Giraffe-possums, lizards and Mothman, oh my! Kentucky is reportedly home to a score of cryptids and unknown creatures, and why shouldn’t they live here? We have a wonderful state with the amenities ...

A restaurant in Bishopville, S.C. markets the town’s association to the Lizard Man. Joseph P. Laycock, Author provided One of my hobbies is dragging my patient wife to small towns to study beliefs and ...

Meet the monsters in our midst, from bigfoot to Mothman and beyond! Welcome to the United States of Cryptids, where mysterious monsters lurk in the dark forests, deep lakes, and sticky swamps of all ...

LEE COUNTY, S.C. — Lizard Man, South Carolina’s own rural legend, seems to have crawled back out of the murky waters of Scape Ore Swamp near Bishopville, where it first was spotted in 1988, after a ...

Artist John Preble throws nothing away—a habit reflected in the curation of his roadside folk-art attraction. After entering through a vintage 1930s gas station, visitors wind through a series of ...

One of my hobbies is dragging my patient wife to small towns to study beliefs and practices related to cryptozoology – the hunt for creatures, from Bigfoot to the Loch Ness Monster, whose existence ...

On Nov. 2, a hunter in Newberry County claimed he encountered a giant, hairy beast while traipsing through the woods. It was at least 7 feet tall, with long arms a-swinging. It wasn't one of those ...

The Lizard Man mania faded away after only a few months during the summer of 1988, but the story lives on today. Many Bishopville residents and cryptid fans, including a group called the Friends of ...