A Red Eyed Werewolf & The Ghost Dogs Of Wepre Park

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 is set close to homes, walking here is like walking back through the years. If you go off track and into the woodlands you can forget where you are and just enjoy the solitude of nature.

The report I am sharing with you now took place at the small stocked lake in the park known as the Rosie and it happened to our witness Gareth when he was a young boy. He had two friends with him that day, and he buried the memory of what he encountered as best he could. Now he is older and ready to look for some answers that may explain the presence of the terrifying creature he saw that day. 

In his search for an answer he found his way to BBR and I am so grateful that he did. 

BBR Witness: "I’m Gareth, a 42 year old PhD student and researcher from North Wales with a great interest in the paranormal and cryptids from a young age.

I’m writing to you as the YouTube algorithm recently suggested a video about wild camping which I enjoyed and so I watched more of the videos created by this YouTuber that happened to have a video where he camped in an area where a cryptid he called a Dogman had been sighted. He described this creature in great detail and I was reacquainted with an old childhood memory. It was only a momentary experience, lasting no more than about 5 seconds, but it has stayed with me since. The algorithm also led me to your wonderful channel and I’ve watched a couple of videos and felt inspired to reach out. 

It was in about 1993 when I was roughly 11 years old. I went up to the local woods (Wepre Park in Connah’s Quay) with I believe two of my friends, we were just playing in the woods and running around etc. As we were coming down what was a densely wooded downhill pathway from the fishing pond (called The Rosie) there were trees and bushes either side of us and overhead, so it was always a shadowy area. The pathway  we were on was only short, no more than 100m and it led out into the open onto football pitches and playing fields.

As we were coming down the path towards the open grassland and rounded the slight bend we saw there was a large dark creature which was standing facing us, with its back to the football pitches. It was standing up on two legs and I can’t honestly remember many of its features, but I remember thinking it looked like it was a dog that was standing up on its hind legs. I’d guess it was about 6-7ft tall. My attention was drawn down to its feet as it kicked an empty drinks can along the path in our direction, which of course made a noise as it rattled towards us. That’s what I most vividly remember, before we all turned and ran. 

Last week I messaged one of the friends I remember being with that day as we are still friends all these years later, though we haven’t discussed that experience for decades. I don’t really remember talking about it much afterwards to anyone. Anyway I messaged him, just asking if he remembered seeing something strange near the Rosie when we were kids. He messaged back and said that he did, he remembered it looked canine in appearance and had red eyes.. 

Anyway as I say it’s not an amazing story with great detail, but I’ve been honest without elaborating and what I have shared is simple, but that was my authentic experience. As it was so long ago, I’ve wondered if I did really see what I thought I did or had the memory been altered over the years, but my friends account gave me validation regarding my own memory. It’s pretty much the only such experience I’ve ever had, and though I’ve spent many years visiting the park, I’ve never seen anything like that again and neither has my friend. On a couple of occasions when I was in my late teens or early 20's I felt extremely uncomfortable in the park, like I was in danger, and I quickly left. But I haven't felt anything threatening or uncomfortable for many years. 

I really felt closely connected with the Greenman when I really started to connect with nature on a deeper level in my 20’s, I suppose that was when I started to switch to more of a spiritual connection with it. I am really looking forward to exploring your channel and podcasts to hear more stories, thank you for all you do. I find your research so fascinating and you come across as a really good and genuine person, so it felt safe to share this with you." 

I wonder just how shocked and surprised the boys were that day when they were confronted by the Dog-like creature? Trying to reason what it is that you are seeing in front of you when there is no creature here in the UK that is known to man that looks like a dog but walks upright. But this case has some of the known common denominators for cryptid reports in the UK. 

The area itself sits at a prime spot on the estuary, the food sources are vast and the habitat changes as you move inland using one of the many streams that feed into the River Dee. This area is also an ancient site, once home to the upper echelon that is now a country park visited by us commoners on a daily basis having once been part of the Wepre Hall estate, however nothing now remains of the hall after it was demolished in the 1960s. It also has its fair share of strange reports, one of which is as old as time and it surrounds the mysterious Nora the Nun. Several people have reported encounters with her over the years. 

But it isn't just the fiendish nun that has been reported over the years, there is also a pack of spirit dogs that roam the woods at night and even a phantom army that have been sighted at the Park over the years which are said to come from a pet cemetery at the old Wepre Hall where generations of family dogs were buried with their own headstones. Are these phantom dogs in any way related to the Dog-like creature Gareth and his friends saw that day? There is another witness to the phantom dog name Alison Truesdale and she shared her experience in the park in the blog Uncanny website

“I saw the ghost dog in Wepre about 20 years ago. I was about 10 and I was walking through the woods with my dad. We were on the far side of the stream, right up the top of the hill near to the old brewery. We came to a clearing where the rangers had cut down all the trees, so it was basically a big square field full of tree stumps and piles of logs. I saw a dog run into the clearing, then run to the left and back into the woods. A few minutes later he reappeared and ran towards us.

“I wasn’t bothered by it at first, but my dad could probably read dogs’ facial expressions better than I could, and he thought the dog was coming to attack us. My dad bent down to pick up one of the branches that were piled up on the floor, to fight the dog off with – but by the time he stood up, the dog was gone. I remember the dog was taking really big bounds and it looked like it was going to jump up at me. I took my eyes off the dog for a second and then it just wasn’t there anymore.

“We were in the middle of a clearing so there was nowhere for it to have gone. It just vanished. I thought it was hysterical, but my poor old dad was quite freaked out by the whole thing. I do wonder what would have happened if I hadn’t looked away: I might have been the first person to get eaten by a ghost dog! ‘I don’t know what breed of dog it was. It was a stocky muscular thing, a bit like an Alsatian but with quite a wide face, if that makes sense. I remember it being dark brown, but I asked my dad and he said it was dark grey not brown. It was scruffy though, it looked rough and knotty, like it needed a bath and a good brush.’

I have a feeling the activity at Wepre park is connected in some way, the earth has been changed so many times over the centuries and that disturbance can creature an imbalance or a tear in the land that enables such strange happenings to occur. There is also a deep connection between the Welsh people and the Werewolves that roamed the land there, their stories go back through time in written and oral tradition. The Welsh border stretched much further back then and in the areas that are now Cheshire, Lancashire and Cumbria the reports of 'large upright Dog-like creatures, phantom hounds and Red eye beings are still reported in modern times.