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Throughout the 19th and early 20th Centuries, encounters with "wild men" were commonly reported in newspapers around Ohio. Many cryptozoology researchers think these reports of wild men, "gorillas," "hairy men," and "anthropoids" could be historical accounts of Bigfoot-like creatures. In this book, author Tyler Houck examines these reports spanning from 1869 to the 1940s. Many are presented here as they originally appeared and are then compared to modern Bigfoot reports and other historical and contemporary reports of strange, man-like cryptids from around the world. Is this all something to do with mythology and folklore, hoaxes on slow news days or misidentifications, or is there something else behind the stories? Tyler Houck is also author of the book Cryptid U.



About the Author

Tyler Houck

Tyler Houck has been researching cryptozoology and the unexplained since 2009. He is co-director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology's Next Generation Initiative and can be contacted on his blog at tylerscryptozoo.blogspot.com. He also frequently writes for Cryptid Culture Magazine.



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