When a newspaper reporter from the Philadelphia Inquirer traveled to the remote mountain wilderness of Clinton County in 1890 in search of a story, he discovered more than the rustic ways and quaint customs of the backwoods hill people-- he discovered an unspeakable horror. It was in Sugar Valley where the Inquirer reporter discovered William Bierly, an elderly man, known to locals as a "raving lunatic", who had been chained like a wild beast for 35 years and forced to live inside a wooden pen.
