Friday, November 16, 2007
Calm a Llama down!
From the West Sussex County Times : 31 Oct. 2007
Llama mystery - Police have sparked a search for a mystery stray llama spotted near Faygate last week. The exotic beast was seen by the side of the A264 just after midnight on Thursday October 25. Police attended the scene and checked with local farms, but could find no trace of the animal. Anybody with information should contact Sussex Police on 0845 60 70 999. Have you seen a stray llama in the local area? Do you know of anybody who has lost a llama?
Llama mystery - Police have sparked a search for a mystery stray llama spotted near Faygate last week. The exotic beast was seen by the side of the A264 just after midnight on Thursday October 25. Police attended the scene and checked with local farms, but could find no trace of the animal. Anybody with information should contact Sussex Police on 0845 60 70 999. Have you seen a stray llama in the local area? Do you know of anybody who has lost a llama?
Thursday, November 1, 2007
'Beasts' of Blue Bell Hill
On Halloween (31/10/07) Neil Arnold, alongside local road ghost expert Sean Tudor http://www.roadghosts.com/ did a talk on local 'big cat' sightings as well as other strange creatures rumoured to roam the local fields and woodlands around Blue Bell Hill, one of Kent's, and in fact, the world's eeriest places.
Most of the creatures mentioned, including the red-eyed man-beasts, Blue Bell Hill's phantom dog, and others are mentioned in Neil's 'Monster! The A-Z Of Zooform Phenomena' book http://www.zooform.blogspot.com/, and delighted a campfire crowd who were chilled by the whispers relating these local horrors.
Many thanks go to the Blue Bell Hill Preservation Group.
Most of the creatures mentioned, including the red-eyed man-beasts, Blue Bell Hill's phantom dog, and others are mentioned in Neil's 'Monster! The A-Z Of Zooform Phenomena' book http://www.zooform.blogspot.com/, and delighted a campfire crowd who were chilled by the whispers relating these local horrors.
Many thanks go to the Blue Bell Hill Preservation Group.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Snake in the bath!
Snake surprises mom in bath
September 21 2007
A young mother was in the bath with her baby when a 5ft python slid out from under it. Leanne Smith, 18, screamed as it hissed at her and four-month-old Millie, reports the Daily Mirror. She scooped Millie into her arms and leaped over the snake which experts believe was ready to pounce. Leanne, who lives with boyfriend Ben Payne, also 18, in a council flat in Dartford, Kent, said: "It was huge and it just sat there hissing and looking at me. "I just screamed and screamed, which was probably the wrong thing to do as it started to hiss at me even more. "I jumped over it and called the RSPCA. They said it had probably got in through a pipe and was ready to attack me. "So I locked the bathroom door and waited for them to take it away." An RSPCA officer caught the royal python - a nonvenomous constrictor that crushes its prey - and a neighbour experienced in looking after large snakes is caring for it while the owner is sought. Ian Stephen, London Zoo senior reptile keeper, said: "It would have been more aggressive than usual because it would have been very stressed and afraid, cold, confused, hungry - and more scared of Leanne than she was of it."
Source: Ananova.com
September 21 2007
A young mother was in the bath with her baby when a 5ft python slid out from under it. Leanne Smith, 18, screamed as it hissed at her and four-month-old Millie, reports the Daily Mirror. She scooped Millie into her arms and leaped over the snake which experts believe was ready to pounce. Leanne, who lives with boyfriend Ben Payne, also 18, in a council flat in Dartford, Kent, said: "It was huge and it just sat there hissing and looking at me. "I just screamed and screamed, which was probably the wrong thing to do as it started to hiss at me even more. "I jumped over it and called the RSPCA. They said it had probably got in through a pipe and was ready to attack me. "So I locked the bathroom door and waited for them to take it away." An RSPCA officer caught the royal python - a nonvenomous constrictor that crushes its prey - and a neighbour experienced in looking after large snakes is caring for it while the owner is sought. Ian Stephen, London Zoo senior reptile keeper, said: "It would have been more aggressive than usual because it would have been very stressed and afraid, cold, confused, hungry - and more scared of Leanne than she was of it."
Source: Ananova.com
Sunday, August 12, 2007
More wallabies
"We had a wallaby around our works site near Lenham in Kent for weeks. You could get to within a few feet of it. Many saw it - we called it Wesley!
Alas it was knocked down and killed on the A20. We thought that was that, but a few weeks ago whilst driving to work at five in the morning with another guy we came round a bend and there sitting in the road was another wallaby.
It sat there for a few secs then lopped off down the road and into the woods, so they have not died out here in Kent - YET!"
Alas it was knocked down and killed on the A20. We thought that was that, but a few weeks ago whilst driving to work at five in the morning with another guy we came round a bend and there sitting in the road was another wallaby.
It sat there for a few secs then lopped off down the road and into the woods, so they have not died out here in Kent - YET!"
Photo of 'Wesley' by Nick Perry
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Wallaby sighting
Thursday 24th May 2007:
Motorist driving from Lenham to Doddington, held up on narrow section of road as two lorries passed each other. Then spotted a wallaby hop across the road and disappear into the undergrowth.
Motorist driving from Lenham to Doddington, held up on narrow section of road as two lorries passed each other. Then spotted a wallaby hop across the road and disappear into the undergrowth.
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Mystery beast of Chatham.
KENT TODAY reported in 2002 on a marauding creature on the loose at Constitution Road, Chatham from 1972. Vague details state that something was slaughtering pets in their hutches, and although the killer was believed to be a dog, the predator eluded capture.
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