Although she did not realize it at the time, her being the unexpected and unwilling observer of such a strange creature that should have never been where it was sparked what is now the most comprehensive collection of cryptid sightings in the UK. Hatswell describes her journey from witness to researcher.
"we both were running as fast as we could and kept falling down getting back up and not even looking behind us, I didn't want him to catch me..."
"I looked back up and the legs moved. Not like a deer. Like a human. Everything happened at once after that. I dropped the mail, picked up my cat by the scruff and ran for it..."
Bigfoot is big in the news this week,
Biologist and investigator for the television program "Finding Bigfoot" Ranae Holland spoke in Seattle about her views on Bigfoot, science and curiosity.  Holland states that while she does not believe in Bigfoot as a biological organism, she is fascinated with her interactions with the people who do. Â
"A pair of photos posted on the website of the radio program Midnight in the Desert on July 27, 2017 are allegedly of a Bigfoot-like creature raiding a chicken coop in Northern California just prior to disappearing into the night. We animated the two images, adjusted for brightness and contrast and did some cropping."
"I've talked to so many Native Americans who all describe the same sounds, two who have seen them. I've probably got about, oh, thirty books that have come from different parts of the world, from China from, from all over the place..."
The National Cryptid Society 