EXCLUSIVE: After a woman from Salford claimed to see the mythical beast in a park, it was left to the powers of AI to help decide where Bigfoot’s footballing allegiances lay
When people think of Bigfoot, they usually picture the mythical beast stalking around a forest in the US.
But, according to a group of UK-based Bigfoot hunters, the giant ape-man exists on our shores. Not only is British Bigfoot a thing – he’s been spotted in Salford. Deborah Hatswell, who runs the YouTube channel BBR Investigations, described her alleged close encounter with the beast to The Observer.
“We were playing in Buile Hill Park in Salford and I saw this movement in the corner of my eye. This thing leant out from the bushes,” Deborah said. “Like an ape and a man had been pushed together. It had thick brows, looked Neanderthal and it was awful. I ran.”
Deborah credits this experience in the 1980s with helping kickstart an obsession with Bigfoot, after which she started placing ads in newspapers looking for others who’d seen the hairy beast.
Dubbing herself a “paranormal and cryptid investigator”, the woman now runs Being Believed Research (BBR) Investigations as “a way to bring a spotlight to the hundreds of people left out there in society believing they are alone”.
If Bigfoot truly is a Salfordian, the biggest question on most people’s minds, obviously, is which football club he might support.
With the help of Midjourney, Daily Star’s in-house AI image creator, some pictures have emerged of Bigfoot enjoying an evening out at the footie. Turns out, Mr. Sasquatch is a Red Devil.
Pictures showing the beast relaxing in a football stadium clad in Manchester United red have all but put paid to the debate – if there was one – about Bigfoot’s allegiances.
In several of the pictures, Daily Star staff noted some miserable facial expressions from the cryptid. These were perhaps unsurprising given Rueben Amorim’s side’s displays of late in the Premier League.
The hairy humanoid doesn’t just appear to reside in Salford either, other UK Bigfoot hunters have more recently claimed to see him as far down south as Sussex.
Dog walker Caroline Toms thought she’d snapped the beast lurking in Sussex woodland after she saw a giant shadowy figure.
And in the south-west, 15-year-old Daniel Lee Barnett, from Bridgwater, Somerset, is introducing Gen Z to the Sasquatch myth.
The budding cryptozoologist – Britain’s youngest – dropped out of school to catch Bigfoot, claiming to have discovered DNA from a giant footprint near his home, Esquire Magazine reports.
Speaking to Somerset Live, Daniel said: “I love the mystery around Bigfoot and that there’s a lot of investigating and science into it. I’m very hopeful that one day I’ll find him.”