Today inward Bigfoot History | JAN 26, 1869 | Wild Man Haunts Ohio Woods

Illustration of a Wildman

Jan 26, 1869 -- Gallipolis, Ohio is excited over a wild homo who is reported to haunt the woods close that city. He goes naked, is covered alongside hair. is gigantic inwards acme in addition to "his eyes starting fourth dimension from the sockets." He attacked a Carriage containing a homo in addition to missy a few days ago. He is said to cause got bounded at the father, catching him inwards a travelling pocket similar that of a vice in addition to hurling him upon the earth; falling upon him in addition to endeavoring to seize alongside teeth in addition to scratch him similar a wild animal.

The fighting was long in addition to fearful, rolling in addition to wallowing inwards the deep mud, one-half suffocated, old beneath his adversary, whose burning in addition to maniac eyes glared into his ain alongside murderous in addition to barbarous intensity. Just equally he was nearly to popular off exhausted from exertions, the daughter, taking courage at the imminent danger of her parent, snatched upward a stone in addition to hurling it at the caput of her father's would-be-murderer, was fortunate plenty to set an halt to the fighting yesteryear hitting him somewhere nearly the ear. The creature was non stunned, simply feeling unequal to farther exertions, slow got upward in addition to retired into a neighboring copse that skirted the road.

Published inwards the Hillsdale Standard, Hillsdale Michigan Tuesday Jan 26, 1869

Credit for finding this article goes to the tardily Scott McClean who relentlessly scoured paper archives to uncovering articles that predate the term Bigfoot or Sasquatch. This search paved the agency to uncovering before articles of Bigfoot nosotros would cause got never been exposed to. I never met him, simply the community who did, retrieve him alongside keen fondness. You tin read an endearing eulogy for Scott McClean yesteryear  the talented Tom Yamarone.

Cliff Barackman besides has a keen postal service honoring Scott McClean's memory at his blog. 

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