THE CAPITAL JOURNAL — JULY 03, 1894
HAIRY MONSTER IN KENTUCKY ♢ Lives In a Cave, Looks Like a Man and Lives by Robbing Farmers.
Over in Washington county, near the line of Mercer, reigns a being which, man or beast, mystifies all the neighborhood. For months the housewives have missed their chickens, eggs, milk, meat from meathouses and half grown pigs and young lambs. At first all efforts and schemes to catch the guilty one proved of no avail. Joseph Ewalt arose one morning before day and went to the springhouse, a hundred yards distant from his dwelling. His wife and son, becoming alarmed at his continued absence, went in search of him and found him at the door of the springhouse in a faint. They restored him to consciousness, and he told them he had seen a man beast, and that he ran out of the springhouse as he opened the door; that he had great, long white hair hanging down from his head and face that was as coarse as a horse’s mane. His legs were covered with hair, and the only article of clothing he wore was a piece of sheepskin over the lower portion of his body, reaching nearly to his knees. When it became noized around that Ewalt had seen a man beast, sober headed men began to set a plan to catch the monster in the neighborhood, near the mouth of Deep creek, is a cave of considerable proportions, and the natural conclusion was that there would be the place to find their game.
