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August 5, 2025 18 mins

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. 

 

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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.

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