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Article: The wild man of the Navidad: Lavaca County legend makes the jump from folk tale to big screen.
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- Victoria Advocate (Victoria, TX)
- Article date:
- September 13, 2007
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Byline: Aprill Brandon
Sep. 13--Ever since the first stories started surfacing back in 1834, theories have abounded about the old Texas legend of the wild man of the Navidad. In most of those theories, it is believed that the wild man was eventually captured or died. But living in Sublime in northeastern Lavaca County in the early 1970s, Dale S. Rogers tells a different story about the wild man, a much more terrifying story. And now two young Austin filmmakers have taken that story and turned it into a feature-length horror film. Adapted from journals Rogers wrote during the time, the film recounts his frightening runs-ins with the wild man on his estate by the ...
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