The UK media and public has always been partial to the odd and unusual. It’s why Ufo stories are more popular than articles about Astronomy, even though the Universe is amazing, full of bizarre and interesting objects.
People like a mystery hence the news articles in national and local papers about ghosts, bigfoot, sea serpents, weird happenings and Ufos to name just a few. It’s not a recent phenomena either. Spring Heeled Jack from the Victorian period springs to mind.
Humans like to tell stories. Any unusual happenings, will be told and retold, with added embellishments, and maybe that’s how folklore, myths and legends are born. Which of course continues to this day.
Bela Lugosi as Dracula.
St Mary’s Church in Whitby has put up a sign asking visitors not to ask staff where Dracula’s grave is.
A walker found a fish trapped inside a Jellyfish on a beach near Padstow in Cornwall.
https://www.livescience.com/fish-trapped-inside-jellyfish.html
Coastguards ordered people out of the sea at Boscombe Beach in Bournemouth, after spotting a large animal. Often Shark sightings in the UK are of Basking Sharks, which eat plankton and are harmless as are other species of shark in the UK. Bit of an over reaction.
Delving into the mysterious with the legend of the Black Shuck which supposdly haunts the Cambridgeshire fens and is said to have inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s, The Hound of the Baskervilles. Black Shuck is said to haunt other areas of East Anglia and Black Demon Dog legends are part of the folklore in other parts of the UK too.
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/black-shuck-haunted-ghost-story-20848831
UK canine legends from Black Shuck, shape shifters, Guardian spirits and Werewolves.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/uks-most-terrifying-canine-legends-24346974
A black fox has been spotted on Sheringham Golf course, Norfolk with some drawing parallels to the Black Shuck legend.
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/rare-black-fox-spotted-on-sheringham-cliffs-8097500
Old woodcut of a Mermaid.
Is there a yeti in the Brecks ? Norfolk author includes local legends in mythical beasts book including a Mermaid and a manbeast.
https://www.edp24.co.uk/lifestyle/norfolk-psykey-films-founder-first-book-8176136
Werewolf woodcut.
Man spends 30yrs hunting werewolves after sighting one in Yorkshire in the 90s.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/mans-30-year-werewolf-hunt-23890100
Hawkmoth Caterpillars cause a stir in Manchester.
As do the Hawkmoths themselves.
Vintage sea monster illustration.
Sea Monsters and their inspiration. NHM article about the real animals behind sea monster sightings.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/sea-monsters-inspiration-serpents-mermaids-the-kraken.html
Can’t forget the Loch Ness Monster. Nessie enthusiast claims they have evidence of the size and appearance of the monster.
A dogman is reported to have been seen multiple times in different places by the same person.
Bigfoot.
British Big Foot sightings. Back in the 90s someone claimed to have seen an Ape on Bluebell Hill, near the Medway Towns in Kent. Bluebell Hill is better known for it’s hitchhiking ghost.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/british-bigfoot-hunter-shares-fifteen-24176886
Pterosaurs chilling at the beach.
Beware of rogue Pterosaurs on your bird feeder.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/uk-ideal-resting-stop-5ft-23918037
Carved wooden creature, All Saints, Barrow, Suffolk.
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Ko-Fi page.
My Redbubbleshop. https://www.redbubble.com/people/amanda150771/shop?asc=u
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