Case file · Cryptid
Old Yellow Top, first sighting
In the silver-rush town of Cobalt, Ontario, prospectors in 1906 told of a large upright, hairy creature with a pale mane, later nicknamed Old Yellow Top.
1906 CE · 47.40, -79.69 · status: legend
The account
Further reports are said to date from 1923, when the North Bay Nugget described two prospectors meeting a 'Pre-Cambrian shield man', and from the 1940s.
The sceptical view
Sources are mostly later retellings of old newspaper items; a bear with a light-coloured patch fits most descriptions.