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South Carolina Cotton Museum (Lizard Man exhibit)

Bishopville, South Carolina

The town museum in the old train depot keeps a Lizard Man exhibit with plaster casts from the 1988 Scape Ore Swamp sighting and a sign from the original site.

Directions

The creature

Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swampaka Lizard Man of Lee CountyA green, scaly, 7-ft creature that clawed at a teenager's car in 1988.

Nearby

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