This week, we’re diving into the wonderfully bizarre world of cryptids where folklore meets the downright unbelievable. First, we travel to the windswept Isle of Man in the 1930s, where a talking mongoose named Gef supposedly made a family’s farmhouse his home, leaving behind one of the strangest legends in paranormal history. Was Gef a ghost, a hoax, or a creature from somewhere beyond the ordinary? Then we head to the murky backroads of Bishopville, South Carolina, to meet the Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp—a reptilian beast that terrorized locals and left claw marks on cars in the 1980s. With one cryptid chattering in the walls and another lurking in the shadows, we’ll unravel the tales, the evidence, and why these stories still spark fascination (and a few goosebumps) today.

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In Paranormal News - Possible fairy caught on camera?

Fatemag - Gef the talking Mongoose / 30 years later

Garrett Collection - Gef

Atlas Obscura - The Bizzare Story of Gef the Talking Mongoose

Cryptid Wiki - Gef

Excerpt from My Diary in the House of the Talking Mongoose pg. 39

The Harry Price Website - The Talking Mongoose

Swamp Ape Review – Lizard Man

The City of Bishopville – Lizard Man

Crypto Zoo News – Lizard Man

Cryptid Wiki

U.S. Department of Mythical Wildlife

South of Spooky Podcast

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