Herr Professor's Books -Still Available.

Yes, folks, just a few of the things I've investigated are included in these books -all fully referenced and including photographs and illustrations once thought lost.

Canids, in the form of foxes, I'm still studying -and learning!

The Red Paper: Canids -Foxes, Wolves, Jackals and Coyotes in the UK

 One for those interested in Wildlife -or cryptozoology!

  

 Terry Hooper

The Red Paper: Canids

Paperback, 

A4 (21 x 30cms)

202 Pages 

Photographs, illustrations and maps

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By the 1700s the British fox was on the verge of extinction and about to follow the bear and wolf having been hunted for sport for centuries.

The answer was to import thousands of foxes per year for sport. But foxes kept dying out so jackals were tried. Some were caught, some escaped. Even wolves and coyote were released for hunting and "country folk" were very far from "happy" -some even threatening local hunts -one intending to release a wolf for a hunt- with legal and other consequences.

The summation of over 40 years research by the noted naturalist and former UK police forces exotic wildlife consultant reveals the damnable lie of "pest control" hunting but also reveals the cruelty the animals were subject to and how private menageries as well as travelling shows.

Private menageries, or single exotic "pets" as well as travelling shows helped provide the British and Irish countryside with some incredible events such as the 1905 "vampiric" sheep killer of Badminton, the mystery hounds of Cavan and Coyotes of Epping Forest.

The Girt Dog of Ennerdale is also dealt with in detail -was it a tiger? A Tasmania Thylacine? This book gives the exact facts and details for the first time.

Up-dated 2013 edition includes a section on sarcoptic mange in foxes and treatment plus a list of wildlife sanctuaries and rescue centres in the UK.

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Some Things Strange & Sinister (2013 -up-dated)

A4 Format

B&W

Paperback

358 pages

Heavily illustrated

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After more than 40 years as an investigator and more than fifty as a naturalist,the author has opened some of the many files he has accumulated dealing with such things as..

The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn, The Ghosts Of All Saints Church, Dead Aquatic Creatures of Canvey Island, captured bigfoot like creatures in India -all exclusively presented for the first time and with new added research previously unseen.

PLUS a vastly expanded section on Spring-heeled Jack!

Photographs, maps, line drawings and up-dated to make 358 pages looking at Things truly Strange and Sinister.

Cryptozoologist,Ghost Hunter,Ufologist or Fortean:this book has something for everyone -including the just plain inquisitive!

Contents

Foreword by Travis L. Whitehurst

Introduction

        de occultis non judicat ecclesia                                                                    

        The Bristol Rocking Horse

        The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn

        The Coonian Ghost

        The Ghosts Of All Saints Church

        His Luminous Chamber

        The Late Reverend Dr. Blomberg

        And More Ghost Stories

        The Thomas B. Cumpston Case

        The Chupacabra

        The Strange Case Of The Gotherington Gargoyle

        What’s Tall,Hairy And Vanishes?

        Mystery Beasts Of Ireland

        The Creature Of The Dump

        The Strange Creature Of Repton Woods

        The Bizarre Legends,Crimes And Truth About Spring Heeled Jack

        The Black Beast Of Darmstadt

        The Nameless Thing Of Berkley Square

        The Terrifying Case Of The U.S. Naval Transport

        The Case Of The Ghost Lear Jet

        Ghost Planes,Crashes And Dead Aquatic Creatures

        The Mitchison Loch Ness Monster Video

        From The Deep Below To The Air Above –USOs

        Aerial Encounters Over Austria

        A Crashed UFO In 1790?

        Angel Hair

        Quimper-Corentin:Where “Thunder Fell”

        Strange Aliens From Space

        The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ And Other Crash Retrievals

        Transient Lunar Phenomena,Alien Structures And Moon Vegetation

        Whiddon Down-Saint-Jean-du-Guard:Impossible Correlations?

        The Venezuelan Horror

A Final Word.

Alleged piece of crashed UFO from Berwyn Mountains, Wales.

 Some More Things Strange & Sinister 

Terry Hooper-Scharf

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A4
327 Pages 

Heavily illustrated

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Follow-up to the hugely successful Some Things Strange & Sinister.

For those interested in Ufology, cryptozoology, hominology, unusual natural history, ghosts and mysteries in general.

The secret history of gorillas in the UK -before they were officially  'discovered'. The history of  the Wild men of Europe, the UK and US: something that in the 1800s become very "pop culture"  Very pop culture and totally forgotten today!

Hominology. Sasquatch and Bigfoot -is there evidence for their existence?  No sitting on the fence here -the Patterson-Gimlin film is looked at as well as other evidence.  The Author's conclusions? You might be surprised.

Giant snakes. Amazons. The Giant serpent of Carthage. The Girt Dog of Ennerdale -another big cult 'creature' amongst paranormal and cryptozoological circles. The Beast of Gevaudan -what was it and were there really descendents of the creature in the 19th century -one of which was actually brought to London?

 Believe it or not more than one incident of historical crocodiles cases in the UK.  In fact, far more than even the Author had thought .

And, after more than a century of claims by 'researchers' that it no longer exists: The Silent City of Alaska and the near legendary 'lost' photograph taken of it.

 This and much more. Updated with extra pages and photographs.

Pursuing The Strange And Weird -A Naturalist's Viewpoint (2014 up-date)

Terry Hooper-Scharf
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A4

249 Pages

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UP DATE -From Dead Aquatic (Humanoid) Creatures, the giant squid and yet undiscovered sea creatures; submarine and ships crews encountering true leviathans.

There is a fully expanded section which also refers to the so-called ‘Ningen’ sightings and video footage.

Extinct animals at sea that have been re-discovered. The subject of Sasquatch and other mystery Hominids around the world is dealt with including a look at the “Sasquatch-killer”, Justin Smeja.

Dr. Bryan Sykes and his DNA test results for TVs The Bigfoot Files as well as the controversial Erickson Project and Dr. Melba Ketchum’s Even more controversial Sasquatch DNA test results.

Also included are two early French UFO entity cases that still baffle. Ghosts, strange creatures and the Star-Child hoax. All dealt with by the naturalist and pursuer of the strange and weird

  The Bizarre Legends, Crimes And Truth About Spring Heeled Jack (2014

 

Terry Hooper-Scharf

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53 Pages 

 Dimensions (centimetres) 20.98 wide x 29.69 tall  (A4)

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The terror and mystery created by “Jack The Ripper” has been the subject of countless books, magazine articles as well as movies and TV documentaries. Ask anyone if they have ever heard of Jack The Ripper and it is doubtful anyone would respond with a “no idea.”

By that same token, ask people who “Spring-heeled Jack” was and you would be lucky to find anyone who had ever heard of him.

Spring-heeled Jack was the subject (loosely) of a film The Curse of the Wraydons (1946) and Dominic Keating also appeared as Spring Heeled Jack in the 2010 film Sherlock Holmes by The Asylum film company. The character has also featured in both American and British comic books and a number of books, for both children and adults.

But the fact that the Springald held the country –not just London– in a grip of terror much longer that the Ripper did is all but forgotten except for some half-truths and fanciful theories.

Now be prepared to read the full story of Spring Heeled Jack

Werewolves, UK Bigfoot, Alien Abductions and Dark, Demonic Entities

I have to say that, if you enjoy investigating the weird and some times downright sinister, 2016 is not the time for you.

The Golden Era for this type of activity was right up to the time that the internet as well as Trash TV hit us.  In some cases it has taken over 40 years to get to the bottom of some mysteries or to actually find 'lost' sources, photographs and the like.  You see, there have always been the fraudsters.  The ones who write absolute lies, twist facts and stop at nothing to make them appear to be the experts in the unexplained.

My late colleague, Franklyn Angus Davin-Wilson once defined "expert" to me thusly:

      "X" = The Unknown   "Spurt" is a drip under pressure.

But lying charlatans are lying charlatans.  These are the "Monster hunters"/"Demonologist"/"Paranormal expert" and  "Cryptozoologist" or "Fortean Zoologist" or....well, if you see them on all those US paranormal shows you'll notice that they chop and change their title for convenience.  The 'facts' they give out on some animals are outrightly ridiculous and in some cases pure fantasy.  One I love was that "a puma needs to consume 60-90lbs of meat a day".

You see, these people are not scientific in their investigations and their 'work' is far from neutral -"we go by the facts" is possibly a line worthy of delivery by the tall, fat 'investigator' who never gets off of his arse and takes full credit for everyone elses work but something back-fires and it's "This is a complex subject and we need to rely on our fellow travellers and sometimes they let us down".  The whole purpose of this pandering to every false claim about every subject "for TV" and their books is making money.  They do not care about facts because factual reporting does not make money or get your egotistical face on TV.

I see formerly credible UFO organisations jumping into the whole Nazi-UFO fad and repeat things over and over as though these are irrefutable facts gathered by them and held in their huge warehouse of evidence rather than it being sensationalist clap-trap that was mentioned in 1950s/1960s European newspapers and proven false.

The secret anti-gravity (or whatever) that the Nazis got from aliens but was later captured, along with top scientists by the US and USSR -hence why everyone started seeing flying saucers.  That is what we used to get to the Moon and colonise the planets before heading out beyond the solar system -wait. No. We haven't, have we?

We retro engineered alien craft from crashes of alien craft that never happened to give us....uh...aircraft that still crash?  CD players?  Microwave cookers? Show me the "alien technology" humans use because if these fakers did their research they would be able to track back every technological breakthrough after another right to way back to when someone said "That was a failure. How can....wait. It might not work for this but we can use it and develop it for that!" NASA space program -non-stick utensils.

Back in the Golden Era there was no You Tube with its constant uploading of faked images and video clips.  Quite honestly -there may actually be genuine UFO, sea creature or Sasquatch footage on You Tube that everyone is calling "fake" because 98% of all these clips are fake.  You used to have to write, talk on the phone or personally visit witnesses and assess them, their claim and any evidence.  Now it's mainly all internet pseudonyms and if a 'witness' will not give you their name in private then they are discarded as potential hoaxers. From 1975-2015 I spoke to many, many witnesses -officially and unofficially.  Many times I was contacted by a police force or other official body and asked to investigate. How many of those people have ever been identified unless they were already known or gave written permission for their names to be used? Zero.  So please do not try the old "My job and reputation might suffer" routine because that is not a possibility -unless YOU identify yourself.

How many times have I heard or read "I know the true story behind" such-and-such a case?  Someone looking for publicity or just a hoaxer. Recently it has been "I know the true story behind the Barking Beast of Bath -contact me" and I posted here, on this blog, a challenge for that person ("unknown") to come forward.  Give their account. My email is there.  Nothing.  Interesting that a certain annual race has a course called "The Beast" (in fact there are three I know of nationally that use that title) and was about to take place.....

In the United States there was the whole paranoia about alien abductions and though one aspect after another has been explained away -just by studying what the actual 'abductees' and their spokespeople and promoters of the craze claim- they still persist if in much smaller numbers.  A few years later alien abductions were the subject of TV shows and magazines in the UK.  Suddenly I, and many others, were inundated with "I saw that programme and realised I must have been abducted!"  There are two UK groups who tell me they receive 30-100 (!) "new abduction cases being reported every month" and they list them on their sites -all written by the same person in "their words" rather than in those of the abductee (to protect them???).

Then it was ghosts and paranormal allover the TV and internet as one faked show after another hit the US screens.  Then they hit the UK and suddenly the very same things were reported in exact details.  But ghosts and poltergeists were not enough. Every case had to have a dark demonic entity, the Devil, a gateway or porthole to Hell. Honestly, you fell into one every 3 feet.  Shadow people everywhere....then they were in the UK. Outright hoaxes and jokes, acknowledge as such, became 'fact'.  "This program is for entertainment purposes only" should give the viewer a big hint!

And it has gone on with one craze after another.  Now we have never before recorded cases/stories of wild-men and Sasquatch like creatures 8-9 feet or more tall (over 3m).  We have record numbers of people living in woodland because they are homeless as well as people practicing bushcraft.  These people erect structures, some basic but some more complex for later re-use, often there are signs such as stones or stick/branches placed in a certain pattern -"water supply nearby"/"plenty of berries/mushrooms" or even warnings that foresters or security patrols/police harass those living in the woods.  But, no, a cut stick found in woodland is clearly a bigfoot knocking stick for communication.  People living rough also use such sticks to alert others to police, etc -it has gone on for centuries. A lean to is "obviously" where wild men or a bigfoot has rested up..  A burnt out fire in woodlands -more 'evidence' because WHY would people living rough or foresters working in woods want a fire?  Keep warm? Brew up some tea?

I have spoken to foresters, wardens, poachers and many others over 40 years who tell me of "ghosts" and other strange goings on.  I have even known people who have lived and studied "things" in woodland for decades.  Not one single person has ever claimed to have seen a Bigfoot creature or signs of the population that would be needed to continue on.  Remoter parts of the US/Canada and even Europe, probably.  The UK? No.  It is a fantasy -one that the fraudulent writers and cryptozoologists want to continue because it makes them money.

Now we have the equivalent of the "dog-man" or werewolf suddenly popping up in numbers all over the UK after all the sensationalist trash from US TV.  The trends are there and easily checked by anyone.

There is this false idea amongst the newcomers -inspired by the internet and TV- that before said internet and TV, we oldies had no idea what was going on.  In fact, the opposite is true.  And better still, certain reports have helped me, as a naturalist, keep a track on certain "non native" animals I lost track of -but to these newcomers the blatant signs/descriptions mean nothing other than a "new wild-man case" or a "new behaviour" pattern.   We "oldies" got out there.  We spoke to people.  We looked at evidence and talked to others who had studied the strange and weird.  We studied books -as my over-bulging shelves show. We did not listen to fakers on TV to learn about fakery -other than to see all the tricks. "I've been doing this for six/three/five years so I know what I'm talking about!" I've been doing this over 40 years so wake up.

And one of the most cringeworthy, though at times quite funny, faked "bigfoot" programmes on TV is Mountain Monsters.  They find pictographs and various artefacts made by "bigfoots", new tracks and video/photo evidence every week but some of the cast are on IMDB as actors.  There is no secret made that it is a fun "entertainment" show but people are seriously -they are -just check the internet- asking "Is Mountain Monsters fake?"  YES.  What is more worrying, if telling, is that certain faked aspects of the show are turning up in US and UK "Bigfoot" reports.

It is a fad.  A craze.

Here is an example.  I know three people who started out as "Ufologists" in the 1970s.  They jumped onto the paranormal band wagon when there was interest in the 1980s and they were "paranormalists" or "Paranormal investigators".  Suddenly in the late 1990s it was all about the "British Big Cat" (in fact, there is only one member of the Big cat family in the UK -proven via DNA, etc) and oh boy did the 'experts' start popping out of the woodwork.  I was getting 4, 5 and at one time 10 phone calls from people who had "been investigating big cats in the UK" for 2-3 years.  Then they jumped back to aliens, UFOs and abductions, the paranormal, demonology, mystery creatures and now werewolves and British bigfoot .

Why, you might ask, were these drips under pressure contacting me?  Well, firstly to find out all they could about "big cats", sightings in their area (after all their 'years of experience' they had no such cases on file!) and everything they needed to sound good to the press and media.  A lot of what these people came out with that was their 'own' years of research was taken from my Exotic Animals Register (EAR) Bulletins.  I even had police officers and journalists ask me if I knew these people were repeating verbatim what I'd written as their own?  So we had fun.  I told these people the most ridiculous things as 'facts' including that a lynx would need to eat up to 100 lbs of meat per day to survive -and they repeated that taking full credit for all the research they had done.

"Uh, did you tell (name deleted) that leopards eat a lot of wild berries so if you find droppings with berries in that was a dead give-away?" asked the police wildlife officer. "Odd question -why?" I asked innocently.  It turned out that the 'experienced big cat hunter' had pointed to a large dropping by trees after a large cat was reported by a member of the public.  "Look" he told the police officer "you can see berries in this!"  He broke up the scat and sniffed it.  "That is a leopard dropping!" he said authoritively. When the police officer spoke to the PWLO he explained all of this and the PWLO looked at the photos taken.  Which is why he telephoned me.  We both knew it was fox but the 'expert' I'd spoken to was told it was a sure sign of leopard scat.  He even told a reporter this.

Most -well, all- of these 'experts'  always have their names in print.  It's the whole ego thing. With me, unless a reporter had spoken to me or a police officer mentioned me by name, I was always "a police expert"

Now these people are "hunting" UK bigfoot type creatures.

There are some out there with genuine mental health problems -to them I am the "arch debunker". A "government stooge" and even a "Spook" working for Special Branch, the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force -I've been everything from an RN Commander, Army Captain and even two RAF ranks- Captain/Squadron Leader (is it too late to ask for back-pay?).  I've been flown to the Falklands to look into UFO sightings and even been in charge of a British investigation of UFO sightings in Germany in the 1980s.  Fantasy but even denying these statements and furnishing evidence to counter them has 'proven' the accusations  true.

I have even been told on four separate occasions: "But you are a well known naturalist so you are going to be totally against any evidence given!"

NO.

You see, I go by the evidence.  If you have evidence I look at it and if it actually proves something really weird or strange was seen they I will say so. A skeptic is not, or should not be someone who is, when presented with a crashed alien space craft and dead aliens, going to say "No. Does not exist"  A skeptic should roll up his/her sleeves and dive straight in -photograph, catalogue, measure, examine and only then give a verdict.

But the more outlandish or strange the claim the better the evidence has to be or else we really are just saying "Well, Buck on Mountain Monsters said he saw that so it must be a fact!"  Or even "Well, Clarice says she is a 'sensitive' and there is definitely a dark, demonic force here -look, the candle flickered!" or even the most debunked trick of them all "Look -the torch went off then came back on again -spirit communication!" And those are 'facts.

The fakers, hoaxers and other fraudsters, whatever names they want to use from one day to another, they are there to make money out of gullibility and the sensation caused by TV or the internet.  Twenty sightings of werewolves in Cannock Chase (apparently the Bigfoot creatures there have moved on). Here is a fact and I have the email to prove it -a spate of Cannock Chase werewolf stories were faked by the investigation involved as a "joke"....anyone revealed that publicly before? Sightings of werewolves in Hull.  Why do newspapers and TV not do what they used to do and pay for an expert to investigate -good story for them either way?  Because they know it's all faked.

TV fantasy has merged in many peoples mind with reality.  "I saw it on a TV show so it must be real!" We see it every day.

I've 40+ years of experience and I'm a naturalist so my bags are packed and ready.  I've packed lightly because I know no one is paying me to go anywhere to investigate any such claims.

Herr Professor and the Ashton Vale Mystery Noises.

Dead aquatic creatures of Tanzania, Canvey Island. Ghosts. Poltergeists. 1970s Eastville alien landing. UK big cats. Werewolves.

I'm kinda thinking my time as a mystery man has hit rock bottom!

The video captions will explain all!






Video 1 -audio what I've been hearing.

Video 2 -the mystery solved!

The Mystery of the Horny Hedgehogs of Ashton Vale.

Rock-bottom.

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.