On June 29, 1988, around 2:30 a.m., Christopher "Chris" Davis
drove home after working the night shift at his local McDonald's.
Driving along Browntown Road, which cuts through the dense woods
of Scape Ore Swamp in South Carolina, Chris hears the pop of a
flat tire on his car. As he finishes installing the spare, he
notices something large and dark coming out of the trees, moving
towards him about 30 yards away and swinging its arms. In an
interview with The Item newspaper, Chris described seeing this
humanoid creature with glowing red eyes close up, saying it was
"green, wetlike, about seven feet tall and had three fingers... a
red-eyed devil." Terrified, Davis ran to the driver's door and
jumped in. Once inside, this bipedal beast was now right outside
his window, where he could see it from the neck down. It then
jumped up onto the roof of his car, where he could see its
"rough-looking, black-fingernailed hands, sticking down from the
windshield." The cryptid deeply grunts as Chris peels out,
attempting to escape. As he estimated he was driving about 35-40
mph, this thing had caught up to the car and jumped onto the roof
again, banging and clawing at it. The creature finally fell off
as he swerved frantically, racing home. This encounter would
become the best-known report of this impossible monster emerging
from Scape Ore Swamp, but it was not the first, nor would it be
the last. At least one verified account tells of a sighting
occurring two years prior, and a handful of police reports
describe run-ins that happened in the years following Davis's
experience. Chris Davis never called it the "Lizard Man," but
residents had already labeled some previously seen brute by that
description. And when a local reporter printed the nickname, the
moniker stuck in the broader public's imagination. Sheriff Liston
Truesdale was the one person who vetted all the claims, took
reports from witnesses, and investigated their stories. And we're
fortunate and grateful to have on our show tonight the one person
who spent time interviewing Sheriff Truesdale, questioned locals,
visited locations, and wrote a book about it all, our friend and
noted cryptozoology researcher and author Lyle Blackburn. Lyle's
2013 book, Lizard Man: The True Story of the Bishopville Monster,
is the phenomenon's most comprehensive and detailed history. As
the sightings and questions continue, perhaps the most puzzling
and troubling thing is whether everyone sees the same being and
whether it is reptilian, more Bigfoot-like, or some other horror
altogether.
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