THE DAILY ARDMOREITE — MAY 15, 1901
From the St. Louis Republic.
In August, 1812 a party of hunters found in a mountainous region now known as Rabun county, Georgia, a being nearly eight feet high, covered with bluish hair and having a human face adorned with immense ears resembling those of an ass. The creature was stone deaf, and on that account seemed to be wholly unconscious of the approach of the men. This monster seems, from old accounts, to have been seen upon several occasions during the next four years.
In 1816 a number of adventurers from Virginia, most of them surveyors working up the unexplored portions of Georgia and the Carolinas, formed themselves into a party for the express purpose of capturing the uncanny being, if possible. They scoured the hills and valleys for several days, and at last returned unsuccessful to the starting point. The learned Joseph Earie, then living in at Culpepper, Va., wrote the following in a letter to John Bishop of of Boston, Lincolnshire, England.
“An awful creature, half animal and half man, of gigantic stature and fierce mien, is known to inhabit the wild regions to the south of us. Some think that there is a race of these monsters hiding in the hills and mountains of Georgia, the place where it or they have been the oftenest seen. Of the few people which inhabit this wild country, not a soul which we have approached doubts that the creature is all
