Wildman: The Contents

 

 

A couple of people have asked me what kinds of cases and theories for the British Bigfoot appear in my new book, Wildman!, which is the first full-length study of the phenomenon of hairy man-beasts in the UK.

 

Well, the easiest way to answer that question of cases and theories, is to share with you the "Contents" list, which reads like this:

 

THE CASE FILES

Chapter 1: Woodwose and Wild Men

Chapter 2: Tales of the Green Man

Chapter 3: The Apes of Shugborough

Chapter 4: Nightmare in 1971

Chapter 5: The Cursed Canal

Chapter 6: Welsh Wild Men

Chapter 7: The Creature of the Lake

Chapter 8: Dartmoor’s Hairy Hands

Chapter 9: London’s Underground Monstrosities

Chapter 10: The Tragic Tale of Patient X

Chapter 11: Shug Monkeys on the Loose

Chapter 12: A Bridge to Weird

Chapter 13: Slitting Mill’s Hairy Trolls

Chapter 14: ‘The silence was strange, the landscape unfamiliar…’

Chapter 15: The Cleadon Creature

Chapter 16: A Monstrous Castle

Chapter 17: Go Wild in the Country

Chapter 18: Monsters of the Magic Ring

Chapter 19: The Beasts of Derbyshire

Chapter 20: A Cackling Creature in an Irish Castle

Chapter 21: Sasquatch on the Chase

Chapter 22: A Real Life Stig of the Dump

Chapter 23: Southern Archives

Chapter 24: The Big Gray Man of the Mountains

Chapter 25: Bigfoot in Scotland

Chapter 26: The Littlefoot Phenomenon

Chapter 27: The Baboons of Britain

Chapter 28: Old Ned’s Devil and More

THE THEORIES

Chapter 29: A Flesh and Blood Animal?

Chapter 30: Fakery in the U.K.

Chapter 31: The Myth of Menageries and Missing Animals

Chapter 32: Welcome to the Ghost Apes

Chapter 33: From Man to Beast

Chapter 34: UFOs: Connections and Controversies

Chapter 35: Beasts of the Mind

Chapter 36: Mutilations and Anomalous Animals

Chapter 37: Of Hairy Men, Beastly Bridges, and Water-Horses

Chapter 38: From Neolithic to Neanderthal

Chapter 39: Panic on the Mountains

Chapter 40: Rebooting to the Realm of Monsters

Conclusions