Minnesotans: Have You Heard of The Hairy Man of Vergas?

If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? NOBODY. Blame it on the big hairy guy. A sleepy town of just over 300 in west central Minnesota makes up for its lack of population with big things.

Vergas is already home to the 20-foot-tall World's Largest Loon (not to be confused with the World's Largest Floating Loon on Silver Lake), but that isn't spooky enough. Back on the minimum maintenance roads of the Vergas Trails lurks...The Hairy Man.

The Hairy Man of Vergas Trail is (allegedly) an 8-foot-tall humanoid with long and straggly hair, reeks of must, and - most terrifyingly - barefoot. If animals 'mysteriously' died, the go-to scapegoat (he un-alived those, too) was The Hairy Man. Sounds like a lot of the hippy boomers I grew up around in northern Crow Wing County.

The legend starts in the 60s, reached fever pitch in the 70s (couldn't have been the nose candy), and then, like disco, died off in the 80s.

The most plausible explanation is that The Hairy Man was just an old hermit living in the woods with a stink eye for meddling kids wandering around his land.

Why does this sound familiar...

The Hairy Man was featured on SyFy's Haunted Highways in 2012. Spoiler: their conclusion was that The Hairy Man's existence is...inconclusive.

To me, this sounds like the rejected plot of a spooky Hallmark Christmas movie, where the Career Woman From the Big City comes home to find her father missing and her inexplicable investigation leads her deep into the woods to find him.

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H/T: Fergus Falls Journal