Doctor Dan the Bandage Man (Little Golden Book Classics)

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Visitors have reported eerie sightings and unexplained phenomena, leading many to believe that the restless spirit of the logger is still seeking peace and closure after all these years. One night, two of the local kids were up there doing just what teenaged boys and girls do when they are parked on dark lonely roads. Reports of the Bandage Man began almost immediately and have continued through today, though the biggest chunk of reports come from the 1950’s and 60’s. A sequel, Doctor Dan at the Circus, written by Pauline Wilkins and illustrated by Katherine Sampson, was published in 1960 by Golden Press.

As quickly as he is noticed he disappears or, as some have witnessed, he will disappear right before the town of Cannon Beach. If you’re anything like me, it means it’s time to suspend your disbelief and tune into some tall tales for a little bit of spooky.Domaine Drouhin Oregon in Dayton is historic, in that it has been in operation for well over a century. Unlike traditional horror movies, where the kids do something dumb like get out of the car to tell the dude to get lost, the young man started his truck and sped down the highway as fast as he could.

If you ever drive along Highway 101 and a smell of rotting flesh invades your car, be careful, for the bandage man is somewhere close. I guess you'd better watch out if you're driving around Cannon Beach, if you believe that sort of thing. San Francisco, January 8, 1881 ~ A dispatch from Astoria says” “By the arrival of the lighthouse tender this evening from Tillamook Rock, the loss of the British ship Lupata is confirmed.

Still, after hearing that tale late at night then retiring to the confines of a secluded road for a little third-base action, it’s a story that carries enough creepy weight to seriously kill the mood, which is why it’s persisted for decades. This charming story from the 1950s was so popular that it’s now featured in the Smithsonian’s permanent collection. Looking through newspapers dating from the 1930s to the 1960s I couldn’t find any reports of a man disappearing from a crashed ambulance.

Not surprisingly, there's not much on the web about Bandage Man; digging around only reveals a handful of sites, with pretty much the same one or two paragraph description. If the tale of the dog being eaten were true that might be evidence otherwise, but based on what is largely reported he fits the bill as a tormented spirit that is stuck here haunting the area where he suffered and ultimately died a tragic death. As the truck shook violently, the couple peered through the window and were horrified to see a man covered in bloody bandages staring back at them. Any of you who’ve been to Bandage Man road, or Cannon Beach, know how curvey the roads are and to drive them at high speed is dangerous. So, what are the chances that you’ll be torn to shreds by a blood-soaked mummy if you visit Cannon Beach?Looking through the small window, they were terrified to see a man covered in bloody bandages staring back at them. com allows you to submit your own creepy tale or debunk one - or see up-to-the-minute news headlines about travel and the paranormal. This morning the fog had disappeared and it was found that the Captain, instead of rounding the rock to the westward, had run his vessel ashore on the reef running out from the Tillamook side, the topmast being plainly visible from 6 to 10 feet above the water. The driver went bonkers, doing cookies in the gravel to try and get the faux spook out of the truck.

So while I can’t definitively say this is how the bandage man started, I can say the legend of the bandage man never happened.

Once he was being transferred from the Hospital to the jail, he escaped, ran into the woods, and hasn't been seen since. This "Little Golden Book" was originally created in 1950, however, the version in this listing is a reissue from 1992. Some believe that Bandage Man is the ghost of a logger who died after horrific injuries sustained while working nearby.