LIZARDMAN of South Carolina

[amethyst]

The video that got me interested:

http://pindz.blogspot.com/2009/10/lizard-man-attacks-car-in-south.html



The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp (The Lizard Man Of Lee County)

The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp (also known as The Lizard Man Of Lee County), is a humanoid cryptid which is said to inhabit areas of swampland in and around Lee County, South Carolina.[1]
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Description

The Lizard Man is described as being 7 feet tall, bipedal, and well built, with green scaly skin and glowing red eyes. It is said to have three toes on each foot and three fingers on each hand which end in a circular pad on them that stick to walls. The creature has an incredible degree of strength, more than capable of ripping into a car.[2]
[edit] Davis sighting

The first reported sighting of the creature was made by Christopher Davis, a 16 year old local, who said he encountered the creature while driving home from work at 2 AM on June 29, 1988.[3][2][4] According to his account, Davis stopped on a road bordering Scape Ore Swamp in order to change a tire which had blown out. When he was finishing up he reported having heard a thumping noise from behind him and having turned around to see the creature running towards him.[5][2]

Davis said the creature tried to grab at the car and then jumped on its roof as he tried to escape, clinging on to it as Davis swerved from side to side in an effort to throw it off. After he returned home, Davis' side-view-mirror was found to be badly damaged, and scratch marks were found on the car's roof--though there was no other physical evidence of his encounter.[6][3][2]

“I looked back and saw something running across the field towards me. It was about 25 yards away and I saw red eyes glowing. I ran into the car and as I locked it, the thing grabbed the door handle. I could see him from the neck down – the three big fingers, long black nails and green rough skin. It was strong and angry. I looked in my mirror and saw a blur of green running. I could see his toes and then he jumped on the roof of my car. I thought I heard a grunt and then I could see his fingers through the front windshield, where they curled around on the roof. I sped up and swerved to shake the creature off.”

In the month that followed the Davis sighting there were several further reports of a large lizard like creature, and of unusual scratches and bite marks found on cars parked close to the swamp.[7] Most of these are said to have occurred within a three-mile (5 km) radius of the swamps of Bishopville.[7]

At the time, local law enforcement officials reacted to reports of the Lizard Man with a mixture of concern and skepticism, stating that a sufficient number of sightings had been made by apparently reliable people for them to believe that something tangible was being seen, but also that it was more likely to be a bear than a Lizard Man.[8]

Two weeks after the Davis sighting the sheriff's department made several plaster casts of what appeared to be three-toed footprints - measuring some 14 inches (360 mm) in length - but decided against sending them on to the FBI for further analysis after biologists advised them that they were unclassifiable.[2] According to South Carolina Marine Resources Department spokesperson Johnny Evans the tracks neither matched, nor could be mistaken for, the footprints of any recorded animal. Evans also dismissed the possibility that they could have been made by some form of mutated creature.[7]

The sightings attracted tourists interested in seeing the creature and hunters interested in tracking it, and nearby radio station WCOS[disambiguation needed] offered a $1 million reward to anybody who could capture the creature alive. [2][7] However, reports of the creature began to decline at the end of the summer with the last credible sighting of the year being reported in July. [6]

On August 5 Kenneth Orr, an airman stationed at Shaw Air Force Base, filed a report with the police saying that he had encountered the Lizard Man on highway 15, and that he had shot and wounded it. He presented several scales and a small quantity of blood as evidence. Orr recanted this account two days later when he was arraigned for unlawfully carrying a pistol, and the misdemeanor offense of filing a false police report. According to Orr, he had invented the sighting in order to keep stories about the Lizard Man in circulation. [8][1]

see link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Man_of_Scape_Ore_Swamp

[amethyst]

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/cryptogallery/videoclips/sclizardmanvideo1.php

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/sclizardman.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxi0TZ_3wUQ

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=214751458&blogID=469000671

[kokichi]

http://www.freewebs.com/smsection/lizard.gif

My spidey senses are tingling!

[kokichi]

I'm not trying to mock the situation as people were affected by it, whatever it may have been. It sounds like more of a tourist attraction than anything else with people who are invested in it telling the accounts of said 'Lizard Man".

I only hope it's not this guy - http://www.thelizardman.com/

[amethyst]

I'm not trying to mock the situation as people were affected by it, whatever it may have been. It sounds like more of a tourist attraction than anything else with people who are invested in it telling the accounts of said 'Lizard Man".

I only hope it's not this guy - http://www.thelizardman.com/

That guy is a wannabe lizardman

I sort of think swamp Lizardman is an genetic escapee from an underground lab...maybe

[planetj]

I grew up in South Carolina and remember watching the news and see the reporters interview people who claimed to have witnessed the Lizard Man. I always thought it was funny, because the people that was making the claim seemed like the type that couldn't tell the difference between a ass and a asshole. In other words, I think they were full of shit. They definitely was not the most intelligent bunch. But who knows, they may have saw something.

[amethyst]

LIZARDMAN hiding, lurking in a swamp, worthy of a bump

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/905/43b.jpg

[runlikehell]

The video that got me interested:

The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp (The Lizard Man Of Lee County)

Description

The Lizard Man is described as being 7 feet tall, bipedal, and well built, with green scaly skin and glowing red eyes. It is said to have three toes on each foot and three fingers on each hand which end in a circular pad on them that stick to walls. The creature has an incredible degree of strength, more than capable of ripping into a car.[2]
[edit] Davis sighting

fter he returned home, Davis' side-view-mirror was found to be badly damaged, and scratch marks were found on the car's roof--though there was no other physical evidence of his encounter.[6][3][2]
[B]


Dodgy story! paded or clawed fingers? it cant have both. :confused:


I grew up in South Carolina and remember watching the news and see the reporters interview people who claimed to have witnessed the Lizard Man. I always thought it was funny, because the people that was making the claim seemed like the type that couldn't tell the difference between a ass and a asshole. In other words, I think they were full of shit. They definitely was not the most intelligent bunch. But who knows, they may have saw something.


I think theres more truth in what planet said than the actual story itself. :D ;);)

[metacomet]

Ooo yes, this is actually mentioned in a book I own,

lemme transcribe some other cases of lizard beings mentioned:

All of this I am transcribing from 'The Unexplained - An Illustrated Guide To The World's Paranormal Mysteries' - By Dr. Karl P.N. Shuker


Long before Christ Davis's frightening experience, many other parts of North America had also hosted encounters with reptilian man-monsters, asontinshinlgy similar in appearance to the amphibious "gill-man" starring in Hollywood's classic Creatures from the Black Lagoon movie.


http://blogs.amctv.com/monsterfest/gills.jpg


On 19 August 1972, for example, Robin Flewellyn and Gordon Pike were allegedly chased away from the beach around Thetis Lake in British Columbia, Canada, by a 1.5 metre (5-foot) tall bipedal monster with six sharp points on its head, which had unexpectedly surfaced in the lake.

Four days later, at around 3:30 p.m. on 23 August, Russel Van Nice and Michael Gold could only watch in amazement when what was presumably the same creature suddenly stepped out of the lake, looked around and then walked back into the water, disappearing from sight. According to their description, it was humanoid in shape, but with scaly silver skin, huge ears, the face of a monster and a pointed projection on its head.

In 1977, a State Conservation naturalist called Alfred Hulstruck claimed that a scale-covered man-beast regularly emerged at dusk from the red algae-choked waters of Southern Tier in New York State. Five years earlier, in March 1972, two policemen saw a frog-faced humanoid creature, about the size of a dog, plunge into Little Miami River near Loveland, Ohio. In this same area, back in 1955 respectable businessman claimed that he had seen a quarter of 1-metre (3 foot tall) frog faced creatures squatting under a bridge like fairytale trolls.

Another longstanding tradition of scaly humanoids features the fish-men of Inzignanin, near Chicora - an area sandwiched between North and South Carolina. These beings were said to be covered with scales and had webbed hands. Most distinctive of all, however, were their tails, which were as thick as a man's arm, about 45 cm (18 inches) long and relatively inflexible, like those of crocodiles or alligators. According to local lore, they lived only on raw fish and therefore soon died out when the area's fish supplies became exhausted.

Equally strange was the 2-metre-(6 foot) tall, fluorescent-eyed monster that clawed Charles Wetzel's car on the evening of 8 November 1958 as he drove by the Santa Ana River near Riverside, California. Although often placed in the Bigfoot (i.e. ape-man) category of mystery beasts, it was much more akin to the reptilian monsters, as noted by the writer Loren Coleman, because it was covered in leaf-life scales and had a protrusible beak-like mouth.

....

In 1982, the scientific journal Syllogeus published a very unusual but highly original paper by two well-respected Canadian palaeontologists, Dr dale A Russel and Dr R Seguin from the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Ottawa. Its subject was the fascinating possibility that, if the dinosaurs had never died out, they would have eventually given rise to a dinosaurian counterpart of human beings.

This is now common knowledge amongst those studied in 'Reptilian's.

The most popular image around the above theory is :

http://www.skepticworld.com/cryptozoology/images/reptilian-2.jpg

[amethyst]

Dodgy story! paded or clawed fingers? it cant have both. :confused:





I think theres more truth in what planet said than the actual story itself. :D ;);)

Bah!

You don't know for sure if he's real or not....

[amethyst]

Ooo yes, this is actually mentioned in a book I own,

lemme transcribe some other cases of lizard beings mentioned:

All of this I am transcribing from 'The Unexplained - An Illustrated Guide To The World's Paranormal Mysteries' - By Dr. Karl P.N. Shuker



http://blogs.amctv.com/monsterfest/gills.jpg



This is now common knowledge amongst those studied in 'Reptilian's.

The most popular image around the above theory is :

http://www.skepticworld.com/cryptozoology/images/reptilian-2.jpg

For all those skeptics,

Thank you metacomet :D

[amethyst]

Reposting this unique link:

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=214751458&blogID=469000671

Very interesting, especially the pictures of the car being scratched up

[biblegirl]

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Very interesting, especially the pictures of the car being scratched up

hmm, is this something i shouldn't read before bed? :eek::D

[size_of_light]

hmm, is this something i shouldn't read before bed? :eek::D

I've heard that cold, exposed toes that have accidentally slipped out the bottom of your bedsheets while you sleep are like popcorn to this thing. :eek:

[amethyst]

hmm, is this something i shouldn't read before bed? :eek::D

Don't go near the swamps at night......:eek: (like one of the guys mentioned in the previous article)

I've heard that cold, exposed toes that have accidentally slipped out the bottom of your bedsheets while you sleep are like popcorn to this thing.

I could never do that as a kid.....

[size_of_light]

Don't go near the swamps at night......:eek: (like one of the guys mentioned in the previous article)



I could never do that as a kid.....

What part of the States are you from, Ammy?

[amethyst]

What part of the States are you from, Ammy?

The southern part...where the living is easy.....and catfish are jumping ;)

[size_of_light]

The southern part...where the living is easy.....and catfish are jumping ;)

I kinda hoped you were in the Michigan area and we could use you as bait.

Never mind.

Catfish, lizardmen...:eek: why can't a fish be a fish and a lizard be a lizard!

And a man be a man! :mad:

:p

Very interesting thread btw...didn't the guy in one of your clips mention swamp apes migrating up to Michigan from further south? :eek:

Anyway, I've always been fascinated since I was a kid by the Creature from the Black Lagoon trilogy and am now wondering if those movies (made between 1954 - 1956) have any connection to the first appearance of Lizard Man back in the fifties.

There's a remake planned for release in 2011, too.

[amethyst]

I kinda hoped you were in the Michigan area and we could use you as bait.

Never mind.

Catfish, lizardmen...:eek: why can't a fish be a fish and a lizard be a lizard!

And a man be a man! :mad:

:p

Very interesting thread btw...didn't the guy in one of your clips mention swamp apes migrating up to Michigan from further south? :eek:

Anyway, I've always been fascinated since I was a kid by the Creature from the Black Lagoon trilogy and am now wondering if those movies (made between 1954 - 1956) have any connection to the first appearance of Lizard Man back in the fifties.

There's a remake planned for release in 2011, too.

Lol, I was quoting lyrics from "Summertime"

http://www.lyricstime.com/sam-cooke-summertime-lyrics.html

Anyway, I've always been fascinated since I was a kid by the Creature from the Black Lagoon trilogy and am now wondering if those movies (made between 1954 - 1956) have any connection to the first appearance of Lizard Man back in the fifties.

There's a remake planned for release in 2011, too.

Very interesting SOL! I am wondering this too...the timing of LIZARDMAN'S most recent appearance....hmmm.....

[runlikehell]

Bah!

You don't know for sure if he's real or not....

:confused:

Bah Niether do you!! :p

[amethyst]

:confused:

Bah Niether do you!! :p

We are both 50% correct ;)

[ytch]

Originally Posted by runlikehell View Post
Dodgy story! paded or clawed fingers? it cant have both.




Of course it could,

I just brought my turtles back from exile,
and they have both, padded and clawed....:p;)

L & L,

y

[runlikehell]

We are both 50% correct

No prob, fair enough Amethyst:) i wasent haveing a go just made an observation dident mean to com across sarcy or attacking.

I wish there was soilld undeniable proof


Of course it could,

I just brought my turtles back from exile,
and they have both, padded and clawed....:p;)

L & L,

y


Clawed & paded what Ytch?? both Claws & pads on one indevidual animal or claws & pads on seperate animals?

Chances are if you look again you'll notice turtles have flippers, or web feet with claws!

http://atimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/03/02/turtle.jpg

http://www.reptilechannel.com/images/article-images/turtle-foot-left-500.jpg

http://www.bear-tracker.com/turtletracks/turtleRHfoot6709.jpg

WTF? No pads! :o lol


The video that got me interested:

http://pindz.blogspot.com/2009/10/lizard-man-attacks-car-in-south.html



The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp (The Lizard Man Of Lee County)

The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp (also known as The Lizard Man Of Lee County), is a humanoid cryptid which is said to inhabit areas of swampland in and around Lee County, South Carolina.[1]
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Description

The Lizard Man is described as being 7 feet tall, bipedal, and well built, with green scaly skin and glowing red eyes. It is said to have three toes on each foot and three fingers on each hand which end in a circular pad on them that stick to walls. The creature has an incredible degree of strength, more than capable of ripping into a car.[2]
[edit] Davis sighting

The first reported sighting of the creature was made by Christopher Davis, a 16 year old local, who said he encountered the creature while driving home from work at 2 AM on June 29, 1988.[3][2][4] According to his account, Davis stopped on a road bordering Scape Ore Swamp in order to change a tire which had blown out. When he was finishing up he reported having heard a thumping noise from behind him and having turned around to see the creature running towards him.[5][2]

Davis said the creature tried to grab at the car and then jumped on its roof as he tried to escape, clinging on to it as Davis swerved from side to side in an effort to throw it off. After he returned home, Davis' side-view-mirror was found to be badly damaged, and scratch marks were found on the car's roof--though there was no other physical evidence of his encounter.[6][3][2]

“I looked back and saw something running across the field towards me. It was about 25 yards away and I saw red eyes glowing. I ran into the car and as I locked it, the thing grabbed the door handle. I could see him from the neck down – the three big fingers, long black nails and green rough skin. It was strong and angry. I looked in my mirror and saw a blur of green running. I could see his toes and then he jumped on the roof of my car. I thought I heard a grunt and then I could see his fingers through the front windshield, where they curled around on the roof. I sped up and swerved to shake the creature off.”


Were talking reptilian humanoids not the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'

Oh just incase you want to question me on what i know ive got 17 years experiance of looking after reptiles mainly lizards.


Gekos foot - small insect eating lizards - small - claw damage could break the skin not to serious.
http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/images/gecko_foot.jpg


Green Iguannas foot - mainly vegertarian - can grow to 7FT long (not bipedal but can stand upright for a veery short time) - claw damage can be compaired a household cat
http://aqualandpetsplus.com/Lizard231.jpg


Montitors foot - mainly meat eating lizards - claw damage same as a household cat, to ripping few inch deep wounds neading stitches - but big komodo dragons are capable of disimboweling a person & felling & eating a buffalo
http://cache2.asset-cache.net/xc/sb10065690c-001.jpg?v=1&c=NewsMaker&k=2&d=A4054F9DE544FC9B8A3F861310CE294749207362A3F24453

Note: the geko claws are inadequate of causing the kind of damge decribed in the various reports even if it was 7FT.

If theres any kind of lizardmen, hybrids, genetic mutations, ect. they will most certainly take on monitor lizard charecteristics,

[amethyst]

No prob, fair enough Amethyst:) i wasent haveing a go just made an observation dident meat to com across sarcy or attacking.

I wish there was soilld undeniable proof





Clawed & paded what Ytch?? both Claws & pads on one indevidual animal or claws & pads on seperate animals?

Chances are if you look again you'll notice turtles have flippers, or web feet with claws!


http://www.reptilechannel.com/images/article-images/turtle-foot-left-500.jpg

http://www.bear-tracker.com/turtletracks/turtleRHfoot6709.jpg

WTF? No pads! :o lol





Were talking reptilian humanoids not the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'

Oh just incase you want to question me on what i know ive got 17 years experiance of looking after reptiles mainly lizards.


Gekos foot - small insect eating lizards - small - claw damage could break the skin not to serious.
http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/images/gecko_foot.jpg


Green Iguannas foot - mainly vegertarian - can grow to 7FT long (not bipedal but can stand upright for a veery short time) - claw damage can be compaired a household cat
http://aqualandpetsplus.com/Lizard231.jpg


Montitors foot - mainly meat eating lizards - claw damage same as a household cat, to ripping few inch deep wounds neading stitches - but big komodo dragons are capable of disimboweling a person & felling & eating a buffalo
http://cache2.asset-cache.net/xc/sb10065690c-001.jpg?v=1&c=NewsMaker&k=2&d=A4054F9DE544FC9B8A3F861310CE294749207362A3F24453

Note: the geko claws are inadequate of causing the kind of damge decribed in the various reports even if it was 7FT.

If theres any kind of lizardmen, hybrids, genetic mutations, ect. they will most certainly take on monitor lizard charecteristics,

Well why didn't you say you were a lizard expert? :D

Ok, so you are probably at least 60% right and me 40% right :p (possibly)

LIZARDMAN could just have 3 claws or something because he's a genetic experiment....part human/part reptile

Would this kind of lizard creature be capable of ripping the metal on a car?

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/9073/21492524.jpg

In 2008, after an apparent hiatus of twenty years, the Lizard Man returned and caused havoc to cars and livestock.

The Lizard Man is reported to be approximately 7-8 feet tall, bipedal, covered in green scaly skin and nocturnal. His eyes glow red at night and his head and face are like a cross between human and snake. He has a center ridge that comes from the top of his head to his snout. He is described as well-built and has only 3 digits on each of his hands or feet. His claws are reported to be black and ranging anywhere from 2-4 inches long. No odors or sounds have been reported in connection with the Lizard Man but, when you have 4 inch long talons, who really needs an offensive odor? He seems to reside in the Scape Ore Swamp of the Pee Dee River region including Sumter, Florence, Darlington and Lee Counties. He predominantly hangs about Lee County near the town of Bishopville, which has an approximate population of 4000.

Reports of the Lizard Man are said to have started in 1972 with oral stories but there are legends among the Native Americans of the Inzignanin near Chicora—sandwiched between North and South Carolina—of fishy humanoids covered in scales. However, these fish-men were only 5 feet tall, had relatively inflexible tails approximately 18 inches long and as thick as a man's arm (similar to that of the alligators or crocodiles) and webbed hands. They consumed only raw fish and are said to have died out when the fish population was depleted.

In 1988 the first documented reports of the Lizard Man occurred in the form of police reports and newspaper articles. Apparently, on June 29, 1988, at approximately 2:00 a.m., Christopher Davis, then 17, was on his way home from working the late shift at a local McDonalds. He was traveling on a road that borders the Scape Ore Swamp when a tire blew out. Exhausted and just wanting to go home, Davis exited his car and changed the tire. Reports say that as he was putting the jack back into the trunk after the tire change was complete when he heard a loud 'thump' coming from a field. He turned to look for the source of the noise and that's when he spotted the Lizard Man.

Running at a high rate of speed, the Lizard Man was coming straight for the startled motorist. Davis ran to the driver's door, managed to get in the car, and locked the door just as the creature reached him. It tore and clawed at the mirror, the door handle and the window. It then jumped onto the roof of the car and began to claw and scratch at the roof and the front windshield. Davis, overcoming some of the initial shock at seeing a giant human-like lizard, started the car and drove off. He swerved to shake loose the creature.

At home, Davis woke his parents and explained what happened. Davis was visibly shaken and his father decided to check out the car and see if he could determine what had happened. There were scratch marks on the roof and door, and the side mirror was twisted. The event was reported to the police but an investigation was inconclusive.

The massive media publicity generated by the Davis incident led to many other Lizard Man reports emerging during the summer of 1988, but there were no solid leads and no sufficient evidence was ever uncovered. Two weeks after Davis' incident, the Sheriff's Department did find some strange tracks and made plaster castings of what appeared to be three-toed prints measuring 14 inches in length. However, the castings were never sent to the FBI and there is no report as to what happened to the casts or where they may be now. According to Johnny Evans, a spokesman for the South Carolina Marine Resources Department, the tracks did not match and could not be mistaken for any known animal of record, nor could he say that they were the prints of some mutated creature. The prints were in hard ground and about four-feet apart which would be consistent with a creature of a stature of seven-feet.

Christopher Davis drew an image of the being that attacked his car and got wired up for the test. A series of questions about the event were put to him and Christopher answered them without hesitation. Although believing that they were victims of an imagination gone wild, the officers administrating the lie detector test and Liston soon realized otherwise. Christopher had passed the test with flying colors.

While Christopher Davis' adventure into the unknown had ended, Sheriff Liston Truesdale's had just begun.

In the months that followed, Sheriff Truesdale began to receive more and more reports from individuals claiming to have seen a large, wild beast near Scape Ore Swamp. It's not unusual to hear such stories, seeing that the swamp had a long history of mysteries involving reports of hauntings, sightings of strange lights, and the occasional bear or two. But the new reports were different.

Multiple eyewitnesses began to surface. Many of those whom Sheriff Truesdale interviewed were upstanding members of the community. They were people who risked losing credibility and possibly business. Most of all, Liston noticed the highly charged emotional state of some of the eyewitnesses. His investigation-training at the FBI academy taught him to look for signs of emotional distress to help him determine when someone was recovering from a truly traumatic event, and many who reported seeing the "Lizard-Man" were showing all the signs.

It wasn't long before word spread throughout Bishopville and beyond. The press, curiosity seekers, avid out-of-town hunters, and television crews from around the world began to show up. Gradually, businesses began to profit from the invasion. Lizard-Man mania engulfed the small community and the nation when the Bishopville Lizard-Man story was reported on CBS news. Stories were also printed in the Los Angeles Times, the Charlotte Observer, the Herald Examiner, and Time Magazine. Serious investigators, the international press, and the societal "fringe" arrived on the scene.
Sheriff's department spokesman Billy Moore told reporters that although hundreds of the 3,500 plus residents of Bishopville ventured into Scape Ore Swamp in search of the "Lizard-Man," armed with shotguns, most of the citizens believed that the sightings were hoaxes. After looking into it himself, however, Moore said that he had no doubt that there was something very real on the road with young Christopher Davis that strange night. He thought, though, that there had to be a more conventional explanation.

Meanwhile, George Hollomon Jr., 32, from Bishopville reported seeing the Lizard-Man while collecting water from an artesian well near the Scape Ore Swamp bridge. Hollomon and an unnamed friend were both frightened away by a creature fitting Christopher Davis's description. Hollomon's brother told reporters that George was visibly shaken by the event and that, despite his pleas for George to stop telling the story, because he didn't want to hear it anymore, he continued talking about it. He said it took time for George to settle down.

Also, a young couple by the name of Brian Edward (23) and Michelle Nunnery (20), Elmore, informed the Sheriff’s office that they almost hit a huge, bipedal beast while driving on Cedar Creek "Gum Springs" Road at 12:30 am. They provided statements and were interviewed by officers.

Lizard-Man mania soon began to bring out the worst in people, and Sheriff Truesdale knew that it was only a matter of time before some gun-toting Lizard-Man hunter was going to accidentally shoot someone in the swamp.

Most subsequent reports were of damage done to cars or of small pets disappearing

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[rhydra]

http://aqualandpetsplus.com/Lizard231.jpg

Those claws need a trim they are terribly overgrown,
:(

[runlikehell]

Well why didn't you say you were a lizard expert? :D

Ok, so you are probably at least 60% right and me 40% right :p (possibly)

LIZARDMAN could just have 3 claws or something because he's a genetic experiment....part human/part reptile

Would this kind of lizard creature be capable of ripping the metal on a car?

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/9073/21492524.jpg




Sorry im no expert i just have 17 years experiance :o
Hello Amethyst what do i think done this i dont know (see my previous post discription & theorys) the three fingered claws, im not sure how that came to be, maybe it had fingers moved deliberitly to limit its abilitys to pick things up ect.

As for what kind of Lizard creature that could rip at cars, then, nothing ive ever encounterd in the flesh or really know of (the closest thing i know of is below) but put it this way imagine what these thing cant do!


Below is some facts about Komodo Dragons the biggist lizard known to man & two documentrys to give people an idea the size & power, ect of these animals.

Real Teeth! Real Claws! & your worst fucken Nightmare! if you ever get in trouble with them :eek:

ide take my chances with a bipeadal reptilian any day!

at least you've got a chance to live another day!

These Dragons have no remorse, very little fear, & would tear you apart or Eat you alive screaming! :eek:



Komodo Dragon

http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/Kraken_the_komodo_dragon_May-2009.jpg


VITAL STATISTICS

Size: Males grow to an average length of 2 to 3 meters (6.6 to 9.8 ft) females 1.8m long;

weight about 70kg. There are records of a captive male dragon growing to 3.13 meters and weighing 166 kg.


http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44730000/gif/_44730362_komodo_dragon2_466in.gif


Lifespan: 20-40 years.


Speed

Komodo dragons can run at 14-18 km/hr over short distances, using their short, powerful legs armed with sharp claws. But they cannot chase down swift-footed prey like deer.


Dragon Teeth

Komodo dragons have 60 small (about 2cm), sharp, backward pointing, laterally compressed and serrated teeth. These are designed to slice, tear and cut very effectively but not to chew. New teeth emerge behind the old, not underneath as in other lizards. This type of dentition is rare in lizards but common in sharks. These teeth are hidden in the fleshy gums, which is why the dragons do not have the 'toothy smile' that crocodilians do. Since the teeth of the Komodo dragons are not designed to chew, lumps of food are torn off, thrown to the back of the mouth, and swallowed whole.

Foul-mouthed Dragons

Although the Komodo dragon doesn't breath fire, it's mouth contains death. The saliva of the dragon contains at least 4 types of toxic bacteria. The dragon's tooth serrations harbor bits of meat from the dragon's last meal. Komodo dragons also frequently bite through their own gums as they eat. The saliva and blood combination and the protein-rich residue in the teeth provide an ideal culture for the bacteria. These make the dragon's breath quite foul! A Komodo's bite causes profuse bleeding and are slow to heal. Although a dragon is not always successful in immediately bringing down a large animal, the bitten animal usually dies soon after, usually within a week. Infected by the bacteria, its wounds become infected and turn septic (septicemia). The Komodo dragon tracks the weakened animal, harassing it until the animal finally dies.

However, if a Komodo is bitten by another Komodo, it doesn't suffer any ill effects. The anti-coagulating properties of the Komodo's saliva, and natural immunity to each other's saliva is being investigated for human medical applications.

The Six Senses

Touch: Komodo Dragons have hard body armor made up of scales. Since the scales make it difficult to feel anything, the Komodo have special spots or sensory plaques. At least one of these plaques, which are connected to sensory nerves, can be found on every scale.

Sight: Komodo Dragons can see as far as 985 feet. Because their retinas only have cones, the can see color but have poor vision in dim light. The Komodo have round pupils that are more like the eyes of mammals than reptiles.

Hearing: Komodo Dragons hearing range is much smaller then humans. They have trouble hearing low-pitched and high-pitched sounds.

Smell: Although the Komodo can smell through the nostrils on the end of the snout, it is not very effective. The Komodo Dragon does not have a diaphragm, the muscle that pushes air in and out of the lungs. This makes it almost impossible to get enough air into the nostrils in order to pick up a scent unless a breeze is blowing directly into them.

Vomero-Nasal: This "sixth sense" is a combination of taste and smell. The Komodo uses a specialized forked tongue to gather chemical information from the air and surrounding objects. The gathered chemicals are rubbed off onto pads on the floor of the mouth. These pads send information to a small organ (Jacobson's organ) that translates the information and sends it to the brain. By analyzing molecules in the air in this way the Komodo Dragon can "smell" objects as far away as 2.5 miles.

Taste: Dragons have no taste buds in their mouth or tongue. The only have a few in the back of their throat.


Classification: It is a member of the monitor lizard family Varanidae, which today have only one genus Varanus . The residents of the island of Komodo call it the ora , buaya darat (land crocodile), mbou and biawak raksasa (giant monitor).

The longest lizards: The Komodo may be the largest but it is not the longest. The longest lizard is a monitor lizard found in New Guinea, the Varanus salvadorii . Known as the Papua monitor, this is the longest lizard, measuring up to 4.75 meters. The bulk of the length, about 70%, is made up of a long, whip like tail which helps the lizard balance in trees.


Babies: 20-25 eggs are laid, incubation 8-9 months. Maturity in 5 years.

Social life: Solitary, although several may gather at a large carcass.

Distribution: The Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca and Flores, which lie about 450km east of Bali. The Komodo dragons have the smallest range of any of the world's large carnivores.

Habitat: Dry rocky areas.


Read More about the Komodo Dragon and it's Background


Hunting & Diet


What does it eat?

The Komodo dragon is totally carnivorous and eat anything they can overpower. While smaller Komodos have to be content with eggs, lizards, snakes and rodents, the larger ones hunt deer, wild pigs, water buffalos and even horses. Komodo dragons are cannibalistic, and adults will prey on young ones as well as old and sick dragons. Other dragons may make up to 10% of a dragon's diet. There are few verified accounts of dragons actually attacking living humans to eat them, although like any other animal, they will attack in self-defense.

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Read More about the hunting habits and diet of the Komodo Dragon


http://www.draconian.com/dragons/komodo-dragon.php

http://www.draconian.com/dragons/komodo-dragon-background.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komodo_dragon#Danger_to_humans

Very intresting program about Komodo Dragons
(some scenes you may find disturbing)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00nj6dr/Life_Reptiles_and_Amphibians/

Ive not seen this program
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00njcq2/Inside_Life_Komodo_Dragons/



KOMODO DRAGON (Varanus Komodoensis)
1. Basic Facts
Komodo dragons are the largest living lizard in the world. They are a type of monitor Lizard of the Varanidae family. When frightened, Komodo dragons can run up to 18km/h for a short distance. Usually, they run at a slow trot of 8 - 10km/h. The largest Komodo dragon measured weighed 165.9kg (365pounds). Large dragons usually weigh up to 90kg. It is hard to tell the difference between male and female dragons. However, males have a special scale pattern at the based of their tail. generally, males grow larger than females. The largest recorded Komodo dragon length is 3.13m (10feet 2 inches). Female Komodo dragons rarely grow over 2.5m (7feet 6 inches) in length. Scientist believe that Komodo dragons can live up to 50 years, maybe longer. Komodo dragons can swim at least 500m. However, they become sluggish in the water because the water cools their body temperature down.

http://www.bali-travel-online.com/komodo_island/fauna.htm

[runlikehell]

Those claws need a trim they are terribly overgrown,
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Absolutly correct Rydra :)

[octopusrex]

I know them there woods, and yer all dead wrong about this lizardman thing.

All it is...

One of them folks who have been marring their own sisters for too many generations!:D:D:D:D:D