Hairy Man — AusFigures supernatural humanoid dictionary

ENTRY 030 / PUBLIC

Hairy Man

6
SPAN
1977–2024
MAPPED
1
SOURCES
4
AUSFIGURESSUPERNATURAL HUMANOID DICTIONARY
DICTIONARY ENTRY030 / PUBLIC
SUPERNATURAL HUMANOID FIGURE

Hairy Man

Also indexed as Hairy Man of the Wood.

PUBLIC-TEXT OCCURRENCES60.14% OF PUBLIC CORPUS
LEADING REGIONNew South Wales1 coded records
DOCUMENTED SPAN1977–2024accepted dated records
MAPPED EVIDENCE116.7% geographically mapped
ARCHIVE SUMMARY

Encounter-style records describe an unidentified, human-shaped and heavily haired figure, sometimes compared with a Yahoo, Australian ape, or Australian gorilla and encountered in bush or rural settings. Similar printed wording in culturally specific sources remains source-bound rather than being collapsed into one tradition. The accepted archive contains 6 records from 1977–2024. The largest coded regional group is New South Wales (1), and the largest source group is Internet Archive (3). These distributions describe archive coverage, not real-world incidence.

ARCHIVE SIGNAL

one dot per record / 1% threshold
6OF 43 RECORDSEach filled point is one accepted public record.
14.0%of the 1% archive threshold1% = 43 records
Scale describes archive representation, not real-world prevalence.

SPARSE TEMPORAL TRACE

exact dated counts
11970s11990s22010s22020sEach vertex is an observed decade count; the filled field only joins coded observations.

ARCHIVE COMPOSITION

source constellation / baseline bubbles

SOURCE CONSTELLATION

3111
  1. Internet Archive350%
  2. Australian Broadcasting Corporation117%
  3. Open Library Search API117%
  4. OpenAlex117%

NARRATIVE BUBBLE BASELINE

01350%02233%03117%
  1. Hairy Humanoid and Wild Person Accounts350%
  2. Local Legends233%
  3. Encounter Accounts117%
Every constellation point is a record; bubble area encodes exact narrative share within this archive sample.

RECORD COMPLETENESS

6 record sample
4coded decades
4source organisations
1coded regions
DATED6 / 6
REGION CODED1 / 6
MAPPED1 / 6
Metadata completeness, not supernatural prevalence or evidential strength.

SELECTED PUBLIC RECORDS

6 RECORDS
  1. 01The Collective Memory of the Hairy Man2024
  2. 02Dramatic Selections from Henry Lawson's Short Stories2022
  3. 03hairy man in Arthur Marrin Braidwood hairy man2016 / New South Wales
  4. 04Four Homeless Millionaires2015
  5. 05Wonder tales from around the world1995
  6. 06The hairy man of south eastern Australia1977

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