Aw, man!! He was joking? :)
He didn't really make it up, everyone around here has usually played some variation of it in their chilhood. It's like mass hide-and-go-seek where you have a few people "it" and the rest "hiding" and you run around and get beat up in the woods as the "it" people tag you by throwing rocks at you.
the only manhunt game dan ever invented was nekid manhunt