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In her 1883 book, Shropshire Folklore, Charlotte S. Burne wrote: 'A very weird story of an encounter with an animal ghost arose of late years within my knowledge. On the 21st of January 1879, a labouring man was employed to take a cart of luggage from Ranton in Staffordshire to Woodcock, beyond Newport in Shropshire, for the ease of a party of visitors who were going from one house to another. He was late in coming back; his horse was tired, and could only crawl along at a foot's pace, so that it was ten o'clock at night when he arrived at the place where the highroad crosses the Birmingham and Liverpool canal. 'Just before he reached the canal bridge, a strange black creature with great white eyes sprang out of the plantation by the roadside and alighted on his horse's back. He tried to push it off with his whip, but to his horror the whip went through the thing, and he dropped it on the ground in fright.' The creature duly became known to superstitious and frightened locals as the Man-Monkey. Between 1986 and early 2001, Nick Redfern delved deeply into the mystery of the strange creature of that dark stretch of canal. Now,published for the very first time, are Nick's original interview notes, his files and discoveries; as well as his theories pertaining to what lies at the heart of this diabolical legend. Is Britain really home to a Bigfoot-style entity? Does the creature have supernatural origins? Or is it something else entirely? Nick Redfern addresses all of these questions in Man-Monkey and reveals a story that is as bizarre as it is macabre.
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Just when you thought it was safe...,
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Cryptozoology needs books like this. Intriguing, sinister and complex mysteries that go beyond the standard fair so often regurgitated in today's market. Nick Redfern has finally investigated one of the UK's most baffling enigmas, the possibility that a Bigfoot-like beast once roamed the wilds of Shropshire, alongside other very weird phenomena.
Redfern delves into the history of high strangeness in the county, uncovering all manner of peculiar characters, man-beast sightings, further mystery animal reports and general oddness. Like all Redfern's work, this is well-written without taking the reader off the shadowy path. 'Man-Monkey' is a glimpse not just into the dark woods but a torch beam flitting into the murky void of 'zooform phenomena', where the things that should not be clearly have been for many years, eluding man and rational explanation.
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Not Such a Big Foot,
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This review is from: Man-monkey: In Search of the British Bigfoot (Paperback)
I found Redfern's 'Three Men Seeking Monsters' enthralling, so had high expectations for this book. However, with its much narrower subject matter it didn't quite reach those heights, but it was nevertheless an absorbing read. The subtitle is `In Search of the British Bigfoot', which is slightly misleading in that the `man-monkey' sightings he reports seem to be wholly supernatural rather than relate to real animals that are hiding in the woods. However, a few of the sightings seem to be of a kind of `Bigfoot ghost', seen in the countryside near Newcastle, Aberdeen and Dundonald Castle, and ghostly `Bigfoot hands' affecting the steering of cars and motorbikes in Devon. Curiously there is no mention of the `Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui', a famous `Bigfoot ghost' candidate, and I have also read of a Peak District sighting that he does not include, so the book cannot be said to be quite a comprehensive survey. Perhaps a second edition could address such omissions.
The main subject matter of the book is a roughly man-sized `man-monkey', seen mainly in Staffordshire, in particular near a stretch of the Shropshire Union Canal and on Cannock Chase. Many of the sightings include harassment of vehicles on roads. Some are associated with suicides, and he puts forward a theory that the man-monkeys are inhabited by the tormented souls of these people, and are occasionally able to cross over from another dimension to wreak havoc, as has been alleged with demonic black dogs. He reports evidence of ritual slaughter of animals by occultists, possibly to conjure up these demons for foul purposes. Mermaids, werewolves and giant eels are also touched upon, relating to a shape-shifting theory. As you might expect, the number of sightings is not huge, so neither is the book, at about 150 pages. There is a not-very-informative location map of Staffordshire, and about 30 black-and-white photos, mostly of sites. Some of these haven't reproduced too well, perhaps because they really need to be on glossy paper as is standard in most books. There is no index, but that's forgiveable in a short book. As with other CFZ publications it has over-large, bold-typed, lined-off page headings, which frankly they should drop as they look rather odd and unprofessional. Anyway, I'm being hypercritical as most of the drawbacks are presentation issues. Redfern is a gifted writer and the book is a fascinating and enjoyable read, with some convincing evidence. It will make some readers nervous about being out in the Staffordshire countryside after dark.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not Such a Big Foot,
By Fair Comment (Great Britain) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Man-monkey: In Search of the British Bigfoot (Paperback)
I found Redfern's 'Three Men Seeking Monsters' enthralling, so had high expectations for this book. However, with its much narrower subject matter it didn't quite reach those heights, but it was nevertheless an absorbing read. The subtitle is `In Search of the British Bigfoot', which is slightly misleading in that the `man-monkey' sightings he reports seem to be wholly supernatural rather than relate to real animals that are hiding in the woods. However, a few of the sightings seem to be of a kind of `Bigfoot ghost', seen in the countryside near Newcastle, Aberdeen and Dundonald Castle, and ghostly `Bigfoot hands' affecting the steering of cars and motorbikes in Devon. Curiously there is no mention of the `Big Grey Man of Ben MacDuie', a famous `Bigfoot ghost' candidate, and I have also read of a Peak District sighting that he does not include, so the book cannot be said to be quite a comprehensive survey. Perhaps a second edition could address such omissions.
The main subject matter of the book is a roughly man-sized `man-monkey', seen mainly in Staffordshire, in particular near a stretch of the Shropshire Union Canal and on Cannock Chase. Many of the sightings include harassment of vehicles on roads. Some are associated with suicides, and he puts forward a theory that the man-monkeys are inhabited by the tormented souls of these people, and are occasionally able to cross over from another dimension to wreak havoc, as has been alleged with demonic black dogs. He reports evidence of ritual slaughter of animals by occultists, possibly to conjure up these demons for foul purposes. Mermaids, werewolves and giant eels are also touched upon, relating to a shape-shifting theory. As you might expect, the number of sightings is not huge, so neither is the book, at about 150 pages. There is a not-very-informative location map of Staffordshire, and about 30 black-and-white photos, mostly of sites. Some of these haven't reproduced too well, perhaps because they really need to be on glossy paper as is standard in most books. There is no index, but that's forgiveable in a short book. Anyway, I'm being hypercritical. Redfern is a gifted writer and the book is a fascinating and enjoyable read, with some convincing evidence. It will make some readers nervous about being out in the countryside after dark. Especially in Staffordshire.
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