Formosan wild-man reports in the central mountains

Record summary

Postwar accounts from Taiwan’s central mountains describe encounters with a hairy, humanlike forest being sometimes called the Formosan wild man. The reports matter for comparison with mainland Chinese yeren narratives because they involve similar morphology but occur within Indigenous cultural landscapes and a different political and media context. Individual accounts are often presented without fixed dates, names, or original publications. Researchers should distinguish Indigenous traditions, Japanese-era ethnographic records, and genuinely post-1947 witness reports rather than treating them as one continuous case.