Hull Werewolf -Challenge To The Newspapers

 

I first issued this challenge before my book Strange and Mysterious Beasts was published. That book looked into the Cannock Chase wolfman/dogman reports and I went directly to the source.

Needless-to-say the stories have been added to and new ones based on the old ones have appeared. Read the book for the facts NOT fiction.
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"Dog Man", British "wild man" or "British Bigfoot" -names of witnesses and better details than this. America goes for every dumb craze going and the UK seems to follow on a few years later.

No werewolves, no dog-man. Every time these stories appear there are nothing but dead ends and someone who knew someone who was anonymous.  Rubbish.

Or do YOU have any evidence?

And a residents of a city are "trembling in terror" pft.

Residents trembling in terror after seeing '8 FOOT WEREWOLF' in British city

A CITY is trembling in terror as the full moon approaches, after a spate of werewolf sightings.

By Mark Branagan, exclusive

 http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/670358/Hull-South-Yorkshire-werewolf-Old-Stinker-full-moon-Barmston-Drain

Seven separate eye witnesses claim to have spotted the 8ft tall creature lurking in an abandoned industrial area outside the centre of Hull.

Residents and folklore experts believe the mythical beast, said to turn from a human to wolf at a new moon, is Old Stinker.

According to a centuries-old legend the foul-breathed creature prowls the Yorkshire Wolds.

But locals fear it may now have decided to claim the overgrown area as its turf.

The lonely banks of Barmston Drain, a water channel built in 1798 to dry out salt marshes, are where the creature was first reported before Christmas.

One woman claims to have seen it turn from man to beast as she stood quaking on a bridge above.

She said: “It was stood upright one moment. The next it was down on all fours running like a dog. I was terrified.

“It bounded along on all fours, then stopped and reared up on to its back legs, before running down the embankment towards the water.

“It vaulted 30ft over to the other side and vanished up the embankment and over a wall into some allotments.”

A couple saw “something tall and hairy” eating a German Shepherd dog next to the Drain.

They stopped to get a closer look and saw it jump an 8ft high fence before vanishing into the night, its prey still in its jaws.

And a woman walking her dog along the watercourse spotted something “half-man, half-dog” in the distance.

She was terrified, and her pet began shaking and refused to go any further along the path.

Now locals plan a werewolf hunt with cameras and recording equipment at the next moon.
Local councillor Steve Wilson has offered to keep an incident log.

He said: “I am happy to keep a diary of sightings by people around here and report them to Hull Council.”

Witnesses say when the creature transforms, its upper body is more wolf than man – similar to the beast in the American Werewolf films.

The Hull creature bears an uncanny resemblance to the legend of Old Stinker – said to prowl The Wold Newton Triangle, an area of eerie goings on near Scarborough.

Charles Christian, author of A Travel Guide To Yorkshire’s Weird Wolds, said sightings went back centuries.

He said: “The Yorkshire Wolds was actually one of the last parts of England to have wild wolves. Old Stinker was said to be operating on the other side of them but it would be no distance at all for a large animal to get to Hull."

He added: “When you get multiple sightings combined with a tradition of stories going back centuries it is hard to ignore the possibility something might be there.”

Worried locals have sought help from Mike Covell, an expert in the supernatural.

He said: “I was sceptical at first, but then more and more people contacted me saying they had seen the same thing.

“No one really knows what to do. You can hardly pop down the local council office or police station and say you’d like to report a werewolf.”


And as someone pointed out -Hull is in the East Riding of Yorkshire not South Yorkshire.  How the Hell does anyone even get that wrong -there are maps on the internet if they can't handle paper ones.  You get a fact like that wrong then maybe you DO believe there are werewolves.......

The Mirror online has this headline: Mystery 'werewolf' creature terrifying families in Hull sparks major hunt http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/mystery-werewolf-creature-terrifying-families-7979525

Here's a challenge to these newspapers: I've been looking into all sorts of phenomena and mystery creatures since the mid-1970s.  I am a naturalist.  Open minded if presented with FACTS. Pay my expenses and I'll talk to the witnesses and look around this "home turf" of the creature.

Challenged. 

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Hull is in the East Riding of Yorkshire, not South Yorkshire

Hull is in the East Riding of Yorkshire, not South Yorkshire

Hull is in the East Riding of Yorkshire, not South Yorkshire

NO ONE Hoaxed The Barking Beast of Bath (unless it was all in their minds)

I see. Thank you to the person who contacted me after my last posting.

It appears that, almost 40 years later, someone is attempting to claim that they were behind the whole "Barking Beast of Bath" event. It was "done for a laugh".  If this is true then allow me to say straight away that this person(s) are attempting to commit a hoax now.  Why? I have no idea but they would not be the first.  Two previous persons attempted to claim hoaxer status but in front of two eye witnesses to events and three journalists they were exposed.

There are certain aspects of the investigation and evidence found and recorded not in the account published on this blog nor in my book Some Things Strange and Sinister.  But let's look at the witness evidence.  Two police officers quite clearly saw an adult chimpanzee (I can even tell you the animals sex) and are on the record as having done so. Two other people (including one never identified but an expert in primatology) clearly saw the animal in question: one followed it while keeping a safe distance while waiting for police.

Someone "borrowed" a chimp for a hoax?  No. The witness observations as well as the traces found and measured show this was not the case.  No letting a chimp go, be seen the grabbing it and driving it off to leave a "mystery".

You see, at the time I knew students at various universities in Bristol and Bath, including one well known joker and they all checked on the possibility of a student prank.  It was ruled out and I know exactly why it was not a student prank.

Whoever is claiming to have hoaxed the event and for whatever reason obviously has no idea of any detail of the investigation or how thorough it was.  Nor that we (yes, not just me) knew whose chimp this was.


Please come forward with your proof your evidence and your story.  If it's true why hide behind rumours and false name?

A stick is a stick is a stick.

Apparently, "BillyBigfoot" wants to argue about the stick he found in woods (see the last post).

Firstly, I do NOT enter into correspondence with people using false names. If "BillyBigfoot" wants to discuss anything he needs to identify himself.  Otherwise -NO.

Secondly, I think it says a great deal about the fictional UK wild-man hysteria that someone picks up a stick and insists it's a "Bigfoot" stick used for tree-knocking communication.  Why? Because it was found in woodland.  It's a stick. Does it mean if I find two twigs on the ground they are Bigfoot chopsticks?

There are no UK wild-men nor Bigfoot type hominids.  And I am not going to argue because someone who needs a life found a stick and it has become his greatest piece of evidence. A stick is a stick is a stick.

The British Wild Man

About 3(?) months ago I left a comment on a You Tube video where some unfortunate soul claimed that he had found a stick in woodland. It was, he was 100% sure, a wild man's "knocking stick".  I pointed out, based on the clear video footage of the stick that...it was just a stick and had obviously lain around a long while. In fact, this is what I wrote:

"Sorry to disillusion you but you are seeing natural wear and decay as signs of something they are not. Squirrels strip bark. Mice and rats nibble at bark -as do rabbits. I have several such sticks from trees in my back garden and the cut at the end is instrument (saw) made. I'm a naturalist and walk through the middle of woods and come across people out walking away from regular footpaths. Also, shelters: in the woods around here there are three different homeless people living in lean-tos and there are a LOT of homeless people doing this today -that's excluding bush-craft people. AND people ALWAYS use old branches as sticks walking through woods -I see that all the time. Then the sticks are left and someone else sees it later and uses it. IF you have any physical evidence please get in touch because I really am interested in what you find."

I heard no more.

Today I get a message via You Tube "+Terry Hooper What, no reply after 3 months? Owned."

Well, as I received no response how could I reply?  I was quite open and honest and genuinely interested in any evidence.  I'm sorry if this poor person thinks a stick or a broken branch or a lean-to is evidence of some wild-man.

It just isn't. This whole UK wild-man hysteria is quite modern and citing a ghost story of cave-men (possibly) seen dancing around on a cliff but quoting it twice and at different locations does not help. These people do not help themselves when screeching that scientists and experts will simply not look into their claims seriously and then, when a serious offer is made, out-rightly attack that person on Face Book and offer no more cooperation (but apologise privately to avoid looking stupid -I keep ALL my communications) well, says a lot.

There are no relic populations of wild-men or Bigfoot type creatures in the United Kingdom. There is absolutely no evidence.  Again, broken tree limbs, lean-tos, hearing a noise in the dark or from deep undergrowth is nothing. The alleged photographs of these creatures -not one person would come forward or offer them for analysis.  Why not if what they want are people from real scientific fields to take them seriously and look at the 'evidence'.

How childish can you get -"Owned"?  Did the man want a debate on a stick?? He could have emailed me or contacted me via the wild-man's Face Book page but no. He waits three months....I was feeding Bigfoot in my back garden for cripes sake.

The US has a big UFO then abduction hysteria.  The UK copies that later on.  Bigfoot in the US and wild-men (I have no doubt) in Eurasia.  So, I, in decades of looking at all sorts of rare sources, newspaper accounts (see Some More Things Strange & Sinister) not to mention the people I have spoken to -some living bang smack in the middle of UK "wild-man" territory for 50 or 60 years and know all the ghost stories and local legends -not one says "Oh, and there are those wild-men of course"?

And the US has the whole "Goat-man" and "Wolf-man" hysteria (again thanks to a huge number of dreadful un-factual US TV shows) and what is the UK getting now? Wolf-man sightings.

All promoted by authors who have a vested interest in keeping this trash going. Lectures, talks and TV appearances as well as books.  Not one single piece of physical evidence.  I've looked at everything available.  Nothing.

You offer to help with an open mind and these people get nasty and will not cooperate because they know they have nothing.  I tried my best and even ignored the insults repeating things over and over so they would understand. Nothing -and this was on "the" UK group.

In case you want to see the stick in question I'll post it below -apparently you have to go through his videos to find the date he found this piece of hard evidence because he cannot remember when...and he could not be bothered checking his own videos or notes IF he has notes. Incidentally, I have two sticks that look exactly the same that I took from woodland so maybe I have UK "Bigfoot" evidence?

The only thing this man "owns" is an old stick.  Pathetic.

Paranormal Lockdown

I've always given Nick Groff a little more respect. After he left Ghost Adventures things got worse.  So the talk was that Groff was unhappy with what was going on.

Into episode 6 of Groff's series Paranormal Lockdown has just aired and it is wonderfully filmed.

But the series itself is a pot of very bad acting,over exaggeration and the usual crackpot "scientific device".

Episode 6 is the last I will ever watch.

Shit about covers it.  Even worse than Ghost Adventures.

And they WON'T leave until I believe their fraudulent hoaxing and pretend science? Good. No more TV shows from them.

It Could Always Be Rocket raccoon Lost?

The idea here is that everyone think it a destroyer of millions of pounds worth of something. 

That way they can kill it and have their 'fun'. 

However, I was a UK Police Forces wildlife consultant from 1977-2007 and there are a LOT of raccoons in the UK and they've been here for many years and not once was I told by a forester, woodsman or anyone else that they were causing mammoth damage. 

It's natural selection by human intervention. Move a species in and it survives then that's it. 

You can make a lot of money from wildlife tours.  

Happy to say that apart from the odd retard who wants to shoot the raccoon not many people (judging by the comments) are falling for this "nasty", "environmental damaging" line any more. Good.

Escaped Raccoon Caught On Film In Scotland

Conservationists warn the North American mammal could cause millions of pounds worth of damage if it became established in the UK.

14:55, UK, Friday 01 April 2016

The raccoon was filmed by a Scottish wildlife group

A fugitive with a "nasty bite" is at large and should not be approached, it has been warned.

Thousands of miles from its native North America, a raccoon has been photographed in the Scottish wild by a camera trap set up to record images of the elusive Scottish wildcat.

The footage revealed the furry mammal foraging in woodland near Garve in the Highlands.

Members of the public have been warned not to approach it, as the animal has a "nasty bite".

Conservation body, Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), said it plans to trap and rehouse the raccoon.
SNH wildlife and non-native species manager Stan Whitaker said: "Raccoons could cause millions of pounds worth of damage per year to the Scottish economy if they became established here.

"They could also cause significant damage to our native wildlife by preying on birds, small animals and amphibians.

"Raccoons aren't dangerous but they may give you a nasty bite if cornered.

"The raccoon that has been recorded is an adult and roughly the size of a domestic cat."

SNH said raccoons have been identified in Scotland as one of the top 50 invasive, non-native species most likely to be introduced and cause negative impacts.

They are currently kept as pets and zoo animals, and there have been several escapes in the last few years.

Anyone who spots the raccoon is asked to report it immediately to the Scottish Environment and Rural Services (SEARS).

Case Proven

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