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A group of friends was sitting and chatting on the banks of a local waterway when two of the group, including the eyewitness, saw what they described as a ‘Rabbit-Faced Man’ peeking over the bank at them.
“I grew up in the small Lincolnshire hamlet of Branston Booths, named in legislation as a “nitrate sensitive area”. It had a pub, an old wooden village hall, and a chapel, but no church or shop. What it lacked in amenities, however, it more than made up for in attractions for adventurous children, such as a mysterious island surrounded by a moat, a stretch of woodland with some old but occasionally inhabited caravans in the midst of it (always the operations centre for international crimes in our imagination), and a body of reedy water known locally as the Delph.
This waterway ran straight from the main crossroads at the Booths, via an intersection with the Car Dyke, to the Sincil Drain, ultimately feeding the county’s main watercourse, the River Witham. The Delph has high grassy banks on either side, accessed from the crossroads by the Car Dyke’s own bank, which runs crossways to meet them and provides a bridge between the Car Dyke and the Delph. The first Delph bank is about 10m (33ft) away from the crossroads access point.
One summer’s evening in 1985, as the day was slowly turning to night, I was with my band of adventurers at the crossroads – there were five of us, aged 12 to 14 – chatting idly, with the Delph and bank tops, and fields beyond, as our backdrop. Three had their backs to the Delph, I was facing it, and a friend, Darrell, was standing to my right on a slight diagonal so that he was able to turn to me and then to our friends during the conversation, giving him a broader view than the rest of us.
We were on the point of saying our goodbyes when something caught my eye. A head had popped up over the first Delph bank top, and as I turned to register it, my mind was troubled: was this a rabbit-faced man or a man-faced rabbit? And with that, the head, on a pair of non-rabbit-sized shoulders, shot hack down behind the bank. Open-mouthed, I looked to Darrell, who had a similar expression, and we both said in excited unison, “Did you see that?”
We tried desperately to explain what we had seen to our friends – Darrell found it difficult to articulate, perhaps because of the angle at which he saw it, other than describing this human/animal ‘thing’ popping up and shooting back down again. We searched along the banks to see if it was still there. We found nothing, but – if truth be told – we didn’t look very hard. It was a terrifying encounter, but mercifully short.
My friends were non-plussed – “You just saw a big hare or rabbit” – but Darrell had seen what I had seen, and he just shook his head. Over the years, I have sought to explain this away as a trick of the crepuscular light (but why would it trick two people in the same way?), as a larger-than-normal animal (but I have seen enough rabbits and hares to know that they do not pop up in that way, or have human-like shoulders), or as a person playing a prank (doubtful, given that it is one of those places where everybody knows everybody else, and we would definitely have heard about it later).
Was the entity, perhaps, a cousin of the “giant rabbits” of the mythical island of Hy-Brasil? I have also wondered about whether I had already seen ‘The Wicker Man’ and was simply imagining a man with an animal head mask popping into the shot, as they do most memorably in the film; but had Darrell seen that film too and had he really been having the same thoughts as me? None of these strike me as satisfactory explanations – I definitely saw something strange that night and it has stayed with me ever since.
We didn’t mention it again within our group, and while I have always looked at those banks hoping to catch another glimpse, none has been forthcoming. I lost touch with Darrell when I went to university and he moved from Branston Booths, and I hope he sees this account. It is the first time I have written it down and would welcome his and any other reflections on this brief encounter.” AM
Source: Fortean Times, Issue 6, June 2021, citing: Andrew Mitchell, Boume, Lincolnshire
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A central Mississippi resident recalls his harrowing experiences with a black panther, as well as the mimics and other activity of a possible Bigfoot while hunting on his family’s property.
I recently received the following account:
“This encounter occurred on my family’s property about 20 years ago. It is 15 miles east of Greenwood, Mississippi. During deer bow season I had a nice food plot set up in the woods about a half mile from the nearest house. These small plots gave the deer something to eat and an easy escape route to the trees. It made them feel comfortable. I had a tree stand set up on the edge of the field.
After being in the stand for about 15 minutes I see what I think is a large Labrador Retriever enter the opposite end of my food plot heading towards me. As it approached I quickly realized that it wasn’t a dog. It was a black panther. The paws were massive I was amazed and scared at the same time. I was already in a standing position. It approached my stand so I drew back when it got close to the base of my tree. When I drew it looked up at me but it never stopped moving as it passed my position. I decided not to shoot because I thought that I stood a better chance of getting out of there alive by leaving it be rather than potentially wounding a deadly predator. I also recall that my grandfather had told my uncles that the big cats were there many years ago. This cat was about seven feet long, that’s a body length of approximately five feet. It showed no fear of me and almost acted like it knew me. I’d hunted in those woods since I was a young teen.
I stayed in the stand until it was dark and then I got down. I thought that would be best for me to follow the panther’s route to ensure that he was gone. So I walked about 50 yards on the trail that I saw him follow. Then in the glow of my flashlight, I saw green eyes shine and then his head extended out from behind an oak tree. I stopped and notched an arrow, then stepped backward until I made it up to the open field that was on top of the hill. I put my arrow back in the quiver and ran half a mile to my truck.
I took a day off during the week to do some turkey hunting. I got a late start but I had a good idea of where I needed to go for a late-morning hunt. I set my turkey decoys up in an opening that had two trails running perpendicular to my position. I sat in the corner and against a large oak tree. I chilled for a few minutes to see if anything would sound off I. tried an owl call. Immediately an owl called back just a short distance in front of me and then another to my left. The responding calls were too loud and from two separate animals. This was not an owl. It was something mimicking an owl and it was something with big lungs. I packed my gear and headed for the truck. This hunt was over.
The next winter I took my son and uncle in there for a quick squirrel hunt. My son was little but I wanted to get him exposed to the woods. We started hearing trees being pushed over in the distance I asked my uncle what he thought it was. He didn’t have a clue and then we got the hell out of there. Again this hunt was over too. I did some research after those events and I learned that others had posted sightings of Bigfoot creatures and similar behavior on the Mississippi BFRO page. I never saw the creature but I’m certain that something. L”
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Posted below is an audio clip provided to me by my friends Cam & Kyle at Expanded Perspectives:
The experiencer, named Chad, details his personal otherworldly encounters during the summer of 2018 in Long Beach, CA. He was in bed with his wife when he hears flapping wings and claws on the roof.
The being continued to show up each night. After talking to his mother, she suggested that he try to communicate with the unknown entity.
He successfully communicates psychically as the being responds with movements. It’s a very detailed and frightening description of the bipedal entity. He was able to ‘see’ the physical being in his mind’s eye.
The incident has resulted in Chad experiencing another unexplained phenomenon, including a UFO sighting and an orb incident. He feels privileged and awaits more encounters.
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