It was the month of January when the Minnesota Weekly Record told the bizarre story in 1869.
The city of Gallipolis, a chartered village in Ohio, woke up to the news of a “wild man” attacking a family of two traveling in a carriage on a road through the woods.
According to the report, the creature opted to neutralize the father first. His daughter watched in disbelief as the terrifying event took place.
“He goes naked, covered with hair, is gigantic in height, and his eyes start from their sockets,” the newspaper wrote.
The strange creature caught the man “in a grip like that of a vice”, pinned him to the ground, and tried to bite the astonished victim. Hunter and prey struggled for a while, diving into the deep mud and “half suffocating”.
- Downtown Gallipolis, Ohio. Credit: Youngamerican under CC BY-SA 3.0
Its eyes, the victim had reported, were “burning and maniac”, and they “glared into his own with murderous and savage intensity”.
And when the battle’s outcome had almost been determined, the daughter reportedly grabbed a rock and hit the beast on the side of the head. This seemed to put an end to the fight, and even though the girl had said that the mysterious creature didn’t show signs of pain, it prompted the animal to retreat behind the trees that were adjacent to the road.
The names of the witnesses were not revealed and the culprit was never apprehended.
But was this a “gorilla” like the newspaper wrote? Was it a hominid similar to the alleged Bigfoot? Or was it simply a homeless man trying to steal from the travelers?
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