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Creature record / 1979

The Beast of Brassknocker Hill

July 1979 · Brassknocker Hill, Monkton Combe, near Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom
22Thinly documented Cryptid Creature 15 sources 2 videos

July 1979. Ron and Betty Harper found the bark torn from their old oak on Brassknocker Hill, outside Bath. They knew squirrel damage. This was not it. Within about a month, roughly 50 trees in the woods had been stripped. The birds went quiet. Then they left. A driver on a dark road through Monkton Combe saw something bear-like rise briefly on thick hind legs. Its large eyes were ringed with great white circles of fur. Others compared it to a chimpanzee, a gibbon, a lemur. In 1980 police reported a large chimpanzee running around. Nothing was ever caught. The beast simply stopped being seen.

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Context

Brassknocker Hill is a road in the parish of Monkton Combe. It runs down from Claverton Down towards Brassknocker Basin on the Kennet & Avon Canal, south-east of Bath. Wooded. Quiet. In the summer of 1979 it acquired a monster.

Sources (15, most influential first)

  1. The Beast of Brassknocker Hill · MAN-BEAST U.K. (Nick Redfern)· 2008-04-17 · Wiki, blog, podcast · blog
  2. Beast of Brassknocker Hill (England) · Cryptopia (Rob Morphy)· 2010-11-28 · Wiki, blog, podcast · blog
  3. When a monster comes out of nowhere and the locals go crazy · Journal News Online (Nick Redfern)· 2022-02-14 · Wiki, blog, podcast · news
  4. When a monster comes out of nowhere and the locals go crazy · Journal News Online (Nick Redfern)· 2022-02-08 · Wiki, blog, podcast · news
  5. Beast of Brassknocker Hill · Cryptidz Wiki (Fandom) · Wiki, blog, podcast · wiki