https://vo.rs/tags/south-carolina/Latest from the South-Carolina desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Thu, 18 Apr 2024 11:12:00 +0000https://vo.rs/unravelled/the-lizard-man-of-scape-ore-swamp-south-carolinas-summer-of-1988/<p>Christopher Davis was seventeen and driving home alone at around two in the morning on 29 June 1988, on a rural road outside Bishopville, South Carolina, when he stopped to change a tyre near the edge of Scape Ore Swamp. He told Lee County sheriff&rsquo;s deputies that something seven feet tall, green-skinned and three-fingered came out of the trees, ran at his car, and climbed onto the roof as he sped away. When he got home, the wing mirror was hanging loose, the roof and door panels were scored with long scratches, and there were what deputies logged as tooth or claw marks along the trim. Sheriff Liston Truesdale, no stranger to a slow news week, brought the car in and let the local press photograph the damage.</p>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 11:12:00 +0000