Florida is already a place where the strange can feel completely believable. Alligators disappear beneath black water. Panthers move through forests without most people ever seeing them. Wild monkeys live in parts of the state. Burmese pythons have established themselves in the Everglades. And once you get far enough into places like Big Cypress, the…
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The Swamp Has a Soul: The Strange History of Marvel’s Man-Thing
There are places in the South where you do not need much imagination to believe that something might be watching you. The Florida Everglades certainly qualify. It is a landscape of sawgrass and cypress, black water and mangroves, alligators disappearing beneath the surface and narrow trails vanishing into places that look almost untouched by time….