The Cyclops is a terrifying creature. It is a giant, man-eating humanoid from the mythology and legends of Ancient Greece. But it's just a legend, right?
The Incident[]
It was nine o’clock at night in 1957 Louisiana, and four friends had just been to a movie and had dinner, and were now driving around the area while talking. They had just crossed the Tangipahoa River Bridge and were approaching a second, smaller bridge when they all spied what looked to be a person walking up out of a ditch on the passenger side of the car. The witness recounting this story said that the height of this individual immediately made them think ‘giant’, and the friends drove to the next available stop so they could turn around and go back for a second look. When they returned, the entity was still stood by the side of the road, and so they angled their car to make full use of the headlights and stopped in the road.
The humanoid appeared to be male, and by the witness’s estimates it was roughly 7.5ft (90 inches) in height, and was ‘hefty’ enough to be around 325 pounds in weight. It wore a pair of pants and a very dark bluish shirt, which appeared to be tattered. The witnesses couldn’t tell if it was wearing any shoes. However, the feature that marked this thing out as not simply being a tall homeless man was its face. It had a misshapen nose which resembled a snout, and a single eye located off-centre on its forehead. After a moment of confrontation, the cyclops turned and walked back down the ditch and into the forest - whereupon the terrified witnesses sped away.
As soon as the alarmed onlookers reached the nearest town they went straight to the police station, but the officers refused to take them seriously. The witnesses have often discussed that night, and the only rational conclusion that they’ve come to is that it was a deformed person who had been living a secretive lifestyle or was ‘locked up somewhere’. All four witnesses lived no more than five miles away from the location of the sighting, but they have never heard anyone else talk about the cyclops of the bayou.