wow [Applause] [Music] [Music] hello this is JJ squashman messenger of the Winston wild B research organization this video we'll discuss the wisted Wildman a very very prominent Wildman story dating way back to the 19th century to the year 1895 this was a very very prominent story of its era the New York Times ran stories on the Winston Wildman it it was of extreme interest the story takes all sorts of crazy twists and turns which we will explore now here we are modern day I live Due West of Winstead next town over bar Hampstead I have had Sasquatch Encounters in bar Hampstead and in Granville Massachusetts now my friend who I met on a Bigfoot Forum here on Facebook Ernie deio he is a uh a famous um experiencer at this point he has done several radio and podcast shows concerning his encounter which was uh near cabble Mountain State Forest just north of Granville Massachusetts and within the ballpark of of my investigation area another Sasquatch researcher who lives west of Winstead in the northwest corner of Connecticut would be Chris morola who wrote a book the one who runs and hides concerning all the Sasquatch encounters he's had near his small cottage in a small town west of Winston Connecticut then I met a friend on the internet who said her brother used to work um with the MDC that that Patrol and regulate the the north Reservoir in my hometown here at bark Hamstead and this Reservoir is off limits to people no Hunters no fishing the wildlife is uh untouched and unaffected by a human presence around this Reservoir it's a it's a large Reservoir that supplies um Harford conut I believe or areas around Harford Connecticut it's a major water source for Connecticut and it's patrolled by helicopters every night and her brother that used to work at securing access roads to this Reservoir would encounter Sasquatch or if you prefer Bigfoot so he knew they were in the town of bark Hamstead where I live and I have also seen uh juvenile Sasquatch here they they live in Granville Massachusetts which is north of AR Hampstead and Winstead they live west of Winstead where Chris morola lives they're up into Southern Massachusetts where Ernie had his encounter this is a Sasquatch hotspot this whole area and there's native American traditions that go back there's an archaeological uh finds here in Bark Hampstead where I live Central Connecticut State University did a dig where they found an encampment a Native American encampment that was stated way back way back thousands of years before the Christian era ancient Indian artifacts um where my father used to plow a garden we would find arrowe heads a hatchet head a grinding stone um this whole area we got the native history and we had the sasquat presence and we had the the EOS system in the forest that would help support a Sasquatch we have many many black bear I mean the black bear population is too much here and we have moose we actually have moose that have moved back in the area so one would think our our forests were like Maine in New Hampshire and this is just Connecticut I mean people don't expect this sort of wild Encounters in Connecticut but where I live yes now let's go back to 1895 way back in history for the lore of the winad Wildman my source for this information is a a wonderful book called the historical Bigfoot second edition by Chad Armen The Story Goes that the Winstead reporter Lou T Stone was responsible for propagating The hoax of the Winston Wildman according to writer Joseph O'Brien uh Stone going on to create a number of fantastic humorous phenomena for readers um he would do funny will stories that everyone knew were hoaxes like uh Tall Tales of a tree that grew baked apples or a chicken that laid a red white and blue egg on July 4th but these stories are Whimsical and humorous the the early stories with the Winstead Wild Man were not whims schull nor were they humorous um nor was uh L stone responsible for the early stories he was just a young teen when the stories first broke out New York Times August 30th 1891 headline Wildman may be a gorilla passengers on H stage from cobor yesterday saw an animal cross the highway leap a fence and then stand on its hind legs as the stage Drew near the animal ran into the woods the passengers say it was a large gorilla and there was supposed to be an animal that was here here to for reported as a wild man as it was seen in the s locality as was Where the wild man was a de frequent see this is the way they wrote back in the day I mean hard to follow now during last winter a gorilla inhabited the woods in South Norfork they say a New York Times September 4th 1891 headline searching for the wild man on the sandis field coach Stage Coach reached C Brook near Winstead at 10: in the morning Mrs cver ran from her house and stopped the stage driver she said that the Wildman or gorilla whichever it is spent the night on her doorstep she was greatly alarmed Mrs Culver begged that help be summoned to catch the local Terror six policemen and large body of citizens were set out from winad as soon as the stage reached there and the country around Miss Culver's house will be thoroughly searched for the wild man are the bear Massachusetts n Gazette 1993 was a gorilla a sportsman astonished D Shu I believe his name is is wanted in this country just now to ascertain whether the woods near Stanford Connecticut are inhabited by his famous gorillas one day last week while Mrs ctis Wilbur is boarding seon the Stanford now Stanford's pretty far from Winston so I'm not sure why this is in the winad uh section here U came up on what was supposed to be a large animal digging Roots carefully raising his gun this would be Mr ctis Wilbur the set animal straightened up to the size and statue of a 7 foot man covered from head to foot with matted hair and an unearthly yell darted deep into the woods at a speed more than human boy look at the way they used to write okay he was convinced it was a gorilla for the devil well that's uh that's a story near Stamford which is again not that close to winad but what the heck Harford Currin August 21st 1895 a wild man now this is the famous story that really launched the Wild Man story where a selectman named Smith Riley W Smith went to cobbrook he was there in the fields and began picking and eating berries from The Little Bush blueberries I would think they were blueberries in the field while he was stooped over picking berries his Bulldog which is noted for its pluck ran with a wine to him and stationed itself between his legs Mr Smith being in the bent over posture picking berries a second afterwards a large man Stark and naked and covered with hair all over his body ran out of a clump of bushes and with a fearful yell and cries made for the wood set lightning speed where he soon disappeared selectman Smith is a powerful wiry man and has the reputation having lots of sand whatever that would mean and his Bulldog is also know for his pluck but Riley admits that he was badly scared and his dog was fairly paralyzed with fear if any of the readers of of the citizen that would be the Winston citizen have lost a wild hairy man of the woods 6 feet in height and want to find him they can go up to cook which is the town west west Le of Winston and when near the Lewis Place wander around the woods and Fields and perhaps recover the lost property they end the story with a little bit of uh snarky uh humor North Adams Massachusetts the transcript published August 23rd 1895 built like a horse the wild man was seen again yesterday by passengers on DOD stage on route to Winsted Prince sandersfield sandersfield Massachusetts he was in the same track of brush as when seen last Saturday by Sebastian Smith I thought it was Riley Smith okay um the wild man lives in inin Meadow not very uh politically correct now inin Meadow as it is known to the countrymen he has thought to be one of a family of three wild men seen in the last two years the man seen by Mr Smith had no clothes but was covered in hair the wild man was seen in Canan Mountain a few months ago and S to be the the same person farmers in that section are terrorized and are afraid to go out of doors after dark and the robberies and henies and the mysterious disappearances of Cales lambs and even sandisfield and cobbrook farms are on alert so apparently livestock was uh commonly disappearing with these Wildman uh would a gorilla do that I don't think so 500 men leave here Sunday morning to hump for the strange character they will go out and gains since ground engine Meadow Scranton Pennsylvania the Tribune August 26 1895 see uh New York Pennsylvania Massachusetts Connecticut all the papers are reporting this wild ban is seen again a big hunt for the mysterious creature to start from Winstead today the wild manand in C Brook which again is the next town over from winad to the West has been seen again this time by Morris pathin a well-to-do farmer of colbrook who owns one of the largest farms in the witfield Hills he saw the wild man eating black berries in the berry patch near the homes Farm uh he describes his features as did head selectman Riley W Smith who saw the man about the same locality a week prior pin story so terrorized the inhabitants of CBR that they came here in groups today and by roundabout ways they did not dare to lead their homes unless armed a c Brook say in with an Old Musket or Bulldog revolver attached to an old army belt is a common sight in Winston streets some Old Settlers think the wild man is a baboon escaped from a menagerie is that what they would call Carnival which escaped from a menagerie here a score of years ago it is thought the creature lived in a cave in the mountains around Indian Meadow hundreds of citizens say they wouldn't go near him for fear of being killed the spot where the wild man is thought to hide in the mountains will be surrounded by squads of men Justice John Simmons threatens to arrest every man seen with Firearms tomorrow so this is something that they didn't want they were afraid of chaos ensuing and accidental shootings Winston's Manhunt and uh the current the herper current August 26 1895 the Sunday quiet of this inoffensive Village was Disturbed today by the [ __ ] of armed men and early Dawn they began to gather in front of the Beardsley House and long before that were appointed to set out and hunt for the wild man scores of men and news were lounging about examining their firearms and talking about their prospective hunt apparently this was a huge big deal the article goes on to describe the weapons that They Carried um weapons weapons all sorts of descriptions most of the men who started from here belonged in winad although a few came in from out of town and two or three from New York they were New York newspaper men in the party see this was hot news people they went to where selectman Smith had his sighting in the berry patch uh horse foot and drons were on the spot in about an hour what the heck is a Dron I don't know I have to I have to get acquainted with the terms of this era this armed party was 200 men strong when they reached the Loa place which I assume was in cobbrook this was a farm which is owned by selectman Smith where a week ago he claims to have been scared out of a Year's growth by a real wild man uh the huge group of men divided into squads of eight or 10 and went into Patrol mode they searched the woods they searched the fields they found an old cave on the beardslee farm old residents remember this cave to have been the resort years ago of a gang of horse thieves who made midnight raids on the farmers Barns and carried away their horse flesh over the Massachusetts mine to swap and sell wow the entrance to the cave is overgrown with under Bush and so small that only one can enter by crawling on hands and knees inside the cave one can stand upright and soon the chamber is reached to which a dozen men could occupy comfortably in this cave were found some comparatively fresh bones and an old shoe that's all outside there were Footprints of naked feet see this isn't an area where where you wouldn't want to wear you would want shoes on because uh the brush and the rough terrain definitely in the cave was fireplace and the remain of a fire and one of the party that entered claims to have found a bottle of milk there well that would that would make sense that there were humans that were used in that cave too I mean normal human beings the most laughable incident of the day was the scared Constable Jette Ed this official of the piece was armed with a revolver and was searching in the underbrush some distance from His companion when he heard a rustle in the bush and says he thought he saw a human face he gave a scream of fright and started all oblivious of his firearms on the Keen run only to bring up sharp against the barbed wire fence he was somewhat cut against the hands and face and had to stand any amount of good-natured chafing from his friends yeah that's not very funny the guy ran into barb wire and the Articles like H he uh let's see some people claim that a man who is suffering from delirium tremin and is confined in an adjacent Farmhouse is responsible for the wild man's care of course that would explain a naked man but a naked man covered in hair no here's a interesting title why not hunt the hermit by New England Associated Press Wednesday August 25th some picnickers recently located a small cabin in the CBR wood woods and Rand to town saying they had seen the wild man's Cabin in the Woods investigation today showed it to be the present quarters of mort Pond a Hermit who have lived in the forest the past 20 years searching parties are liable to start out anytime the inhabitants of cber and other small hamlets North as far as sandisfield Massachusetts proposed to organize among themselves to hunt the Terrors North Adams Massachusetts the transcript on August 26 their headline is of fruitless search 300 armed men scoured Woods for the wild man the only trace of the wild man they could find were Footprints footprints that look like human Footprints without shoes August 30th North Adams transcript 1895 wild man's identity strange moraler now known to be a full-grown gorilla he's been prowling around for 3 years he will be found hard to shoot and still harder to capture I wonder how they came to this uh conclusion oh well the wild man was passing through cook or no I said that wrong while a stage was passing through cobor a large animal crossed the highway on all fours and leaped a stone wall Hall and his passengers at first thought it was the Wild Man the animal when the stage approached stood erect Hall Jew a revolver the Beast did not stir Hall stopped his horses and was getting a good aim at The Brute when outfit sped on four feet into engine Meadows uttering awful cries now see Gill is running away uttering awful cries I'm sorry I don't see that I don't see that as gorilla Behavior they said it was a large gorilla shaped form with big white teeth black hair about 6 and 1/2 ft tall New York New York Herald September 2nd 1895 Dana he's awful threat the gorilla rushed from his cave and put the his Hunters to ungraceful flight West Winsted Conneticut now that the supposed wild man of this place is known to be a circus gorilla they're saying that I think because it was running on all fours it is not deemed to be such a wicked thing to hunt him on the Sabbath for there is no ancient Prejudice in this vicinity against circus or profane animals but not against jackasses as we will presently appear oh this is where they end up shooting the poor donkey mistaking it for the wild men and the bushes it's a pretty sad story there the hunters who are a little bit triger happy the death of Pat denes jackass is likely to put a damper on next Sunday son for there is a flavor of cruelty to animals in this incident meanwhile nobody Ventures within a mile of the gilla's cave and there is no use in offering a reward for his death or capture because there are no Indian Fighters around here no Daniel Boon D crocketts and winad that late Wild Man 50 Winsted people hunt him but do not find him the Harper current September 3rd uh let's see just another story about how they were hunting someone couldn't find them now they're starting to go away from the idea that's a gorilla uh Mrs Culver and Mrs Mr Perkins two witnesses to the wild man uh they describe him as a large man dressed in a very ragged garbage ragged shoes and hats but with little semblance of clothes in the rags that he wore his hair heing on his shoulders and his beard are jet black he is apparently about 45 years old boy this is like the media nowadays from one strain to another from one line of thinking to another he went from a giant gorilla to a vagrant Brad B Vermont Phoenix September 6 the wild man seen again at colbrook Connecticut oh boy he was was chased by three men employed by leelin a farmer a wild man crawled under the house and succeeded in tearing off a small board when one of the men struck his hand with a hoe sing a finger which he had a 4in nail the wild man hurled himself against the cornhouse with great force and would have undoubtedly succeeded in destroying it had not Constable Fon and a dozen men heard the cries of the three imprisoned in the cornhouse and come to their rescue how were they imprisoned the wild man they open fire on the strange figure who bounded away he seemed to be injured but he distanced all of his pursuers the man's body is covered completely with hair completely with hair do you hear this he's not just a hairy man completely with hair it is thought by some that a wild man is a gorilla which has escaped from a circus Philadelphia Pennsylvania Inquirer September 22nd 1895 a cilan's queer find this is back in the era where the word queer meant unusual unless several of the most reputable citizens of winst Conneticut have had optical delusions a wild man is lurking in the witfield county Woods the storytellers would have Wist the people believe that this unaccountable creature talks with them barks at them holds up their horses on the wood roads and milks their cows in the pasture now I think Sasquatch is capable of doing all of that personally one of them brought in a pumpkin with marks of long teeth in it and said the wild man bit this pumpkin he is described as having all sorts of shapes from a baboon to a mild lunatic with scanty clothing and disheveled hair it could be that some people have seen a uh a vagrant and just called him the wild man but he's not the actual Wild Man the wild man is covered in hair that's my own addition to the article it's not in the article here they retell the uh selectman story with the berry patch um and his Bulldog being scared Captain Henry Tyrell a resident of Winston who runs will steamer on Highland Lake Winstead says that 12 years ago when he was a boy he saw just a creature as seleman Smith it was one day he was returning from fishing and the hairy man ran away from him Terrell told his parents about it at the time and they made sport of the story much like nowadays right crediting it to being afraid of the dark another man named Phelps now dead about 4 years once reported in winad village that he had seen a Hayman in the woods see the stories go back way back to win uh to win the writer at the beginning there what was his name again the stone blue stone right way back to when L stone was just a kid these stories go back Stanford Connecticut we have December 29th 1905 gorilla in nor Norwalk Woods Norwalk is Way South it's still Western Connecticut but it's down towards the the shoreline of Connecticut Galloping whats itss with claw terrifies little Connecticut town East Granby while Granby is closer it's up on the Massachusetts border east of of Winstead East Grand be Connecticut bear gorilla horse or is it some weird mysterious animal uneasy residents in the lake basil section of the Town ask these questions today after reports got around as a strange animal in the neighborhood best description they could give is that gallops like a horse and it has claws of a bear Sportsman Ronald I Miller oind in the story must be either a bear or a gorilla he used to do a lot of hunting when he lived in Maine if it's a bear said Miller it's a big one more than 6 feet tall that covers the Articles a contic in the Winstead Wildman uh later on in the Winstead Wildman lore it said that author l stone uh altered and hyped up the stories of the Winsted wild man making it even more famous uh this is the same author that wrote of uh trees that grew baked apples but uh let's put Loose as side here there there's a large contingency of witnesses there's a lot of people that were witnessing a hair covered man that could run on all fours that was between 6 and 1/2 and 7 ft tall that was large muscular and that would scream yell and whoop well whoop isn't a word they used but crying scream yell and cry they saw the naked Footprints they saw the cave some of them saw a vagrant which they called the wild man which he probably wasn't I don't believe there was a gorilla on the loose I believe this was a Sasquatch and currently west of Winstead and a little bit east of Winstead and definitely north of Winstead there is a definite Sasquatch population this is why we are here investigating This Is Why We Exist because of this thank you please like share comment on this video thank you for your patronage for [Music] you