Posts tagged
‘Connecticut’

Ape-ril Fool Was the ape-man on the Miner girls’ farm a hoax to scare them off the property or an April Fool’s joke?

In 1861, on a slow-news day, a journalist scribbled a story about a wildman. Suddenly people began reporting encounters with the tall, hairy creature. Was it a hermit, a wendigo, a lunatic, an idiot, or a true monster?

The first of an occasional series on Interesting People, featuring Mr. Edgar Garton Stokes from Connecticut who collected rocks containing the souls of famous people.