Deborah Hatswell - BBR Investigations

Witness Report Received via Facebook - "My Auntie told me that she almost caused a car crash when she was 14 because of four little men she saw in the road. It happened in about 1969 when they were living in the Bushmills area of Northern Ireland. My Auntie blamed the crash on the four little men and she was adamant that that were in the road. Oonagh Don was her name then. Her mother was Margaret Don and it is her that was driving on a country road in the dim early morning. Oonagh screamed LOOK OUT and her mum veered and almost flipped the car, and she was told off quite sternly. Oonagh was sobbing at being scolded, she had almost wrecked the car but she was insistent at what she saw in the road and she asked “didn’t you see them?”  Auntie Oonagh said the four little men were crossing the road in single file they were dressed with robes or blankets around them. She described them as being about three feet tall. This might sound like a tall tale but in all her years she told it s...

When I was a boy myself and my Brother used to live on a country estate called Holbeck Manor, it was an extremely old manor house steeped in history and very close to a Viking burial ground in Lincolnshire. To get to the Manor you would have to go down along driveway which is about a mile and a half long. Half way down this driveway there is a stone bridge with a stream on one side and a lake and boat house on the other. Most of the drive had wooded areas running along it, then the lake and to the back there were woods. Our first encounter occurred at this bridge on a snowy Winters morning. Myself and my Brother were given a wooden sledge to play with as there was snow on the ground, so we took it up to just above the bridge as there was a nice drop from there back down to the bridge, which was perfect for sledding. My Brother sat on the sledge and I pushed him, once we had gotten some speed up I let go and off my Brother went down the driveway towards the bridge, as he got to th...