Speaker 1: Hello everybody, you're welcome back. Thank you very much for
Speaker 1: joining me. Tonight we'll be discussing missing people and a
Speaker 1: possible cryptid connection to them. Earlier this week, I was
Speaker 1: asked by a fellow researcher if I knew of any
Speaker 1: cases that resemble the missing four oh one files that
Speaker 1: you hear about in Canada and US. You know where
Speaker 1: people are vanished in areas that are connected to cryptid reports,
Speaker 1: so I thought i'd share some of the ones from
Speaker 1: the UK with you. Sadly, it's impossible to get official
Speaker 1: figures for how often this has happened over the years.
Speaker 1: Even the National Parks will not give any information on
Speaker 1: the number of people who vanish in forested areas in
Speaker 1: the UK annually. Many of my listeners in the UK
Speaker 1: will know of cases like this or to their home.
Speaker 1: Some prime hotspots Sir Araf Bempton Mechanic Chase, but it
Speaker 1: happens all across Great Britain. In an area of Wales,
Speaker 1: there is a mystery surrounding the disappearance of Treveline Evans
Speaker 1: now trevely Line is a fifty two year old woman
Speaker 1: who vanished without a trace from her antique shop and Clangolum.
Speaker 1: On Saturday, the sixteenth of June nineteen ninety Traveline opened
Speaker 1: to shop Attic Antiques on Church Street at the usual
Speaker 1: time of nine point thirty. She had parked of dark
Speaker 1: blue escot about two hundred yards away. During the morning,
Speaker 1: she had many friends calling and visitors and people had
Speaker 1: come to buy things from the shop, and each and
Speaker 1: every one of them said she appeared relaxed, happy, and
Speaker 1: had made plans to go out the night after she
Speaker 1: finished work. The weather that day, according to the police,
Speaker 1: was sunny and the town center was busy but with
Speaker 1: no unusual activity. About twenty to one, Trevor Lyne left
Speaker 1: a note on the front door of a shop saying
Speaker 1: that she'd be back in two minutes. She was never
Speaker 1: seen again. It is known that she bought an apple
Speaker 1: and a banana and was seen crossing nearby Castle Street
Speaker 1: as a banana skin was found in a dustbin in
Speaker 1: the shop after this time, so it thought she must
Speaker 1: have returned there. However, this has never been confirmed. But
Speaker 1: Evan's handbag, car keys, and jacket, along with fruit and
Speaker 1: flowers that she'd intended to take home, were left behind
Speaker 1: in the shop, and her car remained where it had
Speaker 1: been left. The last confirmed sighting of her was near
Speaker 1: her home around about two point thirty, which is just
Speaker 1: on Market Street. There were two more suspected sightings but
Speaker 1: they couldn't been proven. One at two thirty five PM
Speaker 1: of a woman matching her description seen walking along town
Speaker 1: towards the A five towards Corwin, and she was walking
Speaker 1: besides the Riverside Park aad quarters of four. There was
Speaker 1: another sighting this town of a woman walking into Park
Speaker 1: Avenue from the direction of the River D. Every household
Speaker 1: in Clangolin, as well as scores of people from further afield,
Speaker 1: were interviewed. More than one thy five hundred names were
Speaker 1: checked and about seven hundred vehicles were eliminated from the
Speaker 1: inquirer Searches of the River d and the canal. The
Speaker 1: mine chats and caves in Clangollen area were carried out,
Speaker 1: but no trace was found. An artist impression of a
Speaker 1: man in a blaze or apparently seen near the shop
Speaker 1: was drawn and circulated, but there was no use to
Speaker 1: the investigation. Her husband was arrested in two thousand and one,
Speaker 1: but the police had nothing to charge him with and
Speaker 1: they had to release him. In nineteen ninety three, police
Speaker 1: sniffer dog searched a canal near Clangole after a woman
Speaker 1: wrote to the police station that she had been overwhelmed
Speaker 1: by a feeling that Trevor Iron was nearby. But today
Speaker 1: nothing has been found to explain where she went or
Speaker 1: where she ended a journey of life, and none of
Speaker 1: her belongings that she had on her were found over
Speaker 1: the intervening years to wear her shoes and her clothes
Speaker 1: the antique shop and the areas where she was said
Speaker 1: to have been seen. Those areas are very close to
Speaker 1: the River Dee. Along the railway line there is access
Speaker 1: to woodland where a dark, upright doglike creature was seen.
Speaker 1: In twenty sixteen, a woman who lives on a rural
Speaker 1: farm in the area said, I live in North Wales
Speaker 1: in the mountains, not far from Plangolly, and this is
Speaker 1: a new home Furrows and we've lived here for almost
Speaker 1: a year now. The very old house and no one
Speaker 1: has lived in for thirty years, which is built in
Speaker 1: between two old yew trees. We have four acres of
Speaker 1: woodland coppice behind the cottage and that banks onto a
Speaker 1: wood that leads to the forest nearby. And when we
Speaker 1: moved in. I started to explore the land behind the
Speaker 1: garden near the house and work out where I was
Speaker 1: going to put the polytunnel, you know, and plan the
Speaker 1: possibility of creating a forest garden and kind of sort
Speaker 1: out the clearing space for things. It's pretty wild and
Speaker 1: thick with brambles, etc. I should explain that I'm a herbalist,
Speaker 1: so I grow and forage almost daily. And as soon
Speaker 1: as I went up to the level and looked to
Speaker 1: the left where it was quite heavily wooded and dark,
Speaker 1: saying in rhododendron bush, and I felt immediately uneasy, which
Speaker 1: is odd for me, because I love the woods and
Speaker 1: go out foraging, etc. And well always fell a home
Speaker 1: and out and about in the wilderness. A few days
Speaker 1: after clearing the space for the polytannel, we had a
Speaker 1: bonfire to get rid of all the brash. It was damp,
Speaker 1: so the fire made a lot of smoke until it
Speaker 1: eventually got going and burnt itself down. It was getting
Speaker 1: dark and I needed to put the tea on, so
Speaker 1: I left my partner to keep an eye on the
Speaker 1: fire and if I went it was good. Twenty minutes
Speaker 1: later he came running into the house, saying something was
Speaker 1: sliding down the bank towards him, but he couldn't see
Speaker 1: a thing. He could hear it, and he could tell
Speaker 1: it was getting nearer and nearer, and he was really
Speaker 1: genuinely scared. He said he couldn't see anything. The next
Speaker 1: thing that happened that was unusual was when I was
Speaker 1: sat up in a hazel coppice, just chilling out. I
Speaker 1: was watching the squirrels and I think, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, it was a big next to me. It
Speaker 1: came from behind, as if something big had flown past
Speaker 1: my head, and I could feel the wind it made
Speaker 1: on my face as it passed. And I really expected
Speaker 1: to see a buzzard fly down a perch on one
Speaker 1: of the trees, but there was nothing all to be seen,
Speaker 1: and that was really impossible because of where it would
Speaker 1: have had to fly to exit the wood. I'd have
Speaker 1: seen it. It was a wooshing rush of wind, and
Speaker 1: it was long not long after this that I finally
Speaker 1: saw the creature. I was walking my dog in the
Speaker 1: late afternoon in the beginning of October twenty nineteen. I
Speaker 1: decided to go down to the river, which is a
Speaker 1: small wooden bridge that you can cross it on an
Speaker 1: ancient pathway. There. They're a very old church not far
Speaker 1: from my cottage. I got to where there's a big
Speaker 1: oat tree on the bank that looks down into the
Speaker 1: ravine in which the river flows through. That's where the
Speaker 1: bridge is. The trail then leads off onto another pathway
Speaker 1: takes you to an old farm, and as I looked
Speaker 1: down towards a bridge, I could see something and it
Speaker 1: was big and black, and it was coming down that path,
Speaker 1: running towards a bridge from the direction of the old farm.
Speaker 1: I actually thought, oh shit, because the cow's roam free here,
Speaker 1: and you know how they can be when the dogs
Speaker 1: are around. But as he got nearer, it became clear
Speaker 1: to me that I was looking at was not a
Speaker 1: cow or a sheep or anything like that. It was
Speaker 1: jet black and it looked like a giant wolf. But
Speaker 1: it was walking upright on two legs. It had broad
Speaker 1: shoulders and a arm, and it had a thin waist,
Speaker 1: and compared to the rest of its body, I cannot
Speaker 1: say that it had canine legs of front facing knees
Speaker 1: or anything like that, but it was definitely upright, just
Speaker 1: like a human would be. It stopped at the end
Speaker 1: of the path and it's just stood looking towards the bridge,
Speaker 1: and its chest was heaving like it was having trouble breathing,
Speaker 1: or it just you know, there was no breath to it.
Speaker 1: It was trying to get its breath back, and for
Speaker 1: a few seconds I just stared at it in disbelief,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden it was gone. A
Speaker 1: few weeks later I cleared a path near the falling
Speaker 1: spruce that leads to a gate at the end of
Speaker 1: our wood. It wasn't too much work, and after clearing
Speaker 1: brambles and you know, bending and snapping a few branches
Speaker 1: out of the way, it was done. The next day
Speaker 1: I went out to use the path and i'd cleared,
Speaker 1: and at the entrance to it there was a hazel
Speaker 1: branch that had been bent over and it was being
Speaker 1: held down by a broken log, literally blocking the path
Speaker 1: I had made. I went, I got my partner and
Speaker 1: asked him what he thought, because to me, there was
Speaker 1: no way that could have happened on its own, in
Speaker 1: my mind anyway, and he agreed. I have not moved
Speaker 1: the log or used the path because I feel something
Speaker 1: doesn't want me going in that part of the woods.
Speaker 1: Last summer before I saw the creature down near the bridge,
Speaker 1: I decided to get a dog from the local rescue
Speaker 1: and I obviously took him up to the woods to
Speaker 1: explore and have a bit of fun, you know, playing
Speaker 1: with a stick. I didn't really know why, but he
Speaker 1: kept running off as if to chase something, and I
Speaker 1: thought it was squirrels, because we have a lot of
Speaker 1: them here. But when I caught up with him, he
Speaker 1: would just stand barking with his heckels up and the
Speaker 1: you know, and he'd be there back a tree, just
Speaker 1: a thin air, which I thought was very odd, and
Speaker 1: day by day it got worse, and he would just
Speaker 1: stand near the house, backing at the fence and the
Speaker 1: gate that led to the wood. And if you took
Speaker 1: him out of the same you know, walk, you do
Speaker 1: the same thing over and over again. Sadly, he never
Speaker 1: settled and we had to find a quieter home for him.
Speaker 1: We do have a new dog, and she too is
Speaker 1: experiencing things on the land and at home. I spoke
Speaker 1: to our witness and we both realized that she was
Speaker 1: very much connected to the earth and nature. And the
Speaker 1: home was built between two yew trees and as we
Speaker 1: know that can sometimes be a gateway into the very realm.
Speaker 1: I think it's a connection to the land that's important
Speaker 1: here because there is another report of a bear like
Speaker 1: creature seen by a wire camper and his son just
Speaker 1: a few years ago. Now Wild Camp is known as
Speaker 1: mikeh and he contacted me because he'd seen a creature
Speaker 1: he couldn't identify it in the Klangolan area. He said
Speaker 1: it was twenty seventeen. Mike He told me himself he
Speaker 1: was certain that he'd seen the same bear like creature
Speaker 1: seen in the area by other campers when he was
Speaker 1: camping with his son. He explained that he saw a
Speaker 1: large bodied, hair covered creature which was close to his
Speaker 1: camp and it moved off into the brush when it
Speaker 1: got close. Now, this area is known for big cat sightings,
Speaker 1: and Mikey himself has seen cats in the area. So
Speaker 1: one time he told me about being start by a
Speaker 1: big cat. In turn, he started that cat that day
Speaker 1: and found out where it went, but he could not
Speaker 1: identify the creature he saw in twenty seventeen. Now, there
Speaker 1: is a further account at the Ponderosa Cafe where a
Speaker 1: couple so what they described as a lie large black bear.
Speaker 1: It was walking upright like a human. Now, I'm not
Speaker 1: suggesting that Missus Evans was a victim of a cryptic creature.
Speaker 1: I'm just exploreing the correlation. But what I have noticed
Speaker 1: is that in a number of the places where we
Speaker 1: have strange disappearances, we also see reports of cryptic creatures.
Speaker 1: Is the land there cursed and is this why people
Speaker 1: are affected by it or vanished because of it? There
Speaker 1: is also a high number of people to take their
Speaker 1: own life in these areas. Now, this happens globally and
Speaker 1: not just in the UK. Over the years, people have
Speaker 1: been making the connection themselves, now that it's far easier
Speaker 1: to access information on the web. Now, there is one
Speaker 1: case in the UK. It's very puzzling, and it's puzzled
Speaker 1: online Sluice for a couple of years now, and it
Speaker 1: still baffles me, not only in the vanishing of the
Speaker 1: feat femail driver, but also in the way she seemed
Speaker 1: to act against most women's natural instinct, you know, when
Speaker 1: they find themselves in the dangerous situation. But first let's
Speaker 1: look at the cryptid reports in the area. In one
Speaker 1: of the cases, a man is physically pulled from his
Speaker 1: tent by something unseen, and this happened in the Drundonald
Speaker 1: Hill area. Now it is said that fearful locals have
Speaker 1: been reporting a strange ape like beast that has been
Speaker 1: seen on several occasions in the Dundonald area. For centuries,
Speaker 1: it is said that the hill of Dundonald was the
Speaker 1: home of a horrible creature, and not many people dared
Speaker 1: venture out onto the hills alone or with outward reason.
Speaker 1: The dogs of people walking, or are the ones owned
Speaker 1: by the castle, were said to become very restless, agitated
Speaker 1: and excited at times while looking out towards the hill,
Speaker 1: barking and yelping, but never under any circumstances would they
Speaker 1: wander up there, and that's the same behavior as the
Speaker 1: dogs on the barn. He said that frightened locals have
Speaker 1: reported shadows that haunt the trees. One badly shaken man
Speaker 1: related how when walking on the hill, he heard whispering
Speaker 1: voices behind him and turning around he saw nothing, and
Speaker 1: this happened two or three times before he decided to
Speaker 1: take solace with the stiff drink in the local bar.
Speaker 1: Another man reported seeing two ghostly, squat shaped featureless shadows
Speaker 1: that were trailing him by hiding behind the nearby trees.
Speaker 1: These shadows that merged together and became one, growling and
Speaker 1: then growing to there twice their size, and he then
Speaker 1: left the hill, not wanting to see what happened next.
Speaker 1: The same entity has also been described as being able
Speaker 1: to jump straight into the branches of the trees. Don
Speaker 1: Donald Hill is said to exude an air of oppressiveness,
Speaker 1: and several people have taken their own lives, and at
Speaker 1: least one murder has happened there in modern times. Now
Speaker 1: we don't know what happened back in time, what the
Speaker 1: land went through. It could hold the essence of something
Speaker 1: brooding and evil. Josephine Aldridge from England says she will
Speaker 1: never go up down Donald Hill again as long as
Speaker 1: she lives. She had recently been spending a little time
Speaker 1: in Kilmarnock in the summer of nineteen ninety four, deciding
Speaker 1: on the day she visited dun Donald Castle. Now, whilst
Speaker 1: walking on the hill, her two labrador dogs suddenly went berserk.
Speaker 1: They were running around in circles, growling and snapping at
Speaker 1: the air, before finally slinking to the ground as far
Speaker 1: as they could go. The tails tuck beneath them. The
Speaker 1: poor things were then seen crawley backwards in obvious terror.
Speaker 1: Then Josephine saw this huge creature which appeared some distance
Speaker 1: to the side of her. She hadn't noticed it before,
Speaker 1: and she was certain that if it had been there earlier,
Speaker 1: she would most certainly have seen it. It did not
Speaker 1: seem to be solid, as Josephine could see the grass
Speaker 1: of the hill through its body, but it was covered
Speaker 1: in longish, charcoal colored hair. It made no indentations in
Speaker 1: the grass, and Josephine, on reflection, thought it almost ghost like,
Speaker 1: she said. The thing that struck the most terror was
Speaker 1: its eyes. She described them as two long slits which
Speaker 1: glowed a bright red color. She said it had two
Speaker 1: holes where the nose should have been, and very thick lips.
Speaker 1: In fact, it was not dissimilar to a gorilla in
Speaker 1: shape and stance, although it stood well over ten feet
Speaker 1: tall on two legs. Now, when confronted by the strange sight,
Speaker 1: Josephine began to pray. Now the creature, after a few moments,
Speaker 1: slowly faded out of sight, but the dog's attitude never changed,
Speaker 1: and Josephine felt sure that the monster was still around,
Speaker 1: Josephine left on Donald Hill in a hurry, not too
Speaker 1: far behind her whimpering dogs. Now another local man, using
Speaker 1: the pseudonym George, said that he liked to spend a
Speaker 1: lot of time fishing, walking, and camping in the area,
Speaker 1: and he decided to spend a night on the hill
Speaker 1: during the summer of nineteen ninety three. George calling his dog,
Speaker 1: who had never left his side since it had been
Speaker 1: a pup, He arrived just after the sun began to set.
Speaker 1: He erected his one man tent, besigning to settle down
Speaker 1: with a book before turning in for the night. He
Speaker 1: lay on top of his sleeping bag, fully dressed. After
Speaker 1: about an hour, George saw a shadow passed by the
Speaker 1: side of his tent. He was caught in the lamplight.
Speaker 1: It's not it strange that nobody would be in the
Speaker 1: area this time of night. Again, the shadow loomed over
Speaker 1: the tent. It was at this point that George heard
Speaker 1: a terrible sound. It was a rasping, breathing noise right
Speaker 1: up to the tent. But by now he'd convinced himself
Speaker 1: that some of his friends had followed him up. And
Speaker 1: we're playing a joke on him, so he thought he
Speaker 1: wouldn't react, and he laid down again with his book
Speaker 1: and tried to ignore it, but he said, his heart
Speaker 1: then leapt into his mouth as the whole tent began
Speaker 1: to shape violently, as though somebody had tripped over the
Speaker 1: guide rope. This, George went outside to look. His nervousness
Speaker 1: turned into apprehension when he found the area outside totally deserted.
Speaker 1: He clickly went back inside the tent, securing the flaps
Speaker 1: as tight as he could, and by this time his
Speaker 1: dog was whimpering, cowering in the corner, and then the
Speaker 1: tent began to sway, as if caught in strong winds.
Speaker 1: George sat on top of his sleeping bag, now too
Speaker 1: scared to even contemplate sleeping. The secured flaps suddenly burst
Speaker 1: wide open, and the dog, who had never left Georgie side,
Speaker 1: gave out an almighty yelp and ran off into the darkness.
Speaker 1: Someone or something then grabbed hold of George's ankle. Slowly
Speaker 1: but surely, the man was pulled out of his tent
Speaker 1: and he could see no one, and he struggled desperately,
Speaker 1: but the grip did not loosen. When he'd been pulled
Speaker 1: about ten feet clear of the tent's entrance. The invisible
Speaker 1: force lifted George clear off the floor. His head was
Speaker 1: about two inches off the grass. The sky became black,
Speaker 1: and a huge thunderclap rang out, and a streak of
Speaker 1: lightning flashed across the sky. And then suddenly the grip lessened,
Speaker 1: and this thing let go of his ancle and George
Speaker 1: fell limp onto the grass. Petrified, George ran back to
Speaker 1: the tent, the sky clearing as he did so. He
Speaker 1: then spent a very tense night sat at the entrance
Speaker 1: of the tent, being too scared to make his way
Speaker 1: home in the darkness, jumping at every little noise that
Speaker 1: the night made, which seemed to surround him like some
Speaker 1: huge black blanket. He'd call the dog often, with each
Speaker 1: time the dog failed to answer. Morning eventually came, and
Speaker 1: after packing away his belongings, he headed down on the hill,
Speaker 1: and as he reached the bottom, his dog came bounding
Speaker 1: out of the undergrowth towards him, and they both went
Speaker 1: home together. George has never been up the hill since,
Speaker 1: and he has no intentions of ever doing so again.
Speaker 1: He can offer no explanation as to what happened to him,
Speaker 1: only that it was very real. He does express some
Speaker 1: hurt at the dog leaving him a thing which it
Speaker 1: had never done before. But as dogs, unlike humans, do
Speaker 1: not question, they got instincts. I have no doubt it
Speaker 1: hid itself away from danger. He was acting on primal instinct.
Speaker 1: I say, often don't know, as humans are the only
Speaker 1: creatures on the planet that reason away then natural instinct.
Speaker 1: In the next case, I have a hard time understanding
Speaker 1: why the lady who became stranded within half a mile
Speaker 1: of a well lick town walked a mile in the
Speaker 1: opposite direction at night into dark fields. The only explanation
Speaker 1: I can come up with is that she thought something
Speaker 1: prevented her from getting to safety. Now, just south of
Speaker 1: Dondammode along the coast Road, and there's a small town
Speaker 1: of Muncton which itself has a strange mystery attached to
Speaker 1: it concerning an ape like creature, and also the mystery
Speaker 1: of a long female who was found killed by foxes
Speaker 1: and badgers in January of nineteen ninety nine. The police
Speaker 1: of the area were contacted by several people who reported
Speaker 1: and escape Baboon, a spokesperson for straft like police said
Speaker 1: we received a call from a local man who said
Speaker 1: he narrowly avoided hitting a baboon like creature on shore
Speaker 1: Farm Road. A patrol power was sent out and after
Speaker 1: a search of the area, the officer reported seeing an
Speaker 1: animal of some sort that they couldn't describe, and they
Speaker 1: said they could not be sure what it was. Checks
Speaker 1: were made at the airport, which had received a large
Speaker 1: cargo of livestock, but there were no reports of any
Speaker 1: escape baboons, apes or animals. On the tenth of January
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, it was reported in the local Metro
Speaker 1: that a woman's body had been found eaten by foxes
Speaker 1: after she left her broken down car and a dark night.
Speaker 1: The unidentified fifty five year old was found by sniffer
Speaker 1: dogs in Munkton on December nineteenth. Now it's believed her
Speaker 1: body may have been partially eaten by badgers or foxes
Speaker 1: in a field a mile from the spot where her
Speaker 1: car broke down. The fifty five year old from Airdrea
Speaker 1: was waiting for roadside assistance to arrive in mid December,
Speaker 1: and she walked a mile away from a stranded vehicle
Speaker 1: and into by fields in the west of the counter
Speaker 1: police found a body less than a week before Christmas
Speaker 1: around five to five pm on December nineteenth. They've been
Speaker 1: conducting a missing person inquirer after the woman's citron was
Speaker 1: found empty the day before near the coastal village of Munkton.
Speaker 1: A Police Scotland spokesman said around eleven twenty pm on
Speaker 1: December eighteenth, police were called top of a possible abandoned
Speaker 1: car on an unclassified road. Offices attended and the initial
Speaker 1: investigations failed to trace the registered keeper and officers started
Speaker 1: a missing person inquirer. The spokesperson added a day later
Speaker 1: that the women's body were recovered in a field approximately
Speaker 1: one mile from where the car was discovered. The area
Speaker 1: where this happened is less than a mile away from
Speaker 1: where the police searched for the baboon. Is there a
Speaker 1: connection between these cases? That really isn't my main question,
Speaker 1: although it is prevalent. I think my main question is
Speaker 1: why does she leave that car? The weather that night
Speaker 1: was typical for the area for winter, and the car
Speaker 1: was a warmer option to wait for road recovery to attend.
Speaker 1: We know from the newspaper reports that she did request this,
Speaker 1: but she was not at the car. When the mechanics arrived,
Speaker 1: there was nothing that he could do. We had taught
Speaker 1: to stay with the car. Even so, if she thought
Speaker 1: she'd have more luk walking into town for help, why
Speaker 1: did she go in completely the opposite direction. I think
Speaker 1: most females and males would have stayed on the lane
Speaker 1: and walked towards the lights, hoping to get out from
Speaker 1: a car passing by, But she didn't. In fact, she
Speaker 1: went the opposite way, away from the lights, in to
Speaker 1: a dark field where she was eventually found. Very strange
Speaker 1: all round, and I think we would all agree on that.
Speaker 1: Another area of the UK where there is a strange
Speaker 1: report of a missing girl that also has reports of
Speaker 1: mystery eight like creatures seen by locals in the area's
Speaker 1: Box Hill in Surrey. Boxhill is well known in paranormal circles,
Speaker 1: yet it also has a cinister mystery after a young
Speaker 1: girl took a taxi to the hill and vanished, never
Speaker 1: to be seen again. A report was making in twenty
Speaker 1: twelve and the witness in that case said, I was
Speaker 1: by the stepping stones in the summer of twenty twelve
Speaker 1: when this happened. It was late evening and I was
Speaker 1: running on the steps leading up the hill during my
Speaker 1: training session, and I'd heard what I now believed to
Speaker 1: be would knocking. I can't say how many knocks I
Speaker 1: heard because at the time my focus was on training,
Speaker 1: and I didn't know that that would knocks have been
Speaker 1: linked to what I was about to see. I just
Speaker 1: remember thinking to myself, what's that noise? As it was
Speaker 1: so loud but distant, and it seemed to come from
Speaker 1: several directions at once. I finished my training session and
Speaker 1: sat down on the steps to drink my recovery drink
Speaker 1: and just enjoy the cooler hour of the summer evening.
Speaker 1: It was about twenty five minutes before anything happened. It's
Speaker 1: still daylight. I could hear footsteps coming down the hill.
Speaker 1: I didn't look around at this point, as I was
Speaker 1: expecting a dog walker to go by me. I was
Speaker 1: sitting to the side, out of the way. I then
Speaker 1: realized the person walking down the stairs had stopped. I
Speaker 1: could hear the sound of breathing. I had an unsettled
Speaker 1: feeling come over me that I was being watched, so
Speaker 1: I turned and looked over my right shoulder and standing
Speaker 1: there about ten meters back to my right side, and
Speaker 1: up the steps was what I honestly believe to be
Speaker 1: some sort of ape. The fur was brown in color,
Speaker 1: the patches of gray. The face was very human with
Speaker 1: the flat nose, but the jaw was big. It looked
Speaker 1: out of proportion to the head, which was domed at
Speaker 1: the top. The animal stood on two legs but appeared
Speaker 1: to slump forward, and the arms were long in proportion
Speaker 1: to the body. The animal was very thickly built, and
Speaker 1: I can only say solid, solid of muscle. It was
Speaker 1: frightening on the build of this thing. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: the height from the angle I was at, I could
Speaker 1: only estimate probably six ft plus, but I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: The animal stood staring at me for about or thirty
Speaker 1: seconds before turning around and walking off, still watching me.
Speaker 1: As it left, I could smell a stale farm animals,
Speaker 1: and it smelled it kind of lingered in the air.
Speaker 1: I did hear someone had said a creature like this
Speaker 1: had been seen nonning along the Zigzags by several motorists.
Speaker 1: I've never been able to get this confirmed, and sorry,
Speaker 1: police don't seem to want to resust the subject now.
Speaker 1: Other reports in the area include a number of people
Speaker 1: who have been suddenly overcome by that feeling of dread,
Speaker 1: and a number of large black cats have also been
Speaker 1: reported in high numbers in the area. But I think
Speaker 1: the most disturbing case is that off Ruce Wilton, who
Speaker 1: vanished mysteriously in November nineteen ninety five. When her home
Speaker 1: was searched for her, nothing was found. She'd left her
Speaker 1: home in Bexmond, Surrey in the afternoon. Rufe was sixteen
Speaker 1: when she disappeared. She didn't have any lessons in the morning,
Speaker 1: so she stayed at home till about eleven thirty am,
Speaker 1: when she took a taxi into Darken, and about twelve
Speaker 1: noon she went to the florists where she ordered a
Speaker 1: bouquet that was to be delivered to her mother. She
Speaker 1: then went to the library, where she stayed until at
Speaker 1: four pm, and was last seen at the Hand in
Speaker 1: Hand Pub near box Hill at about four point thirty pm,
Speaker 1: when a taxi driver dropped her off there, and that
Speaker 1: was the last positive sighting of her. In the days
Speaker 1: following her disappearance, a number of friends and members of
Speaker 1: the public reported seeing Ruth around the Darking area. There
Speaker 1: were also numerous reported sightings for them all across Britain
Speaker 1: following the national media coverage of the case. However, in
Speaker 1: the eleven years since she went missing, Ruth's family have
Speaker 1: had no contact from her and police have received no
Speaker 1: further calls or clues to a wearabouts. Following her disappearance,
Speaker 1: Surrey Police launched an extensive investigation to try and locate her.
Speaker 1: Police officers, together with a police helicopter and police dogs,
Speaker 1: searched the box Hill area where she was last Sea
Speaker 1: officers were joined by members of the public in the search,
Speaker 1: but thing was found. Over the years, people have suggested
Speaker 1: foul play, either at her own hand or buy another's,
Speaker 1: to explain Rufe's disappearance, but usually in cases like that
Speaker 1: and eventually the clothes of the person are found by
Speaker 1: dog walker a hikers in the area. Nothing has been
Speaker 1: found since Rufe went missing, so there are no clues
Speaker 1: as to what happened to her. A recent video I
Speaker 1: made on the Boxing area of Surrey prompted a local
Speaker 1: dog walker who uses the heaths just to the northwest
Speaker 1: of box Hing to share their strange experience. He had
Speaker 1: won't work in his dog, he said, I live in
Speaker 1: Surrey near a heavily wooded area Heathland. I walked my
Speaker 1: dog there one summer evening. He got darker quicker than
Speaker 1: I realized. In the area I was in as a
Speaker 1: lot of deer rabbits that aren't easily speak by human presence,
Speaker 1: easy pray. You might say, I've never spoken about this event.
Speaker 1: There's the cuttry to the woods. It was so dark
Speaker 1: out that unless you knew the past, you wouldn't know
Speaker 1: it was there. The dog eyed at the time was
Speaker 1: a rescue dog, a bull cross lurcher, and he was
Speaker 1: on a tight leash as he was not good with
Speaker 1: other animals at all. In fact, he was fearless. As
Speaker 1: I walked him. Something crashed through the undergrow to my
Speaker 1: left and you could hear it skiddy along the ground.
Speaker 1: It was pitch black. I let out a scared scream,
Speaker 1: thinking it was a bad job. I'm thinking it'll hear
Speaker 1: me and turn and run, but it didn't run off.
Speaker 1: I expected my dog to defend me, but he didn't.
Speaker 1: It acted very strange. He didn't look back. He just
Speaker 1: kept going, as if to say this isn't for me.
Speaker 1: My mind easily went immediately to the process. The fact
Speaker 1: that the noise was heavy and the skiddy noise was
Speaker 1: the sound of something large, and it was not a dog,
Speaker 1: not a fort, not a badger, not a wild bow.
Speaker 1: As my dog, for sure we have attacked any of those.
Speaker 1: I had it home, puzzled at what had happened. A
Speaker 1: few weeks later, at dusk, we were on the heathland
Speaker 1: which skirted another woodland, and yeah, I began to hear
Speaker 1: knocking on the trees that was comforting deeper in the wood.
Speaker 1: The dog looked at me, and I looked at him.
Speaker 1: I dismissed this as teenage kids in the wood. I
Speaker 1: just ended off, and as I turned to look from
Speaker 1: a safe distance, I heard it again. And this was
Speaker 1: deep in the woods in summer, and from where the
Speaker 1: knocking was coming from. There's no way that at that
Speaker 1: distance I was away, that anyone would still be able
Speaker 1: to not see me. I've seen other people out there
Speaker 1: at this distance. I'm an outdoor person. I've been that
Speaker 1: all my life. I have a lot of countryside knowledge,
Speaker 1: and this is my true account, and I can't explain it.
Speaker 1: I mean, once again, thanks to the all our witness
Speaker 1: was aware of the danger he was in. I've seen
Speaker 1: this behavior in my own dogs, and it terrified me
Speaker 1: and knew that they were scared of nothing, so to
Speaker 1: see them scover their bellies and crawl backwards told me
Speaker 1: I had something to fear that I couldn't see. I
Speaker 1: always hated that part of the wood and I never
Speaker 1: went into it again after that happened. One case that
Speaker 1: I feel is a must to include in tonight show
Speaker 1: is the case of a missing camper in an area
Speaker 1: surrounded by reports of a strange set of wild men
Speaker 1: seen hunting on the road the witness who made the reports.
Speaker 1: I'd like to report an incident that happened to me
Speaker 1: in our guy Le, Scotland. It was down one of
Speaker 1: the single track roads that runs between tay Nolt and
Speaker 1: Delavish along the side of lock Ar. Now there are
Speaker 1: miles and miles of forestry tracks up there and you
Speaker 1: can wander for ages without bumping into anyone. I'm used
Speaker 1: to doing that journey. I've done it often and I've
Speaker 1: never experienced anything like this, and I'll never forget it.
Speaker 1: It happened on a cool night at one am in
Speaker 1: March twenty sixteen. I was coming back from my friends
Speaker 1: and had a drink. I was perfectly sober as I
Speaker 1: was driving. I noticed a movement in the older part
Speaker 1: of the forest and lucier. When I noticed it, I
Speaker 1: was driving and it caught my eye suddenly from my
Speaker 1: left hand side. I was startled by the sight of
Speaker 1: a deal running out of the trees and right across
Speaker 1: the road in front of me. It was running as
Speaker 1: fast as it could. It was in flight away from something.
Speaker 1: I didn't have time to think what was chasing it
Speaker 1: or what it was running from. And as I looked
Speaker 1: back over my shoulders to see the day, it was
Speaker 1: being followed by a large man like creature. This creature
Speaker 1: was really tall and very hair and he was running,
Speaker 1: moving in a fast space. It took one long stride
Speaker 1: and it covered that road. Without thinking, I slammed on
Speaker 1: my brakes. I stopped the car. My eyes were fixed
Speaker 1: firmly on this running man. You see, that thing was
Speaker 1: off as soon as I hit the brakes, and I
Speaker 1: turned to look where the deer and he had come
Speaker 1: from out of the trees, and I saw to my
Speaker 1: left what looked like another one. This figure was emerging
Speaker 1: out of the woods, and it was smaller, younger, not
Speaker 1: so big, a muscled, but a wild man type thing
Speaker 1: all the same. It wasn't looking at me, but looking
Speaker 1: towards where the bigger one had run into the trees.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe that i'd seen. To this day, I still
Speaker 1: question it. It did get a good look at both
Speaker 1: of them. The moon was out and it was a
Speaker 1: clear and clear night. It was not like I could
Speaker 1: have mistaken them. They looked like two wild men that
Speaker 1: were hunting. The first one that crossed over the road
Speaker 1: after the day was probably i'd say about eight feet tall.
Speaker 1: He had hair all over his body, and he was naked,
Speaker 1: and it was hard to tell the color of the
Speaker 1: hair at night, but it was dark, just like the
Speaker 1: smaller one. It wasn't a huge road, but even so
Speaker 1: his stride must have been at least six feet to
Speaker 1: cover the distance in one leap like that. The way
Speaker 1: it moved was startling to me. It was fluid and fast.
Speaker 1: The one on the hill looked smaller, younger, and the
Speaker 1: eyes on it were strange. The smaller one looked back
Speaker 1: at me with reflecting, glowing eyes like a dog does
Speaker 1: in the dark. The smaller one did not follow the
Speaker 1: larger one, but it backed into the darkness of the trees,
Speaker 1: and it was off as it gave me quite a fright.
Speaker 1: I just got out of there. Now in the same
Speaker 1: area the Highlands police officers are searching for a missing man.
Speaker 1: Police Scotland issued a fresh appeal over a miss walker
Speaker 1: after the manbellished in very unusual circumstances. Neil Skinner, seventy one,
Speaker 1: from Doncaster, was last seen close to Locke to Sharding Eye,
Speaker 1: Guile and Butte on the eighth of the fifth, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. Despite extensity searches, no signs of mister Skinner
Speaker 1: had been found and Police Scotland said. His daughter, Kate Armitage,
Speaker 1: said it's been very difficult time for the family, not
Speaker 1: having any news or no answers. Mister Skinner was last
Speaker 1: seen camping close to lock to Jarnie, Scotland. He'd been
Speaker 1: on a walking tour with two friends when he returned
Speaker 1: to his tent alone and he was not feeling well,
Speaker 1: he said. When his friends returned to the campsite expecting
Speaker 1: to find him, mister Skinner was nowhere to be found,
Speaker 1: despite all of his clothes on walking equipment being in
Speaker 1: the tent, along with his phone and his wallet. A
Speaker 1: police search involved in helicopters, drones and diving equipment and
Speaker 1: mountain rescue teams were also carried out, but mister Skinner
Speaker 1: was never found. Mister Skinner is described as being five
Speaker 1: foot eight, his short white hair, have a white, goaty
Speaker 1: tight beard and glasses. He was wearing a green jacket
Speaker 1: and gray walking trousers when he was last seen, so
Speaker 1: it would seem mister Skinner vanished on a lonelylockside. He
Speaker 1: set off for a high with friends and at one
Speaker 1: point in the walk he started to feel unwell, so
Speaker 1: he went back to his tent, stabbed his walking poles
Speaker 1: into the ground, put his kit phone in his tent,
Speaker 1: zipped up the inside of his tent, but not the outside,
Speaker 1: and has not been seen since. His porridge was still
Speaker 1: sleeping outside. The place was untouched. They had so nar
Speaker 1: searched for a body through the waterway, it's nothing. He
Speaker 1: got canine dogs out search in the area. The whole
Speaker 1: area had been searched on foot, even with the helos,
Speaker 1: but there's no trace of him. If he wandered off
Speaker 1: and had an accident or died, surely they would have
Speaker 1: found his clothes or sign signs of carrying birds circling,
Speaker 1: but it was nothing like that. That had been reported,
Speaker 1: and the friends were back within a few hours. He
Speaker 1: was an experienced hiker and he wouldn't have wandered off
Speaker 1: without his phone in his cap Along the same mountain range,
Speaker 1: John McGlynn reported here in a strange whooping sound on
Speaker 1: the twenty eighth of August twenty twenty two. He said,
Speaker 1: I was camping in glen Arkye last week around nine pm,
Speaker 1: really clear, beautiful night. I heard a whoop as clear
Speaker 1: as day. No other noises in the area at the time.
Speaker 1: Do you know of any cases close to where a
Speaker 1: person has gone missing in an area where people report
Speaker 1: strange activity dead. I'd like to see if there's a
Speaker 1: connection between the area itself and what's happening there. Do
Speaker 1: areas like this have a dark attract an endless supply
Speaker 1: of evil? You know, for any human a creature that
Speaker 1: wants to tap into it if it wishes to. If
Speaker 1: this is the case, then we have a lot of
Speaker 1: work on our hands, as I believe we can change
Speaker 1: the energy of an area for the better within the
Speaker 1: correct tools and the will to do so. I hope
Speaker 1: you have enjoyed our show tonight, and if you'd like
Speaker 1: to read the encounters for yourselves. There is a link
Speaker 1: to the BBR websites and the description. I will be
Speaker 1: back with you all next week with another exciting ndition,
Speaker 1: the BBR case Files. I will update you on the
Speaker 1: cryptid creature reports at Bidulph and talk of a strange structure.
Speaker 1: It didn't look man made. But until next week, good
Speaker 1: night everyone,