Let's get a few things straight. I have looked into the paranormal, UFOs and so much more in well over four decades and I have met many, many people who have seen all kinds of things and have lived in forests, woodland and the countryside all of their lives.
Never once in all those decades when people told me what they had encountered did one say "and Bigfoot is really scary". Do you know why that is? It is becsause there is no such thing as Bigfoot or a wildman in the UK. There is absolutely no evidence to support their existence apart from a few people who make claims that to them are real. They are not.
There are many -no one knows how many- people living in forestry and woodland for various reasons and you poke around near their camp at night you might get a rock or stick thrown at you and I have known people who had this happen. There are animals in woods at night. They make noises. A broken off tree branch is not a "wildman/bigfoot" knocking stick: it is a branch that has broken off a tree. Fakery, money-grubbing and much more is at play here. I sent someone a link to a "British bigfoot" video on You Tube and asked what he thought of the "bigfoot structures" shown in them. He thought I was joking until he watched: "Three of those "structures" shown are mine that I made for when I trek around or teach bushcraft. You never know how the weather may change so having shelters at certain points makes sense. Am I Bigfoot then?"
Dogman. Again, never ever heard of any such report in the UK, and they are fairly recent in the U.S.. Cannock Chase has werewolves, UFOs, Dogmen and Bigfoot. Pardon the language but that is pure and utter bull-shit. I know countryside wardens and many others who have studied Cannock Chase over decades for the wildlife. Every night, whatever weather and they keep meticulous notes. What was Cannock Chase known for? The wallabies that lived there and an occasional "big black cat" sighting. That was it.
In Strange & Mysterious Beast I note how I looked into the werewolf claims and found that the group that investigated the sightings not only did not receive werewolf reports but never investigated any and I was told very clearly that it was a joke suggested by a local reporter (confirmed) that then took on a life of its own. Lionel Fanthorpe really pushed this hoax and he was told -again veryu clearly- when he contacted the group that it was all a press hoax "doesn't matter -good story" was his response. Nick Redfern has written on this and, again, I am told he is very aware that this was a hoax.
Bigfoot. There are only two "shaggy men in the twilight" stories I know of and I was told how the "shaggy man" just rose up out of the grass and (according to one witness -a policeman out birdwatching): "Almost made me **** my pants!" Until, that is, in both cases, they realised they had caught a poacher in a gillie-suit who made off pretty quickly.
There have been no big alien abduction events there. In one case a reported large UFO from which entities emerged took place bang smack in front of a hide being used by two naturalists attempting to photograph wildlife at night. The only problem is that they saw nothing and no one and as luck would have it a colleague of theirs was crossing the very spot where all of this was going on and...saw nothing.
Cannock Chase is a place where you might see wildlife but not dogman or bigfoot and the odd unusual light but it is certainly no "UFO portal" or in any way the"equivalent of Skinwalker ranch",
These things only really emerged when the American TV shows like Finding Bigfoot, Monster Quest and many others hit UK TV or You Tube. Just like every house now having a "portal to hell" or "demon in residence" -up until social media and trash TV ghosts were always some unobtrusive old lady or beloved family member walking though a room or appearing near a bed. Even poltergeist phenomenon was explained but it has jumped from science to fantasy -"sexier" and easier for the gullible to swallow (oh, all those old unobtrusive ghosts were in fact "demonic forces" but no one knew). And, every hauntinh has a "little girl who tragically died here" and in one week of checking out ghost hunt shows on You Tube I found that this was the case in 20+ of them. Which is beyond ridiculous.
Rather like Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs and others totally screwed up serious UFO and close encounter investigation and research and introduced the fictituious Grey who went on to become the insectillid, reptillean or what ever. People who did not claim abductions and would not accept that they were 'really' abducted had their requests to investigators thrown out.
It's a mess and unless you are willing to buy into it...."screw you!" Presenting hard evidence that a case is a hoax is being a "government stooge" and that brings me to...me.
Firstly, when you have alleged "researchers" looking into UFO crashes in the UK and have a loose grip on reality problems emerge. Regarding the "Berwyn Mountains UFO Crash" -I will point out here that no extra terrestrial craft crashed there- the late Margaret Fry had solid facts and details from me as well as analysis of a shard of metal and I actually found the source of this metal and proved the whole story was fake. Unfortunately, Margaret told me I was daft in believing it was all fake and the metal was "not of this planet". An associate of hers sent me an email one day, no introduction, but demanded -demanded- that I hand all evidence and reports I had over to him. I sent him the chapter from Some Things Sytrange & Sinister dealing with the case and he ignored it and gave me a deadline to cooperate.
I didn't.
On a Welsh UFO forum and this went on to others I was accused of "popping up out out nowhere" when this 'investigator' was looking at the case. I was, and I had no idea about this, a South Wales based claimed ufologist who was either a government disinformation mouthpiece or agent. I have been involved in Ufology since 1973. I have written many articles for UFO publications -some in Flying Saucer Review-I have given talks, run international UFO projects and in fact you can find out more about me online than any other British researcher (I am NOT a Ufologist) and I am very open to questions. I even sent the idiot my full UFO Cv and .....he obviously could not read that well.
So, it seems that I live in South Wales and I am a government agent.
This is not the first time I have heard this type of fantasy. One idiot at the old British Flying Saucer Bureau was so incompetent not only did he refuse to turn around and watch some unidentified lights that I and 200 other peoplewere observing but after I had left the BFSB he accused me of having his mail delayed (in fact he had not written to anyone and just assumed that everyone would write to him).
Over the years it was revealed that I held the rank of a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and was in charge ofUFO investigation. That I had the rank of Flight Lieutent in the Royal Air Force and carried out UFO investigations. Oh, I was also a Lieutenant in the Army doing similar. I had been flown down to the Falkland/Malvinas Islands during the conflictthere in an RAF Hercules aircraft due to a wave of UFO sightings...there is more. Some ofthese -particularly the Falklands/Malvinas story- came from known and admitted hoaxer Eric Morris about whom a book could be written.
It goes on and on but let me makethings clear. Air Vice Marshal Sir Victor Goddard, the first Director of RAF Intelligence, had been long retired when he and the late Lord (Brinsley) Clancarty alobg with several others suggested I set up the AOP Bureau and "Grey Book". It was a private project not government sanctioned and that was it. Overthe years I learnt many things and people and a good few thinghs that might make me money but as one of those "founders" said: "His wordmeans more than any official secrets act" and, indeed, things will go with me to the grave. Not great "mind staggering UFO secrets" but things I learnt along the way and i have to say that at no point did the Ministry of Defence ever create problems. In fact it actively helped me get to the bottom of the "Ghost Lear Jet" incident and, to boot, gave me a new mystery when it did so.
Police forces have always been cooperative (oh, forget that I was also "a Special Branch officer gathering UFO information...I wish I had been drawing some of these salaries) and all ofthe cooperation probably stems from the fact that I know how each operates and I never demand or threaten to expose anyone or thing. They are as much in thedark about UFOs as everyone else and people in official bodies have as many different beliefs and theories as ufologists.
Have I come across mysteries? Of course I have. It has to be remebered that a mystery today can be solved tomorrow or in ten years. In some instances it has taken me 10, 20 and even 35 years to getto the bottom of a case. I am a sceptic which means I need to see the evidence and base my conclusions on theevidence or at least based on the testimony given. People who state that I debunk cases and have claimed to have debunked all the "mysteries" I have investigated are people who have never read anything I have written or my books. If I cannot explain something then....it's currently unexplainable. What do I think of Close Encounters ofthe Third Kind and some early abduction cases? Buy my books and you will see -fully referenced, illustrated and if I think someone is credible then I say so.
The point is this: you need to cut through all the fantasy and fakery and misinformation (in Ufology especially) to getto the real mysteries. The cases that make you sit in a chair in silence and ask yourself "Did this really happen?" and if you've checked every angle and ever claim and counter claim then you can only conclude that it MUST have happened.
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