Cave Bear on Ice

Now I have the song “Red Skies at Night” from The Fixx stuck in my head, only instead of those words I’m hearing “Cave bear on ice! Cave bear on ice! Whoah oh oh oh oh oh oh!” Yes, it’s a weird place inside my head. Our ancestors had a hard go, if you think…

Lizardman: Is It For Real? Part Four: Taking It to the Grave

Scape Ore Swamp. As close as you can ever get to Lizardman without him jumping on the hood of your car.

I put the question to Eddie, the docent at the South Carolina Cotton Museum on the day of my visit. Does he believe the Lizardman is real, or is it all just a big hoax? With a smile, he told me about the automobiles that were damaged back during the Lizardman’s reign of not-so-terrifying-terror in…

Lizardman: Is It For Real? Part Three: Fake Footprints?

The real deal, baby! Lizardman footprints!

As skeptics have supposedly found holes in the account made by 17-year-old Christopher Davis, who was attacked—well, his car was—by Lizardman, so too have those who looked at it with a critical eye been able to poke some holes in the admission of Brother Elmore that it was he who scared Davis on the night…

Lizardman: Is It For Real? Part Two: The Butterbean Shed

The trail that used to lead to the Elmore Butterbean Shed.

The only reported incident where the Lizard Man attempted to attack a human being occurred in 1988, when a 17-year-old named Christopher Davis, driving home from work late at night down Browntown Road, had a blowout near the butterbean drying shed owned by local farmer “Brother” Elmore. After stopping to fix the tire, Davis said:…