WEBVTT 1 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:32.479 Hello everybody. I'm welcome back. Thank you very much for 2 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:36.640 joining me. My name is deborahaps Well, and you're listening 3 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:42.159 to BBR Investigations tonight. Once again, I am sharing listeners 4 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:47.640 reports accounts that they've sent into BBR. My first account 5 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:52.000 is I think something was watching in the tree Line 6 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:54.840 and this came from a man who was followed through 7 00:00:54.920 --> 00:00:58.399 Canic Chase. It's a place that comes up often in 8 00:00:58.439 --> 00:01:01.640 a BBR report. Now. The witness in this case is 9 00:01:01.679 --> 00:01:05.079 called Ian Atkins, and he said, good evening, Debet. I 10 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:08.439 came across your podcast on Spotify while looking for information 11 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.280 on UK cryptids, and I just wanted to tell you 12 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:15.560 my experience, as it's similar to some that you've shared. 13 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:19.200 I had nothing really amazing happen, but it was still 14 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:23.319 a strange experience all the same. I lived literally ten 15 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:27.239 minutes walk five minutes dry from Castle Ring on Panic Chase. 16 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:30.319 I'm now fifty two and I've lived there on my 17 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:33.519 life since my mom and dad moved here from Birmingham 18 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:36.920 before I was born, so I know the walks and 19 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:40.400 the areas in the chase very well. Indeed, and more 20 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:45.519 was I walking over there one day last August twenty four. 21 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:48.879 I was doing just that and my music on. I 22 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:51.799 was wearing my earphones. It was a lovely August day, 23 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:55.719 and all of a sudden I had a feeling, an 24 00:01:55.760 --> 00:02:00.599 intense feeling of being watched, so strong that I stopped music. 25 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:04.480 I took out my earphones and I looked all around 26 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:09.879 in every direction, but it was nothing, just total silence. 27 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:15.319 There were no birds chirping, people walking as it was quiet, 28 00:02:15.639 --> 00:02:17.719 you know, being the day of the week, but still 29 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:20.560 I go there in the week for my walk as 30 00:02:20.599 --> 00:02:24.520 I work weekend. After I took my earphones off, I 31 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:27.520 just stared at the bushes about a hundred yards in 32 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:30.800 front of me, and the more I looked, the more 33 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:33.680 I thought I could see shapes or the shape of 34 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:37.599 something standing by a tree, just inside the tree line. 35 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:42.159 I thought it was probably just my imagination. I figured, 36 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:45.439 I'm thinking that I'm seeing something that I wasn't one 37 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:49.759 hundred percentual. As I walked away, I kept looking around 38 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:53.800 and behind me and checking doing about walking for another 39 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:57.759 minute and the feeling I had been watched completely disappeared, 40 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:01.719 and I felt fine again. I stopped looking all around. 41 00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:05.680 I know it's not a brilliant storer and I hope 42 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:07.800 you get to see this, but I just wanted to 43 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:10.560 share this with you as I'd love to see something 44 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:13.680 up there. Myself. Will also be doing a ghost on 45 00:03:14.360 --> 00:03:18.280 July the twelfth with haunted happenings at the Four Crosses 46 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:20.919 in Canic, so hopefully I can email you with some 47 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:24.879 paranormal happenings from that night. Thank you and keep the 48 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:30.639 podcast coming. Are totally fascinating. Castle Ring is a totally 49 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:34.400 fascinating place. Sitting at the highest point of Canic Chase 50 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:38.159 lies the Iron Age four and it dates back more 51 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:41.479 than two thousand years. Castle Ring is believed to have 52 00:03:41.560 --> 00:03:46.960 been occupied between five one thousand BC and forty three 53 00:03:47.039 --> 00:03:49.919 a day, and it's one of the earliest pieces of 54 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:54.520 evidence of settlement in the Cannock area. It is eight 55 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:58.280 hundred and one feet above sea level, fourteen feet high 56 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:01.840 and it is widest point eight hundred and fifty three 57 00:04:01.879 --> 00:04:05.960 feet across. The name Canok is derived from the Celtic 58 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:10.680 word knock, which translates as high place or high ground, 59 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:15.199 and there are seven similar hill forts in the Staffordshire area. 60 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:19.800 We find, going back to prehistoric times, a nation of 61 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:24.879 face warriors. The tribes of the Brydonic Celts inhabited in 62 00:04:24.879 --> 00:04:28.600 England a right. They also inhabit in Wales and Lowland 63 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:32.560 Scotland during the Roman area and the post Roman area too, 64 00:04:32.839 --> 00:04:35.279 and it's believed that they were the people at built 65 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:41.399 Castle Ring. Now their religious practices revolved a bound offerings 66 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:48.600 and sacrifices, sometimes human, but more often involving the ritual 67 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:54.319 slaughter of animals or the deposition of metalwork, especially war booter. 68 00:04:55.680 --> 00:05:01.399 Could those human sacrifices start or did those human sacrifices 69 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:06.079 the ever increasing negative manager bound in the area and 70 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:09.560 close to the Ring, as this was the likely sight 71 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:15.000 of any ceremonies, especially ones where they were sacrificing people. 72 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:17.759 Now there'd been modern day reports close to the Ring 73 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:21.560 and further out into the underlying areas where or did 74 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:26.040 figures have been seen, and some strange binds with animal 75 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:31.120 mutilations and the odd shrine or altar, strange things sent 76 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:35.040 to me from Shoal Common that were just unexplainable. Now 77 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:37.759 the Ring does have some spooky stories attached to it, 78 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:40.800 like can it Chase Residents John and Anne shared their 79 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:44.519 experience in October of nineteen ninety three whilst walking around 80 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:47.720 Castle Ring, John said, myself and the wife heard some 81 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:51.120 strange noises coming from the surrounded trees. Thinking it was 82 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:54.519 likely to be a local couple enjoying an illicitly aid on, 83 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:57.319 we quickly moved away from the sound and headed back 84 00:05:57.319 --> 00:05:59.800 in the direction of our car up On reaching the 85 00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:01.800 sta stepped out to the car park. I happened to 86 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:05.000 turn around and lay my eyes on the strangest creature 87 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:08.920 I've ever seen. This thing was seven feet t offrom 88 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:12.600 the neck down. It looked like a man, even wearing clothes, 89 00:06:13.079 --> 00:06:16.240 but its head was far too big for you, and 90 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:20.319 it had an elongated face with a snout like a nose. 91 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:23.519 We started walking more quickly to on the car and 92 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:26.279 got inside, and that's when we started to hear this 93 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:30.160 really high pitched squeaming noise that sounded like a pig 94 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:33.959 that was being killed, and that really spooped us out. 95 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:38.279 One made the first two thousand and four, Alex Williams 96 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:41.040 was driving past the car park that sits at the 97 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:44.920 base of Castle Ring, the same car park that the 98 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:49.319 couple were in, when he witnessed a hair covered man 99 00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:53.360 like entity lumber across the road and go off into 100 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:57.800 the trees. Aleck stated that the sighting lasted barely a 101 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:01.319 few seconds, but that he was able to make out 102 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:04.439 the form on this thing, and he said it was 103 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:09.000 about seven feet tall, with sharp, shiny, dark hair, I'd 104 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:12.519 say dark brown, had a large head, and it had 105 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:18.279 eyes and they glowed bright red. Interestingly. Alex Williams stated 106 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:22.560 that as he slowed his vehicle he witnessed something akin 107 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:25.600 to a camera flash coming from the depths of the woods, 108 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:30.800 and heard a cry that he described as something going 109 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:36.759 oh now. Strange noises and owls were also reported at 110 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:40.519 Castle Ring in twenty thirteen, when a gentleman who on 111 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:44.959 the morning in question, was walking his Labrador Retriever around 112 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:48.759 the ancient iron Age hill fall a Castle Ring. As 113 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:51.560 he did, he heard the distinct sound of an abnormal 114 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:55.480 and unearthly howling coming from the woodland that surrounds the ring. 115 00:07:56.399 --> 00:07:59.720 So loud was the noise that his dog immediately began 116 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:04.240 to back and cowering fear. Mister Chapman record that upon 117 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:08.720 glancing into the shady trees, he saw two bright, fiendish 118 00:08:08.759 --> 00:08:13.560 yellow eyes glaring menacingly back. There was enough to seriously 119 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:16.720 spook mister c and in his own words, he promptly 120 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:20.560 ran like the wind. Now an Amazon worker was a 121 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:24.680 weird experience in Rougley, and that witness made a report 122 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:28.600 to cryptids Roos and it said I live in Staforture, 123 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:31.560 around ten or fifteen miles from kind of chase. It's 124 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:33.840 well known in these parts that there is not only 125 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:37.600 a werewolf dog man in the chase, but also supposedly 126 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:40.840 some of them black eyed kids. Looking back on things, 127 00:08:40.960 --> 00:08:43.120 I used to cycle down one of the main roads 128 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:45.559 late at night through the chase coming back from work. 129 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:49.080 This was back in twenty thirteen and I worked at 130 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:53.159 Amazon and Rusley. I used to hate cycling there. Back then, 131 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:55.600 I knew there was possibly a big cut in the 132 00:08:55.639 --> 00:08:59.480 area that used to totally freak me out. Remember one night, 133 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:04.000 I think down the road towards Stafford, an owl started hooting. 134 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:07.200 It was so sudden it freaked me out. And then 135 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:09.840 to make things worse, it seemed like it was following 136 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:14.519 me this periodic play. I could hear that owl. Whether 137 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:17.679 it was there as a protector or whether it was 138 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:19.919 trying to call in the big car or a dog 139 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:22.799 man for a twold attack, I don't know. But as 140 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:27.440 soon as I could have ran the witnessman to say. 141 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:29.919 On the outskirts of the chase, there is, if memory 142 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:33.159 serves me correctly, a German war cemetery. It's rumored that 143 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:35.519 this is where the wild Man and the dogment is 144 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:38.399 supposed to be resided. I know a few years back 145 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:40.919 some guys tried to do some sort of ghosts on there, 146 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:44.519 and they had also heard these rumors. At some point 147 00:09:44.679 --> 00:09:46.879 they heard a loud howl and they got out of there. 148 00:09:47.559 --> 00:09:52.799 They were totally Ship's guard. I noticed once studying the 149 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:55.279 map having a look, that there is an old country 150 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:59.039 estate there that is now a parkland for the public. 151 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:02.080 I'm not going to get this right. I think it's 152 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:07.440 bou Desire. That's how the Friendship pronounced it. Both Desire 153 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:09.720 was in a state and stately home on the southern 154 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:13.240 edge of Panic Chase. It was one of the family 155 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:17.039 seats of the Pagic family. Now this kind of situation 156 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:20.480 pops up inside and reports repeatedly, and I won't sure 157 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:22.440 why that is. I don't know what the connection to 158 00:10:22.679 --> 00:10:25.720 the land of the elite and strange cryptid and paranormal 159 00:10:25.799 --> 00:10:28.720 experiences it. Well, they do what not allowed to say 160 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:31.440 because they tech me channels down. So if we look 161 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:33.840 at the dates of all of the reports, it would 162 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:37.960 seem these experiences happened at different time periods. They're not 163 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:40.960 connected in any way, it would seem, but the same 164 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:45.440 kind of activity is experienced. Is it solely connected to 165 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:48.799 the ancient site or to the land in the chase itself? 166 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:53.279 I'm sure, but no doubt centuries of mine in the 167 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:56.360 land all across stafuture will have had an effect on 168 00:10:56.480 --> 00:11:00.000 that Indian energy, you know, and as was modern day 169 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:04.879 humans tapping into acient energy that still exists there. Or 170 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:09.480 is it that the witnesses themselves are bringing forth that activity. 171 00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:14.000 Lots of the reports that Castle ring mentioned a vocalization 172 00:11:14.559 --> 00:11:18.960 with some description and growls, whoops, howls, even imitation of 173 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:22.639 bird sounds. And I was contacted recently by a listener 174 00:11:23.039 --> 00:11:27.440 who was reporting similar sounds, but not acnanic chase. And 175 00:11:27.559 --> 00:11:30.799 now they go up to the northwest of England. This 176 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:34.799 case is known as we heard possible ape vocalizations and 177 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:37.919 it happened in September of two thousand and four. The 178 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:41.399 witness in this case, its name is Marco Barretta, and 179 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:44.480 he said, I'm a South African man now living in 180 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:48.240 Motherwhile Scotland in the UK. I'm forty five years old 181 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:50.519 and I've been living in the UK for twenty one 182 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:54.120 years now. I moved here in September of two thousand 183 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:58.480 and four. Now, I never really believed in cryptis, in fact, 184 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:02.120 being brought up as a no man, I was always 185 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:05.519 told that you're only believe in a creature's existence when 186 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:10.039 it's been cataloged and it's DNA is on record. In 187 00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:12.559 two thousand and four, amid to the UK, and at 188 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:15.120 the time I was living in a town north of Liverpool, 189 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:19.480 Colled Southport. It is in Merseyside, in the northwestern part 190 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:24.919 of England. It's the usual sleepy English seaside town. Several 191 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:28.799 weeks after I'd moved there, at Christmas time, me and 192 00:12:28.840 --> 00:12:31.039 a bunch of my friends decided to go visit a 193 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:35.960 forest area in the countryside nearby town called Farmby, which 194 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:40.120 is also just north of Liverpool. Now, the Christmas time 195 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:42.840 of year in England is very cold, very gray and 196 00:12:42.919 --> 00:12:45.799 very bleak, so when we arrived at the forest and 197 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:48.000 got out of our car and walked about a bit 198 00:12:48.679 --> 00:12:52.000 in the woods, it just looked, really are like something 199 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:54.159 out of one of those old Dracula movies that are 200 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:58.120 out of bram Stoke. Not long after arriving there, we 201 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:03.200 began this weirdly noise. It gave me the creeps. My 202 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:05.120 friend told me not to worry about it. It was 203 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:08.240 probably just the wind, but that did not feel right 204 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:11.399 for me. So I looked at the tree tops and 205 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:15.159 they were not swaying about at all. I pointed this 206 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:17.320 out to them, but they told me not to worry 207 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:20.519 about it. In any way, I just felt like something 208 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:25.759 wasn't right anyway. This weird howling sound continued as we 209 00:13:25.879 --> 00:13:30.440 moved on through the woods, and then the sound started 210 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:34.799 to become more like that of the primal grunt was 211 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:39.279 really deep and guttural, like that of a great African ape. 212 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:43.000 I couldn't believe it. Here I was in frigid England, 213 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:47.120 in the middle of a forest, hearing these ape like grunts. 214 00:13:47.519 --> 00:13:50.799 I started to get intwitch. I was really twitter. I 215 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:53.279 had not seen anything, but I was sure that there 216 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:57.799 was something animalistic and not some natural element to this. 217 00:13:59.000 --> 00:14:01.200 So in this bunch of it was a fellow South 218 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:04.639 African and I said to him, herman, does this not 219 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:07.480 sound like apes and monkeys to you? You know, like 220 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:10.600 the ones back home? In Africa, and he listened for 221 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:13.519 a while and he said, yeah, you're right, he does. 222 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:17.919 That is exactly like the monkeys and apes in Africa soundlike, 223 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:22.559 with an absolute look of bewilderment on his face. Our 224 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:25.519 friends started to laugh and say that the monkeys must 225 00:14:25.559 --> 00:14:28.519 have followed us from Africa. But as they were laughing, 226 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:34.639 there was this loud, howling, bellowing scream which sounded like 227 00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:37.559 the roar of a lion combined with a scream of 228 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:41.960 a gorilla. This sound seemed to fill the heavens, the forests, 229 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:45.440 the grounds, the trees, and our very body spelt it 230 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:49.080 needless as they they stopped the laughter and we all 231 00:14:49.080 --> 00:14:51.919 got out of there as quickly as possible. We drove 232 00:14:51.960 --> 00:14:54.679 out of that forest pretty much at top speed and 233 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:57.039 spent the rest of the day at the sand dunes 234 00:14:57.039 --> 00:15:00.399 in nearby farm be where we knew there would be 235 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:05.200 more people around and we'd feel safe. Well, it's been 236 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:08.840 many years since that happened, and I landed up moving about, 237 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:11.679 you know, until I settled him with a well. And 238 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:15.159 even though I never saw anything physical that day, it 239 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:18.320 must have been something animal or cryptic to have made 240 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:22.159 such a terrible sound. It's a sound I've never heard before, 241 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:25.720 and I've never heard it since, But if I did 242 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:30.799 hear it again, I would instantly recognize that. Since then, 243 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:33.799 I've become more open to believe in that cryptids or 244 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:37.120 animals or whatever you want to call it may exist. 245 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:41.519 But that does not necessarily mean I always believe every 246 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:45.279 story I hear. I've not so many people my story 247 00:15:45.559 --> 00:15:48.360 since it happened, but when I do, I just get 248 00:15:48.399 --> 00:15:53.279 the old nod and the roll of the eyes, like say, okay, crazy. 249 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:56.879 And the thing is that I did not see an 250 00:15:56.879 --> 00:16:00.399 animal or encryptid. I just heard sounds. So I can 251 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:04.320 only imagine how much worse the treatment must be if 252 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:07.799 you heard a sound and saw a crypted But I 253 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:11.600 definitely now believe that there's more to nature than you 254 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:15.000 do not know, and you know that governments are not 255 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:17.679 being honest with the public about what they really know. 256 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:23.039 I wasn't surprised to find a country mansion owned by 257 00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:26.360 the JENRA that is now open to the public close 258 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:31.159 to this encounter. Farmby Hall is located in secluded woodland. 259 00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:35.559 The present house built for William Farmby dates back to 260 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:39.879 fifteen twenty three, but it's believed that the Farmby family 261 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:45.799 has occupied the site since the twelfth century. Now there's 262 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:49.960 a village close to Fradchim, sleepy little place called Taunton, 263 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:54.440 and several years ago, in twenty sixteen, I was contacted 264 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:57.320 by a man who'd had an experience in these local 265 00:16:57.320 --> 00:17:00.240 woodwind as a boy. It was still very much up 266 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:05.240 affected by Mark Farnell reported an experienced that happened to 267 00:17:05.319 --> 00:17:08.559 him and his friend. The wood one where this happened 268 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:13.440 was next to Bank Hall and Bank Hall there's a 269 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:17.240 Grade two listed Jacobean house built in at sixteen o 270 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:21.160 eight by the ban Ashtry family, who owned the land 271 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:26.880 in the area since the twelfth century. Mark said, back 272 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:29.480 in July of ninety six, when I was thirteen years 273 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:32.759 of age, we were only young kids back then and 274 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:35.480 we'd go down, you know, often to the woods down there. 275 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:39.400 That day was no different. We just completed building an 276 00:17:39.400 --> 00:17:42.119 assault course through the woods and gave the course a 277 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:44.920 try from start to finish. And as we were running 278 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:48.519 the course, we'd both notice something and a vague and 279 00:17:48.599 --> 00:17:52.279 hard to describe moving our way in the thicker part 280 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:56.400 of the wood. And then this thing came walking through, 281 00:17:57.200 --> 00:17:59.279 came through the bush, you know, in front of us, 282 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:03.480 more than fifteen feet away, and we didn't know what 283 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:07.880 it was. We'd never seen anything like it before. We 284 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:11.200 watched as it came walking into a part of the clearing. 285 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:14.839 This thing was broad, but it wasn't much taller than 286 00:18:14.920 --> 00:18:18.400 us at the time, perhaps five five foot feet in height. 287 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:22.559 But its body was huge. It was hair and thick 288 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:26.680 with muscle. I remember it having a humped back almost. 289 00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:30.880 It was sort of stoop somehow. It was walking with purpose, 290 00:18:31.880 --> 00:18:36.160 and then it just stopped dead in its tracks. At 291 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:38.200 the time, my friend and I looked at each other, 292 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:42.839 not knowing what we were seeing. We were wordless. Even now, 293 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:46.279 I am struggling to describe what it looked like, what 294 00:18:46.359 --> 00:18:49.119 it felt like to be standing there looking at it 295 00:18:49.640 --> 00:18:53.079 and wondering what it was going to do next. We 296 00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:56.319 started to back off until we felt like it was okay, 297 00:18:56.400 --> 00:18:58.599 you know, to pick up the pace, and as we 298 00:18:58.640 --> 00:19:01.400 look back, we noticed it was trying to focus on 299 00:19:01.519 --> 00:19:04.200 us through the trees, you know, was it keeping watch 300 00:19:04.279 --> 00:19:06.799 on us and where we were headed. And at that 301 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:11.799 moment it let out a blood curdling, good run scream. 302 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:16.000 It was a terrifying noise. Up until that point, I 303 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:19.240 kept telling myself it was just an adult or some 304 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:24.680 strange looking person, but that scream changed that. Knowing it 305 00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:28.160 wasn't a person, we ran away even quicker than ever 306 00:19:29.640 --> 00:19:33.119 through fear. I've never been back to the local woods. 307 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:37.279 All happened in Tilden Village, Lancashire. The creature had long, 308 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:41.799 dark gray and light brown matted hair. It was hairy 309 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:45.880 and thick with muscle, and I will never forget that day. 310 00:19:46.279 --> 00:19:48.920 When I released Mark's account, the mother of the lad 311 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:51.960 who was with him at the time left a comment 312 00:19:52.039 --> 00:19:54.920 on YouTube and explain how the boys had reacted when 313 00:19:54.920 --> 00:19:58.440 they run on that day. She explained that she remembered 314 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:01.759 the incident clearly, as both boys were shook up and 315 00:20:01.839 --> 00:20:04.640 stumbled in the door trying to explain what had happened. 316 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:07.160 She said, it took me a long time to calm 317 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:09.960 them down so they could explain what went on. I 318 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:13.079 didn't know what to tell them because something clearly happened 319 00:20:13.119 --> 00:20:16.400 to them. Both boys were so young when they had 320 00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:20.480 their experience, so it's understandable, but it still holds heavy 321 00:20:20.559 --> 00:20:24.799 with them even after all these years later. I took 322 00:20:24.799 --> 00:20:28.079 a report recently from a man who lives in Dorset 323 00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:32.680 who had his own encounter with the unknown. I recently 324 00:20:32.680 --> 00:20:36.039 shared one of our cases that featured another young boy 325 00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:38.200 who was out with his friends in a local woodward 326 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:41.680 and they were suddenly confronted by an unknown, impossible creature. 327 00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:44.640 One of the listeners to the show made a comment 328 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:47.640 on the video, sharing his own experience in a very 329 00:20:47.640 --> 00:20:51.759 similar situation, and this account is the creature was upright 330 00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:58.400 and ran like a man. Listener Ricky Damon said, thank 331 00:20:58.440 --> 00:21:01.279 you for your comment about my child have encountered or 332 00:21:01.319 --> 00:21:04.000 you asked me for more information. I've written what I 333 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:07.240 can remember about that day. This happened when I was 334 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:09.640 ten or eleven years old, so it would have been 335 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:14.079 in the mid nineteen eighties. I lived and still live 336 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:17.160 in a very rural village called the Western in North 337 00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:21.519 Dorset near Blandford Forham. The street I grew up on 338 00:21:21.720 --> 00:21:24.960 backed onto a large valley and two steep sides to it, 339 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:28.359 which had a fork halfway along with a field overlooking 340 00:21:28.400 --> 00:21:31.480 the valley floor that had a tree line on one 341 00:21:31.519 --> 00:21:34.440 side of that, and that was at the edge of 342 00:21:34.440 --> 00:21:38.240 a lard woodland that stretched across some other villages and 343 00:21:38.400 --> 00:21:43.119 through the Branston school grounds. That neighborhood and the village. 344 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:47.279 As it was the nineteen eighties, we spent a lot 345 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:50.079 of time playing outside in the woods and by the river, 346 00:21:50.200 --> 00:21:53.400 fishing and playing football, etc. I mean, and your friend 347 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:56.000 at the time made both from some cuttings we made 348 00:21:56.039 --> 00:21:58.880 in the woods. Having made some arrows as well, we 349 00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:02.160 decided on after in October to head up the valley 350 00:22:02.200 --> 00:22:05.119 and see if we could chew them any fireboats worked 351 00:22:05.119 --> 00:22:08.000 as well as we'd help they would. It's pretty gray, 352 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:11.200 overcastair chilly. As we walked up towards the fork of 353 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:14.079 the valley, and we took the right handside around the bend. 354 00:22:14.920 --> 00:22:18.839 As we did, it automatically began to snow, which once 355 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:21.720 our excitement settled down, we realized we needed to get 356 00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:24.319 some shelter, you know, So we huddled under some of 357 00:22:24.359 --> 00:22:26.680 the bushes that grew up on the right hand side 358 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:30.000 of the valley floor. Our view was uninterrupted with the 359 00:22:30.039 --> 00:22:34.400 opposing field and mentioned which was around eight hundred meters 360 00:22:34.440 --> 00:22:39.279 away across the valley, separated by a large country headerow 361 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:43.240 After around ten minutes of watching the snowfall and we 362 00:22:43.359 --> 00:22:47.200 began to settle, we heard a loud crashing sound coming 363 00:22:47.240 --> 00:22:50.319 from the woods across the valley from us. The edge 364 00:22:50.319 --> 00:22:53.680 of the woodland had a high wire fence outline the 365 00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:56.640 borders the field, running all along gate with a large 366 00:22:56.640 --> 00:23:00.599 wooden style to access the pathway. The fed was around 367 00:23:00.599 --> 00:23:03.079 our own height at the time, so I would estimate 368 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:05.960 that it would have been close to chest tire for 369 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:09.160 an adult. The crashing we heard was a mix of 370 00:23:09.240 --> 00:23:13.839 branches swishing and breaking, right down to actual snaps as 371 00:23:13.960 --> 00:23:17.000 limbs were cracked off by whatever was moving through there. 372 00:23:17.599 --> 00:23:20.440 Although we couldn't see it, we could most definitely hear it. 373 00:23:21.160 --> 00:23:23.559 Being kids at the time, we were pretty scared already 374 00:23:24.039 --> 00:23:27.039 and my imaginations were running away with us. And then 375 00:23:27.079 --> 00:23:32.599 suddenly we saw a large, black, hairy thing. It came 376 00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:36.279 crashing out edge of the woodland and hurdle defense when 377 00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:39.359 as they hurdle and it kind of stepped over it 378 00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:43.599 as if someone would step over a small obstacle, No, 379 00:23:43.799 --> 00:23:47.400 not stepping over something that was what five foot high? 380 00:23:47.599 --> 00:23:50.200 It then ran across the field and super quick time 381 00:23:50.319 --> 00:23:52.200 and jumped the iron gate on the other side and 382 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:57.920 was gone. It was second It seemed to be needless 383 00:23:57.960 --> 00:24:00.880 to say. We both freaked out completely and left our shelter, 384 00:24:01.039 --> 00:24:03.759 climbing up onto the highest point of the opposite side 385 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:07.079 of the valley save a good view of the whole area, 386 00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:11.039 so we knew where it might be. Terrified, we hadn't 387 00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:14.359 made our way back down the valley checking down the floor, 388 00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:16.559 you know, in case this thing was coming after us. 389 00:24:16.920 --> 00:24:19.039 We never went back up there with our bows for 390 00:24:19.079 --> 00:24:22.519 any other reason after that. At the time, I was 391 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:24.880 into a horror you know, and I had a book 392 00:24:24.920 --> 00:24:28.279 called The Handling Book of Horror at home. It had 393 00:24:28.279 --> 00:24:31.720 a section on whre wolves, and I instantly thought that 394 00:24:31.720 --> 00:24:35.279 that's what we'd seen. Now looking back on things, the 395 00:24:35.319 --> 00:24:38.200 creature was upright. It ran like a man with a 396 00:24:38.279 --> 00:24:41.640 loping stride that made it look like it was gliding 397 00:24:41.680 --> 00:24:46.559 across the ground and moving supernaturally quick. The hair it 398 00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:49.680 was covering was black, but a deep black that seemed 399 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:53.319 to give off no details if it was blurer. It 400 00:24:53.440 --> 00:24:55.960 seemed to have a dog like had with a snout 401 00:24:56.160 --> 00:24:59.680