LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A woman left a church in Bishopville, South Carolina, on Sunday, and was understandably startled at the sight of someone — or some-THING — running in front of some trees. The shock lasted long enough for her to get a grip on her senses — as well as her phone — to snap a picture of what looks like a fast-moving lizard man.
To be more precise, it looked like something you might see on the Syfy channel at 3 a.m., when you see the cheapest in science fiction theater.
In a skeptical world where people complain about how supposed photos of Bigfoot or Sasquatch are always blurry, the picture above seems to suggest that lizard-like creatures don’t mind having their picture taken.
The woman who took the photograph — identified only as Sarah from Sumter, South Carolina — contacted ABC News 4 WCIV-TV in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, about her “encounter.”
“My hand to God, I am not making this up. So excited,” she wrote to the station, explaining how she and a friend saw the lizard man near the Scape Ore Swamp (see red marker in the following map).
Nearly 30 years of lizard man sightings have surfaced from the Bishopville-Scape Ore Swamp area. The first report can be traced to 1988 when a young man stopped his car on a road near the swamp to change a flat tire in the middle of the night, later claiming he’d been chased by the creature.
Eyewitnesses have described a 7-foot-tall, human-like being with green, scaly skin, three-toed feet and hands, according to AnimalPlanet.com. The reports also include glowing red eyes, like the ones in the lizard man picture at the top of this story.
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