Walmor Corrêa is a Brazilian artist whose work has appeared in exhibitions in his native Brazil as well as Spain, Belgium, Germany, Uruguay, Ecuador, Austria, Chile, Argentina, the United States, and South Africa.

In two series of artworks, “Super-Heróis” (2005) and “Memento Mori” (2007), Corrêa endeavored to capture some ideas about the anatomy of superheroes and other figures of myth, including a cyclops (“Curupira”), a mermaid (“Ondina”), and Marvel’s Spider-Man.

His art is done somewhat in the style of Leonardo da Vinci but also are reminiscent of the incredible images in the Codex Seraphinianus, which, if you haven’t read it, is utterly astonishing. “Memento Mori” was actually published as a book.

However, to his credit Corrêa’s work doesn’t seem derivative of either of those sources, just somewhere in the same corner of a strange universe.

Any anatomical studies, even cryptozoological ones, have a whiff of the NSFW about them, and these are no exception.
 

 

 
More after the jump…...

Amateur sketch of Lizard Man by its first recorded eyewitness, Christopher Davis.
 
A South Carolina woman came forward to the media on Sunday to report a spotting of the legendary swamp creature known as “Lizard Man” and has provided photographic evidence of the sighting.

The woman, identified only as “Sarah” by WCIV ABC News 4, says she “went to church with a friend Sunday morning, [and] stepped out of the sanctuary to see the Lizard Man running along the tree line.”

“My hand to God, I am not making this up,” she wrote in an email to the news station.

WCIV reported her claim as well as the cellphone photo she submitted:
 

Photo of the Lizard Man taken by South Carolina’s “Sarah.”
 
The cryptid, known as “The Lee County Lizard Man” or “The Bishopville Lizard Man” or “The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp,” was first reported in 1988 by 17-year-old Christopher Davis. Driving home from work around 2:00 a.m., Davis had to stop near Scape Ore Swamp to change a flat tire. As he was finishing up, he reported having heard a thumping noise from behind and turned to see a seven-foot-tall bipedal creature running towards him. Davis said it had glowing red eyes, green skin, and three clawed fingers on each hand. Davis said the creature tried to grab at his car and then jumped on its roof as he tried to escape—clinging on as Davis swerved from side to side.  Davis’ side-view mirror was found to be badly damaged, and scratch marks were found on the car’s roof.  After Davis’ tale was reported, others came forward with their own accounts of the beast. According to former Lee County sheriff Liston Truesdale, at least twelve witnesses have come forward.
 

 
On July 30, 1990, Bertha Blythers and her five children witnessed a strange creature near Scape Ore Swamp lunge toward the passenger side of their car. In a statement given to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, Bertha described the creature as being tall, wide, and having “two arms like a human.” “I never seen anything like it before,” she told the police. “It wasn’t a deer or a bear. It was definitely not a person either.”

Not quite as big a celebrity in the world of cryptozoology as Bigfoot or Nessie, the Lizard Man still has a cult following among investigators. A 2013 book, Lizard Man: The True Story of the Bishopville Monster, tells the story of the elusive creature. Cartoon Network has even produced an action figure of the Lizard Man.
 

 
Sales of Lizard Man-related merchandise, along with a lucrative speed trap (one I’ve had personal experience with) are major sources of revenue for impoverished Bishopville/Lee County.
 

 
This latest sighting is sure to boost the local Bishopville economy, and if nothing else, proves that local TV affiliates (as well as Dangerous Minds) will report on anything. Going only by “Sarah”‘s photo, we’re wondering if the Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp might possibly be a Sleestak.
 

 
Here’s a short documentary on the Lizard Man:

 
And this song by R Logan tells the tale of the creature:

 
This actually happened: In 1978, when I was 8 years old, we had this little black-and-white TV in the front room of our house, a room nobody ever spent much time in. We had all of 6 channels back then, and on this one day I happened to catch the In Search Of episode about Bigfoot, an episode I was probably a little too young for; it was very scary. I remember the show saying that the Bigfoot had last been sighted in Texas, but this is probably wrong—my sense of U.S. geography wasn’t too developed at the time. It probably said California. After the show was over I guesstimated how long it would take Bigfoot to walk across the country and get to our house in the suburbs of New York City. I decided it would take him about a month, not a bad guess for an 8-year-old I suppose. And so for the next month I wasn’t frightened at all, because obviously Bigfoot couldn’t get me yet, even theoretically. But once that month was up, it would occur to me often that Bigfoot might be like a block away, a couple miles away. Even today it sometimes happens that I wonder whether Bigfoot is about to pounce at me out of nowhere, on a subway platform, at the deli.

Bigfoot fear, man. It’s a powerful, primal thing.

Bobcat Goldthwait’s upcoming movie is about Bigfoot, and it sounds pretty good. It’s called Willow Creek, and it mixes regular narrative moviemaking with documentary elements. It sounds like he investigated the places in northern California where all the Bigfoot enthusiasts hang out—what you might call Bigfoot Country—and then made a regular fictional movie in that setting. He interviewed a bunch of the Bigfoot experts, but didn’t tell them that he wasn’t filming a documentary, rather a fictional feature, which is either an ethical nightmare or smart filmmaking or both.

In case you haven’t been paying attention, Bobcat’s become one of the better directors we have working right now. He may not be the most subtle moviemaker out there, but he’s honest and interested in taboo subjects, and his directness of address ensures a distinctive movie experience. Bobcat’s endlessly quotable, and his scripts all have that Bobcat feel of coming from a smart source and coming from someone who’s tired of bullshit. It takes someone who was in three Police Academy movies, as Bobcat was, to be as tired of bullshit as Bobcat probably is.

You can pinpoint the nationwide origin of interest in Bigfoot almost as precisely as you can with the JFK assassination. Basically all contemporary interest in Bigfoot, Sasquatch, the Yeti and so on begins with the Patterson-Gimlin film, the Bigfoot movement’s Zapruder film. The picture above of poor Mrs. Bigfoot (apparently it is a female) looking back at the camera is from the Patterson-Gimlin film, the footage was shot by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin in northern California on October 20, 1967, and when you look at the picture it’s easy to see why it captured people’s attention.

The Patterson-Gimlin footage kicked the movement off, as sure as that bullet in Dallas set the JFK conspiracy guys in motion. Bobcat recently appeared on The Dana Gould Hour (he comes in at 4:48), and he explained a little about the new movie. He said that “really what it was was, the 9-year-old me wanted to go to where the footage was shot all those years ago.” He met a guy who wrote a Bigfoot-related coming-of-age book (think Twilight) called Yeti Or Not and he met another guy he called “the Bob Dylan of the Bigfoot community.”

Some people have surmised that John Landis, who would later become a famous movie director with Animal House, The Blues Brothers and Michael Jackson’s longform Thriller video, is the one in the Bigfoot suit in the Patterson-Gimlin film. Landis denies it.
 

 
‘In Search of Bigfoot’ with Leonard Nimoy and the trailer for Bobcat Goldthwait’s ‘Willow Creek’ after the jump…