FtV - Return to The Wild Man of Winsted
New England Legends Podcast
Jeff Belanger
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 15 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger visit Winsted, Connecticut, to search for a wild man. In August of 1895, there were multiple sightings of a hairy “wild man” running through rural Winsted and Colebrook, Connecticut. Some claimed he was human, others said he was some kind of primate. Hundreds of people searched for him; the creature made headlines across New England before he seemingly vanished… until there were other sightings in the 1970s. Could it be the same creature?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, legendary listeners. |
| 0:01.7 | Thanks for tuning in to From the Vault, a second look at some of our classic episodes. |
| 0:06.1 | Look for a new episode every week. |
| 0:07.8 | Now, can you go back and listen on your own at our New England Legends.com? |
| 0:11.6 | You bet. |
| 0:12.2 | But you won't get the added bonus of an after-the-legion segment featuring new commentary about that episode from your old pals Jeff and Ray. |
| 0:20.7 | So let's open up the New England Legends Vault and revisit another legendary episode. |
| 0:29.1 | All right, welcome to the Vault. |
| 0:30.9 | Welcome to the Vault. |
| 0:32.3 | Going way back to podcast number 30 on this one, first aired March 15th, 2018. The Wild Man of Winstead, Connecticut. |
| 0:41.6 | Yeah, great story. Hated my delivery. I'll be honest with you. Didn't like me on this one. |
| 0:46.1 | Well, with that. It's true. I want to be honest. |
| 0:53.0 | All right, ready. Jeff, what are we looking for here in the woods of Winstead, Connecticut? Ray, I thought being up here in the northern part of the state, just northwest of Hartford, with a little snow on the frozen ground, would help us find footprints. All right, what are we tracking? A man? An animal? Well, that's the thing. I'm not sure if it's one, the other, or both. |
| 1:11.9 | But locals call it the Wild Man of Winstead. |
| 1:20.1 | I'm Jeff Pallandler. |
| 1:21.4 | And I'm Ray Osier, and welcome to episode 30 of the New England Legends podcast. |
| 1:26.2 | If you give us 10 minutes, we'll give you something strange to talk about today. All right, Jeff, you don't know if this is a man or an animal? This sounds like, I don't know. Bigfoot? Well, I didn't want to say it, but since you did, okay, yeah, Bigfoot. Yeah, it does sound like that. You know how occasionally we don't have a lot to go on with these legends? Sure. Sometimes it's just a story passed around a community and we have to try to figure it out |
| 1:48.1 | from there. Other times, there's some brief mention in an old newspaper clip. Well, this one is different. |
| 1:53.4 | This story got a lot of ink back in August of 1895. Check out this headline from the front page |
| 1:58.8 | of the August 26th, 1895, Hartford Current newspaper. |
| 2:02.9 | All right. |
| 2:03.2 | It reads, Winstead's Manhunt. |
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