On This Day in Weird, October 18...
1879: The New York Times runs the following story:
"Two Young Vermont Hunters Terribly Scared
POWNAL,
Vermont, Oct. 17 – Much excitement prevails among the sportsmen of this
vicinity over the story that a wild man was seen on Friday by two young men
while hunting in the mountains south of Williamstown. The young men describe
the creature as being about five feet high, resembling a man in form and
movement, but covered all over with bright red hair, and having a long
straggling beard, and with very wild eyes. When first seen, the creature sprang
from behind a rocky cliff and started for the woods near by. When mistaking it
for a bear or other wild animal, one of the men fired, and, it is thought,
wounded it, for with fierce cries of pain and rage, it turned on its
assailants, driving them before it at high speed. They lost their guns and
ammunition in their flight and dared not return for fear of encountering the
strange being.
"There
is an old story, told many years ago, of a strange animal frequently seen along
the range of the Green Mountains resembling a man in appearance, but so wild
that no one could approach it near enough to tell what it was or where it
dwells. From time to time, hunting parties, in the early days of the town, used
to go out in pursuit of it, but of late years no trace of it has been seen, and
this story, told by young men who claim to have seen it, revives again the old
story of the wildman of the mountains. There is talk of making up a party to go
in search of the creature."
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