Lyle Blackburn

Lyle Blackburn is an author and researcher of North American monster cases, and his books come up again and again in this archive. He wrote Lake Worth Monster (2024). In his retelling of the July 1969 Greer Island encounter, something climbed onto John Reichart's car and tried to reach his wife Linda. In 2019 he published Momo: The Strange Case of the Missouri Monster. He also wrote Lizard Man: The True Story of the Bishopville Monster, about Christopher Davis's 1988 encounter in Scape Ore Swamp. In that book he concluded that whatever it was had moved on or disappeared.

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The Lake Worth Monster: the Greer Island Goatman, Fort Worth, 1969

c. 1969 · Greer Island, Lake Worth, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources

38Partially documented

researcher and author of Lake Worth Monster (2024)

The first Momo report: Joan Mills and Mary Ryan's roadside picnic encounter, Pike County, Missouri (1971)

July 1971 · Highway 79, northwest of Louisiana, Pike County, Missouri

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 25 sources

17Thinly documented

Author of Momo: The Strange Case of the Missouri Monster (2019), raised the bear explanation

The Defiance Wolfman railyard attacks (Werewolf of Defiance)

July 25, 1972 · Norfolk & Western railroad tracks near Fifth Street and Swift and Co., South Jackson Avenue, Defiance, Ohio

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources

18Thinly documented

Master of ceremonies at the 2016 Dogman Symposium in Defiance

The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp: Christopher Davis's encounter

June 29, 1988 · Browntown Road, Scape Ore Swamp, near Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 34 sources

31Partially documented

Author of Lizard Man: The True Story of the Bishopville Monster