Monday 31 January 2022

JACK VALENTINE - ENGLISH FOLKLORE CHARACTER

He is a gift-giver supposed to flit about Norfolk on the 13th February (Valentine's Eve).  He is not quite in the league of Santa Claus, sometimes leaving useless presents, sometimes useful ones.


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ON THE TRACK #164

Latest episode of our web tv series.


Jonathan Downes, editor



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KING GHIDORAH - NEW SEA WORM

It's named after a fictional enemy of Godzilla.


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Sunday 30 January 2022

DOGMAN AT TIPPY DAM

Also known as the Wellston Werewolf.  (Video)


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Saturday 29 January 2022

DOMOVOI: RUSSIAN HOMESPRITE

In Russian folklore, a small being living in the house.

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Another article on this subject.

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KING ARTHUR'S DOG

It is uncertain if King Arthur, who was said to have led the Ancient Britons (ancestors of the Welsh, Cornish and Bretons) against the Anglo-Saxons (ancestors of the English) ever really existed.  However, he was credited with a dog called Cafall, which actually means "horse", perhaps an indication of his size.  What breed would he have been?





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TWO BIGFOOT?

Mountain Monsters may have two Bigfoot to find.





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Friday 28 January 2022

SECOND PART

of Shuker article on Phantom Kangaroos.


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SEA SERPENT IN THE VICTORIAN ERA

How the Great Sea Serpent impinged on Victorian culture.





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PLANS TO RE-BREED AUROCHS

It is hoped that breeding will bring back this extinct bovid.





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Thursday 27 January 2022

INCIDENT AT SALISBURY (ENGLAND)

This goes back to 1877.  A "wild man" (?last of the Wodewoses?) tried to kidnap the wife of a local farmer.  He was shot at, which dissuaded him from his purpose.  There have been various stories of Bigfoot like creatures in England, but the country is not big enough to sustain a breeding population.  This wild man may have been simply an unkempt individual or an interdimensional traveler.





 

NAHGA - HUMANOID OF CANADA

This article calls it a Sasquatch, but, as it is sometimes reputed to wear clothes, I'm not sure that this is a valid interpretation.





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HE HAD BIGFOOT ENCOUNTERS

Now he will publish a book of them that he has compiled.  One Bigfoot he saw became transparent, then vanished.





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BANSHEE OF THE BADLANDS

A legend of a female ghost, sometimes accompanied by a skeleton.


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OBSCURE BIGFOOT VIDEO

But why is the Harley Hoffman video obscure?





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Wednesday 26 January 2022

IOWA DRAGON

Is there a dragon in Iowa?  (Video)





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Tuesday 25 January 2022

BIGFOOT: NATIVE AMERICAN LINKS

The Indians have their own lore of Bigfoot-type creatures.





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ROOSEVELT AND THE MAN-EATING FISH

Catfish in South America can reach a huge size, as Roosevelt was to learn.





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FAIRY FOLK IN SCOTLAND

The following account of a boy who claimed to be able to visit the fairy realm and who is an historical character who lived into old age, and people still remembered him as an old man in 1859.


His name was Johnny Williamson and he would visit the fairies.  On one occasion, having done so, he emerged from a hole in a peat bank.  He said the fairies were "his folks".  He was known as the Boy of Borgue.


Source: L. Henderson and E.J. Cowan Scottish Fairy Belief East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2002, pp. 58-59.  

Monday 24 January 2022

HAVE YOU SEEN A HOOP SNAKE?

This is an American cryptid, but they are also reputed to occur in Scandinavia.  Ireland,where there are no snakes, features instead the Hoop Eel in its folklore.


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MYSTERY ANIMAL IN KENT (ENGLAND)

This was a strange doglike animal, perhaps a jackal, observed in Kent, where it attacked sheep.  It was first reported from Tonbridge in 1904, later from Sevenoaks.  Several of the witnesses (which were numerous) took shots at it.  Its identity was never certainly discovered.