Deborah Hatswell - BBR Investigations

I first met Jas Smith back in 2011 when I was activity seeking out fellow witnesses to the UK Wildman. Jas was a young man when he had an experience he has never forgotten and he has gone on to investigate Bigfoot globally and has done for a number of decades now.  Jas Smith: " The first time this happened to me was in October 1978 when I lived in Sevenoaks, Kent. I lived in a street with a series of houses which was laid out in an oval. The street itself has around 40 houses or so and then its just greenbelt with fields to the left and countryside, woodland for a few miles. The countryside was pretty thick in places, some pine forests and then oaks and birches quite diverse. So I guess you could say I was on the outskirts of the town. I was 10 at the time, I do remember that it was a Sunday night and we were all waiting to watch "How the West was won" on the Telly. It was a pretty cloudy and foggy, a still night that I remember. I went to my kitchen to make a cup of tea...

Man-Monkey of Ranton - (Historic) - On the cold and moonlit night of January 21, 1879, a man was riding home with his horse-and-cart from Woodcote in the county of Shropshire to Ranton, Staffordshire. Enveloped in darkness, he pulled his jacket tightly around him to keep out the biting wind. Approximately a mile from the village of Woodseaves and while crossing a bridge over the Birmingham and Liverpool Canal, the man got the shock of his life. Out of the trees leapt a horrific-looking creature. Jet-black in color and with a pair of huge, glowing eyes, it was described by the petrified witness as being half-man and half-monkey. The creature jumped onto the back of the mans horse (which bolted out of sheer fright) and a fierce battle for life and limb began atop the cart. Incredibly, according to the man, when he attempted to hit the beast with his whip, it simply passed straight through its body. Suddenly and without warning the spectral man-beast vanished into thin air, leaving an exh...

For me this is one of the saddest accounts i have ever read. Dartmoor 1948  Possible capture - While working as a nurse at the Royal Western Counties Hospital, Devonshire, in 1982, Britain’s leading cryptozoologist Jonathan Downes (of the Center for Fortean Zoology) was told a strange tale by one of the staff doctors who, at the time, was then approaching retirement. According to the doctor, he had been on duty one morning in the winter of 1948 when he received several unusual telephone calls from local officials, and all informing him in a distinctly cryptic manner that a highly dangerous patient, who had been captured on the wilds of Dartmoor, would be brought to the hospital within the hour, requiring specialist care and an isolated room.  Within 45 minutes a police van arrived at the hospital and backed up to a side door. Seven policemen jumped out of the vehicle while simultaneously trying to hang on to what the doctor said resembled a hair-covered caveman. The poli...

Cumbria 1998 - The Beckermet area of Cumbria was apparently the location of an intriguing incident in January 1998. According to a letter to the editor published in the Whitehaven News of March of that year: It was about 5.00 p.m. and starting to get dark so my visibility was not that good, but as I walked past the woods I heard the snapping of branches. Thinking it was an animal, I stopped to try and see it. Looking through the trees I noticed a large creature covered in a sort of ginger brown hair that seemed to be drinking from a pond about 150 meters into the woods. As the lighting was getting bad I was straining to make out what it was, but as I stopped and stared, it appeared to notice me. At this point it reared up onto its hind legs and made off slowly further into the woods. I would estimate its height when upright to be around six feet six inches. 

SIGHTINGS- EXMOOR - Hangley Cleeve, has been the scene of two sightings. Seen in a local quarry by one man, and on the nearby barrows by another, was a figure, described, almost identically, by both of the witnesses as "A large, crouching man-like form, covered in dark, matted hair and with pale, flat eyes" The figure was obviously quite frightening to one of the witnesses, as the man who apparently later went on to became a renowned big game hunter in Africa, described, long after his encounter with the creature, that it was "Absolutely the most terrifying thing he had ever seen

Colchester (June, 2012) - Suffolk is a very rural county, but like all of England, a long way from anything remotely like wilderness! Anyway it was early afternoon and we were walking along a quiet road. To our left were some woods and to our right open some fields. We were just walking along, chatting when my partner said something like “oooh, I’ve just seen a big hairy man in the woods”. I had a brief look into the woods and didn’t expect to see anything – I didn’t. Nevertheless I was keen to get away, not scared exactly, just keen to get away.Anyway that was about it. I didn’t discuss it too much with him until a few weeks ago. He said the figure was about 6.5 – 7 feet tall; seemed to have longer hair on the head and upper body. It was following a parallel course to us in the woods. I asked him if it had looked at us. He said he didn’t remember, but the fact that it may have looked at us is what may have caught my partners attention in the first place. My partner said he could detec...

Arrived at killhope about four oclock, i was interested in the area as the last time i researched here, i heard a loud scream as if a woman was screaming in the wood. We parked car and went into the woods, half way in came to trail blocked by falling trees, as we entered we heard a knock, we went further in bit of a gorge tried go through but again blocked by falling trees as we left heard another wood knock, we carried on up to the dam at top. It started to rain so went back car to get our waterproofs on. we decided to go for a walk around the perimeter, but as we got to the top heard few branches snapping and breaking, at the time we put it down to  animals and carried on walking around. it took ages and nothing more happend so as we get ,backto the car we decided to go through the dense trees, very creepy luckily i had gps otherwise i would of gotten lost.  We came onto a path walking back, I shined the torch behind us and saw a dark figure shoot past very fast across the ...

me and a friend had got up at first light,packed up and was on the move just after sun rise,as we strolled along my mate suddenly stopped and said 'can you see that?' i looked over to where he was pointing and saw something looking back at us across a small clearing,it stood about 7ft tall and all i can describe it as is 'not of this world' (am getting goosebumps while i'm writing this)we sort of calmly walked off at a very fast pace without looking back.to be honest i sometimes get the creeps when im camping out at night remembering it. and no we hadn't been drinking.

"wistman's woods on dartmoor is a very nice place many years ago i learned that dartmoor was originally covered in miniature oaks , which brought me to research the area its self . as a avid fan of the unknown i started looking and researching , on many camping trips there as a young one i used to find strange structures made from rocks and wood eg : a design like a mounding grave , lean twos and also trees bent in to to form a x shape . i have also been and looked around the caves in and around wistman's wood i dint not stay in them for very long as it felt like i was being watched , later in life i started to think about these things and read reports on forums and webpages about wild men living on the moorland ( Bigfoot). many people think of me and others that research and have had in counters raving mad , as a child and teenager i have had many dealings with strange going on's on dartmoor things i cant explain , being watched and the feeling of something being near...

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THE DOONES, EXMOOR, DEVON - A woman walking home after dark reported seeing a hair covered creature which she described as a "grey man with a wolf's head, apparently stalking a large rabbit." The creature vanished when disturbed by a stag that ran out from a nearby wooded area.

Terrified witnesses fled as the beast came within metres of them, seeming to appear from nowhere. Warehouse worker Anthony Cooper, 42, told us: “It was around lunchtime. A lot of people are saying they heard something like a growl, but I didn’t. “I heard a rustling noise in the bushes. “As soon as I turned my head I could see something in the trees - a large black shape moving slowly. “It was acting as if it couldn’t even see me. It just strolled past, at a distance of about ten feet, went into some thicker bushes and was gone. I called some more people over, but as I did, they ran over telling me what they had just seen. It was an eerie feeling.” Eyewitness Claire Clarke, receptionist, said: “It was around midday. I was walking through the woods with my boyfriend, Carl. “We were talking as we walked through the woods. All of a sudden I felt him let go of my hand and he shouted, ‘look!’” Just ten feet away from them the black creature prowled past, as if it hadn’t even s...

SALFORD, England — A 48-year-old woman claims she saw a Bigfoot-like creature at a public park with a golf course and a tennis court in Lancanshire, north west of England. Buile Hill Park. Credit: Keith Williamson. CC BY-SA 2.0 Buile Hill Park. Credit: Keith Williamson. CC BY-SA 2.0 Retired cook Deborah Hatswell told Cryptozoology News that she was truanting school in 1982 when she and a friend had the face to face encounter with the beast at around 2 p.m.. “We decided to skip the afternoon lessons and go and hide out in the park till the 3.30 p.m. bell. There is an old mansion called Summerfield in the north of the park, huge golf course and lots of trees and bushes and places to hide,” she said. Hatswell states they had been playing around the Buile Hill Park area for about two hours when they decided to lay on the ground to take a break. “We were just being silly giggling and playing around, it was warm and sunny and a really nice day.” Suddenly, she said, she noticed a “sligh...

COLD HESLEDON, DURHAM (10th October 2010) - In a lane that led away from local public house the Pemberton Arms, a couple saw a dark bipedal figure with glowing eyes which they said was seven-foot tall. The couple watched it for around fifteen seconds before it screamed and dropped from view. 

DORRINGTON, LINCOLNSHIRE - (Nov 1970) - A man who spotted a half-man, half-animal entity was so scared he called the police. Various postmen in the village talked of seeing strange things, but it is unclear whether these are the same entity as the November sighting. It has also been speculated that the sighting may be connected to an old Anglo-Saxon burial ground close to the bridge

BABBOON SIGHTING? - ELVEDON, SUFFOLK (19th May 2011) - A lorry driver reported seeing a hairy, light grey creature on all fours moving through grass around ninety metres away. The driver could see the creature had forward facing eyes, a long snout, and upright ears. The creature then stood on its hind legs and approached the driver, moving like an ape, before dropping once again to all fours and running off, peering over its shoulder as it left. - 

Wychling woods (Kent) is known for its weirdness, strange things happen here, every time we have been in the woods, odd and strange things have happened either to the guests one by one, or to the whole group en mass. We may have been tempting fate to be here on Friday 13th, but that only counts if you are superstitious! We aren’t. Our first session was in a familiar part of the woods, this area has in the past been very productive and many paranormal occurrences have taken place. This evening was no different. We started by just calling out for spirit to step forward, there was a high level of KII activity and plenty of communication from spirit via our communication device. Whilst this was going on one guest (who has been on various ghost hunts many times) jumped and exclaimed that he had just heard a footstep beside him, no-one else heard it. As we continued strange whistles were heard, sometimes in response to our whistles but many were not. Then out of the blue we all hear...

Richard Roberts, Coederaill, Bylchau, when a young man, worked in Flintshire, and instead of going to a place of worship on Sunday he got into the habit of wandering about the fields on that day. One fine autumn Sunday he determined to go a-nutting. He came to a wood where nuts were plentiful, and in a short time he filled his pockets with nuts, but perceiving a bush loaded with nuts, he put out his hand to draw the branch to him, when he observed a hairy hand stretching towards the same branch. As soon as he saw this hand he was terribly frightened, and without turning round to see anything further of it, he took to his heels, and never afterwards did he venture to go a-nutting on Sunday.

 am a local person who has lived at the bottom of  creech hill for 19 years. We regularly hear these chilling screams late at night and I have also seen a very  tall,gaunt hunched shouldered man walking through the path in trees. The dog was running behind him and he didn't like it.  I left the field very quickly!

We went for a walk around the woods. We met a sweet, little toad who was enjoying the rain and we think we found a badger set. As everyone was exploring I saw a shadow figure really close to me, dash from one tree to the other. I quickly looked behind me. Although the figure did not look like anyone from the team, I just had to check. They were all a little way behind me, still looking at the badger set. I just stood there in disbelief. Although it was raining, the night was very still and there was no wind. Suddenly as I looked at the tree at which the shadow ran towards, all the branches at arm level just separated as if someone had pulled them apart and passed through. The invisible person must then have let the branches go again as they all suddenly snapped back into place. There was absolutely nobody there and no animal of any sort. The branches were just a couple of feet away from me. This was exciting. Vikki heard a growl right beside her, again nobody or no animal ther...

'Kevin', told us his car is often scratched after a night in the layby, and "the others" have heard stones hitting the roof of particular vehicles, and sticks have landed on the windscreens. I suggested it might be other groups of kids, but he was quite adamant that there's no-one brave enough to "mess with my motor". So, patient reader, I suggested to Kevin the overhanging trees may be the cause. I was told, in a matter of fact manner, it "wasn't the trees".  So, that leaves myself, Matt and George sitting in the car alone, awaiting the "witching hour". I insisted it had to be midnight, not so much for technical reasons, but to add a little ghoulish fun to the proceedings. We were all in good, humorous moods (no alcohol was involved, sadly), and sat patiently chatting about previous investigations. Then, suddenly, at 23:45: "Thunk!". A lichen covered branch, approximately 40cms long, appeared on the windscreen. George, ...

The Blackentrack Woods are well known to the people of South-East Cornwall, forming part of a much larger ancient woodland(kilmnorth woods) I begin to suspect there is someone in the woods, with us. There are just too many noises, and movements, glimpsed out the corner of the eye. I called out, several times, for someone to show themselves, or make themselves known; but apart from a worried response from Lorraine,(she had just been hit by a stone, coming straight from the woods to our right) no-one answered my call. I continued on my walk, to the top of the hill. Lorraine recounts her experience to george. They are both happy to sit by the Beech Tree, and experience the atmosphere around them. So, they were both pulled from their relaxed state when several stones were hurled at them from the trees which surround them. Several of the stones hit the tree trunk, making quite loud 'cracking' sounds, while others struck the two terrified ghost-hunters on the arms, and legs. Fearing ...

some fantastic work here by  John Chick  and  Jas Smith  We have had the theory for along time now, that the wildman follows the railway line for some reason. jas kindly overlayed our map with the current railway network and theres a surprising correlation between them. now it could be for many reasons unknown to us, and every thing is guesswork, but layed out like this it makes me even more determined to work out their secrets. is it ease of access? abundance of wild edibles we dont even recognise anymore? is it a snack stop for small critters? shelter from the elements? or just a place humans dont go? an interesting find all the same

i and two friends were in the south east of hope wood, in the hopes of catching a few rabbits or martins.  we were hunkered down at around 5.30am but a good moon and still dark, ideal stalking conditions, i noticed off to my right a shadow move across the tree to my left i nudged and motioned to my friends to look, and two more crossed to the left, they were hunched dark shapes about 4 or 5ft high, i got excited as i thought muntjack, at which point one of the figures stood up. it looked human but was no ranger, it was atleast 7ft tall, no sooner did i do a double take the two others stood as well and they walked off to the left into the dark.we heard a deep growl  we were just puzzled. but to wary to investigate further, im convinced it was not human, the frames were just  too large and they moved as if they were shadows..........i asked the witness if all figures were 7ft, he said they varied between 6 and 7ft.  were they a family or hunting party maybe after the s...

I have lived in the countryside, most of my life, i know my herbs and can live quite happily outdoors, i have a wide knowledge of the UK fauna and flora and am an active learner of primitive skills. I camp wild alot so im used to the sound of the woods at night and her many nocturnal noises, and that is the reason these howls stood out to me, they were out of the ordinary. Much louder and with more resonance than anything i have heard before. I don’t scare easily and can debunk most of what i come across outdoors, but on this occasion i have no explanation for what i heard. I was camping just outside Dolgellau a few years ago and had a strange feeling i was being watched from the woods down by the river a feeling i couldn’t shake throughout the day, then about four in the morning we got woken up by what i can only describe as mournful howling. I have never heard anything like it before and live in the middle of nowhere surrounded by woodland so i know all the usual night sounds. I re...

Alex Northley's Encounter This encounter occured in the Goyt Forest, in the Peak District. Alex spends a lot of time in the area and knows it well. Here is his encounter, in his own words, how it was told to British Bigfoot Research. . . . "A few days ago, I had an interesting experience in my research location. I hadn't visited the location for about a month, as I was using my free time to search for Deer antlers in a Deer Park not far from my house. Anyway, I decided to head over to the forest where there is a wild population of Deer, to see if I could find any antlers. A few hours in, I had just descended down a steep slope into the forest that lies in a valley, and started making my way down to the bottom where I have to cross a river. Got down to the bottom, crossed the river, and made my way up to a logging road. About 10 minutes after I had reached the logging road and had walked a little further down it, I heard a series of VERY loud knocks, which sounded ...

my husband and myself were camping in willingham woods, as we are keen bird watchers,  on the first night everything was fine, on the second night we were startled by a loud screech/howl  not a noise we have heard before, i asked my husband what bird it was but he had no idea, we left the tent as it was about 3am it was very quiet and still, off to my left about eye to eye with myself i saw greenish eye shine,  that settled us as it was dark and my husband explained it was probably just an owl, at that point the owl stood up to about 7ft and started to "walk" off away from us.  we packed up at 6am and will not be re-turning

i received this sighting from a friend, she is a member of a paranormal group.  in sept 2011 they were planning a 4 night stay in weardale, commonly known as killhope woods, due to the nearby killhope mine.  these areas are both classed as highly haunted and many local tales tell of a screaming woman and tall dark figures that haunt the wood,  on the first night they heard a loud knock of to the west, they asked the usual questions and received no more knocks, at the end of the night they settled into bed, after about an hour they heard a blood freezing scream, they got up had a look around but didn,t see anything.  the next night they started there evp session and received nothing, they decided to investigate the area where the knock came from,  they knocked and heard a reply in the distance to the north,  happy about this they knocked again and recieved a knock to the south,  to their horror they were then surrounded by knocking, which got closer and...