The Swamp Monster

One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries

Laurah Norton

Paranormalpodcast, History, True Crime, Paranormal, Mystery

4.6 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Louisiana is home to many things: some of the United States' finest cooking, seemingly endless stretches of marshy land, and one particularly smelly, web-toed creature known as the Honey Island Swamp Monster. This is a full mainfeed release of Premium Episode 45: The Swamp. One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the unexplained, blending rigorous historical research with a wry, skeptical wit to investigate true supernatural stories and baffling mysteries that made headlines. Dive into our Episode Mystery Archive — a curated, topic-organized source for documented hauntings, UFO sightings, cryptids, folklore, and bizarre true mysteries. Check it out here! https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/episodes-by-topic-mystery-archive Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton Researched by Laurah Norton and Anna Luria Written, Produced and Engineered by Maura Currie Sources on our website: https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@onestrangething We have partnered with Libsyn to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They're great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email ad-sales@libsyn.com or click the link below to get started. https://advertising.libsyn.com/OneStrangeThing 2025 All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast & The Fall Line Podcast LLC Works Cited Meghan Holmes, "The Honey Island Swamp Monster." Country Roads Magazine, 2021. Richard Boyd, "Honey Island Tale Recounted." The Times-Picayune, 2000. Richard Boyd, "Author Thinks Sighting. . ." The Times-Picayune, 2000. Richard Boyd, "Close Encounters of. . ." The Times-Picayune, 2000. Jane Triola, "Swamp Monster Is. . ." The Times-Picayune, 2006. Joni Hess, "What is the. . ." The Times-Picayune, 2022. Hal Ledet, "Swamp Creature Sighted." The Morning Advocate, 1981. N/A, UPI, "Man Claims Creature. . ." The State Times Advocate, 1973. Richard Adams, " Louisiana Man Has. . . " The Sun, 1981. Joni Hess, "Is There Really. . ." The New Orleans Advocate, 2022. Experience New Orleans Tourist Site Official Gulf Coast Heritage: Mississippi Cajun Encounters Tourist Site Pearl River Tours PBS: Primates Harlan Ford Footage

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0:00.0	I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's news archives, for stories that can't quite be explained.
0:29.0	Our most beloved strangers, if you've been with us for a while, well, then you know this fact.
0:39.6	With the exception of lake and sea monsters, bipedal ape-like creatures are by far the most common cryptids that we encounter. Bigfoot's and similar creatures are incredibly common across the world, and we're proud to say, with all those creatures
0:45.8	out there, the United States is the undisputed champion in primate cryptid sightings. Call them
0:53.8	Sasquatches, Bigfoot, apes?
0:57.4	Hairy men, it's all one and the same.
1:00.2	Every corner of the United States has its own primate crypted, though, of course, the Pacific
1:06.7	Northwest is our biggest hotspot.
1:09.7	All that lovely land, that temperate weather, those giant trees.
1:14.9	Honestly, if we were bigfoot's, we'd settle right there too. In fact, with that habitat as an option,
1:22.5	it seems a little odd that a large hairy creature might make its home anywhere else, but especially not in
1:30.7	the swamp lands of the southeast. That humidity alone would be terrible for their fur, and yet they are
1:37.9	sighted in Florida, and it surrounds with alarming frequency. Do primate sweat? Yes. Yes, they do. We have just Googled it.
1:50.0	Maybe that's why the skunk ape is reported to stink so prodigiously. And if there's one place
1:56.6	we imagine that's even sweatier than Florida, it's Louisiana.
2:01.6	So maybe it's not surprising that the Bayou State is the setting of our latest tale,
2:07.5	which involves long-standing reports of a very stinky monster.
2:14.1	So, down in St. Tammany Parish in East Louisiana, there's a marshland known as
2:19.6	Honey Island Swamp. According to a local tourist website, it's named that because the area is
2:25.9	abundant with honeybees. That and alligators and everything else you can imagine, but the bees
2:32.7	won in terms of naming. Anyway, Honey Island
2:36.0	is a bit of a jewel as far as swamps go. Hundreds of its acres are government-protected land,
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