XI“…and finally, on our evening broadcast,” said the anchorman on Channel 2's television news out of New York City, “it seems an item published by a local Sloatsburg, New York newspaper ran some weeks ago, about an individual who resides somewhere in the confines of Harriman State Park, has created quite a basket of rumors as to who he actually is. This man was been able to elude public scrutiny, until recently. According to this newspaper article entitled ”The Messiah of Harriman“, this person has not identified himself, many of the locals calling him simply a stranger. There are those in the area - descendants of the Algonquian Indians who have lived in southern New York State for countless generations - who call the stranger 'Gitche Manitou', the name of an Algonquian deity. According t
