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2 case files, newest first.

• CASE FILE

  Oct 3, 2026 Folklore

  The Wild Man of the Woods: Arkansas, 1851, and How the Story Reached New Zealand

  In May 1851 a Memphis paper reported a giant, hair-covered “wild man” chasing cattle in Greene County, Arkansas. Within five weeks the item had run from Little Rock to Vermont, and by December it was in a Wellington newspaper. That's a lot of reprints, but every one of them goes back to one story.

  • folklore
  • cryptid
  • wild man
  • Arkansas
  • newspaper archive
  • single-source
  • Antipodes
  • 1851
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  Oct 3, 2026 Folklore

  The White River Monster: Newport, Arkansas, 1937

  In July 1937 something huge kept surfacing in an eddy of the White River below Newport. Within weeks there was a fence, a 25-cent admission, barbecue, a “Monster Dance” and a hired diver with an eight-foot harpoon. He found nothing. In 1973 the state Senate made the river a monster refuge anyway.

  • cryptid
  • folklore
  • lake monster
  • Arkansas
  • newspaper archive
  • 1937