the Honey Island Swamp Monster — my buddy's dad swears he saw the tracks himself

Not me, this is secondhand from a guy I fish with whose father grew up around Slidell. The legend's the Honey Island Swamp Monster down in the Pearl River basin, Louisiana. Locals call it the Letiche or sometimes just "the thing." Tall, gray-haired, swamp ape kind of deal, and the famous part is the……