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Is the Legendary BEAST OF BLADENBORO Roaming Green Swamp Preserve, NC?
A Bladen County, North Carolina man is hunting in the Green Swamp Preserve. As he is making his way out of the area, he is followed by what he believes was the Beast of Bladenboro.
The following account was forwarded to me:
“In the town of Bladenboro, North Carolina, just 8 miles southwest of Elizabethtown where I stay, it was said a demon cat from hell used to stalk the woods killing livestock and making the locals scared. Then it suddenly disappeared. That’s what they say anyway, we know it didn’t.
To this day there have been reports of something that looks like an abnormally large mountain lion with blood-red eyes and fur as black as night. Its cries have been compared to that of a woman being torn apart and screaming for her life. Luckily it only has a taste for goats and cows, or so we think anyway. I will tell you there have been a few people that have gone missing. Some have been found and to hear some of the police tell the story the bodies were torn to shreds. It’s not just located in Bladenboro like most think. It goes from Bladen Lakes State Forest to the Green Swamp Preserve area which covers 3 counties and 1,225 square miles.
A friend of mine was hunting one day down in Green Swamp Preserve when it started getting dark. If you hunt in this area you know you’ve got to be out of the woods before dark by law. So he climbed down from his tree stand and began the long walk through the swamp and underbrush to where he parked his truck. Now my friend is a cornbread-fed southern boy and has the size to prove it. Standing 6 feet 6 inches with a weight of 260 pounds of pure farmhand muscle. He isn’t small by any standards. So he learned not to be scared of anything. He said what happened next made him never want to go in the swamp hunting again.
Making his way through the brush he said he began hearing something walking through the woods toward him. He stopped to listen for it and said it sounded like a large black bear so he got his gun ready just in case. When he stopped it stopped, when he walked it walked. He said it made him nervous because whatever it was knew he was there and won’t be running off. He said he started making noise and even shot his shotgun in the air. It didn’t leave. Instead, it let out a growl he said you could feel as much as hear. All the way through the woods it stayed just behind him out of sight.
When he came out of the woods onto the dirt road he said his truck was about 50 yards down from him. He decided it was a pretty good chance that whatever it was following him was going to keep following or make a move on him there, so he took off running, It took off running too. He said it sounded like a bulldozer was crashing through the woods and when it broke from the woods it sounded like a horse running through loose dirt. He could hear the stomps of its feet and the growling in its breath. He didn’t have to look back to know it was coming and catching up to him. He shot behind him hoping it would scare it enough to stop for a moment and give him a chance to make it to the truck. When he did he said he must have hit it because it screamed and for a moment he thought it was a person. That’s when he finally turned around.
He said it was jet black, as big as a 600-pound black bear, with a tail as long as its body, and eyes that were glowing red. He hit it and it was just standing there looking at him as if to say now you’ve done it. He bolted to the truck and jumped in. Just as he shut the door he looked and it was right there. He said it was so close its breath was fogging the window.
By now he said he was shaking badly and it was everything he could do to get the key in the ignition and start the motor. He drives a Ford F350 4-wheel drive that was raised up so that there’s a good 2 feet of clearance under the truck. He said this thing was on all 4 feet and looking eye-to-eye with him in his truck. The engine started and he took off like a bat out of hell. He said it chased him as hard as it could until he picked up speed and stopped and watched him drive off.
The next day he and his dad went back with guns and looked around for tracks, blood, or even a dead body. He said there was no blood even though he knows it was shot, and there were paw prints as big as his hands on the ground everywhere. Then they found a tree that 9 feet up had claw marks 1 inch deep in the wood spaced 4 inches apart from each other. They didn’t venture into the woods, nor did they go too far from the truck. Both of them said they felt as though they were being watched and didn’t want to stick around to find out what it was. They got back in the truck and that’s when they heard it. A scream from the woods off in the distance. He said it was like a woman screaming bloody murder. It let him know it was there waiting.
Yep, there are many dark secrets in the woods. Charlie Daniels even wrote about these woods in one of his songs. If you ever get adventurous and want to try your luck come on down to Green Swamp. And when the sun goes down get real quiet. You might hear that scream. I hope when you do it’s off in the distance and not close by. Because if it is, well, it might just be the last sound you hear.” TM
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Swamp Thing: The DCU Monster’s Origin and History Explained
Report Claims Logan Director James Mangold Is In Talks To Direct Swamp Thing
Logan director James Mangold is reportedly in talks to direct a Swamp Thing movie. The recently announced film will be a part of the broader, interconnected DC Universe.
A new report from Variety, building off an initial article from The Hollywood Reporter, indicates that Mangold approached DC Studios heads Peter Safran and James Gunn with his idea for the project. The new Swamp Thing film was announced as part of the upcoming DC Universe slate of films, alongside Superman and Batman reboots. In a video announcing the various films, Co-CEO of DC Studios James Gunn described the film as “a very dark horror story.” It will also act as an origin story for the monstrous hero. Shortly after the announcement was released, Mangold posted an image of Swamp Thing on Twitter, which Gunn retweeted, prompting speculation.
Swamp Thing is one of the more obscure DC heroes, created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. Watchmen creator Alan Moore and artists Stephen Bissette and John Totleben did a stellar and influential run on the character in the early ’80s. He has also gotten the cinematic treatment in a poorly received movie directed by horror legend Wes Craven. Back in 2019, a Swamp Thing TV show was canceled just after the first episode aired.
I hid in a swamp for 3 days after an alligator bit my arm OFF, I felt like giving up – I thought I was dead for sure
A MAN who hid in a swamp for three days after an alligator bit his arm off has told how he thought he was dead.
Eric Merda, 43, wrestled with the reptile and was dragged underwater three times before it suddenly vanished again.
Eric Merda miraculously survived his grapple with an alligator before getting lost in the wilderness for three days[/caption]
The beast tried to drag him into a death roll before yanking his arm off[/caption]
It had gone away with his arm, up to just above the elbow, in its jaws in July.
Eric, who was visiting Lake Manatee Fish Camp in Myakka City, Florida, desperately tried to escape by swimming back to where he’d entered the water.
But he soon realised he had got lost in the huge lake and was very far from wherever he entered and his days-long survival mission began.
Eric admitted he was not in a fit state of mind when he got in the water, and officers found cannabis and a bottle of whisky in his van after the ordeal.
He had been in the water for several hours before he was attacked. He had also stripped off because his clothes clothes were weighing him down.
He then saw the eye of an alligator which was moving silently alongside him on his right. Before he could do anything his jaws clamped down on his arm and snapped his elbow.
He told The Daily Mail: “Everything turned black for half a second. It was like lightning striking. I thought I was dead for sure.
But he managed to wrap his other arm around the alligator and kicked as it tried to pull him under. When it suddenly left, he desperately tried to find a way out.
He said: “I was scared to death. All I was thinking was that it was coming back for me.
“Every time I felt my feet touch colder water, I would just lose it because it meant this was deeper water where the alligator might be.
“I remember thinking ‘There’s no way that this is real. My arm is gone. I don’t have an arm anymore! I have to be dreaming or something’.”
He desperately tried to find the shore but it was hours until he made it to an area of thick swamp grass where he could sleep for a night.
He then climbed a tree to try get some higher ground and spend hours waving at any plane overhead.
He said: “It would have been really easy to just lie there and die.”
But he kept working his way around the edge of the swamp trying to find where he entered from with his raw, red stump.
‘WAITING FOR ME’
It had stopped bleeding by flies were clustered around it and red ants were attacking his back.
And at times he saw an alligator’s head rise above the surface of the water before sinking again. He said: “I felt it was waiting for me.”
He slept on a small slab on concrete on the water’s edge the second night. And the next day he carried on trying to get out of the swamp before he realised he was going in circles.
He estimated he had covered just 100 yards by the fourth day. He said: “It was really hard. I was buck naked, beat up and cut up.
“There were a lot of times I couldn’t keep going . . . but I just kept pushing and pushing.”
He eventually found an empty beer bottle that meant he was near civilisation, and soon enough he saw his van and a man parked nearby.
Within half an hour emergency services arrived. He spent three weeks in a local hospital and had to have more of his arm amputated from where it became infected.
An alligator trapper later caught two specimens in the lake, six and nine feet long.
Merda, who is now considering a career as a motivational speaker, said: “Fear is a good thing.”
He had been visiting Lake Manatee Fish Camp in Florida when he took a fateful swim[/caption]
UK weather: Misery for drivers after floods & downpours swamp nation’s roads – with warnings in place & snow forecast
BRITAIN was hit by floods last night after being inundated with heavy rainfall that drenched the nation.
The Met Office issued weather warnings after a band of rain reached Cornwall on Wednesday afternoon before it lets rip across the country over the next two days.
Wet weather is set to engulf the country for the rest of the week, the Met warned[/caption]
Motorists on the flooded A27 in West Sussex were trapped in their cars on Wednesday[/caption]
Drivers were swamped by several inches of rainwater on the busy thoroughfare[/caption]
It will then pass over Scotland’s east coast on Friday after bringing a week of “atrocious” weather for the majority of the UK.
The Met Office said the Scottish Highlands could even see some snow as they issued a yellow warning for rain due to the heavy downpours.
The Environment Agency has also issued three flood warnings and 43 flood alerts, mostly across the south coast.
Up to 20 cars were trapped in a swamp of water on the A27 in West Sussex after a day of rain drowned the region on Wednesday.
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Police have been forced to close the major thoroughfare as the busy carriageway continues to flood.
Shocking footage showed motorists at a standstill while encircled by several inches of water as some drivers tried to travel through it.
West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service said the closure applies between the A259 west at Emsworth and A259 east at Fishbourne.
Commuters across the UK have been advised to expect “heavy delays” due to the barmy winter weather that is battering the country.
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Cops in Winchester, Hampshire, also revealed a road had been blocked in Swanmore after a large tree was uprooted by the weather.
The Met Office’s first warning kicked in at 5pm, covering a southeast area stretching from Southampton and the Isle of Wight in Hampshire to the coast in Kent, until 6am on Thursday.
Brits have been advised to brace their homes and businesses as forecasters told people to expect flooding.
Another yellow rain warning will then comes into force across a large area of the UK for the whole of Thursday, from 12am until 11.59pm.
This covers an area stretching from Birmingham, Lincoln and Hull to north Wales, Liverpool and Manchester, as well as the east coast up to the Scottish border.
The Met said transport could be disrupted, roads could be deluged with water and communities could be temporarily cut off due to the extraordinary rainfall.
A third warning will come into force at 3pm on Thursday until 6pm on Friday for the east coast of Scotland, stretching from the English border up past Aberdeen with similar risks of flooding, and transport disruptions.
It brings a damp end to the working week for Brits, before snow is set to hit in a matter of days.
‘ATROCIOUS CONDITIONS’
Met Office spokesman Craig Snell said: “The warning areas are where we are most concerned about the risk of flooding but it doesn’t mean that the areas outside them are not going to see some pretty atrocious conditions.”
He said a warning was in place for the southeast because “it has been quite wet there since the beginning of November with many places already seeing more than their month’s share of rain”.
He added that conditions were “still going to be a pretty miserable evening for the whole of the south” and Londoners would have an “unpleasant commute home this evening”, but the wet conditions will have passed through the area by Thursday morning.
The Midlands and the north of England will have a “pretty miserable day” on Thursday after the rain sweeps in overnight, Mr Snell said.
“The rain will be accompanied by a brisk wind so it’s not going to feel good.”
But he added that Scotland could see “two days of persistent rain” and this may result in snow falling in the highlands – although this is not unusual for November.
“If you want to take a walk in the hills in Scotland tomorrow, you may come across snow but for the lower levels it is just going to be rain,” he said.
RAC breakdown spokesman Rod Dennis warned motorists to “exercise great care” during the wet weather.
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He explained: “The chances of being involved in a collision rise dramatically in wet weather, and even more so if there’s snow, so it’s vital drivers slow down, leave plenty of space behind the vehicle in front and use their lights to make sure they’re easily seen by other road users.
“The risk of aquaplaning where a vehicle’s wheels lose contact with the road as they skim across standing water will be high, particularly for those who don’t slow down to appropriate speeds for the conditions.”
The Scottish Highlands may even see some snow in the next few days, forecasters predict[/caption]
Brits have been advised to brace for flooding as the heavy downpours continue[/caption]
Huge SKUNK APE Mutilates & Kills Calf Near Green Swamp, Florida
A Floridian described the encounter that he and his mother had with a large Skunk Ape when he was a boy living near Green Swamp in Polk County. The beast had mutilated and killed a calf.
“As a native Floridian and avid hunter growing up I’ve seen and have heard lots of things in the woods around our great state. Some things were easy to understand and some things were just not explainable. Anyway, this is my and my mother’s story.
I had her proofread this before sending it to make sure I remember this correctly. It’s the Fall of 1976 and I was five years old. My mom and I lived in Kathleen, Florida on the edge of the Green Swamp. Back then it was a dirt road and there were only a couple of houses on the road and a relatively new trailer park at the end of the road. We had to drive a little less than half a mile back down our trail of a driveway to get to our home. It was an old wood frame home that was over 100 years old. We had an Artesian well pump in the kitchen and for the first few months we lived there we had to heat the water on the gas stove to have hot bath water. This was an old cracker house on blocks and had a front porch that I used to play under all the time. The roof of the porch was on a pitch and the edge was over the wooden stairs. It measured seven foot six from the ground to the roof line.
So, it was nearly desk when my mom and I were coming down the drive in her VW Bus. She had lights on high to spot any deer that might be on the property. As we rounded the curve in the driveway and the lights shined on the house that’s when we both saw it and it was big and broad and looking directly at our car. Now I’m not going to tell you it had big red eyes. The eye shine that I saw for only a split second was golden. It turned and walked down the side of the house between the cow pasture fence and the house. My mom hit the gas and went around the great oak tree that was at the corner of the porch. She got around the side of the house and we saw nothing. She grabbed a .38 revolver and jumped out of the car telling me to lock the doors. Little good that would have done looking back.
So, with the car off headlights shining and my mom at our fence line, she stood and stayed quiet. Our hunting dogs that were in their kennels were whimpering. They normally barked at anything when we came home. Not this night. They were scared. There’s more to the story.
The next day we looked for prints. The porch and the oak tree size is relevant because it’s what we used to size up our guest. The creature was standing next to our porch and his head was just under the edge of the roof seven foot six at the edge of the overhang. So now, being older and having a firm grasp on measurement, I’m guessing this thing was seven feet tall. It was nearly as thick or wide as the great oak tree. Based on what our landlord later told us, it was about 90 years old.
We had cows and hunting dogs. We even had a calf that was about 400 pounds or so that I would hand feed and had bottle-fed because his mother died shortly after birthing. Anyway, my mom was calling the calf to get him to come to the fence. It wouldn’t come. She called again. Nothing. Silence. All of a sudden we heard the most God-awful scream from what we thought was that calf. And then, nothing.
So, this whole time, I’m in the car. The door is locked and the windows cracked so I could hear. My mom ran back to the car. I opened her door and she backed us out of there quick and went to her girlfriend’s house who lived about a half hour away. Mom was rattled. She talked the whole way.
“Did you see it?”
“Yes Mama, I saw it. It was big and hairy.”
“Did you hear the calf?” she asked.
“Mom I did! You think it’s dead Mama? “Do you smell it?”
She slammed on the brakes and nearly put me in the dash. “You could smell it too?”
“Yes. It stunk bad. Worse than the dogs.”
We got to my mom’s friend’s house and she got on the phone with Mr. Goldsby. He was the landlord. She nervously told him what happened. She nearly dropped the phone. He said it was a Skunk Ape. It’s been around for years. Damn thing stinks too.
The next day we went home and met with Mr. Goldsby. He came to the house to see if we could find anything. We found footprints right by the porch where it stood when we saw it. We measured them and they were just over 15 inches long. Several tracks led to the fence. These tracks had nearly a 60-inch stride in between.
Mom and Mr. Goldsby went into the cow pasture. She wouldn’t let me come because there was a lot of Dog Fennel growing all around and some Palmetto patches. They found the calf. It was dead and his neck and head had been pulled up and backward to where his spine was pulled up past his shoulders and broken. Mom said there was very blood around. My mom asked Mr. Goldsby why he didn’t tell us about this before. He simply said he was so used to it coming around and not bothering anything that he didn’t think he needed to.
We moved two weeks later.”
Transcribed source: The Facts by Howtohunt.com
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BIGFOOT or SWAMP APE Vocalizations in Florida? (AUDIO / VIDEO)
This video was found on Facebook and forwarded to me. The calls and overall sounds are intriguing. Are these vocalizations from one creature or several? The location is said to be in Florida, but specific details are not given.
Could it be a Bigfoot and/or Swamp Ape? Or possibly something else? Lon
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