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Movie Clip from Documentary film by Dana Holyfield. Thirteen Eye-Witnesses reveal their encounters. I made this film because it was my grandfather, Harlan Ford who first reported a sighting to the media back in the early 70’s, and appeared on In Search Of with Leonard Nimoy. My grandfather is responsible for the legend existing today worldwide. I wanted to continue the research on this legend after meeting so many local hunters and fishermen who have also had an encounter with this legendary beast. In my film. we trekked deep into the Honey Island Swamp where few dare to go and you can only get there by boat. Some hunters claim they’ve been all over the swamp, but most hunters don’t go deep enough because they don’t want to get lost or wouldn’t want to drag a large deer or wild boar back to the boat for miles and miles. There are places in the swamp that man has never stepped foot. The Honey Island Swamp connects with other swamps all the way to Jackson Mississippi. There are many places a creature could exist without being captured, YET! My grandfather worked for the FAA and was also a pilot. He was a credible eye-witness. In my doc film, see old film footage we discovered in my grandfather’s belongings of what appears to be the real thing!

Legend Of The Honey Island Swamp Monster by Dana Holyfield

The Honey Island Swamp Monster leaves tracks that have what appears to be four toes, three big ones and one that looks thumb-ish. According to one cryptozoologist the feet that leave those tracks look like they are good for climbing. Bigfoot’s never been described as a climber.

Eye witness descriptions, though, seem to be very sasquatch-esque. It looks like a big furry ape-man covered in heaps and heaps of hair. Here’s the story of man’s first recorded encounter with the swamp beast. It’s from AmericanMonsters.com

The legend of the Honey Island Swamp was first revealed to the world in 1974, when a pair of Air Traffic Controllers, Harlan E. Ford and Ray Mills, shambled out of the deep antediluvian sloughs of Honey Island with an unbelievable story… and something even more incredible. The veteran hunters claimed to have discovered a pair of unusual footprints embedded in the soft earth next to a wild boar whose throat had been torn open. They saw something else that day. Something that would change their lives forever… they saw a monster.

They described a vicious looking creature that stood on two legs. A man-like animal that was covered with a coat dingy, gray hair. The men estimated that this beast stood over 7 feet tall and weighed somewhere between 400 and 500 lbs. But what they remembered most were its sickly yellow eyes, set far apart on its skull, and the horrific stench which surrounded this creature… it was the smell of death.

Since then there have been multiple encounters with the animal. A lot of people report hearing it, a lot report finding its four-digit tracks - and some say they’ve even seen it with their own eyes.