Are Lizard Men Hairless Sasquatches?
Posted by: Ken Gerhard on January 25th, 2017
Can uncommon accounts of so-called ‘Lizard Men’ be explained by hairless Sasquatches?
As evidenced by these images, all primates (including humans) can occasionally develop extreme alopecia (hair loss) all over their bodies, drastically altering their appearance. Now imagine a 7-foot, powerful hominid with perhaps more humanlike than apelike features (bipedal, smaller ears, etc.) losing all or most of its body hair due to disease or perhaps a genetic condition. Some reports of these monstrous lizard men have emanated from desert habitats where sparse hair would be a beneficial adaptation.
What do you think?
About Ken Gerhard
Ken has investigated reports of mysterious beasts around the world including Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, the Chupacabra, giant winged creatures and even werewolves. In addition to appearing in three episodes of the television series Monster Quest (History Channel), Ken is featured in the History Channel special The Real Wolfman, as well as Legend Hunters (Travel Channel/A&E), Paranatural (National Geographic), Ultimate Encounters (truTV) and William Shatner's Weird or What? (History Television). His credits include multiple appearances on Coast to Coast AM, major news broadcasts and Ireland’s Newstalk radio, as well as being featured in major books and in articles by the Associated Press, Houston Chronicle and Tampa Tribune. Ken is author of the books Big Bird: Modern Sightings of Flying Monsters and A Menagerie of Mysterious Beasts: Encounters with Cryptid Creatures, as well as the co-author of Monsters of Texas (with Nick Redfern) and has contributed to trade publications including Fate Magazine, Animals and Men, The Journal of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club and Bigfoot Times. He currently lectures and exhibits at events across America. Born on Friday the 13th of October, 1967 (exactly one week before the famous Patterson Bigfoot film was shot), Ken has traveled to twenty-six different countries on six continents and most of the United States. An avid adventurer, he has camped along the Amazon, explored the Galapagos, hiked the Australian Outback and has visited many ancient and mysterious sites, from Machu Pichu to Stonehenge.
In the one pic of a purported lizard man on this site, it appears to have a long tail. Foot prints supposedly left by the creature appear to have three distinct toes configured in a lizard, or dinosaur, like, manner. Their hands appear to have three fingers and one thumb. Their skin appears scaly, and colored green. What skin has been visible to Bigfoot witnesses, on the face and the palms of the hands, appears to be dark, or black. The feet have five toes, according to casts, as do the rare casts of their hands. I don’t recall any sightings of Bigfoot that had long tails. The bottom line is, the evidence points to two different creatures, despite their general humanoid shapes.