Then there was the story of the town full of petrified men and animals.

The Russian woman in her white shirt ran screaming through the ranks of petrified men.

He purchased and briefly exhibited a petrified man nicknamed "McGinty" for an admission of 10 cents.

The petrified man who held the head dropped it and fell over.

The idea of a petrified man did not originate with Hull, however.

As a matter of fact, no one saw the "sell" and most of the papers printed his story of the petrified man as a genuine discovery.

I put my scheme in the shape of the discovery of a remarkably petrified man.

I depended on the way the petrified man was sitting to explain to the public that he was a swindle.

But no, that would be ruinous; her face petrified men, literally.

The petrified man eventually wound up here, a piece of New York State folklore.