Welcome to Lore Legends, a subset of lore episodes that explore the strange tales we whisper in the dark,

even if they can't always be proven by the history books.

So if you're ready, let's begin. The beautiful young woman stepped off the boat into the pristine blue water. It had been untainted by humanity

until now, and it stayed that way for a reason. Little did our visitor know that

there was something below her hiding under the water.

It observed her through sunken eyes as deep as the ocean, and as she swam, it lunged toward

her close enough to touch.

Suddenly, a voice called out, summoning her back to the boat, but the creature beneath her

wasn't ready to let go.

It reached out with a webbed hand and grazed her foot before retreating back to the deaths.

The scene from the 1954 film The Creature from the Black Lagoon shocked audiences

to audiences,

both critically and commercially

and influenced a number of science fiction

and horror films following its release.

Heck, you can find traces of its impact in modern films like

alien and the shape of water. But amphibious and reptilian monsters aren't just

relegated to the silver screen. Believe it or not they've appeared in a host of local legends too.

Despite their propensity for making audiences laugh most people are actually

scared to death of creepy crawleys that slither and scurry, which begs the

question, what happens when one of our fears becomes a bit more monstrous.

Across the globe some legends collect whispers of monsters that are a step beyond

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