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The monster festival: A pilgrimage to small town America

  • Written by Joseph P. Laycock, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
The monster festival: A pilgrimage to small town AmericaA restaurant in Bishopville, S.C. markets the town's association to the Lizard Man.Joseph P. Laycock, Author provided

One of my hobbies is dragging my patient wife to small towns to study beliefs and practices related to cryptozoology – the hunt for creatures, from Bigfoot to the Loch Ness Monster, whose existence hasn’t been...

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