Massachusetts 1861 - "Wild Man" Was Just a Student - Tirademan!

[Trogluddite]

There were at least two sightings of a "wild man" in northwest Massachusetts and southern Vermont in 1961.  They are reported in Bigfoot in New York and New England by Paul and Robert Bartholomew.  The way my original article is saved, I believe that I found it somewhere here on the Forums, but I can't find it now, so here's a fresh copy.

 

UPDATE: I still haven't found where this article was listed in the Forums, but I did find a copy of the story published in the Bangor (ME) Weekly Courier on August 20, 1861.  This makes three different dates of publication I have for the same story.  

 

 

 

Edited September 25 by Trogluddite
To add attribution

[Trogluddite]

A more fulsome description of the hoax, as published in The Berkshire County Eagle (Pittsfield, Massachusetts) on August 15, 1861.  Will we ever see articles about what they were hoaxing?  (That's a trick question, they'll be added later this month.)