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3D model Narrated

“Wild Man of the Woods”

Stories5

The Winsted Wild Man

c. 1895 · Between Winsted and Colebrook, Litchfield County, Connecticut

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources

35Partially documented

The Caney Fork Wonder: a Tennessee "wild man" put on show in Louisville (1878)

October 1878 · Cumberland Mountains near Caney Fork, White and Van Buren Counties, Tennessee; exhibited at the Metropolitan Theater, Louisville, Kentucky

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources

29Thinly documented

The Lansingburgh Wild Man of the Woods (Troy, New York, 1870)

December 1870 · Gorge east of Rensselaer Park and Oakwood Cemetery, Lansingburgh (now Troy), Rensselaer County, New York

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources

25Thinly documented

The Greene County Wild Man, Arkansas (1851)

March 1851 · Greene County, Arkansas

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources

19Thinly documented

The Ellisburg Wild Man of the Woods

August 30, 1818 · Ellisburg, Jefferson County, New York

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources

13Thinly documented

Documents4

The UFO Gap FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2001-03-12· 9 pages

…The highway in this area of Oklahoma has many rolling hills and is heavily wooded with native post…
/specialCollection/nwcda2/27/LAUNAGS, FREDS VOL. 1/LAUNAGS, FREDS VOL. 1_0015.pdf FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 146 pages

…FNUentins, proceeded o clear -MI-Woods along the left siHT-Tir-the River Daugava of remaining Communists. This…
/specialCollection/nwcda4/92/AERODYNAMIC VOL. 19 (OPERATIONS)/AERODYNAMIC VOL. 19 (OPERATIONS)_0140.pdf FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 88 pages

…I joined them and learned that the other man IOW a lassion resident of *sear named inetor man…
Symposium on unidentified flying objects: hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, second session, July 29, 1968. Hearing transcript

U.S. House of Representatives· 1968-07-29· 256 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 246 …When considering the UFO phe- nomenon, all sorts of wild alternatives come to mind. If the extraterrestrials wanted to be…

Videos1

Video1869

Bigfoot Sightings in Western New York: Steuben County

From The Wild Man of Woodhull: 200 Men Hunt a Shrieking Figure Through the Steuben County Woods