Post by Zadkiel on Mar 11, 2016 12:19:13 GMT
Akin to the Bigfoot legend, a similar apelike humanoid allegedly inhabited Winsted, Connecticut, in 1895. Existence of the Winsted Wildman - as it came to be known - was brought to public consciousness after reports detailed how one town official accidentally encountered the beast on the outskirts of the town. Soon, sightings of a large, hairy, naked man running loose around Winsted regularly made the news. Search parties from as far as Boston and New York trekked to Connecticut to scour for the elusive beast. None succeeded. It eventually turned out that the Winsted Wildman only existed in the fertile mind of an opportunistic reporter named Louis Stone. Eager for fame, Stone regularly made up a myriad of tall tales that included not only the Wildman, but also baked apples grown from trees and a domesticated squirrel that could use its tail to clean its master's shoes. Due to his incessant fibbing, Stone did achieve fame - as "The Winsted Liar".
