Wildman Bibliography

Wildmen are hirsute human-like figures which are reclusive and culturally inept (either lacking culture or having very little culture), separated from humans proper in local cosmologies. These figures are universal and constant - Bigfoot, the Yeti, Orang Pendek, Wodewose, Agogwe and more all fall under this header. Due to their universality and popularity, there is a lot of literature on wildmen, much of it very obscure. This bibliography hopes to compile as much of it as possible.Will be updated for as long as it's feasible, currently in it's earliest, messiest form.

ESSENTIALS

Books

Brian Regal - Searching For Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads, & Cryptozoology (2011)
Dmitri Bayanov - Bigfoot: To Kill Or To Film? (2001)
Dmitri Bayanov - In The Footsteps Of The Russian Snowman (2015 reprint)
Dmitri Bayanov - The Bayanov Papers: Fact And Folklore (2016)
Dmitri Bayanov - The Making Of Hominology (2017)
Gregory Forth - Images Of The Wildman In Southeast Asia (2008)
Gregory Forth - Between Ape And Human (2022)
Grover Krantz - Bigfoot Sasquatch Evidence (1999, 1st ed titled "")
Ivan Sanderson - Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come To Life (1968 reprint)
J. Robert Alley - Raincoast Sasquatch (2003)
Jeff Meldrum - Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science (2006)
John Green - Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us (1978)
John Napier - Bigfoot (1976 print)
Kathy Moskowitz Strain - Giants, Cannibals, & Monsters (2008)
Kenneth Wylie - Bigfoot: A Personal Inquiry Into A Phenomenon (1980)
Marjorie Halpin & Michael Ames (editors) - Manlike Monsters On Trial (1980)
Mike Quast - Big Footage (2021)
Myra Shackley - Still Living? (1983)
Nick Redfern - The Bigfoot Book (2015)
Robert Michael Pyle - Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide (2017 reprint)

Papers & Articles

Bartholomew & Regal, 2009 - The Historical Evolution of Bigfoot in New York State
Bubandt, 2019 - Of wildmen and white men
Burns, 1929 - Introducing B.C.'s Hairy Giants
Daegling, 2002 - Cripplefoot Hobbled
Dennett, 2005 - Some Reasons for Caution about the Bigfoot Film Exposé
Forth, 2006 - Flores after floresiensis
Forth, 2007 - Images of the Wildman Inside and Outside Europe
Forth, 2012 - Are legendary hominoids worth looking for? 
Lewis & Bartlett, 2024 - Transmuting Absences into Credible Knowledge Claims
Milligan, 1990 - The "Truth" about the Bigfoot Legend
Mobley, 1997 - The Wild Man in the Bible and the Ancient near East
Porshnev, 1974 - The Troglodytidae and the Hominidae in the Taxonomy and Evolution...
Radford, 2002 - Bigfoot At Fifty
Sanderson - Preliminary Description of the External Morphology... (1969)
Suttles, 1972 - On The Cultural Track Of The Sasquatch
Svanberg & Ståhlberg, 2017 - Wildmen in Central Asia
Walls, 1984 - Relict Neanderthals : a folkloristic comment

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GENERAL WILDMAN LITERATURE

Books

Bernard Heuvelmans - On The Track Of Unknown Animals, Chapters 4-6, 14, & 17 (1995 Reprint)
Blaine McMillan - Wood Knocks & Tossed Rocks (2014)
Chad Arment - Cryptozoology: Science And Speculation, 190-284, 312-331 (2004)
Daniel Loxton & Donald Prothero - Abominable Science!, chapters 2 & 3 (2013)
David Daegling - Bigfoot Exposed! (2004)
Floe Foxon - Folklore And Zoology, 9-25 (2025)
George Mitrovic - Hairy Hominoids: 1402 Reported Sightings 1800 to 1977 (2021)
Janet & Colin Bord - The Bigfoot Casebook (2005 revision)
Joe Nickell - Tracking the Man-Beasts (2011)
John Conway, C.M. Kosemen, & Darren Naish - Cryptozoologicon Vol I, 14-23, 32-33 (2013)
John O'Connor - The Secret History Of Bigfoot (2024)
Joshua Blu Bluhs - Bigfoot: The Life And Times Of A Legend (2009)
Levi Machovec - The Sasquatch Paradox (2022)
Loren Coleman & Patrick Huyghe - The Field Guide To Bigfoot And Other Mystery Primates (2006)
Matt Bille - Shadows Of Existence, 128-138, 154-160, 180-183 (2006)
Malcolm Smith - Forgotten Bigfoots Around The World (2020)
Martha Brockenbrough - Finding Bigfoot (2013, companion to the series)
Michael McLeod - Anatomy of a Beast (2011)
Owen Nevin, Ian Convery, & Peter Davis (editors) - The Bear, chapter 5 by Jeff Meldrum (2019)

Papers & Articles

Aagard, 2021 - Predicting Sasquatch Sightings Using Spatial Covariates
Ansbergs, 2013 - The Folk Art And Material Culture of the Sasquatch Phenomena
Bayanov, 1977 - A Hominologist's View From Moscow
Beeson, 1979 - The Improbable Primate And Modern Myth
Bodley, 1988 - Sasquatch Footprints: Can Dermal Ridges be Faked?
Bynum, 1992 - Bigfoot: A Contemporary Belief Legend
Coltman & Davis, 2006 - Molecular cryptozoology meets the Sasquatch
Daniels, 2011 - Scrutinizing Sasquatch Cinema of the Seventies
Davenport, 2020 - The Changing Face Of Folkloric Transmission
deVries, 1982 - A Psychoanalytic Search for the Origin of Yeti and Sasquatch Tales
Donovan, 2013 - Could Sasquatch Be a Physical Therapist?
Elliott, 2023 - Bigfoot in the Bible?
Emerson, 2010 - Modeling the Search for Rare Events: In Search of Sasquatch
Forth, 2005 - Hominids, hairy hominoids and the science of humanity
Forth, 2023 - Evidence and extinction: The possibility of another hominin sharing our planet
Glickman, 1998 - Toward a Resolution of the Bigfoot Phenomenon
Jilek-aall, 1972 - What Is Sasquatch
King et al., 2020 - Eyewitness Reports Concerning A Putative North American Hominoid
Koffman, 1994 - Relic Humanoids In Antiquity
Lozier, et al., 2009 - Predicting the distribution of Sasquatch in western North America
Meldrum, 2004 - Midfoot Flexibility, Fossil Footprints, and Sasquatch Steps
Meldrum, 2007 - Ichnotaxonomy of Giant Hominoid Tracks In North America
Murad, 1988 - Teaching Anthropology and Critical Thinking...
Regal, 2008 - Amateur versus professional: the search for Bigfoot
Simon, 2017 - Why Sasquatch and Other Crypto-Beasts Haunt Our Imaginations
Steeves, 2007 - The Phenomenology of Bigfoot
Stevens, 1990 - "New" Legends: Some Perspectives from Anthropology

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Documentaries

Channel 4's Bigfoot Files - 1 of 3 "Himalayas Yeti"
Channel 4's Bigfoot Files - 2 of 3 "American Sasquatch"
Channel 4's Bigfoot Files - 3 of 3 "Russian Almasty"

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NORTH AMERICA

Books

Christopher Murphy - Bigfoot Film Journal (2008)
David Paulides - The Tribal Bigfoot (2009)
David Gordon - The Sasquatch Seeker's Field Manual (2015)
Gian Quasar - Recasting Bigfoot (2013)
Lyle Blackburn - The Beast Of Boggy Creek (2012)
Lyle Blackburn - Beyond Boggy Creek (2017)
Lyle Blackburn - The Strange Case of the Missouri Monster (2019)
Matt Pruitt - The Phenomenal Sasquatch (2023)
Michael Newton - Sasquatch Down (2015)
Mike Quast - Bigfoot Chronicles (2019)
Mike Quast - Sasquatch Central (2021)
Timothy Renner - Bigfoot in Pennsylvania (2017)
Timothy Renner - West Coast Wildmen (2018)
Rick Berry - Bigfoot On The East Coast (1989)

Papers & Articles

Bayanov & Bourtsev, 1967 - On Neanderthal vs. Paranthropus
Basso, 1978 - “bushman” images in Northern Athapaskan narratives
Blu Buhs, 2011 - Tracking Bigfoot Through 1970's North American Children's Culture
Blu Buhs, 2013 - Camping with Bigfoot
Foxon, 2023 - If it’s there, could it be a bear?
Green, 1967 -  Reports indicating the existence of giants, human-like creatures in North America...
Kepner, 2018 - Looking Through the Trees
Pokines, 2015 - Identification of Nonhuman Remains Received in a Medical Examiner Setting
Russell, 1900 - Athabascan Myths
Sanderson, 1963 - Some preliminary notes on traditions of submen in arctic and subarctic...
Strasenburg, 1967 - More on Neanderthal vs. Paranthropus
Windhausen, 2021 - Bigfoot, Atmosphere, & Storytelling

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Maps & Sightings Databases

https://www.cfholbert.com/blog/bigfoot-sightings/
https://www.cfholbert.com/blog/bigfoot-sdm/
NY BIGFOOT SIGHTINGS - Google Maps
PA Bigfoot Encounters - Google Maps

Documentaries

Bigfoot's Reflection
Bigfoot Captured

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EURASIAN HOMINOLOGY

Books

Bryan Sykes - The Nature Of The Beast (2016 print)
Charles Stonor - The Sherpa And Snowman (1955)
Daniel Taylor-Ide - Something Hidden Behind The Ranges (2000)
Daniel Taylor - Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery (2017)
Jean-Paul Debenat - The Asian Wild Man (2015)
Julia Herzberg, Chris Kehrt, and Franziska Torma - Ice And Snow In The Cold War, chapter 9 (2018)
Graham Hoyland - Yeti: An Abominable History (2018)
Kunzang Choden - Bhutanese Tales Of The Yeti (1997)
Loren Coleman - Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti (1989)
Myra Shackley - Neanderthal Man (1980)
Nick Redfern - In Search of the British Bigfoot (2007)
Odette Tchernine - In Pursuit Of The Abominable Snowman (1961)
Odette Tchernine - The Yeti (1970, 1st edition titled "The Snowman And Company")
Reinhold Messner - My Quest For The Yeti (1998)

Papers & Articles

Bawden, 1959 - The Snow Man
Beggiora, 2020 - The Theme of abduction in the Himalayan Folk Tales
Chakravorty, 2021 - Wild men of Central Asia: A Cryptozoological analysis of Jonathan Swift's 'Yahoo’
Chia, 2025 - Wild Men or Homo Neanderthalensis?
Copper, 2017 - The Friendly Yeti
Greenwell, 1993 - Almasty man
Loofs-Wissowa, 1994 - The penis rectus as a Marker in Human Palaeontology?
MacLeod, 2014 - Molecular analysis of ‘anomalous primate’hair samples
McNeely et al., 1973 - The Yeti: not a Snowman
Margaryan et al., 2021 - The genomic origin of Zana of Abkhazia
Milinkovitch et al., 2004 - Molecular phylogenetic analyses indicate extensive...
Rinčen, 1964 - Almas still exists in Mongolia
Sanderson, 1967 - The Wudewása or Hairy Primitives of Ancient Europe
Sawerthal & Torri, 2017 - Imagining the Wild Man
Shackley, 1982 - The case for Neanderthal survival: fact, fiction or faction?
Smith, 2017 - A Checklist of Hypotheses for the Yeti
Smith, 2019 - Greek Myth and the Relict Hominoid Hypothesis
Smith, 2021 - The Wildman of China: The Search for the Yeren
Straus, 1958 - Abominable Snowman
Swan & Stravs, 1958 - Abominable Snowman
Trachtengerts, 2002 - "Unknown Primate of the Himalayas"
Trachtengerts, 2012 - The Large-Bodied hominoids of the Himalayas
Tchernine, 1974 - The Yeti: some of the Evidence
Topley, 1960 - Literary Evidence for the Existence of the 'Snow Man'
Tschernezky, 1960 - A Reconstruction Of The Foot Of The 'Abominable Snowman'
Tsering & Peirce, 1997 - The Time My Father Saw a Yeti
Vlček, 1959 - Old Literary Evidence for the Existence of the 'Snow Man'
Vlček, 1960 - Diagnosis of the 'Wild Man'
Ward, 1997 - Everest 1951
Weiss, 2019 - Medicine, Magic, and the Yeti
Wenzel, 2009 - The Legend of the Almas: A Comparative and Critical Analysis

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AFRICA

Books

Jacqueline Roumeguère-Eberhardt - Les Hominidés Non Identifiés des Forêts d'Afrique (1984)

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SOUTHEAST ASIA, AUSTRALIA, OCEANIA

Books

Gregory Forth - Between The Volcano, 103-110, 227, 240-242 (1998)
John MacKinnon - In Search Of The Red Ape (1974)
Jeffrey McNeely & Paul Spencer Wachtel - Soul Of The Tiger, 255-269 (1988)
Katharine Luomala - The Menehune Of Polynesia And Other Mythical Little People Of Oceania (1951)
Samuel Turvey - The Tomb Of The Mili Mongga (2024)

Papers & Articles

Dammerman, 1924  De Orang Pandak Of Aapmensch Van Sumatra
Forth, 2005 - Palaeoanthropology And Local Legends
Forth, 2011 - Charcoal, Eggplants, and Small Hairy Hominoids
Forth, 2014 - Gugu: Evidence  from Folk Zoological Nomenclature
Forth, 2022 - Verhoeven’s Living Negritos and the Story of Zakharias Ze
Gee, 2004 - Flores, God, & Cryptozoology
Skott, 2014 - Linnaeus and the troglodyte

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Maps & Sightings Databases

Yowie Sightings - Google Maps

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LITERARY WILDMEN, GREAT APE KNOWLEDGE, ETC

Books

Brenda Ayres & Sarah Maier - A Vindication Of The Redhead (2021)
Cynthia Marie Erb - Tracking King Kong (1998)
Edward Dudley, Maximillian Novak - The Wild Man Within (1972)
Jeffrey Tigay - The Evolution Of The Gilgamesh Epic (1982)
Laura Brown - Fables Of Modernity, chapter 6 (2001)
Richard Milner - The Encyclopedia Of Evolution (1990)
Robert Cribb, Helen Gilbert, Helen Tiffin - Wild Man From Borneo (2017)
Roger Bartra - Wild Men in the Looking Glass (1994)
Timothy Husband - The Wild Man: Medieval Myth and Symbolism (1980)
Wiktor Stoczkowski - Explaining Human Origins: Myth, Imagination and Conjecture (2002)

Papers & Articles

Barendregt, 2012 - Representing The Ancient Other
Blu Buhs, 2010 - Wildmen on the Cyberfrontier
Coniff, 2009 - Discovering Gorilla
Cousins, 1978 - Man's Exploitation Of The Gorilla
Dickason, 1977 - The Concept of l'homme sauvage and early French colonialism in the Americas
Douthwaite, 1994 - Rewriting the Savage: The Extraordinary Fictions of the "Wild Girl of Champagne"
Drell, 2000 - Neanderthals: A History Of Interpretation
Elliott, 2021 - A Comparative Study of the Storytelling about Sasquatch and Stallo
Forth, 2018 - Elderly People Growing Tails: The Constitution of a Nonempirical Idea
Groves, 2002 - History Of Gorilla Taxonomy
Hammond, 1982 - The Expulsion of the Neanderthals from Human Ancestry
Hrnčíř, 2023 - The Use of Wooden Clubs and Throwing Sticks among Recent Foragers
Konishi, 2008 - ‘tied in rolled knots and powdered with ochre’
Ince, 2020 - "Monsieur Gouffe", man-monkey: An early icon of the illegitimate theatre
Märcz, 2018 - Questioning the human-animal boundary from an anthropological perspective
Margócsy, 2024 - A natural history of the satyr
Montagu, 1940 - Knowledge of the Ape in Antiquity
Naponiello, 2024 - Into the Woods
Rausch, 2013 - Explanation of the word hobbit
Sastrawan, 2020 - The Word ‘Orangutan’: Old Malay Origin or European Concoction?
Spiker, 2015 - Ainu Fever
Ståhlberg & Svanberg, 2015 - Orangutans Never Made It to Uppsala
Steeves, 2003 - Humans and Animals at the Divide: The Case of Feral Children
van Wyhe & Kjærgaard, 2015 - Going the whole orang
Veracini, 2017 - Nonhuman Primate Trade in the Age of Discoveries

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PSEUDOSCIENCE CRAP

Books

Jack Barnes, Christopher Noel, & Jeffrey Andersen - You Are Sasquatch (2012)
Kewaunee Lapseritis - The Psychic Sasquatch And Their UFO Connection (1998)
Kewaunee Lapseritis - The Sasquatch People and Their Interdimensional Connection (2010)
Michael Grumley - There Are Giants In The Earth (1974)

Papers & Articles

Hill, 2013 - The Ketchum Project: What to Believe about Bigfoot DNA ‘Science’
Santos & Koren, 2024 - Exploring the Link Between Paranormal Phenomena and Plasma Balls

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