New York 1926 - The Hairy Women of Klipnocky

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The Hairy Women of Klipnocky, New York, have been mentioned several times in the Forums.  Back in 2013, a member related the story of the hairy women as posted on a New York DEC website for Klipnocky State Forest.  That link no longer works, but the local legend, pre-WWII, goes as such:

 

A family with two daughters that lived close by in a farmhouse, had an emergency plan .. if anything bad happened in the house, the two girls were instructed (by the parents) to run into the forest, at a certain spot and hide. A parent, would go to the spot and retrieve the girls, when everything was ok. The house caught fire, and the girls did just that. At the same time.. the parents were driving to Arkport and tragically died in a car crash. A family relative, that knew of the family emergency plan.. went to the forest, but never found the girls. The girls remains were never found in the house, that burned to the ground. Years later, a local man reported.. that a hairy scraggly women ran out of the forest, after he tossed a crust of bread out the window, while eating his lunch, and quickly disappeared with it. 

 

On August 20, 1926, the Ithaca (NY) Journal reported on a search for an animal killing livestock in the Klipnocky woods.