The night of the 1st sighting was no different than any other night. We packed our fishing gear up and headed back to the car which was parked in the bottom car park.

We headed from the green along the wooden walkway toward the West Wood car park to follow the track round the side of the lake to the bottom car park.

As soon as I got onto the wooden track I felt really cold and had the feeling I was being watched. My friend Neil was up ahead of me marching off towards the car park, and Nathan was as usual wandering casually behind me carrying his gear.

I had made it half way along the wooden track when I stopped and looked back to see where Nathan was, it was quite a light night with the moon light shining through the trees but I could not see Nathan. I could hear he footsteps on the wooden track then I saw it at the edge of the track standing in the undergrowth a tall figure at standing at least 8 feet tall and very wide at least double my size, with what looked like 2 glowing eyes. At first I thought it was Nathan messing about but then I spotted him coming all on the track to the right of the figure.

I shouted to Nathan and ran for the car yelling a Neil too as I approached him. Nathan soon caught us up and we ran all the way back to the car.

Neil and Nathan did not see this figure but Neil did have the feeling of being watched as he had passed the same patch of the woods.

We never really talked about it again and I just put it down to my imagination.

Several years later Neil had an encounter at a different location in the park.

He was out with his girlfriend in the woods (as you do When she stopped him in mid session saying that someone was watching them in the woods. She also described the same sort of huge dark figure.

Again on another, I think 2 occasions, Neil and Nathan were fishing and camping out when their campsite was bombarded with large rocks and their deadbaits stolen in the middle of the night.

After doing a bit of research on the subject we went out looking for signs of Bigfoot activity in the area which also covered Harwood Forest and somewhere else up next to Coldstream called Thrunton Wood. We found various teepee formations and trees torn at their bases.

Just thought I would share.

I ask because I have been experiencing phenomena associated with bigfoot but in a decidedly urban area! All the phenomena is unsubstantial and at first I put the sounds and half seen shadows down to prowlers. However keeping an open mind I have been reading what I can about bigfoot sightings in Britain and it seems that some folk reckon that the phemonena is not a physical animal but some sort of other dimensional beast (ghost??)

Can any one suggest what?

So. Obviously there CAN’T be a group of gigantic, hair-covered bipeds running around scaring the locals, any more than there can be big cats, wild boar, kangaroos, wolves or ghostly black dogs roaming the Chase.

NEVERTHELESS… there they are, in reports from seemingly level-headed folk from all across the years!

Crypto-fans, we have to remember that no matter how “impossible” the reports seem to be, no matter how much we would love it all to be true, no matter our personal agenda, the very nature of “Crypto” includes both the rock-solid evidence of captured animals AND the borderline paranormal aspects!

Crypto archives are replete with tales of mysterious appearances and behaviors of unbelieveable creatures ~ whether we like it or not, “Cryptos” come and go on their own schedule, much like ghosts or UFOs.

We just need to concentrate on the three “A” technique: Assimilate the data, Analyze the data and, finally, Act on the data. Skip any of those three “As” and we are wasting our time!

If the data indicates a Bigfoot in the Chase, there are only a few conclusions we can reach (hoax, hallucination, misidentification or Beast! If Beast, then we need to deal with the “whence” and “whither” ~ where did it come from, and where did it go ~ but NOT with the “it can’t be there because etc etc…”.

We must act to determine which is the most likely answer to these questions, whether or not we like the outcome, and then Act accordingly.

Else, just chuckle knowingly and go back to watching the Olympics.

Firstly its good to know that people like yourself are investigating the British Bigfoot sightings-great stuff.

Although I want nothing more than you to be succesful in your search and a British Bigfoot to be sighted and photographed I do think a Bigfoot or a small community of Bigfoot would struggle to live unmolested in an area that really is not that big. Cannock Chase was an old mediaval hunting ground (have there been Bigfoot sightings from those times?) And the area although fairly large by English standards is criss crossed by walkways and paths, has 1.9million people living within 30km of it and also has Sand & Gravel extraction going on in it. This added to the regular amount of ramblers, tourists and people generally using it as a recreational ‘park’ would be too much for a Bigfoot Community to cope with.

As the area is well known for its fauna and countless people visit the area to look for smaller creatures that are rare in the UK like adders, lizards, nightjars, badgers etc. Do we get many sightings from these folks who are only there because they have a genuine interest in nature and surely would be fascinated by the sightings of any unknown species whatever the type?

Nick, good luck with your quest and as a resident of Great Britain I eagerly await news of quest.