The Bristol Post published the following article entitled ‘Bristol police hunt for crocodile in Bedminster after bus driver reports seeing one on the loose’ (3 February 2014)
Police carried out a ‘big game’ hunt today after a bus driver reported seeing a six foot crocodile on the loose.
Owned by Unthank and Proctor, Willington Mill (Also known as Kitty’s Mill) was built in 1805 and was one of the first steam powered corn mills in Europe. It is however the adjacent, yet separate Mill House that is of interest to this website as in the 19th century it developed a reputation as being very haunted. The story of the Willington Mill haunting has been retold many times.
The oval shaped Cholesbury Camp or The Danish Camp is a multivallate Iron Age hill fort covering 15 acres with ramparts measuring between 9.5 ft. and 34 ft in height. Within the defences can be found the Church of St Lawrence and if stories are to be believed, phantom animals that have been heard snorting and fighting each other.
Now a holiday let, parts of this Grade I listed building date from the 15th Century and it was the home of the Calverley Family.
The following account of an apparition being witnessed outside an unnamed West End church appeared in The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain (1897) by John Ingram.
An octagonal turret or tower from the gatehouse is all that remains of the Grade II listed Warblington Castle, which could have been described as a moated manor house. Situated on private land, the castle is not accessible, which reputedly does not stop its ghostly visitors.
On 16 July 2012 the following North West Evening Mail story by Ross Tyson entitled ‘Big cat’ spotted on road’ was published.
A COUPLE claim to have spotted a mysterious panther-like big cat while on holiday in the Lakes.
Articles / Big Cats / Cryptozoology
by Ian · Published January 21, 2014 · Last modified December 29, 2018
The Hexham Courant published the following article by J Marley entitled ‘Mystery of big cats’ on Friday 3 March 2000.
THE descriptions all seem to match != black, the size of a labrador and with a long tail sweeping down to the ground != and over the past few years there have been dozens of reports from across the district of sightings of big cats.
On 20 May 2013 the following article by Emily Parsons entitled ‘A BIG cat spotter claims a recent “lynx” sighting in Carlisle is not the first’, was published in the News and Star.
The following article by R Herbert entitled ‘ Big cat seen close to Walney bridge’ was published in the North West Evening Mail on Thursday, 06 May 2004.
POLICE have told people not to panic after a mystery creature was spotted on Barrow Island.
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