Delaware’s huge Great Cypress Swamp accumulated monster stories long before the best-known 1960s sightings. The famous Selbyville Swamp Monster episode was ultimately a hoax involving local man Fred Stevens in a fur-covered costume, but it became a genuine piece of Delaware cryptid folklore. The swamp is conservation land, so interior access should be limited to authorized programs and public areas.
Filed under cryptids: creatures people keep reporting and nobody has caught.
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Source: whyy.org/articles/the-spooky-scam-that-haunted-southern-delaware/