The legend of the Hairy Man will be told at a festival in Round Rock today.
A contestant in the Hairiest Man contest walks past judges during the festival in 2017.
The most common telling of the legend recalls that as a young boy, the hermit — now called Hairy Man — was part of a settlers’ caravan traveling in the area. While the group was trying to escape the rising waters of a creek one stormy night, he fell and was abandoned – the others too afraid to turn back.
Even today, people report unnerving encounters on what’s now Hairy Man Road. Katerina Morrow said she almost hit a large, dark figure with her car while driving home with a friend one night. Some say Hairy Man was trampled by horses during an attempt to scare a horse-drawn caravan. Others say he accidentally hanged himself while swinging on a vine. Still others say he drowned in the creek during a flood.
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