Mokau River and King Country hairy-man reports

Record summary

Reports of a hairy, human-sized figure in the Mokau and wider King Country districts appear in collections of New Zealand wildman and “Moehau Man” material. They are potentially useful as a regional comparison because the terrain, forestry work, hunting, and rural travel supplied repeated opportunities for brief encounters. The literature is usually retrospective, and it is not always clear whether a particular account was published during the period or remembered later. A researcher should locate the original newspaper, interview, or book passage and record whether the report was second-hand.