WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
Hitchcockian kangaroos in New South Wales and a West Country manimal
ROO LOOKING AT ME?
Just before sunset one day last January, Liz Ames and her husband Nick Canlan, both 43, from Sydney, were driving in the South West Rocks on the coast of New South Wales on their way to meet pals for a night out. Nick decided to take a shortcut to the pub and got completely lost in an unknown neighbourhood.
“We had absolutely no idea where we were, so we kept driving around hoping to find a way onto the main road,” said Liz. “We ended up in this random street that turned out to be a complete dead end, so we knew we needed to turn around. As we reached the end of the road, we couldn’t believe our eyes. In someone’s front yard, there were 12 kangaroos that had all just flocked to this one house. They were just congregating there
“They were just congregating there together on the front lawn”
together on the front lawn. It was really bizarre. They were just staring at us. I don’t know why they preferred this one house, but there weren’t any other kangaroos in sight anywhere else on the street. If you look closely there are a few mothers with their joeys either inside their pouch or beside them. It was definitely a ‘mothers’ group’ of kangaroos that I think would be ready to pounce on anyone that might have come too close.” D.Mail, Sun, 4 Feb 2018.
BRISTOL BIGFOOT
A passenger on a train from Exeter to Bristol on a Friday last November claims he saw a massive Bigfoot-like creature in a field. He left Exeter late in the morning, and there were few people on the train as it approached Bristol Temple Meads station. “In my carriage was probably 10 to 12 people – most of them with their heads in either mobile phones or morning newspapers,” he told the British Bigfoot Sightings group (which he had located online). “About 10 miles [16km] from Bristol in the fields to my right I saw something large. It was a black figure, kind of hunched over. At a guess I would’ve said it was 70 to 100 metres [230-330ft] away from the train. I was watching the way the ‘thing’ was walking, almost towards the side of the field. It was edged right up to the hedgerow as if to walk alongside the hedge itself, almost like it was using the hedge for cover. Whatever it was seemed to take massive strides, and ‘it’ was covering the ground very quickly. As I spun my head to the left to see if anybody else on the train had seen what I was looking at, I was surprised to see that nobody was really looking out from the seats in my direction, or any direction other than down.
“I would imagine five to 10 seconds was all I saw it for, but it stood out as strange. To start off with, I didn’t think it was a Bigfoot or anything like that, until I watched how it walked and the way it hugged the hedgerow. I thought it was just somebody walking through a field… Then, about two minutes later, I saw a couple walking a collie dog in a field, roughly the same distance away. They were to the side of the hedge line. I was gobsmacked to see that I could hardly make them out – I couldn’t really see what they were wearing apart from the brightly coloured coats. And it dawned on me that they were probably of average size, although what I had seen five minutes earlier was clearly not… I’m 100 per cent sure what I saw was the English Bigfoot – and what makes me so confident is the way it walked, with slightly bent legs, long strides but a graceful fluid walking motion.”
Ten miles before Temple Meads station would place the sighting to the south of the railway line between Nailsea and Yatton. The countryside here is low-lying wetland, between the M5 motorway and the wooded hillside escarpment that runs up to Bristol Airport. We are told that sightings continue to be reported to British Bigfoot researchers, from the dense woods of Suffolk to the remote mountains of Scotland. Bristol Post, via devonlive.com, 10 May 2018.