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Legends of Myrtles Plantation; Letiche; T. Mary Oneida Toups This page was last edited on 4 September 2020, at 00:35 (UTC). ... Category: Louisiana folklore.
The Honey Island Swamp Monster, also known as the Cajun Sasquatch and in Cajun French: La Bête Noire, [1] is an ape-like humanoid cryptid creature, similar to descriptions of Bigfoot, purported to inhabit the Honey Island Swamp in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. [2]
The Honey Island Swamp Monster is known in Louisiana. [6] [7] The skunk ape is a horrible-smelling large ape creature said to live in swamps in the Southeastern United States. [8] The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp was the subject of a hoax in South Carolina in the late 1980s. [9]
Whether it be a creepy ghost story in the form of a haunted road or vengeful spirit, or something a little harder to explain, like an extraterrestrial hotbed or a beastly Sasquatch, urban legends ...
There are a variety of other legends surrounding the Myrtles. The house is reputedly built over an Indian burial ground, and the ghost of a young Native American woman has been reported. During the Civil War, the house was ransacked by Union soldiers, and legend claims that three were killed in the house. Supposedly, there is a blood stain in a ...
The letiche is a creature in Cajun folklore in Louisiana, United States, which haunts the bayous (swamps). It is variously described as the soul of an illegitimate unbaptized infant, [1] [2] or a human child raised by alligators. [3] The letiche is said to lurk in the bayous and upset boats and attack travelers.
Homey the Clown was an urban legend (specifically Chicago) surrounding a killer clown, predating the "Creepy Clown Craze" by several years, originating in Chicago, Illinois in 1991. [58] The Honey Island Swamp monster is a sasquatch-like creature that can allegedly be found living in the Honey Island Swamp of Louisiana.
La Llorona (Latin America) – Death spirit associated with drowning; Lamassu (Akkadian and Sumerian) – Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or human-headed lion; Lambton Worm – Giant worm; Lamia – Child-devouring monster with an upper body of a woman and a tail of a snake; Lamiak – Water spirit with duck-like feet