Case file · Cryptid
Honey Island Swamp monster
Retired air traffic controller Harlan Ford said that in 1963 he saw a tall, grey-haired, yellow-eyed creature in Louisiana's Honey Island Swamp; the story went public in 1974.
1963 CE · 30.38, -89.73 · status: claim
The account
Ford and a friend later produced casts of four-toed tracks near a dead boar. A local legend ties the creature to chimpanzees escaped from a circus train wreck. Swamp tours now sell the story.
The sceptical view
No body, clear photo or DNA has been found; scientists consider the creature very unlikely to exist.