The British Bigfoot at YouTube Debate Reaches the Media

The controversy surrounding the YouTube footage said to show a Bigfoot-style beast in Britain's Peak District has now reached the eyes and ears of the nation's media - albeit very briefly! Here's the link.

The British Bigfoot on Film: The Controversy Continues

Well, in the wake of my earlier post about alleged footage of a British Bigfoot posted at YouTube, I've been contacted by five people who claim to have in their possession either (a) footage or (b) photographs of such similar beasts. Time will tell if anything ever comes of these claims. If the evidence surfaces, or even if the tales simply evaporate into nothingness, I'll keep you posted.

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A British Bigfoot at YouTube? A Hoax? You Decide...

I was alerted earlier today to this piece of footage that was posted at YouTube, and that was supposedly taken in Britain's Peak District. From the accents of the people present, it sounds like they are from the Stoke-on-Trent/Rugeley/Stafford areas of Staffordshire. The film briefly shows something man-like in the woods.

Of course, You-Tube is full of films like this...

The Man-Monkey: A New Encounter

Hopefully, in a week or so, I'll have the complete details of a new sighting of the infamous Man-Monkey of the Shropshire Union Canal's Bridge 39. This encounter reportedly occurred at in the summer of 2007. More details soon as I have them all.

My New Book And The British Bigfoot

As you'll see from this link, Anomalist Books have published online-details of my forthcoming new book: There's Something in the Woods. Those of you interested in the British Bigfoot will find lots of material in its pages to keep you occupied. I'll keep you posted as soon as I have the exact publication date.

Man-Beast Mysteries

A story that surfaced to me in 2000 and that most definitely deserves a mention here came from a man who declined a personal meeting with me and even declined to reveal his name; but who, in a lunchtime telephone-call, briefly told me how he had personally heard of an encounter with a strange creature at the height of the Second World War.

According to the tale, the man was a twelve-year-old in 1943 when a young evacuee – a boy of about nine or ten who hailed from somewhere in London - came to stay with his immediate neighbors: in Woodseaves, a village in Staffordshire that has been the scene of more than a few man-beast-type encounters since the 1800s.

The pair would regularly play in the woods and fields around Woodseaves during the summer of that year; however, a degree of dark melancholy overcame the young Londoner when he confided in my caller that he had overheard the husband and wife he was staying with quietly discussing one night a strange event that had occurred several days earlier: namely the sighting by the husband of a large, hair-covered thing "like an upright bear" that had been seen walking menacingly through Woodseaves shortly after midnight.

The witness had apparently been deeply disturbed by the encounter and swore his wife to complete and utter secrecy. My source knew no more than that and had not spoken to the boy from London for more than half a century; however, for what it was worth he said that he wanted to relate the details to me, as he thought I would find them interesting. I most certainly did! I thanked the man and he quickly hung up the telephone; never to call again.