

The Swamp Monster makes an appearance in the 2015 Goosebumps movie performed by Nate Andrade (who was credited as "Monster #1").It was depicted as a green-furred monster with the head of an alligator and a gorilla-like body with claws on its fingers. The 1996 Goosebumps book "How to Kill a Monster" featured a Swamp Monster.In the 1986 novel It by Stephen King, It takes the form of a swamp monster to kill Eddie Corcoran.The DC comics character "Swamp Thing" mentioned above was the subject of a 1982 film and a 1990 live-action television series.(The creature in this case was played by Richard Kiel.) An episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker entitled "The Spanish Moss Murders" (December 6, 1974) features a young man, subject of a study in sleep research, whose nightmares of a Spanish moss-covered swamp-dwelling monster called Pèremalfait from stories heard in his youth in the Louisiana Bayou come to life.A creature, credited as the Gill-man, also appears in the non-Universal release The Monster Squad (1987) along with Count Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the mummy, and the Wolf Man.The Gill-man from the 1954 film Creature from the Black Lagoon appears as a fish-like humanoid.


Mokele-mbembe, a legendary water-dwelling creature of Congo River basin folklore that resembles a Brontosaurus.The Honey Island Swamp monster in Louisiana.The Lernaean Hydra in Greek and Roman mythology, was the creature Heracles killed in the swamp near Lake Lerna.The Grootslang are huge elephant-like creature with a serpent's tail which according to legend live in caves, swamps, freshwater in South Africa.The Bunyip are a creature from Aboriginal mythology that lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes.The Will-o'-the-wisp appears in swamps, and in some areas there are legends of it being an evil spirit.Swamp monsters in folklore, legends, and mythology Below is a list of the known swamp monsters in folklore and different media appearances. Some swamp monsters resemble aquatic creatures while other swamp monsters resemble aquatic plants and moss. Legends of swamp creatures, passed on from generation to generation, are usually bound to a specific swamp. 2 Swamp monsters in folklore, legends, and mythology.
