Came across this and had never heard of it before...
Went digging on Google and it seems there are few stories about this entity. Whether it exists or not, I cannot say, and I almost put this in the 'Conjecture' Thread, but wondered if any readers here have been aware of this creature?
Hi Shazzoir....heard about this phenomena back in the 80s.Apparently people have been so scared they nearly run over the cliff to get away.A research team went up and their conclusion was Brocken spectre.
I've read some of the stories, but the whole thing reads (to me) more like what we'd think of as a 'haunting' more than it does a series of conventional cryptid sightings over an extended span of time.
I know that there were reports of so-called Wodehouses (Hairy Wild Men) in ancient Britain, and that the Grey Man fits the general description. There may well be surviving populations - if I'm prepared to accept the Yowie, then I can accept the idea of the Grey Man as a possibility.
Simon M wrote:I've read some of the stories, but the whole thing reads (to me) more like what we'd think of as a 'haunting' more than it does a series of conventional cryptid sightings over an extended span of time.
I know that there were reports of so-called Wodehouses (Hairy Wild Men) in ancient Britain, and that the Grey Man fits the general description. There may well be surviving populations - if I'm prepared to accept the Yowie, then I can accept the idea of the Grey Man as a possibility.
I wonder how many Hauntings have a hairy bloke as the real source...
Wikipedia wrote:Terminology in the Middle Ages was more varied. In Middle English, there was the term woodwose (also spelled wodewose, woodehouse, wudwas etc.). Wodwos occurs in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (ca. 1390). The Middle English word is first attested in the 1340s, in references to the "wild man" decorative artwork popular at the time....The term was usually replaced in literature of the Early Modern English period by classically derived equivalents, or "wild man", but it survives in the form of the surname Wodehouse or Woodhouse
