Western Collard Lizard which does indeed look more “Allosaurus” but with 5 toed typical lizard digits or it’s possible Western giant morphs, The Mountain Boomer & dangerous to humans “Hide Behind” the lizard as big as a bull with hind legs 10X larger than the forelegs of the Ozarks & South West.
As Iguanodons were thought quadrapeds by British Crystal Palace exhibit scientists during the American Civil War days & bipedal therapod carnivorous dinosaurs were not scientifically classified in the Western Hemisphere until the Cowboy Days… if the data on bipedal large North American reptiles existed prior to the later 19th Century….. Are OceanicsSharks much different than Devonian shark fossils?
Dang feral dogs can’t seem to keep their teeth away from those car bumpers….
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They had a show on monsterquest where they did some test to see how much force(psi) it would take to puncture the fender, and it was much higher than any known animal bite’s psi.
It probably wasn’t a known animal, I’m guessing it was a hoaxer.
I would imagine the lizardman could have a powerful bite force, just as some crocodiles have. could have been just that, an alligator of some kind. but again, why would it randomly take a taste out of someone’s car? Hoax?
Oh boy, the feral dog is back!
I don’t know what bit that fender, but I’ll bet whatever did thought it tasted like chicken.