The Honey Island Swamp monster is a humanoid cryptid reported from Honey Island Swamp, Louisiana since 1963.
Description
The creature is described as bipedal, seven feet (2.2 metres) tall, with gray hair and yellow eyes. The creature is accompanied by a disgusting smell. Footprints supposedly left by the creature have four toes.
Sightings
The first claimed sighting was in 1963 by Harlan Ford, a retired Air traffic controller who had taken up wildlife photography. After his death in 1980, a reel of Super 8 film showing the creature was allegedly found among his belongings. See: Honey Island Swamp Monster
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In 1974 the monster gained national fame after Ford and his friend Billy Mills claimed to have found unusual footprints in the area, as well as the body of a wild boar whose throat had been gashed. Ford continued to hunt for the creature for the next six years.