Hello Jon,
I enjoy your blog immensely and check it every day for weird and wonderful titbits. Rather like Richard Muirhead, I am gradually working my way through bound volumes of a late 18th/early 19th century newspaper, the Blackburn Mail, in my case for local historical information (I am the town's museum curator). However, I have so far come across three interesting cryptozoological stories from the 1790s, which I attach for your interest. The first is the most fascinating to me, as it took place in a local mill lodge. The other two are not local, but no less interesting - while the creatures in the farmer's field at Hooton Roberts (near Rotherham) seem inexplicable, our old friend the entombed toad makes yet another appearance.
Anyway, I hope that you find these cuttings of some use - keep the blog rolling and take no heed of the miserablists.
Best wishes,
Nick Harling
I enjoy your blog immensely and check it every day for weird and wonderful titbits. Rather like Richard Muirhead, I am gradually working my way through bound volumes of a late 18th/early 19th century newspaper, the Blackburn Mail, in my case for local historical information (I am the town's museum curator). However, I have so far come across three interesting cryptozoological stories from the 1790s, which I attach for your interest. The first is the most fascinating to me, as it took place in a local mill lodge. The other two are not local, but no less interesting - while the creatures in the farmer's field at Hooton Roberts (near Rotherham) seem inexplicable, our old friend the entombed toad makes yet another appearance.
Anyway, I hope that you find these cuttings of some use - keep the blog rolling and take no heed of the miserablists.
Best wishes,
Nick Harling
Blackburn Mail June 28th 1797
Blackburn Mail November 6th 1793
Blackburn Mail August 13th 1797
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