And, after having dug up over a 1000 stories from old newspapers, I completely disagree with Korollocke that the “vintage stories” are hoax journalism. I’ve found a few that are definitely entertainment fiction, but only a few…IMHO. Also, I’ve found one story from 1875 that, in 1909, was called fiction by the editor reprinting it…is he right? The original story reads straight, with many details.

Jacko seems like a straight story of discovery to me. I think more could maybe be found in the microfiche, but I’ve only found the original story in my searches.

2- NEW ?In the Daily British Colonialist newspaper for 6/71884 page 3 under ”What people are saying” is stated ”That the wild man captured above Yale has arrived and can be seen at the post office”. This suggests there are further reports
3-Of the nine people mentioned in the newspaper report the is evidence for Onderdonk, Dr Hannington, Costerton and Ned Austin (E.E.Austin)

Of course the environment is still largely there today with the train running to Lytton etc. I think Jacko-now called a wild man- is getting rather less flimsy !

Why do we have no shootings/photos/other evidence? Well, we do; and the stories behind those, I find plausible.

One thing I don’t find likely enough to believe that it happened, though: that something like this got captured, alive, and then just disappeared without trace.

Like Loren, I don’t see this doing a thing to the remainder of the evidence. That isn’t what’s flimsy; Jacko is.

The originator of the article wrote of the creature being taken off the train at the machine shops and no mention of any jail. (So the British Columbian looks as if its report is flawed.) Then being in the care of Mr George Telbury who planned on taking Jacko to London. Doesn’t sound like jail.

I will say, though I do not think the case is proved. The pros here have at least equal value to the cons and (imo) what does have absurdity written on the face of it is wickpedia describing it as a notoriouse hoax! It seems to me a typical crypto report which cannot fully be proved, at least not for science, but has context, interest and value. I don’t think it deserves to disappear from the hall of fame of crypto literature.

The name Jacko goes back a long way possibly even to the 1600 as it almost certainly derives from the west african word for chimpanzees, ”engeco” and changed by europeans. T.Huxley mentions it in his 1863 essays

This is one of the more enlightening stories I’ve read here. Thanks for providing such insightful and truthful content.