Hello all, I think I've found a huge historical archive...And I think I've only scratched the surface!

How's this for a story? 1839 Captured 8' 3" Wildman with 2 "cubs!"

It's one of the most historically interesting stories I found, and one of the oldest. Sorry, but the left margin was cut off to start with (of course!) Maybe someone can access the Boston Times archives around this date? Read the DETAILS of what it looks like! WOW! I've found SEVERAL stories of captured wildmen from the around the country 1800s with interesting descriptions and will share them as well.

I may need to create a web page to show them all. (Unfortunately my 100 year old grandmother passed away on Saturday and I'll be occupied this week at her funeral in Wisconsin.)

Even though they "prove" nothing, the do show how far back these stories go and how they describe truely similar events across many years. I even found one where "a student" was speculated to haved donned a robe to scare people, and was "lucky he wasn't shot by the monster hunters!"

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OK, here's another one!

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And another one!

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I can't stop...

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So what happened to the cubs??? That is a facinating find tirademan!

and more and...

OK, this one could be a human I guess, but I found it's method of "hopping" very interesting...also, some of these are typically second hand, so the details probably go?

Not to mention that Chippewa Falls, WI is right next to Eau Claire, WI where I grew up!

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They were catching Sasquatch like fish back then!

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Tirademan you are awesome!! These are really cool!! Gonna finish reading them I saw you put more up.

More leaping...a giant kangaroo? I thought they were big already!

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and even more leaping!

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Sasquatch starts a farm! Wow...

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keep digging awsome stories. it was like shooting quatches in a corral. much like our yearly buffolo hunt eaqch year where the luck tag holder gets to go to a 100 yard circle corral and bicks his prey out of a few choices and blamo. they very rarely miss and the tags r always filled/

O.K. that last one is priceless!!!!! A bear turned farmer?????

Tirademan: First of all, congratulations on finding these fascinating articles. Second, thanks for sharing them with us!

Where on earth did you find these ?

hey tirademan, i'm sorry about your grandmother's death. i'm sedning good thoughts your way. big hugs

and yeah, where did you find all this stuff? great reads! thank you
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NICE

Extraordinary find.

There are clearly two kind of reports here. One is the "Monster" and the other is a "Wildman" although sometimes it seems they use Wildman for both subjects.

The most interesting by far is the first one. There's got to be some follow up on something like that!

Thanks Gael for the kind thoughts...she had a wonderful 100 years and went without pain and was "with it" all the way!

Also, maybe no coincidence that I made my "find" the same day she died...

Thanks to all for the thanks...just doing my bit!

I'm going back to Wisconsin tomorrow for the funeral and will be able to fill you in more on what I found when I get back to post more.

Here's another, more recent article...but I thought it was very well written for it's time...1965!

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You gotta love the hairdoo on that one!

My sympathies also Tirade about your grandmother. I missed that somehow in your first post. Hope your family is well.

good stuff!

a link would be saweeeeeeeet!

Hello everyone...back again from WI, and had as good as trip as one could have, providing.

Anyway, I'll post some other interesting stories I found. Some early Patterson/Crew stuff and stories regarding huge tracks found in stone! I'm assuming the White Sands tracks are deep within Gov territory?! hmmm...

ALSO, here is the website where I found these. It has a 2-week free trial subscription (you have to fill out credit card info and call them if you want to "cancel"). Then it's $13 a month or $80 a year. They have quite a few newpapers scanned! You can download PDF files. I "extracted" the jpegs and they were 200dpi.
http://www.newspaperarchive.com

Also, I've emailed the Boston public library as it seems they have microfiche'd Boston Times from the June 25th date in 1839 of that Wildman captured report. I'll let you know if they find the original story...hopefully with the left margin intact! Anybody live in Boston?

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More:

Here is the website where I found these. It has a 2-week free trial subscription (you have to fill out credit card info and call them if you want to "cancel"). Then it's $13 a month or $80 a year.

http://www.newspaperarchive.com

Oops...meant to attach an image:

Another later (1948) story about those Nevada stone prints (I edited this one down):

Early account of Rene's search:

Another early Sasquatch reference...I found some other smaller quips as well:

Very interesting account of 22" tracks in White Sands...where are they now!!!!!

1958 Gerald Crew finds tracks:

1958 Tom Slick races Russians to find Yeti:

And one more...a 1966 Patterson book review:

Okay, this one may be a stretch, but ya never know!

What a thread! Yet it doesn't surprise me one bit!
Thank you, Tirademan!!
I've only read a few at this point...the first one was extraordinary! the pursuit...shot in the leg and capture was an incredible story. Lots of great lines in there, too... "the Indians say they are harmless", etc.



Just found the thread.
Was out of town when you had to return to Wisconsin.
Condolences and good thoughts from my family to you and yours.
Sounds like the matriach of your family lived a wonderful life - esp. having her faculties until her passing. Take care!
- Tom

AWESOME stuff, Tirademan! I was very grateful when you posted your first articles, in another thread, awhile back. I am even more grateful that you are continuing your research....and with a ferver, it seems!

As far as I know, you are the only person on the net that is providing such great accounts. You are invaluable to me. Please, keep enjoying your research and sharing it with this forum. And, hey, if you need any help (doubtful), just let us know!

Tirademan--my favorite person on the net!

more good stuff!

Thanks!

Great work Tirademan, awesome articles, thanks for posting and keep 'em comin'!!!

OK, I've got a lot more of these to wade through...some are more interesting than others, but here's another one from 1908...I'll post this at the current GA thread as well.

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thanks for the articles Tirademan tha one from orleans indiana was cool its close to home its just to bad that none had pics with them but photography hadnt came to life or was just being in the infantcy stage then. but thoes were great articles

OK, here's another WOW! article that I found today. From the Washington Post, a killed "mountain devil" that was adept at climbing and was 70 feet high in the trees when shot near Shoalwater Bay WA sometime before 1914. Amongst other details, like brown fur, and long and straight legs, it is described as "a plantigrade animal!" (as in humans and bears, walking on the entire bottom of their feet!). Not to mention, they didn't know what it was.

Another example of "in the hands PROOF"...where's that damn "carcass!" Anybody want to dig around Jawbone's Saloon in Shoalwater?



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OK, so maybe that last one was just some odd tree climbing animal...who knows. Here's another more recent article I found from 1976 that I posted to the Bossburg thread.

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Historical odds and ends...

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OK, a couple more newspaper stories. Some references to some hoaxes and a couple of "what is it?" stories.

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Ivan Marx rears his head...

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And Peter knocks him down...

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A couple of hoax stories...

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Another slightly different story regarding the bus thing...

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I'm not so sure that a Panther makes all those sounds?...but I'm not an expert by any means...just thought this story had some "Sasquatch" possibilites in it...maybe not.

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This one regarding a "tree devil" from India is bordering on fiction...but the description of the animal is very interesting...walking, or shuffling human like?

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