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harrisburg telegraph (harrisburg, pa.) 1879-1948 — wild man

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1914-11-10
Location: harrisburg, pennsylvania, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: harrisburg telegraph (harrisburg, pa.) 1879-1948 · 1914-11-10 · page 07
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1914-11-10 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “wild man”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.

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... through the jungle, then, the "wild man" strolled—for "wild man" the natives called him. He marched without weapon and without fear. Tet he knew that in many a thicket a* he passed, and In the branches of many a tree, lurked four-footed beasts of prey—lion, leopard, cheetah —watching him with gleaming eyes and perhaps covetous teeth and yearning claws. Yet not one of these beasts so much as growled at the passerby. But now as Wayne approached a great thicket of thorj bushes he heard a low growl. The bushes had been trampled down by the passing, evi dently, of a herd cf elephants. Thorns dotted the trampled place like so many little upstanding bayonets ...

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