Ape Man Sighting In Kent 1978 and 1987

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 and in our house we didn't have at the time any double glazing. It was a one sheet glass window pane with metal partitions so when we had to cook or boil a kettle condensation would occur. I waited in the kitchen for the kettle to boil and out of the corner of my eye, I saw a face appeared in the bottom pane. 

At first I thought it was just my reflection in the grass and then I looked again. This time the face pressed up hard against the window. It was that of chimp and human style face, it was youngish I would say. I pretended I didn't see it but I was absolutely terrified inside. I left the room quickly and sat down motionless in the front room, I couldn't say a word. I decided at the time to draw it straight away. As an addition to this the face resembled that of a chimp as it had a short snout, it was black/brown and it had brown eyes. 

The second encounter happened in my late teens, early twenties around 1987 or so. We used to go to this hill to meet up called One Tree Hill, we usually went after the pub was shut to have a BBQ and drink beers to the early hours. Now One Tree Hill is on top of rocky ridge, its kind of strange place as there is just this one tree that has a bench beside it and for 200 yards or so its clear right to the ridge. With a 30 yard width and either side of thick scrub and trees. 

On this night in particular which was clear but a little cold, my friend and I arrived ahead of the other party goers to start a fire. We parked the car and made our way to the bench which was about a 5 minute walk or so. My friend started gathering wood from the left side and I started from the right. About 10 minutes in, I heard a deep, very deep growl. I dismissed it as the noise from the cows or sheep in the valley below. But then a couple of minutes later I heard it again, this time it was deeper and more defined, whatever it was was on my side and coming my way. It had real depth to it, that gave the impression it was of a significant size. I placed my firewood on the fire and at the same time my friend joined me. Just as we did so the grunt sounded again, this time it was a matter of yards away and very loud. I looked at my friend, my friend looked at me, and we both said RUN!! As I ran I caught a glimpse of a bipedal figure illuminated from the treeline and it was huge. 

Now the next day, less than 1 1/2 miles from the area a lorry driver, driving through a remote road, said he had nearly hit an "orangutan" at 630 in the morning. The driver stated that it was "orangey red" in colour. This was on the road from Ide Hill to Sevenoaks south. This made the local newspapers the same week. I didn't tell anyone.