News article: Published in The Bucks County Gazette
Bristol, Bucks County Pennsylvania on Thursday May 24, 1883

Pulaski County, Virginia May 1883 __ A ferocious wild man is reported to be roaming in the woods of Pulaski County Virginia and making attacks upon people he encounters. He is said to be fully six feet tall, very muscular and entirely naked with long matted hair and beard. He has been pursued by parties but he was too fleet of foot for them. A man found beaten to death in the woods is believed to have been killed by him.