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A paranormal researcher claims to have photographed an 8-foot-tall shadowy figure in the woods of Danes Dyke near Bridlington, adding to the area’s rich history of strange sightings and local legends.
Philip Kinsella, 56, a researcher, author and award-winning psychic medium from Kempston, Bedford, was exploring the area with his twin brother Ronald and fellow investigator Paul Sinclair when he captured the unusual image. According to Kinsella, there was nothing visible when he took the photo with his phone.
“There was nothing there at all when I took it. That’s what shocked me,” Kinsella said. “People expect a werewolf to look like something from the movies — snarling and furry — but sometimes they appear more human-like.”
The photo shows what appears to be a tall, shadowy figure emerging from a ridge with what Kinsella describes as “some kind of angular face” and a strange glow around its head. He estimates the figure’s height at between 8 and 8.5 feet, based on nearby trees for scale comparison.
Kinsella’s visit to the area wasn’t random. Fellow researcher Paul Sinclair had specifically taken him to Danes Dyke due to its reputation for strange occurrences and reported werewolf activity. The dense woodland has long been associated with paranormal folklore.
“It was a strange area, hard to explain. There’s just something weird about it. I had this feeling — I wouldn’t like to hang around there at night,” Kinsella explained.
While some online commentators have suggested the figure might simply be a person wearing a bulky jacket with white gloves, Kinsella dismisses such explanations, pointing to the unusual height and appearance of the figure.
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The Danes Dyke sighting adds to Yorkshire’s established history of werewolf legends. The region is home to the notorious “Old Stinker”, an 8-foot-tall beast with glowing red eyes and foul breath that has reportedly been spotted in and around Hull and the Yorkshire Wolds. The area between Bridlington, Flamborough Head, Filey, Scarborough, and Ganton is known locally as the “Wold Newton Triangle,” a zone with numerous reports of strange phenomena.
This isn’t the only recent werewolf-like sighting in Britain. In 2024, a retired couple reported encountering an 8-foot tall, hairy, wolf-like creature that stood upright while walking through Cannock Chase in Staffordshire. According to their account, the creature had large yellow eyes, huge teeth, and let out a piercing howl before leaping over a cemetery fence.
Danes Dyke itself is a location with deep historical roots. Despite its name, it has no connection to Danish settlers. The site is a prehistoric earthwork dating back to at least the Bronze Age, stretching 4 km across Flamborough Head. This ancient defensive ditch and bank structure is a Scheduled Ancient Monument of national importance and contains the most northerly outcrop of coastal chalk in Britain.
The reserve was declared a Local Nature Reserve in 2002 due to its wildlife value and importance to the local community. The unique sea and cliff environment is protected as a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
While Kinsella acknowledges that many will be skeptical of his claims, he remains convinced that something unexplainable was captured in his photograph.
“I know people think I’m bonkers. But I don’t care. I deal with people who have open minds,” he said. “This figure manifested like a ghost, but with physical presence. I don’t know what it is — but I know it’s weird.”
He added a careful qualification: “We’re not saying it’s a werewolf. We’re saying something is there.”
For now, the mystery of what exactly was captured in Kinsella’s photograph remains unsolved, joining the long list of unexplained phenomena reported in Britain’s woodlands and historic sites.
