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On December 11, 2010 my friend Kim shared a link with me on HJ’s Facebook page to a story about an unknown creature photographed in Louisiana. I expected blogs to blow up in the following days with speculations and conjecture of the creature caught on the trap camera.
It probably blew up more than I realized. I got distracted doing holiday stuff and have once again fallen behind on my blog reading. But I made it a point to search out posts by bloggers I trust to have some interesting things to say on topics like these.
Monster Hunter extraordinnaire Gummerfan covered it on his blog. (See, “One Freaky Piccy!” and “Freaky Piccy Pt 2”.) He conjectured this could be what he calls a “one-timer pop up.” (A creature that causes a stir once, but then you never see it again.)
He found an account of something called a Dover Demon that popped up once and never was heard about again –until perhaps now. Accounts of what it looked like fit the Louisiana Swamp Monster’s details.
Javier Ortega of course had a post about the Louisiana Swamp Monster Photo. I suspected Javier would be skeptical about this pic. He felt it was digitally manipulated for reasons only the geek in him (or others who are on his geek level) can understand.
I am a geek, but I don’t speak fluent geek. But the skeptic in me felt that photo, while creepy and nice for a horror movie, looked too staged to be real. The thing that struck me as most wrong was, what are the chances something would look straight into a camera like that?
Anyway, now it seems Javier’s uncovered more info that may solve the Louisiana Swamp Monster mystery. (And likely points to it being what most suspected, a hoax.)
What do you think? Do you think it could be a Dover Demon, or could it be someone else was as well read as Gummerfan and digitally created it using the DD as a model?
I’m hoping it’s fake, because I’d hate to be wrong in this case and there’s actually a freaky looking creature like that roaming around in any woods anywhere. (We have a lot of woods by our house. Wouldn’t want to meet one of its cousins on one of my walks with Murph!)
Now I’m just curious if we’ll ever see this photo turn up on a Fact or Faked episode? Maybe not for them to investigate, but to make it to the stage where they’re considering cases. (I have a feeling they could debunk this one from their couches.)
Courtney Mroch is a globe-trotting restless spirit who’s both possessed by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure, and obsessed with true crime, horror, the paranormal, and weird days. Perhaps it has something to do with her genes? She is related to occult royalty, after all. Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo practitioner of New Orleans, is one of her ancestors. (Yes, really! As explained here.) That could also explain her infatuation with skeletons.
Speaking of mystical, to learn how Courtney channeled her battle with cancer to conjure up this site, check out HJ’s Origin Story.
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That is very scary, but I can’t believe it is real. It looks like something from my iphone ghost app that adds different cool ghosts to all your photos.
I swear I saw something on that swamp tour I took in New Orleans. But my wife never believed me….
I agree Marilyn.
Jessica, I remember some pics you posted on your blog using that app. Loved it! Made me want an iPhone even more.
Brian…are you just messing with me? Because if you really saw something like that ona swamp tour….ACK! I’ll never take another one!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That comment truly did make me LOL, Jack!
LOL Jack! Laying in bed in the morning’s is usually where I do all my best thinking…unfortunately I usually forget all my brilliant ideas by the time I finally get up and moving.
I had the same issue with the pic. Why would the thing be looking directly at the camera like that? Maybe they’ll take that into consideration for their next hoax?
You have a good Christmas and safe New Year too!
LOL! Agreed! I have enough problems with the thinking part, period. Forget “rethinking.” Glad someone else gets that!
I tried warning people about the zombie Apocalypse but would they listen no they just said i was crazy well here is proof. lock and load ….. yeah
Its one of those “viral campaigns” for the new J.J. Abrams movie Super 8
It’s part of the viral marketing campaign for the movie Super 8, as it originated on a site owned by the studio.
Justin, Dunderhill, and somone: FANTASTIC! Thanks so much for the tip(s) re the orgination. So whoever said it looked CGI-created was dead on!
It’s so good it’s bad…if you get my drift. It just looks too good. They should have blurred it up a little. I can’t even get my dog to sit that still while I take a photo!
It looks a little like me crawling home from the pub after a beer festival.
OMG! Dave, I’m quickly learning that if you leave a comment I better have an empty bladder and no drinks I’m sipping because you make me burst out laughing. (I guess that’d be BOL in abbreviated speak???)
A smile will carry you the extra mile…….glad I brighten your day a little. Makes me feel good too.
Ah, so you have many talents, eh? Comedian and poet. Nice!
http://www.9news.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=169908&catid=188
So it doesn’t even have to do with Super 8! Thanks so much for sharing this, Jake!
this was in east texas
obv. a hoax… fake and gay!
i love cryptozoology… but i would have to say its fake due to the absent genetaila, very costumish…but i have to say i do believe there are animals and humanoids out there yet to be discovered
Ty, Love your analysis. I agree. THANKS for the comment!
This photo was actually a promotional stunt for A movie, although I can’t remember what movie!
Hey Ashley, I’ve heard that a lot. Some said Super 8. SOme thought it was something else…the name of which I’ve also forgotten. Whatever it was, it was a good stunt!
ghosts are not real!! there a lll just a spam can crap there all if ghost were real there would be nice things <<<
actually, the Syfy show “Fact or Faked” proved that this was a faked picture, tho they freak out a little when they’re trying to disprove it wen they hear the freakiest noise ever. it turned out to be a dying boar.
That’s good to know, Emily. Glad you stopped by and shared this. Thanks!
I think it’s real, mainly because there is a video of something that looks very similar to this creature. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsT6Ld-IOZk
It could have clicked when it snapped a pic my deer cam does it. Maybe it heard the click and looked?
I feel that we are getting closer to the period of time like the bible says we shall see unexplainable things . The reason for that is because satan knows he has little time left to deceive mankind . Of course he has interfered in humankind in the past . He tried to mess up Gods creation from the beginning . The Angels that were ment to watch over mankind to help turned out to lust after woman kind . These hybrid beings became monsters . They multiplied into the hundred of thousands . So many were at first friendly but as the planet could not feed all the humans and Giants then the Giants turned to canniblism. God created the flood to kill off these monsters . It worked for awhile but then a second group of angels came from heaven to the earth and began to create more problems . The demons are spirits of dead Giants that no longer have physical bodies . Jesus drove them out into pigs and the pigs killed themselves . As we approach the days again of Noah there won’t be a flood to kill them again. God allows satan to draw away certain people that refuse to accept him but he has shut off hell for humans and reserve that only for angels . The bad angels will be back to attack mankind and deceive man into fighting Christ when he returns to set up his government. So angels will mix with strange flesh . The book of Enoch mentions what Jude 6 mentions only more plainly . Angels left there habitation meaning bodies to join with animals and humans . In denial Seven the last part of the feet of the statue has mixture of iron and clay . The ten toes are ten nations but the people will be part angel and part human hybrid this is why alien abductions occur all over the earth in 2 percent of the population. People are missing . Hybrids are being groomed to take over control of governments right under our noses . The government won’t admit it because most people don’t want to know as long as things go well . Once the collapse of government takes place satan will move his hybrids in place under the disguise of helping . That is why the great tribulation is really half deception 31/2 years then the trap on mankind slams shut the last 31/2 years then if God doesn’t rescue mankind there would be no flesh saved alive . Revelation tells the rest of the story of mankind for the next 1500 years into the future . The future has already been written . To God he can exist in a multiple diamentions . We exist in four dimensions there are at least ten we know of six we can’t see or experience . That is why the bible says we will be changed in the twinkling of an eye. From physical to spirit . Mortal to immortal .