Doctor Dan the Bandage Man (Little Golden Book Classics)

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Though Sue is not a rehabilitator herself, she is passionate about helping kids know what to do when the wild meets the child. But, I did find dozens of articles about crashes along Highway 101 resulting in multiple deaths and injuries. Most legends place The Bandage Man’s origin back to the 1950’s, though some go back as far as the 1930’s.

There were no reports of the logger showing up at any local hospitals or sightings of him wandering the area. As a side note, don’t let the Bandage Man deter you from visiting Cannon Beach if you’re in the region. The Bandage Man is said to hop into the backs of open-top vehicles and terrify drivers, dine on the flesh of cats and dogs, and even kill people. Along the sandy shores of Oregon, you’ll find the small coastal city of Cannon Beach, but to get there, you’ll most likely have to drive through highway 101.

sometimes blamed on a logger that was maimed at the nearby mill, made his earliest documented appearance in the ‘50s. It lies over a mile off shore and it can be tough getting to and from the lighthouse even during the best weather. His imagination went wild with ideas that his fellow keepers might be escaped convicts, or even psychopathic murderers!

In the mid-1950s and early 1960s changes to highway 101 that included widening the road and removing the dangerous areas, reduced overall accidents. Etsy assumes no responsibility for the accuracy, labelling, or content of sellers' listings and products.

The panicked teens started the truck and drove away, but by the time they got to town the Bandage Man had disappeared. Your support fuels our mission to provide bold entertainment content that sparks meaningful conversations. What creeps me out about Bandage Man is imagining being with that someone special, on a dark abandoned road, hearing something, and turning to see a monster staring back at you. I recently took a trip to Cannon Beach to speak to some of the local residents about the Bandage Man and explore the region he’s said to inhabit, and it seemed as if everyone in this small community has heard this legend. Looking through the small window, they were terrified to see a man covered in bloody bandages staring back at them.

At one point, around 2008 or so, I heard about a gnarly prank one group of north Oregon coast high schoolers played on a friend back in the ‘60s or so. The bandaged man began yelling and pounding on the roof of the truck, sending the couple into a panic.Based on the tales and the way he disappears and appears to haunt an area it is our conclusion that he is a ghost, not a zombie. Other versions of the story claim that the Bandage Man was a firefighter who was scorched while trying to put out a house fire or even an electrician who was badly electrocuted. million copies (the largest first printing in the Little Golden Books series to that date), [3] Doctor Dan quickly became and remains one of the series' most popular titles, [5] and remains in print as of 2018 [update] under the Little Golden Books series' current publisher, Penguin Random House.