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The Wildman of New York…
“A wild man is loose in the woods at Hancock, N. Y. A group of hunters have just returned from Port Jervis, where they went for guns and ammunition with which to slay him.
But the question has arisen whether they have a right to kill a wild man? Some of the hunters argue tnat it would be murder. Others say that it wouldn’t, but that wild men are protected by the game laws. His life will probably be spared until legal advice has been taken, unless some impetuous woodsman slays him and then waits for a ruling. The first intimation the farmers had of the presence of the wild man was the disappearance of cows, young cattle and sheep.
They at first thought that a bear had taken them. John Cook, a farmer, heard a terrible rumpus in his piggery the other night and, believing that the pigs had upset a beehive placed temporarily in their stye, he ran ont. As he stepped into the shed be was grabbed by the wild man. The fellow looked seven feet high and was quite naked. He was a hairy man.
From his mouth protruded big teeth like fangs. Farmer Cook is six feet three and very powerful, but he was helpless in the grasp of the wild man, who carried him to the door and hurled him thirty feet The farmer fell unconscious; when he woke up he found himself lame and bruised. His best pig was gone. crowbar lay on the ground tied into knots. Farmer Cook says the wild man did this to show his annoyance at being interrupted. The next night Peter Thomas was driving near Dead Man’s Lane when he met the wild man.
Thomas says he looked like an ape. He seized the near horse and, with a single sweep of his long, hairy arm, tore off the harness. Then he wrung the horse’s neck and dragged him to the woods. This story is vouched for by Mr. Thomas, who is a church deacon.
A party of hunters fallowed the tracks to a lonely swamp. The footprints showed that ths man’s nails had developed into claws. He had uprooted trees.The lair ot the wild man was found on Friday, but he was not at home. Berry pickers discovered it in the woods near Rattlesnake Hill.
Near by was a portion of Mr.; Thomas’ horse, which evidently had been torn with the teeth of the wild man. Scattered about were tbe bones of sheep and other animals. The wild man takes his meat raw. Some say the wild man is an escaped chimpanzee or gorilla, but a member of the New York Veterinarian Association who is boarding at Port Jervis says monkeys don’t eat meat.”
The Lancaster Daily
Lancaster Pennsylvania 1895
Encounters from the Bigfoot Casebook
If you follow along with me on this and other platforms, you know I enjoy researching and posting older news and encounters. Today’s post is from the Bigfoot Casebook, which did a good job collecting a lot of sighting reports from all over, from other researchers as well. Here is one of those encounters…
“A 30-year-old police officer, Verlin Herrington, encountered a Bigfoot at 2:35 a.m. on Sunday 26 July 1969. He was himself a deputy sheriff for Gray’s Harbor County, Washington State, and at the time was driving home on the Deekay Road in the direction of Copalis Beach. As he rounded a bend he found a large creature standing in the middle of the road which he first took for a bear.
He braked hard and then coasted towards it. As he came nearer he noticed that it did not have a bear’s snout and he could see fingers and toes on its hands and feet. From a distance of 70-80 feet he put his spotlight on it as it walked towards the edge of the road, not going down on all fours as would a bear but remaining upright. He pulled out his revolver with the intention of shooting it in the leg and returning in daylight to follow the trail. But as he cocked his pistol the creature faded into the trees at the roadside and was lost to view. Herrington estimated that he had about two minutes in which to study the creature, and he said it was 7-8 feet tall, weighed more than 300 pounds, and was covered in dark-brown hair about 3-4 inches long on the head, but shorter elsewhere. He also observed hair-covered breasts, with nipples which were black, as was its face.
Herrington did not intend to publicize his sighting, but he made the mistake of telling two incredulous colleagues when he met them in a cafe, where he was overheard, and the next day his story was the property of the news agencies…”
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Bigfoot Prints found in New York…
“Valentine visitor frightens woman and her dog in Carmel New York! On February 14th a young woman was taking her German Shepherd for his nightly walk around 10 pm and had quite a surprise. They stepped outside and her watchdog suddenly froze and tucked his tail between his legs and started whining to get back inside. She had heard something breaking branches in the wood line and quickly went back into the house. The following morning she decided to investigate what was happening on her property. They had gotten 12″ of snow and she was shocked to see large human like tracks going through her backyard! She also heard several wood knocks from the tree line which leads down to the creek.”
From the Hudson Valley Bigfoot
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Bigfoot in the News…Tracks in the Driveway
What has four toes and leaves a footprint almost 20 inches long? Roger Crews of Jenkins County really, really wants to know.
Crews found not one, but two strange footprints in his niece’s driveway near Payne’s Chapel Road, just two miles from the Bulloch/Jenkins County line Tuesday. The prints appear humanlike, but only show four toes. The largest measures 19″ long and 11″ wide, and was way deeper than Crews was able to make one of his own prints, and he weighs about 250 pounds.
In fact, the off prints dwarf his size 13 EEE shoe prints, he said.
Crews’ niece was taking her children to the end of the driveway Tuesday morning when she spotted the prints and called Crews. “She said she heard the dogs, which were in the house, raising cain around 4 a.m.,” he said. “They wouldn’t shut up.”
But that doesn’t help identify what made the tracks, only that something was near the house that upset the dogs, he said.
Crews examined the track closer.
“I got to looking at the thing, and I just said ‘whoa.’ It looks like a human print, but with only four toes, very huge,” he said.
He called Georgia Southern University for help in preserving the tracks with plaster and possibly identifying them, but as of Friday, he had not received a response.
He said there were two brothers who live in the area who claimed they had seen tracks like this before while coon hunting in the Bay Gall creek area nearby, nearly 10 years ago. Both men, who spoke with Crews separately, told him the same story about seeing the odd, four-toed footprints where they hunted, “except both of them said the ones they saw were not as big…”
https://www.statesboroherald.com/local/its-a-big-foot-but-is-it-bigfoot/
Bigfoot in the News…The Everglades
“The First time Jim Spink lived by himself in Florida’s Everglades in search of Bigfoot, he stayed six months. He purchased equipment at a flea market. His camera didn’t have a Flash attachment..
-Now Jim Spink is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization, duly certified by the Internal Revenue Service.
And the next time he lives in the Eyerglades, he figures the National Science Feundation can provide him with $21,780 in infra-red camera equipment so he can take Bigfoot’s picture.
Spink is an unusual man. So is Bigloot (or the Skunk Ape), if he is real.
Spink is for real. Spink is a perpetual junior colege student: “retired,” he says, living off $290 a month from the GI Bill for going to school.
He is the research director of the
Bigfoot Research Society, and he collects letter from scholars and professors that he would be happy to collaborate with like
David D. Martin. Ph.D., Primate Research Center. Cooperation and encouragement Spink receives. Money he doesn’t. He is undaunted.
Spink, a lean red-bearded ex-Navy quartermaster, is the author (albeit, an unpublished one of the manuscript, Bigfoot and Me.” Therein he tells about his lonely expedition to a remote oyster mound in a mangrove swamp in Charlotte County on Florida’s Gulf Coast. The mosquitoes were terrible. He spent his time there naked so Bigfoot would see they weren’t so different.
Unlike other true believers, some of whom have professed to see an 800 pound hairy man-ape. Spink acknowledges that he never actually saw a Bigfoot.
Instead, Bigfoot watched him, he said “I’m positive he was out there somewhere.” Always it was at night.
Once Bigfoot leaped right up to his pop tent and scared the living crap out of him, Spink said, “chattering and raving in a high-pitched scream.” Spink said he sang a Gllbert and Sullivan tune to calm Bigfoot. He said he played his harmonica and spoke reassuringly . He called Bigfoot “Gin.
“How you doing, Gin?” he said he asked. Bigfoot never answered
Spink, nonetheless, is convinced that Bigfoot, and perhaps his mate, made frequent nocturnal visits to his camp Site. Spink said he collected feces specimens, took pictures. He said he casted a footprint
Bigfoot, he said, once stole his apple-sauce from a pan, picking up the pan, carrying off the pan, and dropping the pan.
Spink said he even dusted the pan for fingerprints.
In March tragedy struck, hoodlums came and trashed his camp. Ruined everything, equipment, journals and evidence. Spink refused to give up. It was lucky that his girlfriend won 660 on “Bowling for Dollars” a television show and bought him new equipment. Unfortunately, Bigfoot didn’t return. Instead, a butterfly collector from Minnesota came by. And he became a great birder…”
Charleston Daily Mail
Wednesday, Nov 10th, 1976
Art by Aaron Johnson, Joel Anderson, 2022
I only attempted to transcribe part of the article, but I included it for anyone who would like to transcribe it, in its entirety….
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Fear of the Wild Unknown
European colonialism had a profound impact on the forests and wildlife of the New World. The colonizers brought with them a deep-seated fear of the unknown, which manifested itself in many ways, including a fear of the wild forest, wolves, and superstitions of the unknown forest.
The colonizers viewed the forest as a dark and dangerous place, full of unknown dangers and lurking predators. They saw the forest as a place of darkness and evil, where the devil himself might be lurking. This fear was compounded by the presence of wolves, which were seen as vicious and bloodthirsty predators that would attack humans without provocation.
The colonizers also had many superstitions about the forest, which only served to increase their fear. They believed that the forest was full of spirits and demons, and that these entities could possess humans who entered the forest. They also believed that the forest was a place of magic, where witches and other dark forces could cast spells and work their evil deeds.
Despite these fears, the colonizers were determined to conquer the forest and tame the wilderness. They cut down trees, cleared land, and built roads and settlements. They hunted wolves and other predators to near extinction, and they forced the native peoples to abandon their traditional ways of life and adopt European customs and beliefs.
Today, we can look back on this period of history with a mixture of awe and horror. We can marvel at the courage and determination of the colonizers, who were able to conquer a vast and unknown wilderness. But we can also see the terrible cost of their actions, in the destruction of the forest and the loss of so much wildlife and native culture.
The fear of the wild forest, wolves, and superstitions of the unknown forest was a powerful force in the early days of European colonialism. This fear drove the colonizers to conquer the wilderness and tame the unknown, but it also led to the destruction of so much that was beautiful and valuable. We must remember this history, and work to protect the remaining forests and wildlife that we have left…
Bigfoot On Social Media…Bigfoot Chases Family in Truck
My Bigfoot encounter…
“It happened in Houston,Ms, my story still leaves me perplexed till this day . In 1978 I was 8 years old, but I still can remember this as if it happened yesterday. We were one week into our beginnings of the summer break. Me and my brother, my brother being three years older than I, were so excited that we didn’t have to go to bed at 8:o’clock any more, You know it’s summer break and all . Lucky for us, a man had came to our door around 7 pm .He asked my daddy , I think my dad knew him, to give him a ride down to the rodeo that was on the outskirts of town . Because there ,he had got his new job, doing what…, I didn’t know or care… We begged daddy to let us come along. We loved riding in the back of the truck, especially at night, and this was a full moon lit night.
Reluctantly, daddy said yes. BUT on our way back home, after dropping off this man…that is when things got weird. As the truck approached this big pinkish house , now this house had a huge yard and dividing this yard was a fence to an even bigger hilly pasture . Lit by the moon light, I saw what appeared to be an enormous dog running down hilly pasture toward our truck. I was so captivated by the size of this dog. not really a big deal, being that it was 1978 and it was common place to see dogs chasing vehicles. However, when this dog reached the fence, It leaped over it and landed on all fours only to rise up on to two legs ,flawlessly continuing to run like a man, in seconds, meeting and keeping parallel with with our truck.
Keep in mind daddy was driving, I was sitting on the toolbox in the back of the truck nearest the creature and my brother was next to me, who was somehow fixated on the opposite side of the road…I was literally paralyzed with fear, only able to close and reopen my eyes and shake my head. This creature was covered with Grayish hair from head to toe, appearing to have breasts with black eyes shimmering in the moonlight.
It’s eye dotted at my oblivious daddy driving then at my brother but then to focus on me..It beckoned me to come to it with its left hand. And I then closed my eyes, shaking my head furiously in order to wake myself from this nightmare..The creature Seeing that, as if to say ,I AM REAL, without ever leaving the border of the yard stepped under the only night light on that entire road..This ligh was at least 20 feet up. Wow, that few minutes felt like hours..This thing’s body covered 8 or 9 feet of the night light’s pole. The most frightening thing was the NOT QUITE human face that seemed to be mouthing words to me as it continued beckoning me with a very frustrated expression.
It looked nothing like an ape and nothing like a man except for the human nose that was wide and its lips movements. It could have easily grabbed me from the back of the truck, being that the border of the yard was at least 20 from the road..It just continued beckoning until the truck got out of sight …I didn’t regain full mobility and speech from being fear stricken until the truck pulled into our drive way.
I told my folks what I saw. Daddy said he didn’t see anything, however, my parents being super religious knew that I wouldn’t be so foolish as to tell them some outlandish lie..They just said it was a spirit and that I needed to pray. The question that my mama asked my brother racks my brain until this day. She had asked him” You were sitting right next to him(me) why didn’t you see anything?”
My brother said ” in the field on the opposite side of the road he was frightened by the giant white African lion chasing the truck”. At 8 years old I had watched a lot of the PBS network to know Mississippi, especially Houston, we had no African lions. So my question will always be….was there two creatures and was this an ambush???
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Bigfoot on Social Media…Military Ops Bigfoot….
One night I was doing patrol ops in the woods/hills and we decided to take a pause. It was around 3am we were taking a break. It was during a wargame and I was on watch. Holding security we were seeing an outline in the woods and meanwhile we are sleep deprived not thinking we were seeing real things in the tree line till we till we talked to each other to confirm what we were seeing through our nods. Pebbles were being thrown at us and we were confused and thinking we were about to be run up on by Opfor (Opposition Force).
So we wake up our guys slowly thinking we’re about to be ambushed. Turns out we were being stalked. We decided to get into defensive positions and the rocks kept coming thinking we were being messed with by the Advisors running around overwatching the wargame. We checked on the radio if there were any nearby. None. None at all. So we thought it was Opfor. We opened up with blanks. But, as we opened up we saw a massive creature and another one about
25-30 meters away. The creatures knocked over a semi-thin tree and gave a deep growl.
Something that would shake guys who were de-sensitized and not really scared by anything. When day light came we circled back to look and we found huge footprints.
We were so confused and shaken. After that situation we didn’t know how to explain what we saw or experienced. That night I became an actual believer I was always skeptical about bigfoot or some creature being in the woods. It was about 3 1/2 years ago. Till this day I struggle to go into the woods.”
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Bigfoot in the News…Bigfoot Attacks Horse
On the night of July 26, 1895, in the Delaware County resort town of Margaretville, Peter Thomas was driving a team of horses on a lone road when a “wild-eyed man or ape” stood in the road ahead. Thomas said the creature had “long and hairy arms” and was “uttering a raucous, inarticulate cry.” He said the creature twisted the neck of one of his horses before dragging it into the darkness. The creature was “seven feet high, of human shape, covered with hair.”
The next day, local farmer John Cook said he shot “a ferocious ape-like being,” before it grabbed him and threw him to the ground. The wild man stood “about seven feet tall, entirely nude, covered with black hair, with a long beard and with teeth which project from its mouth like fangs” .
Newburg Daily Express 1895; New York Daily Herald 1895.
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