Wild Humans (and Journalists) Running Wild

[Trogluddite]

Many wild men and wild women stories are just as clearly human as stories about 8-feet tall, hair covered calf-killers are clearly Bigfoot or Sasquatch (or entirely made up, we'll never know).  I'm going to put some of the more dramatic or humorous or in some cases wholly disheartening stories here.  While it may seem counter-intuitive to include such stories in this thread, there are at least two cases where published books found only half of a story and reported an incident clearly involving a human as if Bigfoot was involved.  

Edited August 15 by Trogluddite
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[Trogluddite]

New York 1912 - Soldier Deranged by Service in the Philippines Lives in Cave. 

Published in the Pine Grove (PA) Heranld on October 4, 1912. 

 

[Trogluddite]

Published in the Washington (DC) Post on November 1, 1878.  Unfortunately, this sounds like a person born with many birth defects; hopefully it is just an example of a journalist running wild with their imagination.  

 

[Trogluddite]

Another incident where the "wild man" is clearly just a man.  Hopefully making such cases available will let serious Bigfoot researchers smoke out fake internet stories trying to pass such things of as an actual Bigfoot.  These events took place near Tennallytown, Maryland and the stories were published in the Washington (D.C.) Post on July 22 and July 26, 1894 respectfully.

 

                        

 

 

[Trogluddite]

Millville, NJ - German immigrant captured after living as a "wild man" for two years.  Published in the York (PA) Dispatch on July 25, 1906.  

 

[Trogluddite]

A baseball playing Bigfoot?  Sign him up. 

 

UPDATE: I found the publication data.  This story was printed in the Franklin (PA) News-Herald on August 28, 1920 - during the height of the Doerr Terrace gorilla or large ape scare that was occurring just to the north of this location.  The idea of hoaxers taking advantage of recent sightings is not out of the ordinary, as we all know. 

 

 

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[Trogluddite]

Published in the Pittsburgh (PA) Post-Gazette on December 1, 1894.  It's a hard read at some points due to the condition of the old newspaper, but well worth it.  A giant (6' 4") hermit living in the Montana wilderness.

 

[Trogluddite]

Another story about the Doerr Terrace hoaxer who impersonated a gorilla and broke up a community baseball game and picnic; the story was published in The Pittsburgh (PA) Press on August 27, 1920.  Given that shots had been fired during the week-long gorilla scare, the government planned to use chlorine gas to smoke out the "gorilla," and that the ball players were armed with bats, this was probably a really stupid thing to do.