User Submitted Cryptid Sighting: Lizardman
Name: Anita. Last name kept private at the request of the witness.
Age: 70
Number of witnesses: 1
Location of Sighting: Steele, Kentucky
Date of sighting: 1965
What you believe the creature was: Lizardman
Message: “I was 13 years old and walking home from school. I had to walk over a mile each way to the school bus and back. We lived in a hollow in Ky. I was afraid of the neighbors dog, so I always tried to get by their house without disturbing the dog. That day I was walking fast to get by but I heard movement, thinking it was the dog, I turned around to see a large green scaly thing perched on a large rock in the hillside. It was very green with large blackish eyes and had curled up feet with a pointed like head. I was terrified and dropped all my books and ran as hard as I could home. My dad went back with me to get my books and check it out, but it was no where to be found. I will never forget what I saw. I was, and still am, teased about my encounter. I know what I saw.”
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