British Bigfoot Seen By Locals in the Midlands

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 June 2015 - Witness Statement: Witnessed whilst driving home one night at about midnight, in the Pendeford area of Wolverhampton, "it was a bright night and there where street lights - doing a journey I have done hundreds of times. A strange creature on all fours ran in front of my car. It was like it happened in slow motion the creature resembled the werewolf out of Harry Potter. I am a total non believer but I cannot deny what I saw with my own eyes. To this day it is a very clear image in my head".

Open researching with local farmers asking if they have seen or heard anything unusual resulted in some interesting comments from a local farmer. The farmer whose land this creature ran onto has said his dog who is not bothered by badgers or foxes is spooked by something in the darkness, sometimes at night when he goes to check on his stock the dog goes nuts and will not leave his side, and stays within the light at all times. The farmer said this has always made him think something was there that couldn't be seen and is a bit apprehensive as his dog is normally rock hard and nothing bothers him at all.

Another Sighting Close to Penn - I would like to thank Hal Smith, for travelling to the location and engendering a safe environment within which, this elderly couple, without access to the online world, or even any knowledge of the 'British Bigfoot phenomenon', were able to speak openly and without fear of ridicule; and finally, get closure and reassurance, on what after all, must have been a very traumatic experience for them.

Here is their sighting as reported by Hal Smith - On Tuesday morning I was up on Baggeridge Ridge at around 9.30 when I saw a elderly gent walking his dog. He said morning to me and carried on down towards the car park. I finished around 10 and headed for the café. The gent was in there. I got a coffee and sat down after a while he came over and sat down. He pointed at my t shirt that had (Gone Squatchin') on it and he asked If I believed in it. I said yes and told him that I investigate sightings of these creatures here in the UK. He said he had something to tell me about an experience he had at but he wanted his wife present. We arranged to meet back at the same café a few days later at 9am.

On the day we were to meet, I got there around 8.55 and the couple came at around 9.15. We sat, had a coffee and chatted in general. I brought up the subject of sightings and the old fella said not here and we left the café. They led me up a path that I know well has I had put owl boxes up there about 10 previous. We went to an area that I call horseshoe path because it follows the treeline in a half circle. The path is only single file wide with trees on both sides. One side falls down hill and the other side has a slight incline and it is very quiet there as very few people use it as its off the beaten path. We reached an area around halfway around the trail. 

Then they told me what they had seen. One morning around 9.30 in April 2017 the elderly couple were out walking their little dog as they did most mornings. They chose this path as their dog does not get on well with other dogs and its very rare to see anyone else up there. 

As they walked along the man noticed a dark figure in the trees around 30 feet away. He thought it was strange as it seemed to be watching them from behind a tree then ducking in every time it was noticed. The man decided not to say anything to his wife has he did not want to alarm her. They continued to walk but the figure stayed around the same pace as them and continued to try and remain hidden. After around 10 minutes had past the man's wife noticed he seemed anxious and asked what the matter was. He told her and pointed the figure out. 

She eventuality spotted it and saw it duck back in and start peeping at them from around the tree it was hiding behind. The dog then started barking and growling at it. They rushed as best they could with the dog now on the lead and eventually reached a fork in the path and they knew that one way would take them back to the car park. As they turned at the bottom of the path that leads out of the woods and onto open fields they stopped to catch their breath. As they looked back from where they had come from, the creature had stepped out onto the open path. 

They both agreed it stood upright, was very dark in colour and covered in hair. She said it was around 8 feet tall, but he said it was closer to 7. It didn't follow them any further. They got back to their car and now, don't walk that area any more. In fact they rarely use Baggeridge Country Park anymore, so our accidental meeting was a spot of good fortune, as I got the story they have never told anyone before and I was a able to put their minds at rest that they had nothing to fear from these animals, as there have never been any reports of anyone being harmed by one in the UK.

Another Sighting in Penn. Wolverhampton Wildman or a British Bigfoot? May 2018 - Witness Report: "Well I guess you can help me decide what it was after I tell you what I saw. It happened in early May of this year. I was running late for work so I decided to cut through the country lanes that run towards Kinver to pick up the A449 further down. I was down the back end of Lower Penn by Wolverhampton on a single track road called Showell Lane, it's a single track road with woods and fields on both sides and as you come to the bottom of the road there's few houses and an old very overgrown foot path or right of access or something that's set back about 50 ft from the road. It was when I got here that I saw what I first thought was a man in a hunting suit, you know the ones with all the shaggy hairy stuff you see them with, but this was orangey in colour like a red setter dog but lighter.

It was then I noticed the sheer size and bulk of this thing and knew it couldn't be what I initially thought, because this thing I reckon it was at least 7ft and was massively thick around the chest and shoulders like an American footballer with all the pads on! I was quite a bit away from it and it was sort of stepping back in to the shade of the foliage but it was scary, and I'm a man of 6 ft and 22 stone who's trained for many years but I felt scared and floored it. Which I now regret! I've since after doing a bit of research found quite a few sightings around the Midlands and Shropshire areas and now my fear has turned more into a need to understand what I saw that morning.