The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp, or 'The Lizard Man Of Lee County', is a humanoid creature rumored to inhabit the swampy areas of Lee County, South Carolina.

It was first reported by 17 year old Christopher Davis on June 29, 1988, around the hours of 2 AM. He was driving home from work, taking a road that borders Scape Ore Swamp, when his tire blew out, forcing him to stop. While Davis was changing the tire, he claimed to have heard a loud thump from a field across the road. He would later say to Associated Press news services:

“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.”
Davis would later give a clearer physical description of the creature as being around seven feet tall with the same details as above.

Davis arrived home in a panicked state, waking up his parents. Trying to figure out what had happened, his father went out to look at the car. There were scratches around the door handle and the side-view mirror had been twisted badly. On the top of the car was a series of deep scratches and grooves.

This report sparked off a rush of Lizard Man reports that lasted all summer and encompassed not just Scape Ore Swamp and Bishopville, South Carolina where the original report was made, but the whole of Lee County. At the height of the Lizard Man scare, police were receiving so many calls about the Lizard Man that people with more immediate problems could not get through, and a separate Lizard Man Hotline had to be established.

By August of the same year the Lizard Man scare had died down, and few reports concerning it have been made since.

As of July 2005, the Lizard Man has "reappeared" in television promotions for South Carolina's state lottery.

In October 2005, a woman in Newberry, South Carolina reported to the police that she had seen two creatures resembling the Lizard Man outside her home. The responding officer, Officer Michael Kennedy, apparently amused, told the woman that the creatures "just like to check on humans from time to time."

I remember reading this very same thing awhile back, entertaining story, I thought that the establishing of the "Lizard Man hotline" was especially amusing. Has anyone heard anything from "Lizzy" recently?

Kid probly crashed his car, and told his dad the "lizzard man" did it

I'll search more on this one.

LYING!!!????? TO SAVE HIS OWN TAIL!!!!???? The HELL you say..

Ehh sounds like something id do atleast

Good find jonas16.

You sir, are a SCOUNDREL....

Whats a scoundrel?

Like if people need to lie, I'd think they'd resort to more "original lies" like bigfoot or something. He didn't have enough time to go on Google and search for a monster in his area, or close to him. *shrugs*

You'd be amazed what kind of fabrications the human mind can conceive of....now if you'll excuse me, I must get back to my wife Morgan Fairchild..

who's Morgan Fairchild?

But what would he use to make those marks? I'd imagine that they'd be very deep.

Not sure.....but your assuming that the story ITSELF is 100% factual.

we'll, id imagine, but really, other than the scratch marks on the doors, none of the other things can he really ACCIDENTLY did, like twisting the side mirror.

If that were the case he's pretty stupid for picking the least plausible excuse.

Yeah but we don't know this kid's dad.

He could be Ted Nugent.

Lizard-scratch fever?

Someone on UM said that it was a hoax and he knew the guy who did it. Apparently he did it because of hippies or something.

Egad the poor boy experienced some time loss as well, like the time it took to go back outside, finish changing the tire, and then driving off, apparently all the while the creature was patiently waiting on his roof!

Isn't that why ANYONE does ANYTHING? "Damn hippies.....where's that damn Lizard-man when you need him?"

Peace, Man!

This was 1988 and he blamed it on hippies? Not a fast thinker was he??

Who's Ted Nugent?

I'm never updated with news.....

................... ..............Hello, you've obviously just landed here on the 3rd planet from the sun in the Milky Way galaxy....Earth we call it.....welcome.

LOL, he never said it was hippies, it was just a guess why on my part. I'm not up-to-date on my Hippie textbooks.

Ah! The perfect Anti-Hippie weapon: The T.A.R-21 Tavor Assault Rifle With Scope!

You enjoy using a firehose to extinguish a match, don't you.

Oh, yes . I could use a 9mm.

But wheres the fun in that?

I throught this topic was about, a lizard man, not how to kill (defenseless) hippes. so please GET BACK ON TOPIC!!

P.S who is Ted Nugent?

i believe Ted Nugent is an guitarist ? Damn Yankees ?

Fine! Sheesh! Though I'm quite confident those would work on it.


You mean youve never heard of Ted Nugent?! Neither have I.

He irritates me.

MY EYES!

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