South Carolina · Series One
Lizard Man
The Terror of Scape Ore Swamp
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The seven-foot, red-eyed, three-fingered swamp reptilian that mauled cars around Bishopville and put Lee County on the map in 1988.
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Lizard Man
South Carolina
- Size
- Over 7 ft
- Habitat
- Swamps & bean fields
- Sighting
- Bishopville • 1988
- Trait
- Three-fingered claws
A seven-foot, red-eyed swamp reptilian that clawed at cars around Bishopville in 1988.
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Evidence enclosed
Tucked inside every Lizard Man box is card #042 of 50: a collector's card you won't find in any shop, pack or booster. The only way to get it is to bring the Lizard Man home.
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- Size
- Over 7 ft
- Habitat
- Swamps & bean fields
- Sighting
- Bishopville • 1988
- Trait
- Three-fingered claws
Sculpted from the sightings
Lizard Man, up close
- Figure height
- 5 inches
- Finish
- Hand-painted
- Edition
- Series One — The First Sightings
- Classification
- Reptilian Humanoid
- Family
- Reptilian
- Legend reports it at
- Over 7 ft tall
The legend of South Carolina
“Flat tire at 2 a.m. on a swamp road outside Bishopville. You hear it before you see it — something heavy, running. Green. Seven feet. Three fingers. And it wants your car.”
Most monsters want to be left alone. The Lizard Man attacks cars. Since the summer of 1988, the swamp country around Bishopville, South Carolina has produced a steady file of vehicles found with bumpers twisted, chrome chewed, antennas snapped, and long gouges raked through sheet metal — damage the Lee County Sheriff's Department photographed and could never quite explain.
The thing blamed for it stands over seven feet tall, moves on two legs at a dead sprint, and is covered in green-black scales with patches of dark, wet-looking skin. Witnesses fixate on two details: the eyes, which glow a furnace red, and the hands — three fingers, each ending in a black claw long enough to peel a roof seam. It lives, the story goes, in the flooded dark of Scape Ore Swamp, and it does not appreciate headlights on its road.
The Legend+
At about 2 a.m. on June 29, 1988, seventeen-year-old Christopher Davis finished changing a flat tire on Browntown Road, on the edge of Scape Ore Swamp, when he saw something running at him across the field — upright, enormous, and fast. It hit the car as he scrambled inside, grabbed the door mirror, and leapt onto the roof as he swerved down the road at highway speed. When Davis finally shook it off, his mirror hung loose and the roof bore long, fresh scratches.
Davis kept quiet for weeks — who would believe him? — until the Waye family reported their Ford LTD savaged overnight: fenders chewed, wiring ripped out, hair and muddy prints left on the paint. Sheriff Liston Truesdale began taking statements, and Davis finally told his story. By August, Bishopville had a monster.
Documented Sightings+
The summer of 1988 turned Lee County into a carnival. Construction workers, a soldier, and local teenagers all reported the creature near the swamp; three-toed tracks fourteen inches long were cast from the mud; and the sheriff's office fielded hundreds of calls. A local radio station offered a reward, armed monster hunters had to be turned back from the swamp, and the town sold Lizard Man t-shirts as fast as they could be printed.
The creature has never fully retired. In 2008, Bob and Dixie Rawson found their van's front end mauled — radiator bitten through — in an attack attributed to the Lizard Man, and in 2015 a churchgoer photographed what she described as the creature sprinting along a tree line near Bishopville. Sheriff Truesdale, decades later, still maintained that 'there's something out there.'
The Lore+
Reptilian humanoids are rare in American folklore — most swamp monsters are apes — which makes the Lizard Man a genuine original. Folklorists note the legend's strange specificity: it isn't content to lurk; it damages property, leaves physical evidence, and confines itself to a few square miles of bottomland around one small town.
Bishopville, for its part, embraced its monster with both arms. The South Carolina Cotton Museum keeps a Lizard Man exhibit, the town hosts a Lizard Man festival with a 5K through the swamp country, and the creature has become Lee County's unofficial seal. The butterbean fields along Browntown Road look perfectly peaceful in daylight. Locals still don't change tires there at night.
Good questions
What comes in the box?+
A 5-inch hand-painted collectible figure of Lizard Man from Series One — The First Sightings, plus its collectible Fablins trading card — with Lizard Man's size, habitat, first sighting and signature trait.
When will it ship?+
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Do you ship internationally?+
Yes — to the US, Canada, the UK, most of the EU, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and more. Prices show in your local currency and checkout calculates shipping for your country.
What if I need to return it?+
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