1949 Connecticut gorilla-horse-bears, errr, Squatch.

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One from Caddo Texas 1964...shots fired!

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1960...typical blather of the day...check out Pine Gap, Australia for those UFOs!

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These are sort of strange and probably nothing, but I'd like to see the stuffed monkey for the hell of it! Anyone care to dig up Alton Evening Telegraph's microfiche?

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OK, seems newspaperarchive has that paper...monkey found.

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OK, more Monsters chasing girls...as usual, something doesn't seem right with the explanation to me...small boys? Terror? Rin Tin Tin? And, like Bob H., no mask...

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I'd posted versions of the Sumatra and Kansas stories before, but these were slightly different.

The Kansas story is one I'd like "The Skeptics" to respond to!

"Queer animals" in Indiana and more "Monsters" in West Virginia it seems...see post #150!

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A couple more from Oregon.

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A few more odds and ends. I wonder how long an insane person would last in the wild?

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More of those pesky eight-footers!

...Bananas

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More reading for ya...Pond monster!

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This one is interesting...a Nicaraguan ape.

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I had this book review from before, but they misspelled a few things. Looking online, I found a couple of other interesting books that quote from it.

The book I was looking into:
Bernheimer, Richard.
WILD MEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES
A Study in Art, Sentiment, and Demonology Cambridge Harvard University Press 1952 First edition 8vo, 224pp; illustrated.

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TM,

I just wanted to say again what a valuable and interesting perspective you are adding to this discussion. There are some real head scratching gems that do seem to dovetail very well with "modern" accounts. Thank you.

Thanks Colobus, I also think these old anecdotal accounts are meaningful. Here's a couple more from Wisconsin.

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This is the 1931 crypto article I found detailing the De Loys ape, amongst other oddities. I didn't think the ape in the photo was a female though(?). Interesting to note the earlier accounts of upright apes in South America.

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Tirademan,

I would like to thank you on behalf of BFF members for taking the time to post these interesting articles!



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Tirademan ,

I really would like to map all these reports, as you have previously suggested.

Hopefully some day I'll find the time. Or maybe someone else will volunteer to do it.

Thanks MountainTop!

Mangani, I agree. It would be interesting. So far I've collected about 600 stories. Obviously, some you wouldn't map as they tell of hoaxes, some are duplicates on the same sighting etc., but it would be interesting to have an older historical perspective. The "nature" of the stories is what you'd have to deal with.

Here's a couple more from Ohio that show how these stories were treated in the 1800's. The 1886 hunter's describe the basic sasquatch. Then ten years later, another flap erupts but it's just an old guy...only to have the gorillas return five years later... Was there really a fast old guy living on the island, boiling a pot, disappearing into a tiny-holed cave? Who knows...

As a side note to other researchers out there. I'd found the tantalizing "Boss Liar" story first, but it didn't tell me much. Not having the paper it refers to in the database I search, I found online that the Public Library of Cincinnati had it. I called them up and they searched the microfiche for the story (the one with the drawing) and mailed it to me...for 50¢! So the lesson learned is that Libraries are putting tax money to work for us! Don't hesitate to call them.

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Strange sounds at night solved in Iowa, Kansas and Missouri! You can all go home now...

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Spook Identified
The far-famed mysterious animal that had caused bad cases of jitters among farmers in the vicinity of Erie has at last been identified as a young farmer near there, who rigged up an empty barrel and a rosined string. Modern youth, with their picture shows, dances and nickel games wouldn't recognize the contraption if they saw one, but years ago "smart alec" boys would rig up a tin can and a rosined string which would produce weird howls when the string stretched taught was rubbed. And the quietness of summer nights in the little country towns of long ago was frequently disturbed in this manner. And so the famous Erie mystery is solved! What a disappointment to the dozens of farmer youth who have scoured the countryside in vain the last few weeks with their trail hounds and shotguns! - Ben S. Hudson in Fredonia Herald. Kansas City, Missouri, Star, December 30, 1936

A couple odds and ends I found.

David Murphy had done a presentation last year regarding Patterson's athletic abilities...interesting in that it might have helped him when dealing with his bucking horse and getting the camera on Patty...

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More fun stuff...HAPPY 4th!

THANKS go out to Jacksquatch for finding this stuff!

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Tirademan -

Thanks for posting all of these great stories for years!

My question is this - What other type of animal/entity has had this kind of recorded history? Doesn't that make for some very strong arguments towards the existence of a "wild man" or Sasquatch/Bigfoot as it is called today? The only things I can think of that has been reported and recorded for literally hundreds of years are ghosts and UFO's.

Thanks COGrizzly, I agree, the fabric of evidence is overwhelming, at least to me.

Add all the stories over time, eyewitness statements, the footprints (and hand, knuckles and heel), the sounds, the Native perspective, the film(s), and, in my case, my own experience, and what do you have? The improbable skeptical opinion, or the much simpler Sasquatch answer?

Anyway, here's a OR track photo from 1976 and another WI story that is about as straight forward as can be...add two more on the pile.

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The title of this thread is spot on. It's amazing to me how far back these stories go. This thread itself would make a great book.

Thank you Tirademan for your work and for sharing these!

It is out as a book, go to tirademan's website, but it's only available on CD-R right now... Sooner or later I'll be setting up his website for the release of his updated 2nd version of the book!

http://www.mcclean.org

A couple oddities to fuel the "old stories" fire...

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Uh oh! PA 1938, 4-foot tall bear cub on hind legs!

"Some discounted the ape story."

No mention of mange.

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A couple more from PA...soul-chilling screams, people shooting at each other, a cow on two feet and policemen scoff!

Just another day for sasquatch...

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Staying on theme here. I've posted at least one of these before but...what the hell.

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How on earth are all the dates and the names of the papers placed so neatly over top of each article?

Is this a Photoshop job? Sorry if I missed this somewhere else in the thread.

PhotoChop® yes!

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great stuff, Tirademan!

The biscardi "flim-flam" "searching in the red light district" and "the $750 ESP tours" are classic!
"...a fast talking bigfoot impressario..." yeah! to a T that journalist nails it...


took me 10 days to find them!

Wow, Tirademan! The amount of work you have done collecting these articles is amazing!!! Thank you so much for posting them for us all to read!

Thanks Hopeful!

Just doing my bit...but I've got to get back on the horse!

Here's some I found recently..."Ape Canyon" Idaho 1972! Someone point this story out to Jeff M. please if you talk to him...

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Another classic sasquatch, er, strange fish sighting...it turned back to look at him...no ears!

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Monkey face MO...

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Some stuff Oak had found that I finally got to...

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Illinois 1896 18-inch fake tracks...

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I'm a sucker for headless stories! But I know, I know...

...and some other early stuff from Canada.

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Wow, as a new reader I'll be busy for weeks on this thread alone, thanks Tirademan!

My gosh, if I had had these archives to pore over when I was growing up, I'd have been on cloud nine. The 'net can be a wonderful tool at times.

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Tirademan ~ ~ Is one of the Gems on this Forum .......


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Thanks Tim, I know I left this thread sort of bone dry.

Here's another paper's reprinting of the Jacko story from the era I found recently. I'm still trying to see if I can find anything following it up that is related, but so far no luck...

Man Beast!

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Ah, the original Jacko. Maybe 1882? An event just before Krakatoa and Jack the Ripper. I have to say, this is one of, if not my favorite thread. Thanks yet again, Tirademan.

Ah, the old crazy Indian myth raises it's ugly head again! Or, was it a creature hitherto unknown to science???? Or, was it debunked as
a journalistic fraud? You be the judge.

Personally. I'm satisfied with Green's digging into the matter that it was a fraud. I've only seen that Jacko reprint in a book, but I really like seeing these original articles, most of which I don't recall hearing before.

Thanks NoxieMr, the year on that Jacko story was 1884. I'd just seen it referenced from the Daily Colonist reprinting and found that it was also reported in this Manitoba Press as I was looking for follow-ups. I'm not so sure it was a fraud. Seems like a straight-forward story to me...except no outcome. Maybe it bent the bars and ran away based on this story...

Hunting with dogs anyone?

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ps- Can anyone check for the Vicksburg Miss. Herald microfiche at a library somewhere down there to find the original story that they say they "condensed?" I'd like to read the original of this one!

More...

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Hello, I found an interesting resouce from New Zealand.

I was searching Google News search, which is pretty cool by itself, and came across this archive.

Very old, definitive statements from the folks Down Under...I searched for "Wild man" and came up with these.

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"Papers Past contains more than one million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1839 to 1932 and includes 52 publications from all regions of New Zealand."

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast