Sincerely,
Logan Machelle!

If you read the article there are two different car related attacks. One is on the young man, who reported no damage greater than a scratched bumper (hardly worth concocting a story of this magnitude when it could just as easily be blamed on a careless shopping cart in a parking lot, or another careless driver, etc.), the other was more extensive damage, coupled with “reddish hair” that was attributed to a “red fox” (since when do red fox, slightly larger than house cats, attack automobiles?)

I’m not saying these are “real” in the physical sense, but I tend to believe the phenomenon are often very “real” to those experiencing them.

Remember that if they were truly seeing something unknown, it can only be described in terms of the known. Maybe “giant lizard man” is the best they could come up with as an approximation. Maybe it was in fact one of the more hostile “marked hominids” misidentified (there was, after all, hair collected even if it was attributed to a red fox).

Or maybe someone needs to check with David Icke’s to see if any member of the Royal Family were visiting South Carolina at the time

I love these tales, precisely because they are so hard to reconcile with known facts. I know I mentioned that when I was younger I figured they must be visiting aliens (See Loveland Frog Men post), but my current view is to take the middle ground- In most cases these people saw something, but just what that is may be quite different from what they’ve reported. Sasquatch reports sometimes mention scales, which may be either simple brush, leaves, and forest debris caught in their hair, or as mentioned before on Cryptomundo, stones and sap or mud intentionally matted into the hair to produce a sort of armour.

Another way to think of these reports is in terms of mental archetypes. There is no doubting that reptiles tend to conjure up fear and dread in many people, particularly those in Western civilization. One need only look to the legends of dragons and the demonization of snakes to see how evident that is. If these are external expressions of internal imagery (Which I suppose is a nice way of saying they saw something but it wasn’t really real), then it’s not surprising that they would be hostile. If a Native American or Australian Aborigine experienced an encounter with a Lizard Man, perhaps they would have behaved differently, in keeping with their cultural preconceptions.

Then again, maybe there really are giant lizard men stalking South Carolinan teenagers and Ohio police officers, be they native terrestrials or something from much farther afield…

The fact that there have been no more signicant sightings since (to my knowledge) lends support that that theory, I think.

All of this is just my opinion, of course.

Still, a fun story, and something that should be recorded for posterity’s sake.

Thanks again, Craig. Good stuff!