A STRANGE CREATURE ENCOUNTER: DERBYSHIRE 1978 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Omar Fowler   
Saturday, 11 July 2009 01:15
THE REPTON SHRUBS ENCOUNTER
By Omar Fowler 18-3-98

Kevin was a forestry worker at the time of the incident in 1978. He first noticed an usual event, when he happened to be looking south from his position in Willington, near Bretby in southern Derbyshire. Kevin and two friends saw a very large light appear over woods, situated about two miles to the south of them. The three witnesses stood and watched for several minutes and then they saw three white lights detach from the main light and drop into the woods. "The remaining light shot off almost vertically and left a streak of light behind it!" commented Kevin. "it disappeared very quickly indeed and was lost in the clouds. We couldn't do anything about it, so we just looked at each other and then carried on working on the motorbike."

The woods were identified as Repton Woods, near Bretby village, the scene of several UFO reports and strange lights.
"I actually used to work in there," said Kevin, "I used to work for the Forestry Commission and I used to be there from half seven in the morning, it's an eerie place, there's hardly any animals in there, you rarely see one when your walking about. It's not a very hospitable place."

"After that, (light incident) probably a year went past and there was my friend and a student, who was on loan to the Forestry Commission, working with us, getting his hands dirty before he was pushing a pen about I suppose. His name was Stephen and it was just after mid-day, daylight, summertime, the sun was quite high in the sky and it was rather warm."

<a href="/images/articles/web/%7Elwf0008.gif" target="_blank"><img src="/images/articles/web/tn/%7Elwf0008.gif" alt="Repton Shrubs Encounter" width="240" height="144" border="0" align="left"></a>"We were cutting inspection tracks through the trees, so that the forester could walk down through them, without getting his uniform scratched or whatever and we got about ten to fifteen yards into the trees, off a main pebble/rock drive. Then there in front of me! IT STOOD LOOKING AT ME!"

"It was sideways on, but its head was turned left to look at me. It was about four feet high and the best I can describe it is a fox on two legs. It was brown in colour, had short little hands, like dark little hands and its back, it was like solid, it wasn't fur, sloping down to the ground, almost like a locust's folded in wings."

"It didn't make any noise, it had dark eyes and it was walking through the trees, towards where my friend was and I shouted, Stephen, there is something coming your way! I could see it moving through the trees, but it wasn't pushing the branches out of the way."(Remember that Kevin was cutting a path through the trees, in order to walk through them.)

"It was very odd, I ran back up my inspection path, towards Ian, I pointed to our right-hand side, it hadn't caught up with us as I had run across. Then we both saw it as it came on an angle towards us, then it veered away slightly and started walking down into the ground, as if it was going down steps!"

"It was very odd, there was nothing there, to our eyes, (tunnel entrance into the ground), it was just getting smaller, there was just the head and then that disappeared. I mean it was unbelievable, it made the hairs on the back of my head stand up, it sometimes does when I tell it (the story) again, but it was a few years ago now!" (Sketch supplied).