Man-monkey by Nick Redfern

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Man-monkey by Nick Redfern

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.

Monster Files, Monster Diary, Memoirs of a Monster Hunter; There's Something in the Woods; Contactees; The Real Men in Black; The NASA Conspiracies; Weird Secrets; and Monsters of Texas, co-authored with fellow Texas-based researcher and author Ken Gerhard. Fox News, the BBC's Out of This World, the SyFy Channel's Evidence Positive, the Space Channel's Fields of Fear, the History Channel's Monster Quest, America's Book of Secrets, Ancient Aliens and UFO Hunters, Science's The Unexplained Files, the National Geographic Channel's paranatural, and MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann are among the programmes he has appeared on. Nick is originally from the United Kingdom and now lives on the outskirts of Dallas, Texas.

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ISBN 13 9781905723164
ISBN 10 1905723164
Title Man-monkey
Author Nick Redfern
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher CFZ Press
Year published 2007-07-24
Number of pages 164
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.