WEBVTT 1 00:00:30.120 --> 00:00:32.320 Hello everybody, and welcome back. Thank you very much for 2 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:36.159 joining me. My name is Deborah Hatswell and you're listening 3 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:42.320 to BBR Investigations. Our cases tonight include cryptids, missing people, 4 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:47.640 and the Scottish connection. Over the last few weeks, I've 5 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:50.359 shared with you the strange case of the lady who 6 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:53.600 went missing in December of twenty twenty two and was 7 00:00:53.640 --> 00:00:56.679 found deceased in the fields in the opposite direction of town. 8 00:00:57.640 --> 00:00:59.960 She'd never been named and the car she was driving 9 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:04.280 was not registered to her. Only a small public announcement 10 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:07.239 was made about a death and the strange circumstances of 11 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:10.959 a disappearance. The corn the rule that she had been 12 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:14.359 predated on by animals and was found with no shoes on, 13 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:18.840 even though it was a cold winter's night. That case 14 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:21.599 took place in Munkton, on the main road leading into 15 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:26.000 the small town. Whilst working this case, I realized there 16 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:28.560 were several missing people in the town who was of 17 00:01:28.680 --> 00:01:32.519 yet are still a bit missing, and I wondered if 18 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:36.680 there was a connection between the strange deaths, the missing people, 19 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:39.840 and the reporters in the area of a large dog 20 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:43.760 like or can iron like creature that's been seen running 21 00:01:43.799 --> 00:01:47.000 on two lakes and also down on all fours like 22 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:50.920 a wolf. I was contacted by residents of the town 23 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:54.959 who had their own experience to share. One which worked 24 00:01:54.959 --> 00:01:58.760 at the nearby aerospace facility that sits alongside the airport. 25 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:02.439 She saw a creature one morning after she was dropped 26 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:06.159 at the facility gate and walked up to the building 27 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:09.639 where she worked. The creature emerged from a shed connected 28 00:02:09.639 --> 00:02:12.719 to the apprentice block. She of course was terrified by 29 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:16.840 the creature, which luckily ran off as she quickly got inside. 30 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:20.520 Running the experience through her head brought back a memory 31 00:02:20.599 --> 00:02:22.879 she had as a child, and she was meant to 32 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:26.520 camp out with a friend one night. This is her 33 00:02:26.599 --> 00:02:30.439 experience in her own words, read out by myself. Then 34 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:33.479 we'll have a look at other areas in Scotland when 35 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:37.080 there are a number of crypt creature cases, along with 36 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:40.560 a number of strange disappearance one very similar to the 37 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:43.360 Monks and one where a young man was seen running 38 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:46.199 from a farmhouse disappearing into the woods and he's never 39 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:51.639 been seen again. But let's start with Munkton. Our witness said, 40 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:54.560 me and my best friend had the idea of camping 41 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:57.319 out in her garden in the summer of nineteen ninety four, 42 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:01.120 as fourteen at the time, lived in a big house 43 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:04.759 about a mile and a half two miles from Munkton Village. 44 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:07.919 The house was in the countryside with woods down one 45 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:11.759 side and curving around the bottom, huge garden. Honestly, it 46 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:14.960 was a dyllic. Her dad found his old tent. We 47 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:17.840 set about putting it up, well, we helped while our 48 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:21.000 dad put it up. We put pillows and quilts inside 49 00:03:21.039 --> 00:03:23.479 as we didn't have sleeping bags, and we asked our 50 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:26.080 dad to take us to the shops for sweets and chris, 51 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:27.719 but we were going to make a night of it. 52 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:31.280 So we were gone maybe an hour or so, and 53 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:34.520 we went into the town of Air and we got 54 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:36.879 back and we went in the house and headed through 55 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:38.479 the house to come out of the back door to 56 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:41.960 the tent. When we got outside, we immediately saw that 57 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:44.840 the tent was wrecked. We just stood there and her 58 00:03:44.919 --> 00:03:48.120 dad was like, showing me you two, and then he 59 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:52.280 saw the tent. It was all torn up, big tears 60 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:55.719 and ripped in it. Cloth was tattered, and this wasn't 61 00:03:55.759 --> 00:03:58.479 really an old tent, and it wasn't a cheap grappy tent. 62 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:02.599 It had kind of lapsed inwards on one side, and 63 00:04:02.639 --> 00:04:06.039 we walked over to look at it. My friend's dad 64 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:08.840 studied the rips and was looking closely at them, and 65 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:11.039 then he said to us, let's go inside. 66 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:12.080 Girls. 67 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:15.080 I remember we were annoyed as it was a lovely day, 68 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:18.439 but we did as he said. We went inside, sat 69 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:20.800 in the big lounge kind of sulking that our plans 70 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:23.600 had been coushed. When a mum came in from where 71 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:25.560 we told her what had happened to the tent and 72 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:28.600 she said she was sympathetic, and she said it was 73 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:31.360 probably the yo old yobs you know, from the nearby 74 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:34.279 village that had done it out of shape badness. So 75 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:37.439 that night we stayed in. We've been out looking forward 76 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:40.439 to camping, you know, but we just camped out in 77 00:04:40.519 --> 00:04:45.040 the room instead, our sweets, watched a film. We did 78 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:48.720 chat about it, but we didn't think of anything sinister 79 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:51.560 and nothing scare. I just really agreed with the mum, 80 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:55.120 so we went to bed. In the middle of the night, 81 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:58.480 we were woking up by this all mighty racket. The 82 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:03.279 dogs were going absolutely baalistic downstairs. She had a Labrador 83 00:05:03.519 --> 00:05:06.759 and a German shepherd. The dogs were in the lounge 84 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:09.600 directly below us, and they were crashing. 85 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:11.000 About, barking. It was quite loud. 86 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:14.519 We opened a bedroom door and a mum and dad 87 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:17.639 came rushing out of their room and said for us 88 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:20.879 to get back in. We waited for them to head downstairs, 89 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:23.279 and then we opened the bedroom door and to listen. 90 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:28.000 The dad was shouting, let the dogs out, let them out, 91 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:30.560 and we were saying to each other, what the fuck's 92 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:33.639 going on? So the dogs were let out and they 93 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:36.279 were barking and snarling and going crazy around the back 94 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:39.720 of the house. We quickly went along to her big 95 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:41.959 sister's room as it faced the back garden. 96 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:43.680 She was away on holiday. 97 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:46.600 We looked out the window and we could see the 98 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:50.040 dogs chasing something past the fish pond down towards the 99 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:52.959 woods at the bottom of the garden. There's a tall, 100 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:57.680 dark shape running on two legs, slightly hunched, running very fast. 101 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:02.079 We both saw it. The security lights are run but by. 102 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:04.759 The time they were past the pond, it wasn't as 103 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:07.720 easy to see as there were bushes and cherry trees 104 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:11.439 and the security lights didn't reach down that far. Her 105 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:13.839 dad was standing on the decking with his shotgun just 106 00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:16.720 below us, and we were scared in case he looked 107 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:19.160 up and saw us, so we snuck back down the 108 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:23.040 hall and went into a room. We were nervous and scared, 109 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:26.560 but kind of excited too. She thought it must have 110 00:06:26.600 --> 00:06:29.199 been an intruder. They asked her if her dad would 111 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:32.399 have shot him, and she said probably not, but he 112 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:34.920 probably took the going out just to scare him. We 113 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:37.480 waited for month and dad to come back upstairs, and 114 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:40.639 it seemed like ages. When we heard the stairs creak. 115 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:43.279 We opened the door and it was a month. We 116 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:46.040 asked her what had happened and was it a burglar, 117 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:48.319 and she said, yeah, it must have been a burglar, 118 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:51.399 but the dogs chased him off. She said that her 119 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:53.959 dad was going to go to sleep downstairs just to 120 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:56.120 be on the safe side, and we should just stay 121 00:06:56.120 --> 00:06:58.439 in our room. She asked if we wanted to go 122 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:00.560 into her room with her, and like, no, it's fine, 123 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:03.199 although we didn't sleep for the rest of the night 124 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:06.399 and we were two worked up. In the morning, we 125 00:07:06.439 --> 00:07:09.120 went downstairs and the mom and dad were talking quietly 126 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:12.800 in the kitchen. We were asking questions about the night before, 127 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:16.639 and her dad said it was obviously a proud looking 128 00:07:16.839 --> 00:07:19.519 for houses to break into. He said he'd bring the 129 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:23.480 police and let them know. So later that day, just 130 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:26.279 before I was going home, a guy arrived at the 131 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:28.439 house and we saw him arriving. 132 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:30.680 I asked my friend who it was, and she said 133 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:31.279 it was a farmer. 134 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:34.279 We were down the road. He spoke to my friend's 135 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:38.040 dad for a bit then left. Being nosy teenagers, we 136 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:40.480 asked what he wanted and the dad said, Oh, he's 137 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:43.800 having some trouble with foxes getting into his chickens. I 138 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:47.279 don't think you know, he's happy about it. And I 139 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:49.319 wondered why he'd come down to tell him that, but 140 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:53.639 he did. They didn't have any animals themselves other than dogs. 141 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:57.199 On the way home, we actually drove past his farm 142 00:07:57.399 --> 00:07:59.439 and as we were driving past, we could see him 143 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:02.399 on his tractor trailer. The trailer had a few dead 144 00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:04.959 cheap on it. Her legs were sticking up, and he 145 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:08.360 gave us the creep. My friend said to her dad, Oh, dad, 146 00:08:08.399 --> 00:08:11.240 look at the poor sheep, and her dad just said, ah, 147 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:14.600 it's bad when you lose sheep. You never mentioned the chickens. 148 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:18.439 Nothing else happened. The intruder never come back, and things 149 00:08:18.519 --> 00:08:21.600 just went back to normal. So cut to a few 150 00:08:21.600 --> 00:08:24.279 weeks later on my back at school and a girl 151 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:27.160 in my class came from a family of farmers. Their 152 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:30.360 farm was just outside my village where I stay. I 153 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:32.679 was talking to her about what she did over the summer, 154 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:36.000 just the normal stuff, and she said that she didn't 155 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:38.639 go to the local cattle show she would usually do 156 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:41.360 as a carth had been killed a few weeks back. 157 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:44.440 I asked her what happened to it, and she said 158 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:47.000 it had been attacked and its head was nearly ripped off. 159 00:08:47.720 --> 00:08:50.399 I was shocked, and I could see that she was 160 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:53.639 really sad about it. I asked if it was a fox, 161 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:55.799 and she said, don't you da have to fox, don't 162 00:08:55.840 --> 00:08:59.039 do something like that. She kind of hesitated and said 163 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:03.639 Dad said it was a shape shifter. She said he 164 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:06.080 had seen it running up the field and it looked 165 00:09:06.159 --> 00:09:09.200 like half a man and half a wolf. I was 166 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:12.000 getting pretty freaked out by this time. She said a 167 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:15.200 calf wasn't the only animal killed. There was a farmer 168 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:17.039 on the road to Monk to him and his sheep 169 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:19.879 had had their throats torn out, and I think those 170 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:22.480 were the ones that we saw on the trailer. Another 171 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:25.879 farmer had cows that were half even. I didn't know 172 00:09:25.919 --> 00:09:28.840 what to think, and then I remembered the tent and 173 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:32.240 the intruder, and the farmer appearing the next day a 174 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:36.559 shape shifter. What did he mean by that? I was 175 00:09:36.679 --> 00:09:41.440 absolutely petrified, thinking what if we'd been in the tent 176 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:45.720 that night. I mean the tent was destroyed during the daytime. 177 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:50.039 It's scared the living daylights that on me, thinking what 178 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:53.080 could have happened at night. It never felt a dilly 179 00:09:53.159 --> 00:09:57.639 after that. It was always a very scary place to me. 180 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:01.799 They moved away the following year, but there's something weird 181 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:04.840 about the whole area deab. Could it have been the 182 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:07.879 same thing I saw five years later? You know, too 183 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:13.000 many strange goings on for my liking. I'm sure today 184 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:16.000 is the anniversary of the woman found, Eddie Munkton, December 185 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:16.799 the nineteenth. 186 00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:17.840 Poor woman. 187 00:10:18.679 --> 00:10:20.559 God knows what she went through that night in those 188 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:26.480 fields alone. It's no blood run cold. The girls and 189 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:28.919 the parents must have been terrified that night, you know, 190 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:33.399 it's understandable. I'm not sure how i'd react in that situation. 191 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:36.440 It seems logical to think that it was just a 192 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:40.960 burglar out chancing his luck or a local peeping tom 193 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:44.279 that the dogs had chased away. This could also be 194 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:49.159 a series of very strange coincidences that have happened since 195 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:53.879 at least the early nineteen nineties up until twenty twenty two. 196 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:58.440 There will be cases not reported in the mainstream press 197 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:02.240 and farmers and managers you know, of strange kills and 198 00:11:02.279 --> 00:11:06.039 missing livestock. Now, there's a great deal of research that's 199 00:11:06.080 --> 00:11:09.919 been done into the large cat population, as this area 200 00:11:10.279 --> 00:11:14.279 has so many reports of a black panther like beast 201 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:20.279 and a strange sandy colored dog like creature. As you know, 202 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:23.240 this is an area with a high percentage of missing people. 203 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:28.039 I found four cases from twenty twenty to twenty twenty two, 204 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:31.279 and for a while now I've been looking at the 205 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:35.240 missing people cases in the areas where we have cryptid 206 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:39.559 creature reports. If you follow the waterways and the locks 207 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:43.159 that head northeast from Munk too, there seems to be 208 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:47.919 several areas that have clusters of strange creature reports, some 209 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:51.639 of which have been investigated and researched for several years now. 210 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:55.399 The locks, you know, forests and mountain valleys have an 211 00:11:55.440 --> 00:11:58.840 ancient thing to them, and it is possible to walk 212 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:01.360 the route from the west of Scotland to the east 213 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:02.399 and vice versa. 214 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:04.399 I believe that. 215 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:08.080 Cryptid creatures use these routes to move around from area 216 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:11.480 to area. So let's start at the very tip of 217 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:14.960 the East coast, close to the Murray Forth, which was 218 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:18.679 named by the Picts using their words for seashore and coast, 219 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:24.360 was previously known as Elginshire. This area has many woodlands 220 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:27.639 and forests and rural areas and some of them have 221 00:12:27.720 --> 00:12:32.000 not changed in centuries. Then we'll visit the locks inland 222 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:35.600 and follow the waterways, and so we reached Munkton once 223 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:39.759 again on the west coast. One case that is startling 224 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:44.720 took place on an unnamed farm in Moorisha. This case 225 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:49.159 is the hyena baboon wolf like creature came into me 226 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:52.639 through email and the witness says, hideb I was in 227 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:55.120 your live chat tonight in YouTube and I was trying 228 00:12:55.159 --> 00:12:57.759 to get some information to you that I've got about 229 00:12:57.759 --> 00:13:00.639 an animal my dad's shop on our farm in nineteen 230 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:03.960 ninety seven, after it had killed one hundred and fifty 231 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:07.679 of our sheep, plus many more kills happened all over 232 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:11.240 the area, not just on our farm at that time. 233 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:14.840 Even more were going missing and only the bones, skin, 234 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:18.480 and fleece were ever found. It was almost like a 235 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:23.120 feeding station or an animal boneyard, as I said. My 236 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:25.360 dad got his other farmer mates and some of the 237 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:28.960 gamekeepers out with the spotlamps and they eventually hunted something 238 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:32.320 down in the fields that he said looked like it 239 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:35.720 was a hyaena and a wolf cross, but its front 240 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:39.679 feet was shaped like a rat, but longer. They were 241 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:43.039 longer than my dad's hand. The men were all standing 242 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:44.960 around it and they were trying to work out what 243 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:48.080 it was and were confused because of how it looked, 244 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:51.120 but they all felt it was for sure what was 245 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:55.039 killing the sheep, as its canine teeth matched the ones 246 00:13:55.080 --> 00:13:58.440 we found on the sheeps that had escaped. It was 247 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:01.879 as if they were all torn to pieces, and there 248 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:04.840 were hundreds of them, as we had twelve hundred odd 249 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:08.840 news on the farm at that time. I can share 250 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:10.960 my story now and I feel that I need to 251 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:14.720 as it's happening again. Recently we found what looks like 252 00:14:14.759 --> 00:14:17.320 a feeding nest that was full of sheep and ear 253 00:14:17.399 --> 00:14:19.840 bones in an old house in the woods that surrounds 254 00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:23.440 our farm. Back then, it was on the news in 255 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:26.240 ninety seven. They called it the beast from the East 256 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:29.720 and blamed a panther for it all and buried the news. 257 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:33.799 It all dates back to November nineteen ninety five when 258 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:37.039 a lurry driver reported a cougar or a mountain lion 259 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:40.679 on the road from Cooper to come in. After that, 260 00:14:40.759 --> 00:14:44.039 the reports flooded in and some people had photographs of 261 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:47.679 bit the animal. My dad's shot was not a cat, 262 00:14:47.879 --> 00:14:50.200 and the vets and the cops took away the body. 263 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:53.399 After they got it back to the farm that it 264 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:57.120 was a hyena baboom wolfing and it stank so bad. 265 00:14:57.720 --> 00:15:00.399 It was like the smell of a male fot, but 266 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:04.919 way stronger. This thing was male and we guessed around 267 00:15:05.039 --> 00:15:10.000 three hundred kilos before we weighed it. We were based 268 00:15:10.120 --> 00:15:13.480 on a mixed arable farm with over two thousand hectares 269 00:15:13.480 --> 00:15:16.639 of land. On the land, we had over two thousand sheep, 270 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:19.799 three hundred and fifty beef cattle, along with multiple other 271 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:23.639 animals like chickens, pigs, pheasants, duck, partridge and the like. 272 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:28.200 As well as those animals, we also had local gamekeepers 273 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:30.919 that stopped the land. As it's all surrounded by thick 274 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:36.279 pine forests. We're in East Scotland, in Morrisha. I can't 275 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:38.519 give an exact area, and we don't want a bunch 276 00:15:38.600 --> 00:15:41.120 of people up here with cameras as all this is. 277 00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:43.080 You know, we're trying to keep it quiet. 278 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:46.399 There's fifteen of us farmers and gamekeepers and we'd like 279 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:47.519 to keep it that way. 280 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:49.399 Anyway. 281 00:15:49.720 --> 00:15:53.480 Back in nineteen ninety six, around December time, we started 282 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:56.159 noticing that we were having a few sheep were missing, 283 00:15:56.759 --> 00:16:00.480 around sixty at first, but then we had all our 284 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:03.679 chickens skilled. One night we had a roundred and fifty 285 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:06.480 birds and they were all dead. So my dad and 286 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:09.559 his gamekeeper mates had a meeting one afternoon and they 287 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:12.840 a grieved. It could be a fox possibly that's what 288 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:16.159 was killing the chickens, as the gamekeepers also had pheasants 289 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:19.279 in big pens and exclosures that had also been killed 290 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:22.559 the previous night. So in a group they went out 291 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:25.039 with the spot lamps and around twenty of us looked 292 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:28.559 in various places around our area. We were wanting for 293 00:16:28.600 --> 00:16:31.600 foxes and we found them. Between my dad and the 294 00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:34.159 other guy is the next few months he'd shot around 295 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:37.240 one hundred and seventy odd foxes they were happy that 296 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:39.639 the problem of the fox was solved, and so they 297 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:43.639 thought things improved for a while, and by October of 298 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:47.360 nineteen ninety seven, we were out taking in the female 299 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:50.080 sheep for sorting we usually to do every year at 300 00:16:50.080 --> 00:16:52.960 this time of year, put the male ransom with them, 301 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:55.240 and when we got to the field where they all 302 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:58.279 were they were supposed to be, there was only around 303 00:16:58.360 --> 00:17:02.039 forty nine yused left out of an original flock of 304 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:06.079 three hundred, and the ones that were left were all bloody, 305 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:08.599 and ten of them had serious. 306 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:09.480 Wounds and had to be put down. 307 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:13.960 Reported this straight away got the vets and the police involved, 308 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:17.359 as my dad thought by what he'd seen the wounds 309 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:20.480 and the sheep with canine in nature, he thought this 310 00:17:20.759 --> 00:17:24.119 as the sheep were basically torn apart. So we all 311 00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:26.160 thought it was no more than a pack of loose 312 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:28.960 dogs that someone had let off the lead, as this 313 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:32.200 seems to happen a lot back then and now, but 314 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:34.119 no one ever questions if it really. 315 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:34.440 Was a dog. 316 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:38.039 The police were alerted and they turned up and the 317 00:17:38.119 --> 00:17:42.000 vets were already on scene doing measurements of the sheep's wounds. 318 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:46.640 The canine puncture marks were six inches wide and penetrated 319 00:17:47.240 --> 00:17:49.559 four to five inches into the flesh of the sheep, 320 00:17:50.119 --> 00:17:53.440 so they concluded it was a dog attack, but that 321 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:56.880 didn't explain the other two hundred and fifty one us 322 00:17:57.039 --> 00:18:00.799 that were missing. There was no sign of them. There 323 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:04.240 were nowhere and the fields were just full of blood, 324 00:18:04.759 --> 00:18:08.319 got skin and fleece and a lot of it. It 325 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:10.359 was that bad Dad had to plow the field to 326 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:12.559 hide it from the main road, as we have a 327 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:15.319 big road that runs in front of the farm and 328 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:17.119 that you could see to the field where they were. 329 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:20.359 So they went the corps and it was eventually on 330 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:23.079 the news about sheep being found ripped to bits on 331 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:26.519 the neighbor's farm as well as I was, plus around 332 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:29.480 four other farms had experienced the same thing happening to 333 00:18:29.599 --> 00:18:32.720 their sheep as well over the last year or so. 334 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:35.880 The authorities suggested on the news that it could be 335 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:38.920 a panther or a puma or a pack of dogs 336 00:18:38.920 --> 00:18:42.400 that was causing all this, but it's still unclear, and 337 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:44.640 that's where my dad got the group together to look 338 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:47.960 for it. It was made up of farmers and gamekeepers 339 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:50.400 and they went out with their vehicles and spotlights to 340 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:53.680 see if they could track down those supposed packs of 341 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:56.680 dogs or a puma or a panther that was being 342 00:18:56.759 --> 00:18:59.920 blamed for killing the sheep. We were all out looking 343 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:02.079 for a few hours and we only saw a few 344 00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:05.519 badges in the distance. You know, with all nocturnal animals, 345 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:07.079 they give off an eye shine when you hit them 346 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:10.279 with the high intensity you like. We saw nothing out 347 00:19:10.279 --> 00:19:12.960 of the ordinary until we went back to the field 348 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:15.880 as sheep had been killed in the previous days, and 349 00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:18.960 my dad caught some eye shine around five hundred and 350 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:22.240 six hundred yards out. With the spotlight in the middle 351 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:24.559 of the plowed field, we could see something was out 352 00:19:24.559 --> 00:19:27.160 there looking back at us. So Dad said to my 353 00:19:27.279 --> 00:19:30.160 uncle that was driving to stop the vehicle. I was 354 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:33.680 too young to drive. Dad got out his rifle and 355 00:19:33.720 --> 00:19:36.559 it had a magnification scope on it. Took a closer 356 00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:40.440 look of what was basically staring at us, and it 357 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:44.480 just stood still. When Dad got the rifle scope on it, 358 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:46.759 he said to my uncle to bring the light off 359 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:49.279 to the side so we could get a better look. 360 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:52.640 And what Dad said then chilled me to the bone. 361 00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:57.000 He said, it's a fucking wolf. Fucking thing. I could 362 00:19:57.039 --> 00:19:59.480 hear the fear in my dad's voice, he was trembling. 363 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:03.920 All this happened in around fifteen seconds, and this thing 364 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:07.519 just stood down on our foes, looking at us. I 365 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:09.559 heard Dad pull a ball on the gun and let 366 00:20:09.599 --> 00:20:12.079 off the safety. He never took his eyes off it, 367 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:14.599 and then he whispered to my uncle to turn the 368 00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:17.960 lights directly on it again. And when he did, my 369 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:21.880 dad kind of jumped as this wolf eachure stood up 370 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:25.000 tall on its back legs and was sniffing the air. 371 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:27.880 And in a split second, it was back down on 372 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:30.160 our foes and it looked like it was going to 373 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:32.799 leap into the tree line, but my dad let off 374 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:36.720 a shot. I will always remember the deafening noise the 375 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:39.960 rifle made as he pulled the trigger and hit it 376 00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:43.359 directly in the ribs from the left side to the right, 377 00:20:43.559 --> 00:20:48.440 in unclean shot. We heard a thud as the bullet 378 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:51.880 hit and it went down. We drove slowly over to 379 00:20:51.960 --> 00:20:55.079 it and was absolutely in shock what we all saw 380 00:20:55.240 --> 00:20:57.960 in front of us. This any one which my dad 381 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:01.000 thought looked more like a hyaena with the baboon and 382 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:04.000 a dog or a wolf his front feet with a 383 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:07.480 most scary thing. They looked like the front feet of 384 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:11.680 a rat, but were longer thicken on the humans. And 385 00:21:11.720 --> 00:21:14.279 as we were all stood round it, no one said 386 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:15.000 so much. 387 00:21:14.839 --> 00:21:16.880 As a word. We were all just shocked. 388 00:21:17.960 --> 00:21:21.000 Every one of us was scared to touch it. So 389 00:21:21.079 --> 00:21:23.839 Dad phoned the gatekeeper that was closest to us at 390 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:26.640 the time, and he came around with six other guys 391 00:21:26.680 --> 00:21:29.720 and they pulled it onto a hard sum fertilizer bag. 392 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:32.759 It was so big and heavy they pulled it back 393 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:36.880 to the farm. In all there were around thirty people, 394 00:21:37.079 --> 00:21:40.319 including the cops that came up to view it. Once 395 00:21:40.359 --> 00:21:43.599 theyge finished saying whatever it was they were talking about, 396 00:21:43.720 --> 00:21:46.559 the vets took the body away with them. We only 397 00:21:46.559 --> 00:21:49.119 had access to it for about three hours, but that 398 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:51.799 was enough time to get a look at its body clearly. 399 00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:55.640 I would say that the closest thing I could resemble 400 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:59.160 it to was from the movie American woolf in London. 401 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:03.640