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Stories22 · page 1

Shennongjia Jeep Encounter with a Red-Haired Yeren

May 14, 1976 · Chunshuya pass, on the border of Fang County and Shennongjia, Hubei

Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources

38Partially documented

Cooke's Jungli Admi footprints below the Singalila Ridge

June 1944 · Track just below the Singalila Ridge, near the Nepal border (Darjeeling / West Sikkim)

Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources · 4 photos

34Partially documented

Dr. Vazgen Karapetyan and the Captured Wild Man of Dagestan

December 1941 · Near Buynaksk, Dagestan, North Caucasus

Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources

20Thinly documented

Frank Smythe's Yeti Footprints, Bhyundar Valley

July 17, 1937 · Glacier pass north of the Bhyundar Valley (Valley of Flowers), Garhwal Himalaya, Chamoli district, Uttarakhand

Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources · 1 photos

37Partially documented

Topilsky's Pamir wild man

1925 · Vanch Mountains, Pamirs, Vanj District, Gorno-Badakhshan

Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources

22Thinly documented

The Metoh-Kangmi Tracks at the Lhakpa La: Howard-Bury and the Birth of the Abominable Snowman

September 22, 1921 · Lhakpa La (Lhagba La), near Mount Everest, Tibet

Cryptid · Creature · 45 sources · 1 photos

35Partially documented

The Sixes River wild man at Thompson Flat and the Harrison cabin (1904)

c. 1904 · Thompson Flat and the Harrison cabin, Sixes River mining district, near Myrtle Point, Curry County, Oregon

Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources

21Thinly documented

I. W. Stevens and the Wild Man of the Grand Canyon

c. 1901 · Lower end of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, Mohave County, Arizona

Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources

13Thinly documented

Mike King's Hairy Man near Campbell River, Vancouver Island (c. 1901)

c. 1901 · Backcountry near Campbell River, Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources

15Thinly documented

The Winsted Wild Man

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

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

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

Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources

25Thinly documented

The Wild Man of Crow Canyon and the Orestimba Creek Gorillas

1870 · Orestimba Creek mountains, Diablo Range, about 20 miles south of Grayson, Stanislaus County, California (with an earlier report from Crow Canyon, near Mount Diablo)

Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources

26Thinly documented

Old Sheff, the Arcadia Valley "wild man or gorilla" of Crawford County, Kansas (1869)

c. 1869 · Arcadia valley, Crawford County, Kansas

Cryptid · Creature · 10 sources

21Thinly documented

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

June 1869 · Woodhull and Troupsburg, Steuben County, New York

Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources

34Partially documented

The Wild Man on the Manitous, Lake Michigan (1868)

1868 · One of the Manitou Islands, Lake Michigan, Michigan

Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources

24Thinly documented

The Greene County Wild Man, Arkansas (1851)

March 1851 · Greene County, Arkansas

Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources

19Thinly documented

Zana of Tkhina, the abnauayu wild woman of Abkhazia

c. 1850 · Tkhina, Ochamchira District, Abkhazia

Cryptid · Creature · 36 sources

31Partially documented

The Wild Woman of the Navidad

c. 1836 · Navidad River bottoms, near Sublime, Lavaca County, Texas

Cryptid · Creature · 32 sources

22Thinly documented

B. H. Hodgson's shooters and the "wild man" of the Kachár

c. 1832 · The Kachár (Tibetan frontier zone), Nepal

Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources

20Thinly documented

Names24 · see all

Loren Coleman Person · 66 stories
A cryptozoologist who turns up again and again in the archive, sometimes as the field investigator and sometimes as the commentator.
Donald Keyhoe Person · 41 stories
An author, and a believer in UFOs.
Coleman Person · 22 stories
Loren Coleman, cryptozoologist, turns up again and again in this archive.
Sasquatch Term · 10 stories
The word comes from the Salish se'sxac, meaning "wild men." In the archive it names a large, hairy, man-like creature of the forests.
thylacine Term · 9 stories
The Tasmanian tiger.
Sanderson Person · 7 stories
Naturalist, writer and broadcaster Ivan T.
Boris Porshnev Person · 6 stories
A Soviet historian at the centre of the hunt for Russia's wild men.
Museum of Hoaxes Organisation · 6 stories
A sceptical voice turns up again and again in the archive's monster stories.
Porshnev Person · 6 stories
Boris Porshnev wrote from the Soviet hominology tradition.
Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog Organisation · 5 stories
A history blog with a taste for the strange.
Fouke Monster Term · 5 stories
Arkansas, 1971.
Redfern Person · 5 stories
An author and researcher, Nick Redfern returns again and again to British cases.

Documents38 · see all

UFO Hypothesis and Survival Questions FOIA release

National Security Agency· 7 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 7 …Often their actions are patterned after human behavior and would have virtually no survival value in the wild. Lacking the…
1965 USAF letter to Sen. Robert F. Kennedy on the Mantell death Document

JFK Library via The Black Vault· 1965· 4 pages

…to their bases with something besides "crashed in wild coun- try and body not recovered." In short sir…
The Physics and Metaphysics of Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2001-03-12· 7 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 7 …Iselin During recent years many claims have been made about the importance of the ocean to man's future wellbeing…
/specialCollection/nwcda6/149/LEYER, HANS JOACHIM/LEYER, HANS JOACHIM_0001.pdf FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 8 pages

…Apaoived a11 Use reports of hie &Man. Wealatterl,7imnaaM4MORravith Auesensinixter SCSIMOP .00SOMMOsileilkiriOgn Affairs). LISMA Dr. lust IV, ISVpsty…
The UFO Gap FOIA release

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

…Similarly, many accepted findings in zoology—our ideas about social structure among wild lions, for example—could come…
Congressional, White House, UFO-related Constituent Correspondence, 1998 Official release

U.S. Government· 1998· 86 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 22 …The objects appeared during the Ll\·l jettison man«?uver in lunar orbit. "A" is believed to be a small…

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Videos44 · see all

The wild man of Orford

From The Wild Man (Merman) of Orford, Suffolk

The Wild Man of the Navidad trailer

From The Wild Woman of the Navidad

Bigfoot Lives! The Wild Man of Navidad trailer

From The Wild Woman of the Navidad

The Wild Man of the Navidad Official Trailer (HD)

From The Wild Woman of the Navidad

The Wild Man of the Navidad Official Movie Trailer (2021)

From The Wild Woman of the Navidad

The Wild Man of the Navidad recap/review

From The Wild Woman of the Navidad

The Wild Man of the Navidad

From The Wild Woman of the Navidad

Zana: The Enigmatic Wild Woman of Abkhazia

From Zana of Tkhina, the abnauayu wild woman of Abkhazia

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