'Bigfoot ruined my life' Woman convinced Yeti beasts stalk UK after encounter
British Bigfoot expert reveals meeting a "massive" man cross ape with a "thickly muscled body covered in hair" has left her and others traumatised. Britain’s biggest Bigfoot buff says meeting an ape-like man when she was a girl has scarred her for life. Deborah Hatswell, 52, is the brains behind British Bigfoot Research which she started after finding no explanation for her life-changing encounter with a beast in the wild. Grandmother of two, Debbie said: “When I was 15 in 1982, I saw something that changed the course of my life and led me on the path I am still on today almost 40 yrs later. “I saw something completely impossible. 40 years on I now know ordinary people witness and experience impossible events the world over and many of those people live here in the UK.”