What was a 'Wild Man' -beast or man? Gibson has compiled 220 related newspaper articles, most over 100 years old, covering 42 states, Canada, and elsewhere. Read how witness accounts of Wild Men were reported - generally a bipedal, hairy, mostly naked, and elusive creature. Sometimes it's obvious what people saw; other times not. Some wild men were captured. Some were shot.

The wild men-related stories include the incredible capture of a bipedal hairy creature in Minnesota in 1839, the Leed's Devil of New Jersey, a fascinating 1829 deadly attack by a monstrous bipedal beast in the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia, and many other incredible accounts.