Ferocious Wild Man Cracks Woman's Skull And Kills Her Child (1883)
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Bigfoot Chicks, Melissa Adair. As serious researchers, the Bigfoot Chicks are commited to seeking the truth regarding the Bigfoot mystery. You can visit their blog at bigfootchicks.blogspot.com.Occasionally, we come across reports of violent interaction between an alleged Bigfoot and humans. There is no way to know for sure if the being in this account was, in fact, a Bigfoot. Assuming that it was, it's always a good idea to remember that depending on which one you run into, they may not always be the gentle giants of the forest we've all had described to us time and time again. Assuming these creatures do actually exist, they are without a doubt, highly intelligent. Knowing this, if they feel threatened or are deprived of an essential need, it is likely that they will do what is necessary to ensure their survival.
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A WILD MAN AT LARGE.
New York Times pg.4 November 21, 1883
He FRACTURE's A WOMAN'S SKULL AND KILLS HER CHILD
PITTSBURG, Penn., Nov. 20.—For Some time citizens of the southern part of Ohio County, West Va., about 20 miles from Wheeling, have been trying to capture a strange man, who occasionally made his appearance at isolated homesteads, generally in the absence of the head of the house and by brandishing a large club, terrorized the women into giving him food. He always appeared dressed in skins and was never known to speak. Of large stature and ferocious aspect he has been a terror to the community. and several attempts have been made to capture him but without success. It is supposed he lives in one of the numerous caves in the vicinity. This morning he went to the house of George Powell soon after that gentleman had gone to his work, howling like a wild beast and frothing at the mouth. He attacked Mrs. Powell with his club, fracturing her skull and otherwise injuring her. He then picked up her only child, a boy about 5 years of age, and ran into the woods carrying the boy screaming in his arms.
A neighbor passing the house shortly afterward found Mrs. Powell in a critical condition, but she was able to tell him what had happened. The man started at once for the nearest town and organized a party to pursue the wild man and rescue the child. They soon struck the trail and after following it about five miles came upon the body of the boy. His brains had been dashed out against a tree. Two of the party returned to Powell's with the dead child and the rest continued the search for the man, but at last accounts they had not succeeded in overtaking, him. There are several theories as to who he is. Some think he is one of the murderers who escaped from the Moundsville Penitentiary some months ago; others think he is a madman. All know he is a dangerous character, and must be captured or killed.
1883 version of a homeless bum, nothing more. Probably on the retarded side as well.
ReplyDeleteYou cannot know that. Don't speak so definitively.
DeleteNot a Squatch or "Bigfoot Evidence". Squatch don't dress in skins, their "junk" hangs out. Squatch do not carry clubs into towns full of people seeking out a particular gender to provide meals for them.
ReplyDeleteNow, the 1869 carriage attack in Gallopolis may have been a Squatch.
Funny, because I've read several reports of sasquatch using primitive weapons and wearing primitive clothes. If you discount anything that doesn't match with what you "know" then you are correct. Otherwise, it's a possibility. To my knowledge there has never been a census taken among the bigfoot community to determine how many would wear clothes or use a club, should those be available to them. But since you speak with absolute authority, I guess you must have access to such information.
DeleteHumans can get rabies (frothing at the mouth.) Probably a mute man, shunned from society (this was 1800's)that contracted rabies or just went insane.
ReplyDeleteThe symptoms of rabies manifest differently in different species. Mice get hind quarter paralysis, Dogs become aggressive, and humans (usually) become paranoid. It probably wasn't rabies.
DeleteThis is keyboard research. Hunting for Stories. Anyone can do it.
ReplyDeleteBut she DID do it. Most of you are too lazy, so it's nice that she is looking up older reports of interest.
DeleteLike others who have posted, I don't see bigfoot described in the story, but I do see either a mentally deranged or otherwise psychologically affected individual.
ReplyDeletenew anony
I EXPECTED SO MUCH MORE FROM THE BIGFOOT CHICKS!
ReplyDeleteTHEY KEEP POSTING ANCIENT NEWS ARTICLES AND HAVE ABANDONED THE FIELD!
PUT YOUR SKIRTS ON AND GET OUT THERE!
Looks like surfing researching.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that what you're doing right now?
DeleteThese are old time fluff stories put in newspapers to get sales up. Even back then tabloid news was big.
ReplyDeleteThere is also nothing to even suggest that it could be a Bigfoot.
Unless of course the accompanying drawing was part of the original article, and it was drawn from descriptions from eyewitnesses, then yes there is something to suggest it was either a Sasquatch or some similar hominid. Also the large stature and the howling fit with Sasquatch reports. You don't seem to have read the article closely.
DeleteBut yes the media then made things up just as the media makes things up today, for ratings and sales. It's standard practice to make things up for money. Go turn on your TV to any news channel right now and watch them do it for you. Go and read today's newspaper and see the same.
The media ruins lives even driving people to their deaths for ratings, for money. It's standard. It's the status quo. The media practices fabrication and slanted selective reporting to destroy lives and sometimes jail the innocent, for money, for income.
Could be. It's my understanding that in those days fun stories or hoaxes were done as a form of entertainment, and nobody minded. It was just the stuff we see in tabloids today before they were separated from "proper" newspapers. This might be the same thing, or it could be real. We'll never know.
DeleteWTF, to become a "researcher", apparently all you have to do is scour the Internet for weird stories from a hundred + years ago of people who were "mad" and made some trouble and post them for people to read. Well, that and maybe film yourself in a new car. That is precisely EVERYTHING that I've ever seen from this female. I guess I'm a "serious researcher" too.
ReplyDeleteIs this character aof hers a troll designed for the community or what?
This is even more hilarious now that I have read the other posts about her. I swear, I never read one comment in this topic before I posted this. It seems everyone is on the same page about her.
DeleteThis is also research. You may not appreciate it, but some do. And when you get right down to it, what the heck do most field researches come back with anyhow? Precious little.
DeletePlease post thong bikini photo so that we know you a serious about bigfoot.
ReplyDeleteTits is all it takes these days to be an expert bigfooter?...
ReplyDeleteI love melissa she converted me into a beleiver.
ReplyDeleteEpilepsy causes frothing at the mouth in humans, not rabi's. He could have been a handicap man I take it since he was said to wear skins. Bigfoots well most of the time let their junk hang out so I doubt they would wear skins back then and then stop. Either way tragic story, and sounds more like a episode of someone with a mental issue than Bigfoot.
ReplyDeleteThey didn't start wearing skins and then stop. Some do, some don't. There are almost certainly different types of "bigfoot" anyhow, and different cultures. If this story really happened, it could have been almost anything, a crazy man, a bigfoot type, a leftover caveman... anything.
Deleteshouldve popped a cap in his ass!
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