The entrance is at 1150 meters, the depth is 281 meters and the spatial development around 1400.
The cave was known by the valleys from time immemorial and they had created frightening legends on it.
The first descent, a few tens of meters, dates back to 1912, a subsequent one in 1923 went further, but only in the period 1929-1930 did an expedition of the GSF travel the entire cave.
The entrance is an imposing sinkhole in which a small stream of water that descends from Corchia is lost, the cave consists of a series of galleries and wells.
The name derives from a very widespread figure in local folklore and in general all over the world.
Hairy, monstrous, wild and cave dweller, homo selvaticus is a myth born with humanity: it is the ancestral past that cannot be forgotten.
One looks at it on one side with nostalgia for what has been lost and on the other with contempt and a sense of superiority for the civilization that we think we have acquired.
So he looks at it with a mixture of fear and admiration and he himself acquires both positive and negative values in the collective imagination.
Local legends say that he taught shepherds how to use milk to make cheese and ricotta, but then annoyed by their further requests he returned to his caves.
However, other versions consider him as a dangerous being who wanders through the forests from which he comes out to kidnap girls and is dedicated to bloody and pagan rites.
