The Medway Route, So Many Cryptid Reports all in one Place.

The Beast of Blue Bell Hill 1500's

The so-called 'beast' of Blue Bell Hill has existed in one form or another since the 1500s when a mysterious creature was spotted near Boxley and reported by the villagers and stockmen.

On August 5th 2009 a sheep was killed not far from Blue Bell Hill at a farm which had never in 40 years, suffered a sheep loss until now. In the area two piles of fresh excrement were discovered next to the contents of the sheep's gut (digested grass) and a few yards away the eaten, and cleanly rasped remains of a sheep

The Kits Coty, Giant Hairy Man Ape 1940's


I was contacted by a YouTube user who was watching a video on an account I had released in 2017 on The Medway River Area of Kent, the video triggered a memory told by a Mother who had a school friend when much younger who had witnessed a similar hairy creature which she called "The Giant Hairy Ape Man:" I remember my Mother telling me this story about a school outing where a young girl saw something very strange that scared her, so when I heard your accounts online from other people who lived around The Medway I thought you may find Mum's story of interest.

My mother grew up around BlueBell Hill in the 1930's and 40's. She told me that her class had been taken on a nature walk as a school outing to Kits Coty Barrow, an ancient Barrow in the South East of England, the day went well and they were busy collecting plants when one little girl started screaming and pointing to the woods surrounding the field.
When asked the young girl explained she had seen a Giant Ape Man in the trees and it was watching the girls from the Wood, Of-course the teachers got the girls together and walked them back to school promptly. The girl who had seen the creature was very badly shaken and didn’t attend school for a week or more.



The Kent Werewolf 1940's

Pat Shirley recounted her Grandmother's experience whilst picnicking in an area of woodland on the east coast of England in the late 1940s, Pat's Grandmother had seen a huge animal that looked like something straight out of An American Werewolf in London.
In this incident, the beast had what was described

The lady described the creature having “flaming red hair all over it,” and possessed a pair of huge and powerful jaws. Again, it was only seen for a moment or two before quickly vanishing into the trees.

Billingham Hill Wildman 1961

Two girls walking from school reported seeing a large hairy figure running into nearby woods,  the girls also said the animal was haired covered and complete with an unmistakable tail.  The creature made off into the woodland.

The Batman of Kent Nov 1963

A report was made by four horrified eyewitnesses who would explain that an erratic, shambling, quasi-humanoid figure emerged from the woods and waddled towards them. The beast apparently looked like a headless bat that was approximately 5-feet tall, with large webbed feet and wings protruding from its back. In one witnesses own words: “It didn’t seem to have any head. There were huge wings on its back… like bat wings

Walderslade ApeMan 1970's

A female witness named Maureen Bond had a sighting when she was eighteen. She was with her boyfriend in a rural area when the unspeakable happened to her. It was late at night, in some local woodland. They were sitting there chatting as normal couples do.  Maureen’s boyfriend decided to light a fire.  As he was doing so Maureen became aware that something was watching them. She looked up and just a few feet from them Maureen saw two glowing eyes.  As Maureen looked more closely, she saw that the eyes belonged to a large, tall bipedal creature that was covered head to toe in hair. It stood a couple of feet above her height, so she estimated the being to be in the seven foot region. She watched the creature and was so full of fear she didn’t dare alert her boyfriend to it. She then watched transfixed, as the hairy creature stepped back into the foliage, concealing itself and blending in with the undergrowth. Despite it disappearing from view, Maureen knew it was still there, watching them, keeping itself hidden by the bushes. She decided not to tell her boyfriend in fear that he may pursue the thing. So she quietly told him she wanted to leave and never gave a reason. Maureen Bond never spoke of what she saw that night for around thirty years, but she never forgot it. She would constantly question herself and what she saw, believing that she may have seen a devil that fateful night.

Sevenoaks Sightings 1978 and 1987

Witness Account J. Smith October 1978 I lived in Sevenoaks, Kent 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 fields to the left and countryside, woodland for a few miles at the back. The countryside was pretty thick in places with pine forests and then oaks and birches, it was quite diverse. So I guess you could say I was on the outskirts of town.

I was 10 at the time and it was a Sunday night and I was waiting to watch How the West was won. It was a pretty cloudy and foggy and a still night that I can remember. I went to my kitchen to make a cup of tea and in our house we didn't have at the time double glazing, it was a one sheet glass window with metal partitions so when we had to cook or boil a kettle and it was cold the condensation would occur and settle on the glass.

I waited in the kitchen for the kettle to boil and out of the corner of my eye, a face appeared in the bottom pane. At first I thought it was just my reflection and then I looked again closely. This time the face pressed itself hard against the window. It was a sort of chimp and human style face?  it was youngish I would say. I pretended I didn't see it, but I was absolutely terrified. I left the room and sat down motionless I couldn't say a word so I decided at the time to draw it, and did so straight away. As an addition to this, the face resembled that of a chimp, with short snout, black/brown eyes but with human type hair everywhere..

The second encounter happened in my late teens early twenties around 1987 or so, we used to go to this hill called One Tree Hill after the pub was shut to have a bbq and drink beers into the early hours. Now one tree hill is on top of rocky ridge it's kind of strange in that there is 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 of shrub on either side its thick scrub and trees all around.

On this night in particular which was clear but a little cold my friend and I arrived ahead of the other party 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 cows or sheep from the valley below. But then a couple of minutes later I heard it again this time 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 looked back and caught a glimpse of bipedal figure illuminated from the treeline and it was huge.

Now the next day less than 1 and half miles from the area a lorry driver driving through a remote road said he had nearly hit an "orangutan" at 6:30 am in the morning. The Driver stated that it was "orangey red" in colour. This made the local newspapers that same week. I just stay silent and didn't tell anyone.



Blue Bell Hill Gorilla 1990's

The report was made of a large hairy beast, thought by the witness to be a Gorilla. This strange beast was seen at Blue Bell Hill.  This coincides with the the sightings of the Blue Bell Hill Beast listed, including that by a group of five Territorial Army members, who shouted and threw stones at the Bigfoot like creature as it ran away

The Chatham Ape Man 2000's

A strange apeman was seen in the busy town of Chatham, this strange creature sighting was reported by a young girl who was out with her partner when they saw the apeman appear off to the side of them in the scrub, then it ran off into the bushes.


What was in those bushes? Shadowed at night by an unknown creature 2011

This is the strange encounter I had in the woods late at night on a solo mountain bike ride in the winter. Im pretty sure this was back in 2011 as I was around 18 when it happened. I used to be a very keen extreme mountain biker and I would go out with a group and also solo. My favourite time was the night rides during the winter months at which time I would usually have a lot of fun, but not this night.

To be totally honest I have never been a real fan of the dark but after this event I never went into the woods at night again and I still refuse to do so now. I was on my todd in the backwoods of Cobham on a set route that runs along the North Downs directly opposite the town of Rochester which is on the other side of the River Medway in Kent. That night I was making my way home through the woods and I was not seeing or hearing any other people at all. I mean this place was dark even with my 1500 lume light on my helmet the area itself was still pitch black, blacker than soot! I must of been halfway between Rochester and Snodland.

Along a part of this ride I started to get a creepy feeling, you know when you dont know why? But you are instantly on your guard and you feel all the hairs on your body stand up. Im already cold and covered in wet mud and water, Im in the dark on my own crapping it and confused. So I stop for a break after doing a long climb up the hill, I make myself calm down and catch my breath, but I can't help but feel like im being watched, I can't shake the feeling. I look all around me its pitch black and I dont see anyone or anything. I then realise the quiet unsettles me a lot as I can't even hear your normal countryside noises of foxes screaming or moving around, owls and critters moving through the grass, nothing!! the mood felt extremely off and creepy.

I still have to carry on riding and so I decided I want to get out of the woods now as im not ashamed to say I felt scared, but as I kept on I swore I could hear somthing moving off to the left of me about 30 foot away in the trees and brush shadowing me, but I didn't dare look in that direction and I didnt want to see what or who was keeping pace with me in the woods. But as soon I got closer to the country lanes it all stopped. I couldn't hear it following me anymore and I didnt feel on edge and all the anxiety just left me.

The Hairy Man of Cooling Kent sighting 2011

Witness Account: In 2011  My son and his friend were in the fields when they saw a very large hairy man running along some of our hay reels. This happend in the early hours before morning light when they were both out getting set up for the day, They said “the man like creature saw them, and then "it" took off at great speed across the hay reels headed for some woods. I don't think they saw its face clearly as they mostly saw the "creature" as it moved off.

They both said it was really tall and was all hair covered and this "thing" had some sort of weird hair at the back almost mane like, and it span its head as if to hide its face soon as "it" saw them looking at it. It then took off running on two legs and moving very fast across the top of the hay reels moving with ease and off up toward the woods,, This happened in Cooling Kent, it frightened the life out of them both. We are also surrounded by Thames Marshes that are very vast and go on for miles. We didn't think of Bigfoot to describe this "thing" until I was surfing the net and I asked him about it, he agreed the picture on the screen looked like the "thing" he saw and he won't go up that way anymore.



The Tunbridge Bigfoot 2012

AN APEMAN standing eight feet tall and with “red burning eyes” has
been spotted lurking around woods … in Tunbridge Wells. Reports claim that a “hairy beast with demonic eyes” has been seen on the 200-acre Tunbridge Wells Common in Kent several times in the past.

The article states that the last sighting took place on the edge of the woods when the “beast” roared, scaring off a man walking home through the woods. The witness said the apeman was “covered in hair” and had “long arms and stood at around 8 ft tall”.

The Medway Footprints 2013

So here goes. some 5 winters ago I was out early walking my dog before work at about 5.45 am. I took her our usual route which takes in a large field on the edge of massive urban development and countryside for several miles. Next to a moderate sized wood above the river medway. It had been snowing heavily during the night and it was well below freezing. It was dark still as we came to the field we usually circuit. And I had gotten about half way round when I saw in the torchlight coming from my right a set of footprints in the snow that looked like bare feet. The snow was still virgin apart from the usual rabbit and fox tracks. The footprints continued across the field from right to left. Now my dog was snuffling them and showing an usual interest and was casting about and going a little mental. The really strange bit is that the footprints started on the edge of a massive barricade of bramble and no sign of any pathways apart from a small fox/rabbit run. No snow looked to have been knocked off the top of the bramble thicket. And no other human footprints save mine. I followed the very clear trail across the width of the field. I am 6ft 5 and have size 13 feet. These prints looked a little bigger than mine say 13.5/14 and I tried to copy the stride which was equal roughly to my own. They were broader and very deep but obviously bare foot with the toes being quite obvious. They then went down the snow covered rubble slope that is an entrance to Bydews wood. My dog was still acting very excitable and following a scent she found different. I took stock and followed the trail about 20 feet into the wood where it became impossible to find.

Now the problem I have is the size and stride of the foot steps are certainly within human range, tall like me but not outlandish. Why would someone try walking across a field barefooted and leave a trail leading up to the tracks? Like I said it is an impenetrable barrier of thorns and brambles backing onto a housing estate.

The trail started from the right of the copse in the middle skirted round it and into the woods on the left. Like I said they just sort of started on the edge with no sign of disturbance around.

Isle of Grain Sasquatch Sightings 2016

Hello Deborah Im reporting this on behalf of a good friend, a friend of mine who lives in a remote Kent farm house along The Medway on The Isle of Grain. My friend has lived at this property a number of years now and they experienced some strange goings on and at one point they saw what can only be described as "a large sasquatch type creature" which was on her property on a number of occasions, a tall hairy upright creature that looks like a cross between a man and an ape, walking upright on two legs.

There is a caravan (mobile home) standing on the property and this has been rocked and banged upon on a few occasions now. I asked my friend to explain what this creature looked like and when they described the height they said "the creature itself has been seen leaning over a Ford escort Van, and he wasn't standings straight up but was hunched over and the roof of the van still only came up to its stomach on this thing.

There are very few houses in the area. If you go there and have a look around you can see how it wouldn't be too difficult to get around unseen. "It's been seen by our friends up fairly close, and doesn't seem to put off by their presence" we live in the area ourselves on a local farm and have seen what looked like the a very large print of something laying down as if a large "animal" had made a bed or a nest of some kind in the tall grass? We are local to a river, power lines, disused train track and plenty of woods and forest...

Large Figure by the Bushes Jan 2019

My wife had a potential sighting on Monday 21/1/19  She was out walking our dog and as they were coming close to the railway embankment the dog reacted to a strange figure that my wife thought she also saw.  This happen when she was on the farm in our horses field, my wife said "saw a large figure by the bushes in front of a railway embankment it was very large and as she looked up it ducked into the bushes and disappeared"  My dog saw it at the same time as my wife. The Dog went nuts and ran to the spot.  It something she never does with people normally. I have asked the witness for further details of this report. If there is anyone who is close to the area and can visit the witness or chat with him, please let me know and I will put you in touch.

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