Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet… I am your host
Rebecca Felgate and I have a cold today which actually makes hosting this video way scarier!
Today I am talking the Top 10 Scary Creatures Found in SWAMPS. YUCK. Although to be honest….I
feel like swamp monster right now…. But we proceed. On this list I have included a
mixture of real life swamp creatures, mythical creatures that just might be real and a few
other surprises! Stay tuned for all the swampy glory.
QUESTION – have you ever been to a swamp?
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10 - Russel’s Viper Who is Russel and can he take his Viper back?
A swamp snake. A venomous swamp snake. I do not stan. Russel’s Viper is one of the BIG
four snakes in India and its snakebite has caused the most injuries and deaths among
all venomous snakes. People unlucky enough to have been bitten by Russel’s Viber Tend
to experience renal failure or heart failure. Where can It be found….swamp swamp swamp!
This beast is usually around 4ft long with a 6 inch girth and is VERY quick to move.
If anyone finds Russel… tell him I am NOT happy.
https://www.thetravel.com/25-creatures-buried-underneath-swamps-that-even-bear-grylls-would-avoid/
9 - The Lizard Man of Ore Swamp In 1988, a 17 year old boy by the name of
Christopher Davis Crashed was involved in a bizarre car crash in swampy Lee County in
South Carolina that has now gone down in folk lore history. He claims to have encountered
a wet, green 7ft tall figure with red eyes and lizard scales. He said that the creature
climbed on top of his car …causing the teen to break abruptly. The lizard creature then
fell off the bonnet and the teen drove off, later telling police about the incident. The
story got out and the creature became known as the Lizard Man of Ore Swamp. A local radio
station offered a 1 million dollar reward to anyone who could capture the creature alive,
and although several sightings were made, including a person who claimed t o have hit
the creature on the highway, it was never found. Photographs of the swamp dweller have
also been circulated but many have written off the cryptid as a simple urban legend.
Have a look at an image from ABC News in 2015…. I mean…. If it is real…ahh… but like…if
it isn’t…lol. Whatever the truth, the Swamp Lizard is a big part of Lee County culture
these days. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/lizard-man-scares-south-carolina-residents_n_55c126ece4b05c05b01f67f4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Man_of_Scape_Ore_Swamp
8 - Indian Red Scorpion Call me crazy but I do not jive with a scorpion….especially
not a red one! Red thing in nature tend to mean danger danger panic panic… and…well…danger
danger panic panic… this swamp dwelling scorpion will kill you. It looks grotesque…
can we all agree? This Scorpion lives in swamps in India, East Pakistan, the lowlands of Nepal
and Sri Lanka and is often hailed as being the most deadly scorpion of all time, twice
as deadly as poisonous snakes. The scorpion stings around 50 people a year – although
in 2012 80 people were stung. Fatality rates can reach around 40% in children and are usually
around 10 percent in adults… even if you don’t die you can have some nasty symptoms
including vomiting, convulsions, breathlessness, an abnormal heart rate and shock.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hottentotta_tamulus https://www.thetravel.com/25-creatures-buried-underneath-swamps-that-even-bear-grylls-would-avoid/
7 - The Skunk Ape The Skunk Ape is often referred to as the
Swamp Cabbage Man… which…I actually kind of love. It is also called the Swamsquatch
or the Louisianna Bigfoot, although the cryptid is said to roam the American states of Florida,
North Caroline and Arkansas. Basically the Skunk Ape is thought to be a large, foul smelling
hairy ape creature which walks on two legs and….you guessed it….smells awful! The
initial report came from neighbourhoods in Dade County in the 1960s where locals began
seeing something mysterious and smelling something pretty dank and foul. Dave Shealy was ten
when he claimed to have spotted d the creature in the Everglades in 1974. He claims that
It looked like a man, but completely covered with hair. The memory was so….err…. pungent…
that Dave returned to find the creature again in the year 2000 and purportedly captured
THIS footage of it. I feel like next time Dave goes looking he needs to take a Huawei….
Get a super zoom on that dank beast! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmRBUSK_Dsg
0.1 – 10 seconds.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/trail-floridas-bigfoot-skunk-ape-180949981/?no-ist
6 - The Rhodesian Dinosaur Meet Mokele Mbembe… or don’t…. we aren’t
too sure if this African Congo River Basin dwelling creature is real or not. It is said
to be a swamp dwelling dinosaur that resembles a brontosaurus and occasionally emerges from
the damp depths to devour people, and even Hippomotimi whole. The dinosaur In the swamp
made media headlines in the early part of the 1900s. In 1909 big game hunter Carl Hagenbeck
claimed to have heard from Rodesian locals that there was a half elephant half dragon
living in the waters. In 2018 Scientists travelled to Lake Tele in the Congo to see if they could
spot Mokele Mbembe, but they found nothing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokele-mbembe
5 -The Swamp Art Art….in a swamp… I mean it is pretty terrifying…
but cool… but also terrifying! In an algae covered pool in Victors Way, County Wicklow,
Ireland, you can see some pretty scary works of art peeping from the swampy water. There
are two sculptures in particular that are truly scary! The Ferryman’s End and The
Split Man. The sculpture plaque for the former reads: The ferryman’s craft lies dead in
the water. Unable to move, he can no longer reach the ‘other’ shore and touch it.
Unable to touch he cannot become real, identified and fully energized (hence joyful). Unmoving,
he sinks and dies. Oh great. The split man simply reads create or die. It seems that
the Split Man is illustrating how procrastination and the inability to focus on creativity will
result in a life unworthy living….and…well…that cuts me deep.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/victoria-s-way-indian-sculpture-park
4 - The Leopard Eel Sure, there are a few mythical creatures on
this list… but perhaps one day they will be discovered to be true! It seems that the
Leopard Eel was an urban legend in Florida and Alabama until actually it was discovered
to be real in December 2018. Look at it! It is actually a giant salamander stretching
over two feet long…slimey and gilly. It gets its name from its very unusual markings.
So few have been seen that we don’t know a lot about them….other than they look like
monsters, they live in swamps and they are indeed real. Look at it in the eyes. Honestly….
He sends shivers down my spine! EELS EELS EELS.
https://qz.com/1487589/scientists-solved-a-decades-old-swamp-monster-mystery-in-florida/ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/science/salamander-reticulated-siren.html
3 - The Old Croghan Man I’ll see you a swamp monster and raise you
an old, preserved dead man who had been lost in a swamp for thousands of years. Sound good?
Good! The Old Croghan was found in an Irish Bog in County Offaly. He dates back to the
Iron age and – thought to be from 362 BCE, making his body well over 2,000 years old.
From the grizzly torso, scientists have concluded he was in his early 20s when he died and may
well have been a king sacrificed by his people as a result of a bad harvest. It is thought
he was 6ft 6 which was pretty giant at the time! It is likely, from the legions on his
body, that he was tortured while he was alive. His body is also attached to the legend of
Croghan hill – each year Irish men went to woe a beautiful maiden – but for every
man that would woo her, one of his people would die.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Croghan_Man
2 - Alligators Alligators are notorious swamp dwellers….and
of course these big powerful lizards can and will kill. Alligators can be found in China
and the United States and live in freshwater environments, especially swamps. They love
a swamp. American Aligators can grow up to 14ft and weigh 990 lbs BUT IN August 2014,
a 15 foot, 1011 pound monster was pulled from a swamp in Camden, Alabama. It was the largest
ever caught to date. WHAT a giant! Alligators are quite scary to look at, and even scarier
when they mistake your pool for a swamp! Despite being powerful creatures who can kill, there
are only usually around two deaths from the beasts each year in the US. The most recent
Aligator death I am aware of came in August 2018 when a woman walking her dog in Hilton
Head, South Carolina was pulled into a lagoon. Most incidents take place in the swampy areas
of Florida. https://www.theclever.com/15-of-the-creepiest-things-that-lurk-in-swamps/
The Most Deadly Animal in the WORLD and most commonly found by swamps….
1 - Mosquitos Mosquitos many be small, but they’re also
deadly. If you’ve ever been profusely bitten by a Mosquito you will know that they live
near water…especially lakes and swamps. Some Mosquitoes are scarier than others. The
blood-sucking Anopheles mosquito, is particularly unpleasant and is one of the main carriers
of Dengue fever. Mosquitos Vector disease and to put this in perspective . Vector-borne
diseases account for more than 17% of all infectious diseases, causing between 700 000
to a million deaths annually. Some of the creatures on this list may have scared you
more than the swamp dwelling mozzie, but you’re more likely to die or get seriously ill from
a bite from one of this miniscule winged beasts from hell than you are a fictitious cryptid
or a swap gator. I actually did a Life’s Biggest Questions video about what would happen
if all Mosquitos went extinct which I think you will find interesting !
Well well well that was the Top 10 Scary Creatures Found In Swamps. What did you think to this
list? Which creature was the scariest?