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The Orkney Venus, or Westray Wife, is a small figurine dating from the Neolithic period found on Westray in the Orkney Islands. In real life she is a tiny female figure, sculpted from sandstone and only a couple of inches high. Historians are unsure of her meaning, but she has been compared to other 'Venus' figurines found throughout Europe.

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The Mythical Beasts of the British and Irish Isles.

Cryptid & Creature Drawtober Day 13—Owlman

The wulver kept to itself and was not aggressive if left in peace. Unlike their werewolf counterparts, the Wulver is not a shapeshifter and wasn’t a human from the start. It appears to be a sort of immortal spirit. Jessie Saxby, in Shetland Traditional Lore writes: 

The Wulver was a creature like a man with a wolf’s head. He had short brown hair all over him. His home was a cave dug out of the side of a steep knowe, half-way up a hill. He didn’t molest folk if folk didn’t molest him. He was fond of fishing, and had a small rock in the deep water which is known to this day as the “Wulver’s Stane”. There he would sit fishing sillaks and piltaks for hour after hour. He was reported to have frequently left a few fish on the window-sill of some poor body.

According to psychicworld.com Yorkshire has the most Paranormal Activity in the UK.

Their research revealed that there have been 12,157 known paranormal sightings with 790 of those sightings being in Yorkshire. Psychic World defines paranormal activity as anything from haunting manifestations to fairies and phantom animals.

The UK tends to experience haunting manifestations the most which include spirits and poltergeists.

These manifestations actually account for 59% of the UK's total reported sightings.

There have been 526 reported cases of phantom horses and riders, while sightings of mythical creatures like Bigfoot have been recorded 443 times. The UK has seen 366 reported sightings of headless ghosts and the infamous white woman has been spotted 347 times.

Here are the most haunted hot spots in the UK for you to visit (or avoid) this Halloween.

The top 20 most haunted places in the UK

Yorkshire

Greater London

Lancashire

Essex

Sussex

Dorset

Devon

Suffolk

Somerset

Norfolk

Wiltshire

Cornwall

Kent

Derbyshire

Nottinghamshire

Lincolnshire

Hampshire

Cumbria

Highland

Cheshire Information from... https://www.psychicworld.com/

Although Irish folklore is littered with legendary ghoulish water creatures, few are as scary as Dobhar Chu (pronounced do-war coo). Considered by some to be Ireland’s version of the famous Loch Ness monster, Dobhar Chu is a mythical lake monster that has inhabited lakes of the British Isles since ancient times.

The name, Dobhar Chu, roughly translated means ‘water hound’, or ‘hound of deep’. Thought to be a cross between a giant otter and a hound, Dobhar Chu is about seven-foot-long, or about the size of a crocodile. In fact, it is also known as the Irish crocodile.

Some believe the ancient Irish creature of folklore, Dobhar Chu, is like an Irish Loch Ness monster…

The Myths And Legends Of Ireland’s Hound Of Deep, The Dobhar Chu

Cryptid & Creature Drawtober Day 17—Steller’s Sea Ape

In 1741, around the Shumagin Islands in Alaska, German biologist Georg Steller observed a creature in the water near his ship. It was seal-like in shape with a dog-like head and a tail fin shaped like a shark. He claimed the creature was very playful and inquisitive about the ship and its occupants. Steller’s encounter went on for a couple of hours until he decided to try and collect the creature for study—he shot at it twice, missing both times, and the animal swam away. 

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