Deborah Hatswell - BBR Investigations

Paul Moran is a local chap reached out to me as he was leaving the Wigan area and was moving over the border to Scotland within days of me speaking to him. So I arranged to meet him in the area after we had chatted on the phone about the experience he had. As you know often when I do investigations on mining land, especially in Wigan area the tech always fails. I did 2 mic tests before I recorded myself and Paul at the scene. I also took video of us driving in, all worked perfectly. But the interview is silent. So with Pauls permission I have used the video from that day and part of the audio from our original phone call.  Paul Moran: "I grew up in Hill Crest Drive in Leigh, which is in the NW of England. The estate was built many decades before when all of the area was very rural. The land is old mining land and many of the old pit sites are now stocked lakes that people fish on. The rest of the land is left to nature and the path me and my friend took that night is now less than...

Today I am sharing a case with you that took place in North Wales where a young man and his friends saw a Dogman or Werewolf like creature in an area they played in as children.  Nestled at the estuary that sits between England and Wales is an area known as Connah's Quay, and that's where you will find Wepre park. Wepre Park is a 160 acre country park near in Flintshire. The park is home to Ewloe Castle, which was built in the 1100's and it sits on a steep slope within a forested valley. It overlooks the junction of two streams. Set at the mouth of the estuary this is a very strategic spot and was used as a fortification for centuries. Now it is a wonderful SSSI nature reserve which is used by visitors and locals alike, although camping overnight is not permitted.  There is an area in the park known as the Devils basin which conjures up all manner of spooky thoughts, I am unsure how the waterfall received this name, no doubt the answer is lost in time. For all this park i...

Killed on Valentine's Day in 1945, Charles Walton came to a bloody end at a farm in Lower Quinton, the Warwickshire village where he lived. The 74-year-old farm labourer was known to be a slightly unusual character, although he was well liked in the village, where he lived with his niece Edie. On February 14 1945, he was trimming hedges on the farm where he worked, having walked to work that morning carrying a pitchfork and a slash hook - used for cutting branches. Edith returned home from work about 4pm and was surprised to find her uncle not at home. His habits were normally as regular as clockwork, and so after a while she asked her neighbour Harry Beasley if he would help search for him. They immediately went to the Firs and Alfred Potter, Waltons employer joined them as they walked to where Potter claimed to have last seen Charles cutting hedges sometime between 12.00 and 12.30 pm. Mr Potter gave at least three separate times at which he claimed to have seen Walton, in ‘shir...

Whilst working on a pdf of the Cannock chase Sightings I thought I would share these reports of a strange creature seen around the Penn and Lower Penn area. Penn Crouching Wildman 2000's -  The witness who was around 15/16 at the time of his sightings was hunting in fields in the Penn Area of Wolverhampton with his friend. He was in his usual position within the field and had his rabbit gun and a torch to light up the field, but as he was scanning the light across the area, the torch picked up a crouching human type figure, much bigger than an average human and in his own words " it was huge in height and width " his friend promptly ran off leaving the witness alone, so he followed suit and legged it also. He is older now but still certain of what he saw and said " it was not of the normal world ". Penn is a mixture of homes, with huge areas of fields and small woods leading to the Cotwell Nature reserve in the Black Country. Pendeford Creature Road Crossing Ju...

Derwent Water is a place loved by locals and visitors a like. Thousands of family's use the area every year and for all it is rugged, its not a place in the UK known for its Wild Animals. Emma Adams was walking back from the Pike when she had a startling experience. She reached out to me in April of this year.  I have known Emma for several years as she is the witness who saw a Creature with several sets of eyes walk across Limby Hall Lane in Swannington. That time she was with her sister and they were out late at night taking the dog for a run.  Emma contacted me recently after a day out at Upper Derwent water.  Emma and her husband were enjoying a family walk heading up to the pike when they heard a loud growl that came from the trees to their right as they were making their way back to the car.   Emma added "We looked around but saw nothing. We got out of there for sure . it sounded like a "Panther or a big Cat of some kind, we were scared. My h usband grabbed th...

Witness Johnny: " Hi Deb, I was in your live chat tonight and I was trying to get some information to you that I’ve got out about an animal my dad shot on our farm back in 1997 after it had killed 150 of our sheep plus may more kills happened all over the area. At that time even more were going missing and only the bones, skin and fleece were ever found. It was almost like a feeding station or an animal boneyard. As I said my dad got his other farmer mates and some of the gamekeepers out with the spot lamps and they eventually hunted something down in the fields that he said looked like it was a hyena and wolf cross but it’s front feet were shaped like a rats but longer. They were longer than my dad's hand. The men were all standing around it and they were trying to work out what it was and were confused because of how it looked. But they all felt it was for sure what was killing the sheep as it’s canine teeth matched the ones we found on the sheep that escaped it. It was as i...

Witness Report V: " Hi Debbie, First of all I would like to say thank you so much for giving me your time in reading my email. I know you're a very busy lady! I listen to all your podcasts and I think you're amazing. and a great narrator. You give great comfort to people as you're never judgmental of any one. I feel comfortable reaching out to you. Since I found the paranormal community online I have felt so much less alone with my own experiences. Most of my friends don't have an interest in the unexplained or they have had no paranormal experiences, so it just does not resonate with them as it does with me. I will tell you my experiences chronologically. I think my experiences are pretty bland compared to what others have  been through, especially from listening to other peoples experiences. My first strange experience happened when I was a young child. I think I was 5 or 6 years old at the time. I was brought up in the village of Snainton and we lived up at Lair...

BBR Witness B.P: " My name is Brian Poole, I was 56 at the time of this sighting. I live in the UK, on the NW coast, in the small seaside town of Saint Annes Lancashire. The incident I'm sharing happened, in early June, on a Sunday, in the summer of 2012. I was up very early that day and I was taking my German shepherd (Major) for his morning walk on the beach. We were going to attend a car boot sale, that morning, hence the earlier than usual walk. To add a bit of context to call our town, St Anne's on the Sea, is a bit misleading. The tide is usually way out as we live on a tidal estuary. Most of the time, it's a good mile walkout from the promenade, to even get to the tideline. And so it was on this lovely summers Sunday morning, the sun was already high in the sky, giving full daylight and that's when my encounter began. It was 6 am in the morning. The beach was totally deserted, except for me and my dog, we were the only ones out there. We walked the mile acro...