The Forest of Dean, the reported home of Beast of Dean

The Beast of Dean is a folkloric animal said to live, or to have once lived, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England.[1] Despite attempts to encounter or kill the beast in the early 19th century, there is no scientific evidence to support the existence of the Beast of Dean or any similar creature in the Forest of Dean. [1]

History

Farmers from the village of Parkend undertook an expedition to capture and kill the creature, in 1802, but found nothing. The animal they were hunting was reported to be a boar large enough to fell trees and hedges. Since then, many 20th and early 21st Century references to the creature have been made by "cryptozoologists", who presumed the animal to be real but unknown to science,[1] In 2007, the science-fiction television series Primeval, re-imagined the Beast of Dean as a gorgonopsid that arrived in the present day through a wormhole leading to the Permian period.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Nanson, A. (2011). Gloucestershire Folk Tales. United Kingdom: History Press.
  2. ↑ Flett, Kathryn (11 February 2007). "Saturday night feast of big, big beasts". The Observer. Archived from the original on 19 February 2007.


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