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.