The Bigfoot Book by Nick Redfern

Author:Nick Redfern
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Published: 2015-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Mowglis

Whether a person believes in Bigfoot, is highly skeptical, or has an open and undecided mind, the fact is that just about everyone is familiar with the word Bigfoot itself. But had circumstances not dictated otherwise, the legendary hairy giants of the woods just might have become known by a very different name: Mowglis. The term was briefly used in the early twentieth century—before it was eclipsed by, first, Sasquatch, and then, from 1958 onwards, Bigfoot.

Almost certainly, the name was lifted from Rudyard Kipling’s 1894 collection of stories, The Jungle Book, which told of the adventures of a young, feral boy named Mowgli, who lives in the wooded wilds of central India.

We see evidence of the word Mowgli in a number of newspaper accounts that surfaced in the first decade of the twentieth century. The Ohio-based Van Wert Daily Bulletin ran an article on October 28, 1905, with the headline “British Columbia Mowglis: Tribe of Wild Men Roaming Woods and Frightening People.”

The article stated:

James Johnson, a rancher living near Cornox, seven miles from Cumberland, B.C., reports several Mowglis, or wild men, who have been seen in that neighborhood by ranchers, says a Nanaimo (B.C.) correspondent of the San Francisco Call. Johnson asserts that they were performing what seemed to be a sort of “sun dance” on the sand. One of them caught a glimpse of Johnson, who was viewing the proceedings from behind a big log. The Mowglis disappeared as if by magic into a big cave.

Thomas Kincaid, a rancher living near French creek, while bicycling from Cumberland, also reports seeing a Mowgli, whom he describes as a powerfully built man, more than six feet in height and covered with long black hair. The wild man upon seeing Kincaid uttered a shriek and disappeared into the woods.

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