History’s Swamp People and Bigfoot?
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on October 12th, 2010
A Cryptomundo reader tipped me off to this video from the History series Swamp People.
One of the series regulars is describing a local swamp monster.
Deep in the heart of Louisiana lies America’s largest swamp–a million miles of inhospitable bayous, marshes and wetlands where nature rules and humans struggle to tame it. Many of its inhabitants are the hardened descendants of French refugees who were forced out of Canada in the 18th century and settled in this harsh yet majestic environment. Today, these people are known as the Cajuns, a group renowned throughout the world for their flavorful cuisine, distinctive music and vibrant culture. Resilient, self-reliant and fiercely independent, the Cajuns of the Atchafalaya Swamp still carry on many of their ancestors’ trades and traditions.
HISTORY follows these swampers through a time of year that is crucial to their survival: the 30-day alligator hunting season. At its core, this is a uniquely American story of a proud and skillful people fighting to maintain an ancient way of life in a rapidly modernizing world, despite the many perils and trials that stand in their way.History
The video above is a story of a swamp creature known as “One Eye” as told by one of the series regulars.
The story sounds similar to Bigfoot reports from that area.
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005.
I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
Navy Seal black Ops team on field maneuvers wearing inferred monoculars ? LOL Just kidding Loren. Saw you on Lost Tapes “Devil Monkey” pretty interesting. I like the way they pause in between there re-enactment segments to throw in some actual case studies and well….you! Nice! ;p
I can imagine a two-eyed creature closing one eye or holding a hand up in front of one eye if a bright light was suddenly shone in their face. I’ve been watching Swamp People and Troy never struck me as the type to make something up just for it’s entertainment value.
I notice the people on the show are realistic about the size of their alligators, a point that weighs in their favor when judging truthfulness vs. exaggeration. They talk about 12 or 13-footers as “monsters,” when they could make up stories about 20-footers. (One source I read says the record is 19 feet, from Louisiana around 1890).
Checking in here late, but since when was that a problem here?
“I notice the people on the show are realistic about the size of their alligators, a point that weighs in their favor when judging truthfulness vs. exaggeration.”
The media tend to exaggerate the size of the sasquatch, or to say that estimates run all over the place. When one reads lots of reports, however, two things stand out:
1) Descriptions run a whole lot smaller than what one hears in media summations;
2) Descriptions are very consistent, on size as well as other features.
This, in my opinion, STRONGLY “weighs in their favor when judging truthfulness vs. exaggeration.”