Two-Toed Tom is a legendary alligator in the Southern United States who terrorized swamp residents along the Alabama-Florida border.
His name came from the fact that all but two toes had been lost in a steel trap. Two-Toed Tom attacked people and animals, and despite the use of guns and dynamite, locals could never kill him. Tracks of a massive alligator with only two toes were seen as recently as the 1980s.
Esto, Florida is a small rural town in the Florida Panhandle which every year about this time celebrated the myth of Two-Toed Tom with an annual festival, featuring food, entertainment and story swapping about the giant swamp lizard.
The festival has failed to attract support over the past few years, and the future of the event is in question, but here are a few photos from past ‘Two-Toed Tom’ Festivals, as seen by Real Florida Media, a subsidiary of The Goulding Agency in Chipley, Florida.
