Wild Man of the Woods, 1831
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 11th, 2011
Frederick, Maryland, Frederick Town Herald, February 12, 1831.
Flournay, Patrick C. – A Fearful and Wonderful Animal, The Indiana Quarterly Magazine of History, Vol.VII, No.4 DECEMBER, 1911.
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Wow a tail 30 yards long, even if he meant feet thats a pretty significant tail.
Let’s see: a 30-yard prehensile tail – that’s 90 feet(!); one silver dollar-sized cyclopean eye; hair AND feathers; feet like a bear; and a head able to rotate 1,440 degrees – an owl’s max. is, I’ve read, something like 270 degrees?
Sounds pretty far fetched to me – except for the fact that the creature’s head was reported to be “of usual dimensions.” How do we reconcile this? Based upon the description given, I’d say what we have here is, at least, 1/4 of a ONE-EYED, one-horned, flying, purple people eater!
More likely, though, it seems we have yet another case of a reporter/editor needing to fill some extra space, or trying to increase readership, with a fanciful eye-catching story.
Well that would be an interesting creature.