May 9, 2025 • 42 mins
Listeners tales of Shadow Beings that appear in their homes, or stalk their children at night. Strange Running Shadow Figures are also seen along our road ways and railway lines and many a driver comes into contact with the unknown.
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Hello everybody, and welcome back. Thank you very much for
joining me. My name is Jabrahtswell, and you're listening to
BBR Investigations. Tonight, I'll be sharing a number of listeners
experiences that have come into BBR since twenty twenty. Each
report is written by the witness themselves and simply transcribed
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the words I did some of my thoughts on their cases,
and I'll share some cases that are also startling similar.
Let's start with the case from Sleaford in Yorkshire, a
county here in the UK known for its cryptid and
paranormal encounters. It has a rich history running back centuries
in time, and even in modern times, amongst the hustle
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and bustle of busy areas, people still experienced the most
extraordinary of things. The lady who shared this experience with
me wishes to remain anonymous, so I will refer to
her as d D. Lives in the Sleaford area. This
took place in twenty twelve, and she said, Hi, Diabeth,
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I've been listening to your YouTube videos. I'm wondering whether
you'd be interested in hearing of my experience. It was
sometime in twenty twenty when my home in Sleaford with
my youngest starter after visiting my other daughter and her husband,
and they live in Grimsbeth. We've been gone a few
days and my son, who was twenty at the time,
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was looking after the house and had three cats. When
I got to the door that night, I noticed that
it wasn't locked, and all the lights in the house
had been left on. I went aside and looked upstairs
to see if my son was there, and I was
going to ask him why all the lights had been
left on. I looked up there, and as I looked
at the stairs, there was a dark figure in the
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bathroom at the top of the stairs. I called my
son's name. Something was odd. I knew that it wasn't him.
I didn't take my eyes off this black figure. They
had no features, it was just pure black, and I
started walking upstairs towards it. I felt angry that it
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was in my house. I wasn't scared at all. As
I walked up the stairs, it moved across the bathroom.
He sort of glided slowly from one end to the
other end. I kept my eyes on it, but I
was nearly at the top of the stairs. The banister
blocked my view, so when I got to the top
it had completely gone. I checked the bedrooms and my
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three caps were clearly terrified. They were scrambling to get
under the bed. On one of them jumped right across
the bed, absolutely terrified. I've never seen them like that now.
The front and the back door were both unlocked, and
every light in the house was on. My son later
told me he had definitely locked up before going to work,
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and there were no lights left on when he left.
My youngest artery was sixteen at the time, went into
a bedroom and saw that her posters that had been
on the wall were on the floor, and everything that
was on a bed had been shoved in a pile
onto the floor. She tried to entice the cats out
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from under the bed with trees, but they wouldn't come out.
Was really unlike them. They normally will do anything for
a tree. The following morning, I went to get out
of bed and on the rug beside my bed was
a monkey peach with what looked like a whole pack
of hair clips individually hooked around the string. Both the
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monkey charm and the hair clips were previously in my
bed room draw. There would be no way of them
being moved from that drawer without waking me up. It
require a lot of rummaging to get them all together.
One thing I found strange about this is that when
I came in the front door and looked, only then
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did the figure start slowly moving. It seemed like it
waited for me to enter the house and look up,
as if it wanted me to see it, even turning
on all the lights of the house. It was years
later I heard about other people seeing this black figure
or what they call the hat man. I've never seen
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it before, not since, so I'm baffled as to why
it came that day. I hope my story might be
of interest to others. Cases I've heard are at night,
you know, or during lucy dreaming or something like that.
This was around four in the afternoon, although it was
dark because it was wintertime. I lived in that house
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for thirteen years when it happened, and about six months
after the shadow man incident, we moved as we were
wanting to live nearer to.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
My daughter in rooms, Beth.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
What was also what is when we were moving in
that November, everything went perfect, and I mean perfect. There
was so many coincidence and things fitting into place that
it was like something was helping us to move. But
it was all good, and I wonder if all that's connected.
My son said he had a friend over when I
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was out, and his friend went to the bathroom and
when he came back downstairs, he looked shuck up. My
son asked what was up, and he said that he'd
looked in the mirror and saw his face, but it
wasn't his space and it wasn't mirroring what he was doing.
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Some of his other friends said the street was known
to be haunted, but that was the only incident that
I had to share. That must have been absolutely startling
to come home and witness that come in the house
and there at the top of the stairs, it's a
completely black shadow figure with no discernible features. I wonder
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if it was connected to the house or to the
land that the house was built on. I shared a
case earlier in the year very similar to this, and
it took place in Trent Country Park where a student
had seen a strange shadow shape being that looked like
a human, and he saw it on two occasions. After
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the episode aired, and I was contacted through the BBR
website by a lader who wanted to share her experience
in the same country park, and she said, Hi, I
had a really similar experience to the one the student had,
but mine was a few years before. However, it was
at the opposite end of the day. I went walking
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with my friend behind the old mansion where they used
to be the water gardens Phillips has soon had built
for his wife. It was around two thousand and two.
We went off the beaten track. We were trying to
get back to the oakward entrance of the park. We've
been walking for a while. When the sunlight started to fade,
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I felt like we were walking in a circle. All
of a sudden, I had a feeling like I shouldn't
be there, and when I looked around at my surroundings,
I noticed a shadowy figure. It was human shaped, but
with no discernible features. I didn't look at it for
too long. I just said to my friend that we
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should maybe walk back, as we needed to get home
before it got too dark. I mentioned this to anyone
until my sister and Laura and I were talking about
BBR and she told me about the story that you shared.
I read this account of your experience step and it
made me think that what I saw wasn't just a
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trick of delight on my imagination like I'd originally thought.
Did you notice in both descriptions it said that it
was completely black and it didn't have any discernible features. Well,
another listener shared with me some horrifying experiences that had
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when they were much younger, and I also centered on
a six foot tall shadow being with no facial features.
In approximately two thousand and eight, I had something happened
to me that I'm really struggling to explain. This experience
happened and when I was fifteen years old at the time,
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living with my dad his girlfriend who had five kids
each between two and ten. There were three girls and
two boys. None of these were my dad's kids, but
he took care of them and if they were his own,
So we had eight of us living in a three
bed house. My dad and his girlfriend had a bedroom
on the first floor. The three girl shared a room,
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and the two boys shared a room, all on the
first floor. I was given a room on the ground
floor that was right next to the dining room in
the kitchen. The doors to my bedroom had glass windows
in them, and this is important for later on with
the encounter. Also, I want to mention that the stairs
leading to the first floor were in the living room.
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I can see the bottom of the stairs from my
bedroom looking through the windows, and the bedroom doors on
the cross to the dining room. One week they decided
they wanted to go camping on a weekend, but I
didn't want to go. I'd made plans to meet up
with some friends that weekend. Now, as a teenage lad,
hanging around with your friends seemed pure and spending time
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with family. Anyway, that Friday night they left and I
went out with my friends for a while. We won't
go out the old laugh went home. I didn't have
a drink or anything like that. I was completely sober.
I got home later that night. I was on my own.
I was so tired. I went straight to my room,
got in bed. I was lying there and the house
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was empty except for me. It was strange to have
this much silence in what is normally a very busy,
noisy house. As I was settling down in bed, I
started to hear footsteps walking across the landing. You could
hear one foot after the next boom bum bum. It
soundly like they'd come from the bathroom all the way
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across the landing and then stopped at the top of
the stairs. I didn't know what to do. My eyes
were wide and looking directly at the bottom of the stairs.
My first thought was to shout a lot. I couldn't
do it. It felt like something in the back of my
mind was telling me not to move, not to make
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a sound. Survival instinct maybe, or just fear of the unknown.
Then the footsteps are back again, but this time they're
coming down the stairs. You could hear the stairs creaking
after each and every step, like they, you know, the
wood if I was walking down them. My heart was
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beating out of my chest. And this was all happening
within minutes of me getting home. I thought this burglar
had come, you know, had heard me come into the
house and was looking for me. The footsteps kept going,
the stairs were creeping. I could hear that this person
was close to the bottom of the stairs. Now I
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was alone, frozen for fear. I thought, there's nothing I
could do against a fully grown man, and what if
he's got a weapon?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
What can I do?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I heard the final three steps as this person got
to the bottom of the stairs. My eyes would glued
to that area, and then I saw it. This was
no person standing. It may be a little under six
feek tall. Was this shadow figure in the shape of
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a man, but it had no facial features and it
just stood a dark silhouette. It was even a little
bit translucent, and it just had this eerie feel to it.
It stood there for what felt like forever and seemed
to just be looking at the wall in front of it.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
It.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
She just stood still. I started to question myself, asking
herself if I'm seeing things. Its head moves and looks
towards the front door of the house. This was a
slow movement with a quick look to the side, and
then it started to move its head back around and
looked towards my direction. You know, as soon as it
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did this, I just threw the blanket over my head,
hiding under my covers. I did not know what to do.
Do I climb out the window and run of nowhere
to go. I just stayed as still as possible, and
I listened out for any movement at all. And then
I heard its footsteps again, but it was not coming
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towards me. It was going back up the stairs. I
felt a bit of relief when I heard it get
to the top of the stairs. It then started walking
along the landing, and the footsteps stopped when it got
to the bathroom, I said, hidden under my blanket, thinking
about what to do. If I leave the house, Where
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do I go? My family are camping miles away. If
I phoned my friends and told them about this, they'd
just laugh at me and say that I was crazy.
Not knowing what to do, I just stayed there, lying
await for hours, when I must have finally fell asleep.
I woke up the next morning still an edge. I
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could not get the image of this thing out of
my head. What was it? I've never seen anything like it.
Before I got ready, I went straight out of the house.
That night, I stayed over at a friend's house. I
did not mention what had happened to any of my friends,
and I didn't want them to think that I was crazy.
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I went home on the Sunday, knowing everyone we'll be
back at the house. I walked into a busy household,
the kids playing, running right, having a laugh. My dad
was upstairs. I shouted alone and walked toward the kitchen
to get a drink. His girlfriend was in the kitchen,
and she said alone. And she said how surprised she
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was that her house was still tighter, and made a
joke that at my age, if she had a free house,
she would have had a party. I was still shaken
from the experience. I didn't really laugh, and I think
she could tell I wasn't myself. She asked me what
was up, and I explained.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
It all to her.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I thought she'd laugh, but her response was yet this
ARTI's aunted. I was shocked. I didn't know what to say.
She then went on to tell me her experiences in
the house. This response was comforting and it made me
feel like I'm not crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
You know, we're alone.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Later he told my dad about what had happened, and
she said that he'd seen the figure before, and he'd
seen it moving from one side of the kitchen to
the other. After the encounter, I never wanted to stay
in that house again, but after hearing more stories from
both of them, I felt more comfortable with being there.
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One big thing was that this thing, it never hurt anybody,
you know. Having this sort of experience kind of normalized
it helped massively with it moving forward. It must have
done it must have been really good when you come
forward and say, you know, you share something and people say, well, actually, yeah,
I understand, I've seen it too. You know, we hear
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it week after we don't in the podcast where people
get in touch exactly like tonight because they've heard something
I put out there and they've gone, actually, that kind
of sounds like the incident that happened to me, or
you know, that incident that happened to more More Uncle Harry,
or what you know, normally a family story or a friend.
It doesn't matter whether you're at home, you know, you're
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out enjoying yourself, or you're driving the car. As I
said earlier, people doing the most ordinary of things have
the most extra ordinary experiences. And it was those very
happenings that took place in our next case tonight. Now
a strange dark figure was seen running on the e
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F eight road at Leeds. And when we think of
Yorkshire countryside, several of Tonight's cases have taken place.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
It couldn't use up.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Images of luscious green rolling hills, you know, the orchard wolds,
thick woodlands, and of course they're desolate Moreland. It's a
place of abject and butter and hundreds of tourists from
all across the globe visit Yorkshire every year. I wonder
how our visitor feel they realized just how many dog men,
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or werewolves or paranormal experiences have been reported by members
of the public in Yorkshire over the years. Yorchire's history
is a long and tales of the supernatural stretched back
through the centuries to a time when Yorkshire had far
less of a human population. But don't like that failure.
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So many of these reports happen in modern times, in
modern towns filled with the hustle and bustle of daily life.
People out walking the dogs, are driving the roads, just
going about their everyday business when they are suddenly confronted
by the unknown. I was contacted recently by a witness
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and we are calling Adeline for the purposes of anonymity.
And Adeline said, I'm a female in my mid fifties
living in Leeds. I've had a lifetime interesting mists of
my area, particularly West Yorkshire and Northern England more widely.
Most recently, I've listened to some programs from Paul sy Claire,
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JOHICKI Hall and that led me to you, Deborah. I
was a listener to dog Men Encounters Radio, and it's
through that channel that I found yours polls and Joe's content.
I've had two incidents I feel a ways reporting here,
but also much that I have always assumed to be
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the product of, say a hypnotic trance or you know,
some similar sleep type experience, or just a product of
being in certain areas which generate a particulars I called
the logical reaction due to them inherently being a bit dangerous.
The things I report are oddly the most mundane in
that I wasn't afraid at all, and everything about the
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real world felt absolutely ordinary. Anyway, here's my report about
an incident that happened in the last week of October
twenty twenty four, when I was driving along White Tall
Road in Leeds, between Dixon Lane and the railway bridge
at Dragon Drive. I don't know what it was that
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I encountered, so I don't know how to describe it.
It happened quite quickly, around eight seconds in all. I
could see it clearly, as it was around mid afternoon.
I was driving along the road I travel every day.
There is nothing special rout the ordinary about it. Whitehall
Road only A five eight is in Leeds. It's about
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a mile mile and a half out of the city center.
It was around three twenty five to broad daylight. As
alone in the car, and at the time in question,
there was no oncoming traffic and nobody driving close behind me.
I just passed the Dixon Lane junction and was heading along.
There's one hundred meter stretch to where the road takes
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a ninety degree turn to the right and it crosses
the railway line. The railway is cutting to the right
of me at that point, separated from the road by
a stone wall about four feet high. There's no pavement
to speak of, and to the left there's a steep
bank with a line of sandwich detached housing on it,
each with a steep garden that opens onto the pavement.
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These houses are parking at the roadside in the lay by,
and this layby was fully parked up. There was just
one pedestrian, but I didn't see him until I looked
into my rear BUW mirror to see if anyone else
could have seen it. The whole sighting took maybe six
to eight seconds. It's gone about twenty five mile an hour.
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When I saw the figure of a young man running
downhill on Dragon Drive about sixty meters away from me.
He was coming from let to right, going really really fast.
I could see his legs moving very clearly. He was
wearing a black tracksuit with a hooder. No doubt in
my mind this was a person. My reaction was more wow,
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look at him go. I moved my gaze to look
directly at him because it was an impressive speed. We
have a few people you know around area was about
on electric bikes of various kinds, noell mixed strubgies and
balaclavas up to something you know, no good, who knows what,
and this lad looked like one of them, minus the
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electric bike or scooter. I assumed he was going to
dash across in front of me, and he was coming
towards me as well as moving left a right. I
thought he'd go down the side of the railway bridge
that I was approaching. And what happened next takes a
very long time to type, but it was only a
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second or two in reality. But then I remembered there's
no path on the right side of the road, so
it seemed weird. If you were running to do that,
you'd stay back on the left and there is a
path there, otherwise you're just going to get run over.
The bridge is a she cane with no space. And
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then I realized that I've been wrong. He wasn't headed
to the road at all, but even closer to me,
towards the wall on my right. But that made no
sense either, because there's nothing there but that wall and
then the railway cup. You're super steep drop. You know,
there's no way anyone would run there. As I appeared
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at him trying to see better, you know, he was
now in the middle of the road, clear of all
the cars on the left, and it was like I
could see the legs fine, but the upper taso was
just fading out like a shadow cast on the air.
There was hardly any arms, and just a suggestion of
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the movie and then honestly not really any kind of head.
I felt no fear of anything like that.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I was just focused and.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Looking at him, trying to understand what it was that
I was looking at. I'm now about twenty meters away.
As I stired, not sure I was really seeing anything right,
this figure deformed more so. There was just this bipedal
running movement in the lower part and the rest was
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much more like a same shapeless shadow than a kind
of too deep kind of geometric edge, like a lot
of hexagons fading out into nothing. My brain was at
the point going got to be a plastic bag, because
a very stretched, thin film maybe of a bin line
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or was about all it could have been compared to
anything I've seen. I was still expecting him it to
have to jump or hurdle the wall closer about ten
meters from him, but it just went right through the wall,
as if the wall wasn't there. In it either dropped
or just vanished at that point, I mean a bag
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would have got caught on the wall. I'd say a
third of it it was above the wall heigh and
the rest was below. The well was probably only four
foot high. I was now beyond it just before the turn.
I looked at the part of the left in my
raview mirror because I wondered if anyone else was around
who could have seen it. There was a man with
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white hair walking along. We didn't seem in any way
like he'd seen anything. You know, it would have to
have crossed in front of him. I think then I'm thinking,
did I really see that could it have just been
some kind of black plastic bag. But it had moved
very straight, very fast, a constant speed and direction. The
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wind was really up, you know, to that kind of thing,
even with the leaves that were about, and the bag
would have looked different, you know, because bags are three
dimensional and they constantly deformed as they move. This was
when I really looked at it less steps angil. Then
you could see light through it. It was like a
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dark watermark. I never thought about the dashcom footage until
I stopped the car, but then it erases it because
I didn't press safe. Of course, I've never seen anything
like that before. Nothing else was in any way out
of the ordinary that day, something of no is the
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This Christmas. I saw my cousin, and since he lives
on a street right there where I saw the running figure,
I mentioned it to him and we got talking about
ghosts and the paranormal. He's had several of his own experiences,
but not like mine. He's seen ghosts, you know. His
remark on them was how ordinary they were, except that
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they couldn't possibly be there, you know, if they've been real.
He wrote to me a few weeks later to say
remembered an incident from the nineteen seventies when he'd lived
with his parents one hundred meters from where I'd had
this sighted. He said, a friend of his dad's had
come around in a city one day after nim you know,
because he'd been gardening in his front yard and he'd
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seen a man in a dark blue track suit go
running past the end of the drive down a hill,
which would be about forty eaters from exactly where I
saw mine. This man had been going unusually fast, and
at that time jogging was a very new thing, you know,
people didn't do it that much. And also he was
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wearing a tracksuit, he mentioned, and it was an unusual
dark blue color, had something strange about it that was
not at all fashionable, not something anyone would be seen wearing.
He'd walked around the hedge to the corner to take
a better look at this man, and there was nobody
there and nowhere that he could have gone. He bothered
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him so much he searched all the gardens up and down,
looking in case it was a bit, you know, a
proud or you never found anything. We had a sharp
correspondent about it, and my cousin told me that the
point where I saw the shadow drop into the court
is just before the old station hall that used to
be there on which is now a reclamation yard. He
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wondered if it was someone running for a train. If not,
he thought maybe it was something, you know, something in
kind of a time anomaly.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
For me, it was human to start with, not even odd,
but by the end it was so odd it defied
any rational explanation. It's hard to put it into words even.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I've heard the description of this running figure before, you know,
from several areas in the UK. On one that sounds
incredibly similar was reported that the infamous Stocksbridge Bypass. I've
shared encounters at the bypassing earlier podcast, but there is
a case from there that also features a strange running
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figure impossible to describe, seen by a female driver. Judy
and David Simpson bravely took part in a BBC series
on the Paranormal in nineteen ninety four, where they shared
their experience driving on the road to warp Yorkshire. Judy
drove along the B six zero A eight near the bypass,
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and her husband David was in the passenger seat. Judy
reported that while she was passing the bypass bridge, she
saw a figure hopping or jogging in a field at
the end of the road. Judy couldn't give a very
clear description, as she saw no conto. There was no face,
no head, no details to be made out, and there
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were no identifying features. There was nothing like clothing or
a hat. There was something to the shape that looked
like it possibly had shoulders and ma the arms and legs,
and it seemed agitated in its movements, and it was
kind of moving in a disstarted way, and it ran
aimlessly through the field as Judy thought it was a jogger.
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She didn't really think much of it, and so she
realized its feet not touching the floor as it ran,
but it was floating approximately a meter above the ground.
And then the figure leapt from the field, going up
the road and landed in the middle of the road
in front of the car. Whatever this figure was, it
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should have been hit by that car. Judy hit the
brakes and stopped the car instantly, but there was no
sensation of shock, as if this thing had been immaterial
or it had just disappeared. There was no bang as
they collided, no bump as she hit him, he simply
vanished from sight in front of Judy's eyes. The husband
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also saw it.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Although shaken and shot, they got out of the car
to try and find this poor man, But as he
looked all around them, he found no trace of him
or anything that they could have mistaken him for. Quite simpler,
a humanish shaped figure would run at speed at their car,
and as they collided, it just vanished into the She
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can imagine. The couple were very upset, unable to believe
what had occurred, and starting to admit to themselves that
what they saw was possibly a ghost or some paranormal
being in origin. They drove down to the Watleypop to
calm down with a drink, and they shaared their story
at the bar would ridiculed him. The locals themselves quite
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aware of the reputation of the place. I wanted to
check my case files to see if I had any
other report of a kind of dark running figure seen
on the UK road. I wasn't disappointed. A gentleman named
Lamar had a weird experience when he was driving down
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the A one two three seven late at night, and
he said I'd been to see a friend. It clifted
him more. I was heading back towards the A six four.
Although I was concentrated on driving the car, I was
also listening to my music and pretty much gone into
auto pilot, as there were no other cars around and
only the occasional roundabounts to negotiate. Suddenly, I became aware
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of movement on the curb side if you meet us
ahead of me, and before I realized what was going on,
I was certain that a human figure had moved out
in front of the car. I hit the brakes but
was still traveling almost sixty mile an hour when I
should have heard the dreaded and there was nothing. I
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didn't stop, though I'd slowed to almost thirty miles an hour.
After breaking I could see only the open road in
my rearview mirror and heard only eerie silence. I sped
back up to speak quickly, wanting nothing more than to
get away from that place as faster than I could.
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Molly Jones said, I had a weird experience many years
ago in the UK, and I was on a quiet
road in the countryside. I was in the passenger seat
of the car when I saw an old man walk
out from the side of the road for am area
that was just trees, and he walked straight out in
front of us, and I screamed as we hit him,
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but no one else saw him, and there was no
impact as we hit him. But we stopped the car
as I was convinced we must have slammed into this mouth.
And there was nobody there at all. We were the
only car on the road. There were no street lights,
although I saw him clearly through the headlights. It scared
the living daylight that me and to this day he
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still can't believe it happened, but it did. On the
thirteenth of December twenty twenty, a witness made a report
of a tall, thin, black figure around six fifty five
in the morning. A driver using the B six eight
four road. This time so a tall, thin, black human
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light figure that stepped out into the road ahead of
the driver. The figure stood out clearly to him. It
was illuminated by his headlights and they were.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
On four beam.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
The figure moved backwards and vanished into the hedge. As
the driver passed the spot, no one could be seen.
Our next case takes part on the by pass, not
the stocksbridge. This was in Europe and it took place
on the fourteenth February twenty twelve, and a family were
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actually returning home from being out that night. There was
a man and a lady in the sun and the
gentleman's name was Scott Martin. Him and his family were
traveling home by taxi from Stoneleigh about ten thirty pm
on Valentine's the evening when they saw a mysterious dark
figure with no features, dark across the road in front
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of them before leaping a fifteen foot roadside bank around
the area of Nescott College on the your Bypass. They
were really spooped out by what they'd seen, and the
four year old son was too scared to sleep in
his own room that night, and the taxi driver was
none too pleased about him to drive back on his own.
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Mister Martin said, we were driving down the yr Bypass
and we saw a man on the other side of
the road. We didn't pay much attention until he started
crossing over to our side of the road. The next thing,
he jumps over the center fencing in the road and
ran across our two lanes. On our side of the
road is a bank easily fifteen feet in height, and
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this figure crossed our road, climbed that bank and was
gone from sight in about two seconds. All four of
us were baffled and voiced our sighting straight away, you know,
with the same detail. We all saw a dart figure
with no real features that moved very fast, with an
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ease of hurdling obstacles that I have never seen. My
last image of it was running through the bushes at
the top of the banks. Mister Martin said. The driver
and the tax really shared his face as a mysterious
figure made off with ease. Now, he said, I'm not
usually wanting to be freaked by these sightings, but even
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the cab driver was petrified.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
He didn't want to drive back alone.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
I'm honestly baffled by this sighting and we're intrigued by
it because it was so real but so strange. His wife,
Sasha said, it was more unusual in the fact that
someone was trying to cross the dual carriage away in
the dark, and you know that it really freaked it out.
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The family likened the figure to the legendary spring Heeled Jack.
I think that was first reporting about the eighteen thirties
and the ones with area of London, and that was
a dark figure that was leaping out at people, kind
of in the EPSOM in newle area, So it does
kind of fit in with that. I'm quite a sensible man,
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but I've never seen anything move that quickly across the
road and not being startled by the facts that we
would driving towards him. It's the first time we have
ever seen.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Anything like this.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
You know, if it was a burglar or something like that,
you'd know this was too fast, you know the way
then it ran. The actually it to the police and
to the college, but they hadn't received any other reports
from any other people. Just strange, isn't it the way
certain things crop up all of the time. These are
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in different counties. They're not the mules, not in York,
so it's much further south. It's a very very strange
island that we live on. Let's put it that way.
The figures had beens in these cases, it seems to
interfere with the humans in any way. It was almost
as if they were going about their normal activity. And
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I put it like that while the human was also
going about their normal activity. I don't really know what
words to use in this kind of sense. I think
what I mean is I don't think the witness themselves
were supposed to see what they did. I think it
was something going about what it would normally do. And
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these people have tuned in at that moment. Aren't that
spot almost like a catalyst?
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
As if they've driven into that energy and they've seen
this repeat maybe what do we used to call it?
The stone tape theory or whatever you gave me, say
it often that land holds energy and it's almost as
if that's what's playing out here over and over again.
Another thing that I noticed was the lack of features,
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so an almost human like body. Now does that mean
that thermorphous shape that they are seeing resembles the human
in some way? Or is it our use us putting
that human onto it and that it is an amorphous blot?
But we try and make out what that thing is.
Our brain is trained to make that into the figure
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of a person. So we could be seeing an energy
farm of something something connected to the earth doing what
it does. As each person coming into contact with it,
they all seem to be on kind of also pilot
as well, you know, very relaxed. You've heard me share
the experiences of dead Singleton in Yorkshire as well, and
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her creature stepped from the side of the road and
she was driving, and most of others experiences have taken
place while she's been in that state of automatum driving,
you know, doing something that you do on a daily
basis where you kind of tune out one side of
your brain. And I think that's when we tune into
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things that are out there and we connect with them
like that. What you may feel different when you might
have your own theories on that, and I would love
to hear them in the comments. So, whether you are
a new listener or old, I hope you've enjoyed the
tales that I've shared with you tonight. I have many,
many more of them. I have two reports coming this week,
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separate gentlemen who both saw something when they were younger
and straining and know we're bringing those to you shortly.
I've also a chatter got in touch with me who's
had a kind of shadowing experience. It can it chase
around the castle in area along.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
With them out.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
I think about five or six interviews that I've still
got to put together so I can share them with you.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
So stick around.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Some interesting stuff going to come up for you and
the new documentaries out soon, and when that happens, I
will add a link to several of the YouTube videos
that you guys can check that out.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
It isn't anything to do with me.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
It was done by Lis, a lady that I know,
crypto zoologist, and I just took part and did an
interview in it.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
But I think you'll enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
So until then, let's say I shall see you the
same time the same day next week.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Good Night everyone,
Hello everybody, and welcome back. Thank you very much for
joining me. My name is Jabrahtswell, and you're listening to
BBR Investigations. Tonight, I'll be sharing a number of listeners
experiences that have come into BBR since twenty twenty. Each
report is written by the witness themselves and simply transcribed
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the words I did some of my thoughts on their cases,
and I'll share some cases that are also startling similar.
Let's start with the case from Sleaford in Yorkshire, a
county here in the UK known for its cryptid and
paranormal encounters. It has a rich history running back centuries
in time, and even in modern times, amongst the hustle
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and bustle of busy areas, people still experienced the most
extraordinary of things. The lady who shared this experience with
me wishes to remain anonymous, so I will refer to
her as d D. Lives in the Sleaford area. This
took place in twenty twelve, and she said, Hi, Diabeth,
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I've been listening to your YouTube videos. I'm wondering whether
you'd be interested in hearing of my experience. It was
sometime in twenty twenty when my home in Sleaford with
my youngest starter after visiting my other daughter and her husband,
and they live in Grimsbeth. We've been gone a few
days and my son, who was twenty at the time,
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was looking after the house and had three cats. When
I got to the door that night, I noticed that
it wasn't locked, and all the lights in the house
had been left on. I went aside and looked upstairs
to see if my son was there, and I was
going to ask him why all the lights had been
left on. I looked up there, and as I looked
at the stairs, there was a dark figure in the
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bathroom at the top of the stairs. I called my
son's name. Something was odd. I knew that it wasn't him.
I didn't take my eyes off this black figure. They
had no features, it was just pure black, and I
started walking upstairs towards it. I felt angry that it
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was in my house. I wasn't scared at all. As
I walked up the stairs, it moved across the bathroom.
He sort of glided slowly from one end to the
other end. I kept my eyes on it, but I
was nearly at the top of the stairs. The banister
blocked my view, so when I got to the top
it had completely gone. I checked the bedrooms and my
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three caps were clearly terrified. They were scrambling to get
under the bed. On one of them jumped right across
the bed, absolutely terrified. I've never seen them like that now.
The front and the back door were both unlocked, and
every light in the house was on. My son later
told me he had definitely locked up before going to work,
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and there were no lights left on when he left.
My youngest artery was sixteen at the time, went into
a bedroom and saw that her posters that had been
on the wall were on the floor, and everything that
was on a bed had been shoved in a pile
onto the floor. She tried to entice the cats out
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from under the bed with trees, but they wouldn't come out.
Was really unlike them. They normally will do anything for
a tree. The following morning, I went to get out
of bed and on the rug beside my bed was
a monkey peach with what looked like a whole pack
of hair clips individually hooked around the string. Both the
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monkey charm and the hair clips were previously in my
bed room draw. There would be no way of them
being moved from that drawer without waking me up. It
require a lot of rummaging to get them all together.
One thing I found strange about this is that when
I came in the front door and looked, only then
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did the figure start slowly moving. It seemed like it
waited for me to enter the house and look up,
as if it wanted me to see it, even turning
on all the lights of the house. It was years
later I heard about other people seeing this black figure
or what they call the hat man. I've never seen
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it before, not since, so I'm baffled as to why
it came that day. I hope my story might be
of interest to others. Cases I've heard are at night,
you know, or during lucy dreaming or something like that.
This was around four in the afternoon, although it was
dark because it was wintertime. I lived in that house
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for thirteen years when it happened, and about six months
after the shadow man incident, we moved as we were
wanting to live nearer to.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
My daughter in rooms, Beth.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
What was also what is when we were moving in
that November, everything went perfect, and I mean perfect. There
was so many coincidence and things fitting into place that
it was like something was helping us to move. But
it was all good, and I wonder if all that's connected.
My son said he had a friend over when I
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was out, and his friend went to the bathroom and
when he came back downstairs, he looked shuck up. My
son asked what was up, and he said that he'd
looked in the mirror and saw his face, but it
wasn't his space and it wasn't mirroring what he was doing.
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Some of his other friends said the street was known
to be haunted, but that was the only incident that
I had to share. That must have been absolutely startling
to come home and witness that come in the house
and there at the top of the stairs, it's a
completely black shadow figure with no discernible features. I wonder
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if it was connected to the house or to the
land that the house was built on. I shared a
case earlier in the year very similar to this, and
it took place in Trent Country Park where a student
had seen a strange shadow shape being that looked like
a human, and he saw it on two occasions. After
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the episode aired, and I was contacted through the BBR
website by a lader who wanted to share her experience
in the same country park, and she said, Hi, I
had a really similar experience to the one the student had,
but mine was a few years before. However, it was
at the opposite end of the day. I went walking
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with my friend behind the old mansion where they used
to be the water gardens Phillips has soon had built
for his wife. It was around two thousand and two.
We went off the beaten track. We were trying to
get back to the oakward entrance of the park. We've
been walking for a while. When the sunlight started to fade,
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I felt like we were walking in a circle. All
of a sudden, I had a feeling like I shouldn't
be there, and when I looked around at my surroundings,
I noticed a shadowy figure. It was human shaped, but
with no discernible features. I didn't look at it for
too long. I just said to my friend that we
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should maybe walk back, as we needed to get home
before it got too dark. I mentioned this to anyone
until my sister and Laura and I were talking about
BBR and she told me about the story that you shared.
I read this account of your experience step and it
made me think that what I saw wasn't just a
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trick of delight on my imagination like I'd originally thought.
Did you notice in both descriptions it said that it
was completely black and it didn't have any discernible features. Well,
another listener shared with me some horrifying experiences that had
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when they were much younger, and I also centered on
a six foot tall shadow being with no facial features.
In approximately two thousand and eight, I had something happened
to me that I'm really struggling to explain. This experience
happened and when I was fifteen years old at the time,
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living with my dad his girlfriend who had five kids
each between two and ten. There were three girls and
two boys. None of these were my dad's kids, but
he took care of them and if they were his own,
So we had eight of us living in a three
bed house. My dad and his girlfriend had a bedroom
on the first floor. The three girl shared a room,
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and the two boys shared a room, all on the
first floor. I was given a room on the ground
floor that was right next to the dining room in
the kitchen. The doors to my bedroom had glass windows
in them, and this is important for later on with
the encounter. Also, I want to mention that the stairs
leading to the first floor were in the living room.
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I can see the bottom of the stairs from my
bedroom looking through the windows, and the bedroom doors on
the cross to the dining room. One week they decided
they wanted to go camping on a weekend, but I
didn't want to go. I'd made plans to meet up
with some friends that weekend. Now, as a teenage lad,
hanging around with your friends seemed pure and spending time
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with family. Anyway, that Friday night they left and I
went out with my friends for a while. We won't
go out the old laugh went home. I didn't have
a drink or anything like that. I was completely sober.
I got home later that night. I was on my own.
I was so tired. I went straight to my room,
got in bed. I was lying there and the house
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was empty except for me. It was strange to have
this much silence in what is normally a very busy,
noisy house. As I was settling down in bed, I
started to hear footsteps walking across the landing. You could
hear one foot after the next boom bum bum. It
soundly like they'd come from the bathroom all the way
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across the landing and then stopped at the top of
the stairs. I didn't know what to do. My eyes
were wide and looking directly at the bottom of the stairs.
My first thought was to shout a lot. I couldn't
do it. It felt like something in the back of my
mind was telling me not to move, not to make
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a sound. Survival instinct maybe, or just fear of the unknown.
Then the footsteps are back again, but this time they're
coming down the stairs. You could hear the stairs creaking
after each and every step, like they, you know, the
wood if I was walking down them. My heart was
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beating out of my chest. And this was all happening
within minutes of me getting home. I thought this burglar
had come, you know, had heard me come into the
house and was looking for me. The footsteps kept going,
the stairs were creeping. I could hear that this person
was close to the bottom of the stairs. Now I
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was alone, frozen for fear. I thought, there's nothing I
could do against a fully grown man, and what if
he's got a weapon?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
What can I do?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I heard the final three steps as this person got
to the bottom of the stairs. My eyes would glued
to that area, and then I saw it. This was
no person standing. It may be a little under six
feek tall. Was this shadow figure in the shape of
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a man, but it had no facial features and it
just stood a dark silhouette. It was even a little
bit translucent, and it just had this eerie feel to it.
It stood there for what felt like forever and seemed
to just be looking at the wall in front of it.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
It.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
She just stood still. I started to question myself, asking
herself if I'm seeing things. Its head moves and looks
towards the front door of the house. This was a
slow movement with a quick look to the side, and
then it started to move its head back around and
looked towards my direction. You know, as soon as it
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did this, I just threw the blanket over my head,
hiding under my covers. I did not know what to do.
Do I climb out the window and run of nowhere
to go. I just stayed as still as possible, and
I listened out for any movement at all. And then
I heard its footsteps again, but it was not coming
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towards me. It was going back up the stairs. I
felt a bit of relief when I heard it get
to the top of the stairs. It then started walking
along the landing, and the footsteps stopped when it got
to the bathroom, I said, hidden under my blanket, thinking
about what to do. If I leave the house, Where
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do I go? My family are camping miles away. If
I phoned my friends and told them about this, they'd
just laugh at me and say that I was crazy.
Not knowing what to do, I just stayed there, lying
await for hours, when I must have finally fell asleep.
I woke up the next morning still an edge. I
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could not get the image of this thing out of
my head. What was it? I've never seen anything like it.
Before I got ready, I went straight out of the house.
That night, I stayed over at a friend's house. I
did not mention what had happened to any of my friends,
and I didn't want them to think that I was crazy.
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I went home on the Sunday, knowing everyone we'll be
back at the house. I walked into a busy household,
the kids playing, running right, having a laugh. My dad
was upstairs. I shouted alone and walked toward the kitchen
to get a drink. His girlfriend was in the kitchen,
and she said alone. And she said how surprised she
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was that her house was still tighter, and made a
joke that at my age, if she had a free house,
she would have had a party. I was still shaken
from the experience. I didn't really laugh, and I think
she could tell I wasn't myself. She asked me what
was up, and I explained.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
It all to her.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I thought she'd laugh, but her response was yet this
ARTI's aunted. I was shocked. I didn't know what to say.
She then went on to tell me her experiences in
the house. This response was comforting and it made me
feel like I'm not crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
You know, we're alone.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Later he told my dad about what had happened, and
she said that he'd seen the figure before, and he'd
seen it moving from one side of the kitchen to
the other. After the encounter, I never wanted to stay
in that house again, but after hearing more stories from
both of them, I felt more comfortable with being there.
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One big thing was that this thing, it never hurt anybody,
you know. Having this sort of experience kind of normalized
it helped massively with it moving forward. It must have
done it must have been really good when you come
forward and say, you know, you share something and people say, well, actually, yeah,
I understand, I've seen it too. You know, we hear
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it week after we don't in the podcast where people
get in touch exactly like tonight because they've heard something
I put out there and they've gone, actually, that kind
of sounds like the incident that happened to me, or
you know, that incident that happened to more More Uncle Harry,
or what you know, normally a family story or a friend.
It doesn't matter whether you're at home, you know, you're
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out enjoying yourself, or you're driving the car. As I
said earlier, people doing the most ordinary of things have
the most extra ordinary experiences. And it was those very
happenings that took place in our next case tonight. Now
a strange dark figure was seen running on the e
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F eight road at Leeds. And when we think of
Yorkshire countryside, several of Tonight's cases have taken place.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
It couldn't use up.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Images of luscious green rolling hills, you know, the orchard wolds,
thick woodlands, and of course they're desolate Moreland. It's a
place of abject and butter and hundreds of tourists from
all across the globe visit Yorkshire every year. I wonder
how our visitor feel they realized just how many dog men,
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or werewolves or paranormal experiences have been reported by members
of the public in Yorkshire over the years. Yorchire's history
is a long and tales of the supernatural stretched back
through the centuries to a time when Yorkshire had far
less of a human population. But don't like that failure.
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So many of these reports happen in modern times, in
modern towns filled with the hustle and bustle of daily life.
People out walking the dogs, are driving the roads, just
going about their everyday business when they are suddenly confronted
by the unknown. I was contacted recently by a witness
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and we are calling Adeline for the purposes of anonymity.
And Adeline said, I'm a female in my mid fifties
living in Leeds. I've had a lifetime interesting mists of
my area, particularly West Yorkshire and Northern England more widely.
Most recently, I've listened to some programs from Paul sy Claire,
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JOHICKI Hall and that led me to you, Deborah. I
was a listener to dog Men Encounters Radio, and it's
through that channel that I found yours polls and Joe's content.
I've had two incidents I feel a ways reporting here,
but also much that I have always assumed to be
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the product of, say a hypnotic trance or you know,
some similar sleep type experience, or just a product of
being in certain areas which generate a particulars I called
the logical reaction due to them inherently being a bit dangerous.
The things I report are oddly the most mundane in
that I wasn't afraid at all, and everything about the
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real world felt absolutely ordinary. Anyway, here's my report about
an incident that happened in the last week of October
twenty twenty four, when I was driving along White Tall
Road in Leeds, between Dixon Lane and the railway bridge
at Dragon Drive. I don't know what it was that
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I encountered, so I don't know how to describe it.
It happened quite quickly, around eight seconds in all. I
could see it clearly, as it was around mid afternoon.
I was driving along the road I travel every day.
There is nothing special rout the ordinary about it. Whitehall
Road only A five eight is in Leeds. It's about
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a mile mile and a half out of the city center.
It was around three twenty five to broad daylight. As
alone in the car, and at the time in question,
there was no oncoming traffic and nobody driving close behind me.
I just passed the Dixon Lane junction and was heading along.
There's one hundred meter stretch to where the road takes
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a ninety degree turn to the right and it crosses
the railway line. The railway is cutting to the right
of me at that point, separated from the road by
a stone wall about four feet high. There's no pavement
to speak of, and to the left there's a steep
bank with a line of sandwich detached housing on it,
each with a steep garden that opens onto the pavement.
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These houses are parking at the roadside in the lay by,
and this layby was fully parked up. There was just
one pedestrian, but I didn't see him until I looked
into my rear BUW mirror to see if anyone else
could have seen it. The whole sighting took maybe six
to eight seconds. It's gone about twenty five mile an hour.
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When I saw the figure of a young man running
downhill on Dragon Drive about sixty meters away from me.
He was coming from let to right, going really really fast.
I could see his legs moving very clearly. He was
wearing a black tracksuit with a hooder. No doubt in
my mind this was a person. My reaction was more wow,
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look at him go. I moved my gaze to look
directly at him because it was an impressive speed. We
have a few people you know around area was about
on electric bikes of various kinds, noell mixed strubgies and
balaclavas up to something you know, no good, who knows what,
and this lad looked like one of them, minus the
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electric bike or scooter. I assumed he was going to
dash across in front of me, and he was coming
towards me as well as moving left a right. I
thought he'd go down the side of the railway bridge
that I was approaching. And what happened next takes a
very long time to type, but it was only a
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second or two in reality. But then I remembered there's
no path on the right side of the road, so
it seemed weird. If you were running to do that,
you'd stay back on the left and there is a
path there, otherwise you're just going to get run over.
The bridge is a she cane with no space. And
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then I realized that I've been wrong. He wasn't headed
to the road at all, but even closer to me,
towards the wall on my right. But that made no
sense either, because there's nothing there but that wall and
then the railway cup. You're super steep drop. You know,
there's no way anyone would run there. As I appeared
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at him trying to see better, you know, he was
now in the middle of the road, clear of all
the cars on the left, and it was like I
could see the legs fine, but the upper taso was
just fading out like a shadow cast on the air.
There was hardly any arms, and just a suggestion of
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the movie and then honestly not really any kind of head.
I felt no fear of anything like that.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I was just focused and.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Looking at him, trying to understand what it was that
I was looking at. I'm now about twenty meters away.
As I stired, not sure I was really seeing anything right,
this figure deformed more so. There was just this bipedal
running movement in the lower part and the rest was
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much more like a same shapeless shadow than a kind
of too deep kind of geometric edge, like a lot
of hexagons fading out into nothing. My brain was at
the point going got to be a plastic bag, because
a very stretched, thin film maybe of a bin line
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or was about all it could have been compared to
anything I've seen. I was still expecting him it to
have to jump or hurdle the wall closer about ten
meters from him, but it just went right through the wall,
as if the wall wasn't there. In it either dropped
or just vanished at that point, I mean a bag
(24:57):
would have got caught on the wall. I'd say a
third of it it was above the wall heigh and
the rest was below. The well was probably only four
foot high. I was now beyond it just before the turn.
I looked at the part of the left in my
raview mirror because I wondered if anyone else was around
who could have seen it. There was a man with
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white hair walking along. We didn't seem in any way
like he'd seen anything. You know, it would have to
have crossed in front of him. I think then I'm thinking,
did I really see that could it have just been
some kind of black plastic bag. But it had moved
very straight, very fast, a constant speed and direction. The
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wind was really up, you know, to that kind of thing,
even with the leaves that were about, and the bag
would have looked different, you know, because bags are three
dimensional and they constantly deformed as they move. This was
when I really looked at it less steps angil. Then
you could see light through it. It was like a
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dark watermark. I never thought about the dashcom footage until
I stopped the car, but then it erases it because
I didn't press safe. Of course, I've never seen anything
like that before. Nothing else was in any way out
of the ordinary that day, something of no is the
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This Christmas. I saw my cousin, and since he lives
on a street right there where I saw the running figure,
I mentioned it to him and we got talking about
ghosts and the paranormal. He's had several of his own experiences,
but not like mine. He's seen ghosts, you know. His
remark on them was how ordinary they were, except that
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they couldn't possibly be there, you know, if they've been real.
He wrote to me a few weeks later to say
remembered an incident from the nineteen seventies when he'd lived
with his parents one hundred meters from where I'd had
this sighted. He said, a friend of his dad's had
come around in a city one day after nim you know,
because he'd been gardening in his front yard and he'd
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seen a man in a dark blue track suit go
running past the end of the drive down a hill,
which would be about forty eaters from exactly where I
saw mine. This man had been going unusually fast, and
at that time jogging was a very new thing, you know,
people didn't do it that much. And also he was
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wearing a tracksuit, he mentioned, and it was an unusual
dark blue color, had something strange about it that was
not at all fashionable, not something anyone would be seen wearing.
He'd walked around the hedge to the corner to take
a better look at this man, and there was nobody
there and nowhere that he could have gone. He bothered
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him so much he searched all the gardens up and down,
looking in case it was a bit, you know, a
proud or you never found anything. We had a sharp
correspondent about it, and my cousin told me that the
point where I saw the shadow drop into the court
is just before the old station hall that used to
be there on which is now a reclamation yard. He
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wondered if it was someone running for a train. If not,
he thought maybe it was something, you know, something in
kind of a time anomaly.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
For me, it was human to start with, not even odd,
but by the end it was so odd it defied
any rational explanation. It's hard to put it into words even.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I've heard the description of this running figure before, you know,
from several areas in the UK. On one that sounds
incredibly similar was reported that the infamous Stocksbridge Bypass. I've
shared encounters at the bypassing earlier podcast, but there is
a case from there that also features a strange running
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figure impossible to describe, seen by a female driver. Judy
and David Simpson bravely took part in a BBC series
on the Paranormal in nineteen ninety four, where they shared
their experience driving on the road to warp Yorkshire. Judy
drove along the B six zero A eight near the bypass,
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and her husband David was in the passenger seat. Judy
reported that while she was passing the bypass bridge, she
saw a figure hopping or jogging in a field at
the end of the road. Judy couldn't give a very
clear description, as she saw no conto. There was no face,
no head, no details to be made out, and there
(29:49):
were no identifying features. There was nothing like clothing or
a hat. There was something to the shape that looked
like it possibly had shoulders and ma the arms and legs,
and it seemed agitated in its movements, and it was
kind of moving in a disstarted way, and it ran
aimlessly through the field as Judy thought it was a jogger.
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She didn't really think much of it, and so she
realized its feet not touching the floor as it ran,
but it was floating approximately a meter above the ground.
And then the figure leapt from the field, going up
the road and landed in the middle of the road
in front of the car. Whatever this figure was, it
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should have been hit by that car. Judy hit the
brakes and stopped the car instantly, but there was no
sensation of shock, as if this thing had been immaterial
or it had just disappeared. There was no bang as
they collided, no bump as she hit him, he simply
vanished from sight in front of Judy's eyes. The husband
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also saw it.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Although shaken and shot, they got out of the car
to try and find this poor man, But as he
looked all around them, he found no trace of him
or anything that they could have mistaken him for. Quite simpler,
a humanish shaped figure would run at speed at their car,
and as they collided, it just vanished into the She
(31:27):
can imagine. The couple were very upset, unable to believe
what had occurred, and starting to admit to themselves that
what they saw was possibly a ghost or some paranormal
being in origin. They drove down to the Watleypop to
calm down with a drink, and they shaared their story
at the bar would ridiculed him. The locals themselves quite
(31:52):
aware of the reputation of the place. I wanted to
check my case files to see if I had any
other report of a kind of dark running figure seen
on the UK road. I wasn't disappointed. A gentleman named
Lamar had a weird experience when he was driving down
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the A one two three seven late at night, and
he said I'd been to see a friend. It clifted
him more. I was heading back towards the A six four.
Although I was concentrated on driving the car, I was
also listening to my music and pretty much gone into
auto pilot, as there were no other cars around and
only the occasional roundabounts to negotiate. Suddenly, I became aware
(32:39):
of movement on the curb side if you meet us
ahead of me, and before I realized what was going on,
I was certain that a human figure had moved out
in front of the car. I hit the brakes but
was still traveling almost sixty mile an hour when I
should have heard the dreaded and there was nothing. I
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didn't stop, though I'd slowed to almost thirty miles an hour.
After breaking I could see only the open road in
my rearview mirror and heard only eerie silence. I sped
back up to speak quickly, wanting nothing more than to
get away from that place as faster than I could.
(33:23):
Molly Jones said, I had a weird experience many years
ago in the UK, and I was on a quiet
road in the countryside. I was in the passenger seat
of the car when I saw an old man walk
out from the side of the road for am area
that was just trees, and he walked straight out in
front of us, and I screamed as we hit him,
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but no one else saw him, and there was no
impact as we hit him. But we stopped the car
as I was convinced we must have slammed into this mouth.
And there was nobody there at all. We were the
only car on the road. There were no street lights,
although I saw him clearly through the headlights. It scared
the living daylight that me and to this day he
(34:08):
still can't believe it happened, but it did. On the
thirteenth of December twenty twenty, a witness made a report
of a tall, thin, black figure around six fifty five
in the morning. A driver using the B six eight
four road. This time so a tall, thin, black human
(34:30):
light figure that stepped out into the road ahead of
the driver. The figure stood out clearly to him. It
was illuminated by his headlights and they were.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
On four beam.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
The figure moved backwards and vanished into the hedge. As
the driver passed the spot, no one could be seen.
Our next case takes part on the by pass, not
the stocksbridge. This was in Europe and it took place
on the fourteenth February twenty twelve, and a family were
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actually returning home from being out that night. There was
a man and a lady in the sun and the
gentleman's name was Scott Martin. Him and his family were
traveling home by taxi from Stoneleigh about ten thirty pm
on Valentine's the evening when they saw a mysterious dark
figure with no features, dark across the road in front
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of them before leaping a fifteen foot roadside bank around
the area of Nescott College on the your Bypass. They
were really spooped out by what they'd seen, and the
four year old son was too scared to sleep in
his own room that night, and the taxi driver was
none too pleased about him to drive back on his own.
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Mister Martin said, we were driving down the yr Bypass
and we saw a man on the other side of
the road. We didn't pay much attention until he started
crossing over to our side of the road. The next thing,
he jumps over the center fencing in the road and
ran across our two lanes. On our side of the
road is a bank easily fifteen feet in height, and
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this figure crossed our road, climbed that bank and was
gone from sight in about two seconds. All four of
us were baffled and voiced our sighting straight away, you know,
with the same detail. We all saw a dart figure
with no real features that moved very fast, with an
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ease of hurdling obstacles that I have never seen. My
last image of it was running through the bushes at
the top of the banks. Mister Martin said. The driver
and the tax really shared his face as a mysterious
figure made off with ease. Now, he said, I'm not
usually wanting to be freaked by these sightings, but even
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the cab driver was petrified.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
He didn't want to drive back alone.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
I'm honestly baffled by this sighting and we're intrigued by
it because it was so real but so strange. His wife,
Sasha said, it was more unusual in the fact that
someone was trying to cross the dual carriage away in
the dark, and you know that it really freaked it out.
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The family likened the figure to the legendary spring Heeled Jack.
I think that was first reporting about the eighteen thirties
and the ones with area of London, and that was
a dark figure that was leaping out at people, kind
of in the EPSOM in newle area, So it does
kind of fit in with that. I'm quite a sensible man,
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but I've never seen anything move that quickly across the
road and not being startled by the facts that we
would driving towards him. It's the first time we have
ever seen.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Anything like this.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
You know, if it was a burglar or something like that,
you'd know this was too fast, you know the way
then it ran. The actually it to the police and
to the college, but they hadn't received any other reports
from any other people. Just strange, isn't it the way
certain things crop up all of the time. These are
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in different counties. They're not the mules, not in York,
so it's much further south. It's a very very strange
island that we live on. Let's put it that way.
The figures had beens in these cases, it seems to
interfere with the humans in any way. It was almost
as if they were going about their normal activity. And
(38:35):
I put it like that while the human was also
going about their normal activity. I don't really know what
words to use in this kind of sense. I think
what I mean is I don't think the witness themselves
were supposed to see what they did. I think it
was something going about what it would normally do. And
(38:57):
these people have tuned in at that moment. Aren't that
spot almost like a catalyst?
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
As if they've driven into that energy and they've seen
this repeat maybe what do we used to call it?
The stone tape theory or whatever you gave me, say
it often that land holds energy and it's almost as
if that's what's playing out here over and over again.
Another thing that I noticed was the lack of features,
(39:25):
so an almost human like body. Now does that mean
that thermorphous shape that they are seeing resembles the human
in some way? Or is it our use us putting
that human onto it and that it is an amorphous blot?
But we try and make out what that thing is.
Our brain is trained to make that into the figure
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of a person. So we could be seeing an energy
farm of something something connected to the earth doing what
it does. As each person coming into contact with it,
they all seem to be on kind of also pilot
as well, you know, very relaxed. You've heard me share
the experiences of dead Singleton in Yorkshire as well, and
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her creature stepped from the side of the road and
she was driving, and most of others experiences have taken
place while she's been in that state of automatum driving,
you know, doing something that you do on a daily
basis where you kind of tune out one side of
your brain. And I think that's when we tune into
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things that are out there and we connect with them
like that. What you may feel different when you might
have your own theories on that, and I would love
to hear them in the comments. So, whether you are
a new listener or old, I hope you've enjoyed the
tales that I've shared with you tonight. I have many,
many more of them. I have two reports coming this week,
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separate gentlemen who both saw something when they were younger
and straining and know we're bringing those to you shortly.
I've also a chatter got in touch with me who's
had a kind of shadowing experience. It can it chase
around the castle in area along.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
With them out.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
I think about five or six interviews that I've still
got to put together so I can share them with you.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
So stick around.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Some interesting stuff going to come up for you and
the new documentaries out soon, and when that happens, I
will add a link to several of the YouTube videos
that you guys can check that out.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
It isn't anything to do with me.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
It was done by Lis, a lady that I know,
crypto zoologist, and I just took part and did an
interview in it.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
But I think you'll enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
So until then, let's say I shall see you the
same time the same day next week.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Good Night everyone,
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