Ufonaut (Summer 1901, Bournebrook, West Midlands, England)

Frank Warily; ten years old, was taking a shortcut along a path behind his terraced housing estate. Suddenly he came upon a strange object sitting on the grass and thought that it was a workman’s hut. There was a small box-shaped ship’s funnel on top and a door on the side. The object was a greenish blue metallic color with a sheen, half the size of a modern car. Suddenly Frank was confronted by two small beings who stepped down out of the doorway. They were four feet high, clean-shaven, and looked human with no odd features. They wore tight-fitting one piece uniforms with a greenish gray Military look and each wore a dark helmet that masked the eyes and ears almost completely. Emerging from the top were two wires almost like horns on a Viking’s helmet. The wires rose nine inches. One humanoid remained in the doorway. The other moved towards Frank with his arms outstretched, suggesting to Frank to get out of his way. Frank got out of the way and as he was doing this the humanoid scuttled back into the machine and the door closed. There was then a brilliant flash like electric arcing that lit up the perimeter of the object as well as a whooshing sound and the box-shaped craft climbed up into the sky in a curved flight. Frank noticed a pulsating red light at the rear as it ascended. This is one of the earliest reports of creatures specifically identified as ufonauts being observed close to their craft. It is interesting that they appear to have warned the witness to stay away, though this gesture may have been misinterpreted.
Source: Derek James and Phil Bennett, Nufon News #50.

Merbeing (1204, Orford, East Anglia, England)

One day around 1204, some Orford fishermen caught something unusually heavy in their nets. As they pulled and pulled on the nets in an attempt to get them back on board their boats, and saw what they thought was a large creature tangled up with the rest of their catch. They were extremely surprised when they finally managed to get their catch aboard because there, in the bottom of their boat was a man staring angrily at them. He was described as being naked but with a hairy body; having a long straggly beard and the top of his head being completely bald. Attempts to speak to him failed so the fishermen restrained him and took him back to the town. The ‘merman’ was taken to Orford castle where the castle custodian, Bartholomew de Gladville, kept him prisoner. He and the jailers tried time and time again to question this ‘merman’ but the creature only uttered grunts and strange noises. They noted that when he was fed raw fish he would squeeze the water out of them into his hands and then drink it. Bartholomew de Gladville became frustrated at the creature’s silence and he had the merman tortured by hanging him upside down by his ankles. Despite this ill treatment the merman still did not (or could not?) talk and eventually his jailers gave up. Bartholomew de Gladville then took him to the nearby church but it was obvious that the creature had never seen a church service before either. One day sometime after he was first captured, the merman was taken down to the harbor. Nets had been strung across the entrance and he was set free so that he could enjoy a swim but without escaping. He made straight for the nets and easily escaped under them and headed out to sea, leaping out of the water with joy. Although he spent a little time that day in sight of the harbor, he was never seen again.
Source: 'Humanoid Encounters' by Albert Rosales & http://www.visit-orford.co.uk/articles/the-merman-of-orford

Pooka (1990, Ashby-De-La-Zouch, Leicestershire)

A resident of the aforementioned village awoke in the middle of the night and witnessed what she believed to be a being known as a Pooka in Irish folklore, sleeping over the pelmet of a window on her landing. The creaeture looked similar to a small piglet, but had a long, pointy nose and no visible tail. Pookas are shapeshifting tricksters and mischief-makers in Irish faery lore, but as far as I know they have never been described as piglet-like entities.
Source: A Menagerie of Mysterious Beasts by Ken Gerhard

Man-Horse (1994, King’s Lynn, Norfolk)

One late evening in 1994, the husband of correspondent Nicky Knott was driving home through King’s Lynn, Norfolk, down a lonely rural back road when he saw a large creature in a field to his right. As it moved closer, it seemed to be a horse, with equine body and four legs, but its observer was horrified to see that it had the face of a man! Terrified, Knott slammed his foot on the accelerator and sped away, and even though he was sure that the ‘thing’ was pursuing him he never once looked back till he reached home. Amazingly, this is not a unique case. Back in spring 1966, a creature fitting this same bizarre, man-faced, horse-bodied, centaur-reminiscent description was encountered in the road ahead as Margaret Johnson and her boyfriend John Farrell were driving past the estate of Lord Dillon in County Louth, Ireland, blocking their way for a couple of minutes and emanating palpable malevolence before abruptly vanishing. There is local mythology of a creature by the name of a 'Pooka' - one of which's forms resembles a monstrous horse. Obviously the connections between this sighting and the ancient centaurs do not need to be emphasised!
Source & Image Credit: http://karlshuker.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-top-ten-paranormal-beasts-in.html

Angel (May 18, 1749, Near Hertford, England)

'We have an account of a surprising phenomenon that was seen near Hertford during a violent storm of thunder and lightning, on Thursday the 18th by one John Mitchell, as he was traveling on the road: He was met by a man of a gigantic stature, his face shone like the sun, on his head something resembling a crown with stars, with wings on his shoulders; his body seemed of transparent fire; but suddenly it disappeared like several balls of light, attended with an explosion like that of a number of cannons.'
Here we seem to have a report of what can only be described as a classic angel, complete with the wings and larger-than-human stature. When angels appear in the Bible, their manifestation is often heralded by enormous noises like explosions (or 'cannons')
Source: 'Humanoid Encounters' by Albert Rosales & The Newcastle Courant (Tyne and Wear, England) May 27, 1749.

Werewolf (July 2017*, Norwich, England)

A driver on the way back from the cinema in Norwich encountered a large black wolf eating a carcass along the A1067. The creature was described as standing around a metre at the withers, with yellow eyes and black matted hair. The driver slowed and the wolf briefly looked up before continuing to eat. The witness continued home, shaken. Later, according to a documentation made on a dogman investigation website, a paranormal investigator and a friend (who was a lifelong alien contactee and associated with Rendlesham Forest) investigated the area using various psychic ‘sensing’ techniques, and ended up seeing something resembling a North American coyote with a disproportionately large head. The animal was between 4-5ft tall and apparently walked upright for the entire encounter. Seeing as these people have very little credible evidence to support their bizarre claims, I give more validity to the previous encounter - which has been documented in other places rather than just the comments of a forum.
Sources:
http://www.northamericandogmanproject.com/uk-dogman-.html
http://www.paranormaldatabase.com/reports/vampdata.php
Image Credit: https://nashoba-hostina.deviantart.com/art/The-Beast-of-Bray-Road-272091074

*This story was assembled from information found in two different sources, and one of them stated that the event took place in 2006, but the other seemed to imply that it was 2017.

Dancing Spirits (1973, Nympsfield, Gloucestershire)

A teenager standing on this hill looked down into a clearing in the woodland to see women in period costume. They appeared to be wearing very tall cone hats and dancing. The women vanished without warning. The lack of information given on this report doesn’t necessarily that it is a fakery, but it also makes it incredibly difficult to trace back to its original source and properly research. This article is acting as a sort of placemarker, so that I can come back to it later when I (or maybe an intrepid reader of this blog) finds the source, or at the very least another reference to the story outside of paranormaldatabase.
Source: http://www.paranormaldatabase.com/recent/index.php

Big-Eyes (1950s, Goudhurst, Kent)

During the mid-1950s, writer Joan Forman had spent time teaching at the school in the Kentish village of Goodhurst (possibly a misspelling of Goudhurst). One early morning during the summer holidays, when few others were there, she had awoken from sleep in her room, alone within the school building’s oldest section, and was shocked to see a grotesque creature crouching on the floor to the left of her bed, glowing slightly in the darkness and gazing at her with what she considered to be an unblinking stare of outright evil and obscenity. It was about the size of a large cat or corgi dog, but its most striking feature were its huge eyes, which she likened to those of a nocturnal lemur. She lay there, rendered immobile by its seemingly mocking, revolting stare for some time, before, with the onset of dawn, it slowly faded away, and the intense coldness that until then had filled the room vanished with it. Years later, she learned that her successor at the school also witnessed this entity, but in a different bedroom.
This entity’s manifestation could have been a result of sleep paralysis, but doubt is cast on this theory by the fact that another witness had seen the creature. The bizarre animal bears some slight resemblance to the North American legend of Tailypo.
Source: http://karlshuker.blogspot.co.uk
Image Credit: Katherine Coville

Man-Tiger (1702-1714, England)

A curious creature was exhibited in England during the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714). It was referred to as a ‘Man-Tiger’ by those that saw it. From below the head it was described as manlike, implying that the head itself was like that of a tiger. Its hinder parts were hairy, and it would drink ale from a glass as well as sometimes engaging in bouts with a quarterstaff. Could this have been a man with Hypertrichosis? The above picture is of Stephan Bibrowsky (also known as the Lion-Faced Man) who suffered from the aforementioned genetic disorder.
Source: ‘The Mystery and Lore of Monsters’ by CJS Thompson.
Image Credit: Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Werewolf (Flixton, England, 940-1970s)

Flixton is a small village that sits on the Southeastern edge of the Vale of Pickering, about five miles south of Scarborough on the North Yorkshire coast. Although Flixton is a bleak and desolate landscape nowadays, it would have been wild and remote in the 10th century - and the first report of the eponymous werewolf only serves to enforce this idea.

There is a chance that the Flixton Werewolf story goes back further than this, but the lycanthrope situation was so dire in the year 940 that a roadside hostel was constructed in Flixton solely for the purpose of protecting travellers from the beast. The werewolf supposedly attacked sheep and local people as well as travellers. Food was scarce in the cruel Northern British Winter, and the beast dug up and devoured freshly buried corpses. Anyone who went out after dark was at risk of being attacked. These attacks became quite infamous in Flixton and the villages around it, but reports stopped for a while before the monster resurfaced around 1150. Interestingly, there was speculation around the time of the first wave of attacks that the werewolf was connected to a local magician, who either used the monster for his own gains or was a shapeshifter himself. In 1150, what could be assumed to be the same creature devoured a local shepherd and a young girl, as well as attacking farm animals. This werewolf walked upright and smelt awful, and had a long tail and ferocious-looking eyes which were described as glowing in the dark. As a continuation of the trend, the werewolf vanished without a trace for 600 years, before once again manifesting in 1800 when a carriage travelling to York was attacked just outside Flixton, when a huge wolf-like creature first mauled the driver and then the occupants of the carriage. One of these travellers reported shot the creature, but the beast was unharmed. Although there were still wolves in Britain at this time, they were very rare and would have had to be extremely desperate to attack a carriage full of people. Finally, local reports appeared in the 1970s that relayed the tale of a truck that was attacked when a canine beast jumped onto the front and tried to smash its way through the windscreen.

Another point of interest is that Flixton is situated on the site of Star Carr – a Neolithic lake village dating back to the end of the last ice age. This makes the place extremely ancient and thus a perfect location for esoteric legends to take root. Although officially confirmed reports of the Flixton Werewolf only date back a thousand years, who knows what strange creatures featured in the stories of people way back in the mists of time.

Source: http://earthworks-m.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/the-flixton-werewolf.html