The witness was walking in the area between the Ashfield and the old ‘Dog Entry’ just off Sandy Lane. He was huddled up against the cold and was lighting his cigar when he saw something that he can still remember to this day. He stated he could not put a name to what he saw but that it was dark, hairy and crouched over. As the witness backed off from the almost ‘doglike’ thing it growled at him, he described the eyes as yellowish and really scary and he made off before the animal approached him further.

He has owned dogs all his life, even racing and training greyhounds for over two decades. He said “this was no dog, I have never seen anything like this thing before or since. The way it growled and the size of it was just unreal, I can still see it in my mind to this day. It was the same colour as a dark Alsatian Dog, but much bulkier.