The Flixton Manwolf

I wrote this back in October of this year, in 2014. This piece of work talks about the Dogman of Flixton which has been nicknamed The Flixton Werewolf by many people out there today.

I have mentioned many a times in the past about the Flixton Werewolf. But now thought I would write bit more on this creature and what it could possibly be.

Well to start off with Flixton is a small village (and I mean small). It is about 5 miles south of Scarborough on the North Yorkshire coast, In a valley between the hills of the Yorkshire Wolds to the south and the edge of the North York moors a few miles to the north. Today it’s a quite desolate landscape, swampy and open, but long ago it was a dense forest with a large lake. It must have been quite a wild, remote spot in the 10th century when the

Flixton werewolf was first reported terrorizing the local countryside.

There is no way of knowing now just how far back the Flixton werewolf tales go, but in the year 940 the situation was such that a hostel was built in Flixton specifically for the protection of travelers. The werewolf had reportedly attacked sheep and local people as well as travelers. The winters at that time were particularly cruel in northern Britain and food was scarce. Freshly buried corpses were dug up and devoured, and anyone out after dark was risking being attacked. The Flixton werewolf became quite notorious at this time.

However, the reports then stopped, and he doesn't seem to have been reported again for a couple of hundred years or so, when around 1150 (ish) the reports began again. It, (even assuming it was the same, very old, creature), devoured a local shepherd and a young girl, as well as farm animals. This werewolf walked upright, was incredibly stinky, had a particularly long tail and ferocious looking eyes. Then all seems to have gone quiet again for about 600 years.

Sometime around 1800 a carriage travelling to York was attacked just outside Flixton by a huge wolf like creature who first attacked the driver and then the occupants of the carriage, one of whom shot the creature, but the creature remained unharmed. It has to be remembered that wolves had been pretty well eradicated from this area by that time, and a solitary wolf would have to be pretty desperate to attack a carriage full of people.

Then again much more recently, in the 1970's, local reports say a truck was attacked when a huge wolf like creature jumped on the front and tried to bash its way through the windscreen, so whatever it is it certainly hasn't gone away.

Another point of interest is that Flixton is the site of Star Carr, a neolithic lake village which dates back to the end of the last ice age and so is the first known site to be occupied after the glaciers retreated about 11, 000 years ago. This gives the place a very ancient history indeed and is a perfect place for stories and legends to grow, and although the oldest reports of the werewolf at Flixton date back over a thousand years, who knows whether people were telling tales of strange creatures here many thousands of years before that, way back in the mists of time.

Though one thing I can say is that this very creature is still around today, stalking anybody who travels through it's territory in the nearby area. Just like the past though reports disappear and then years later come flooding back in. Does it hibernate or simply do people experience this creature and do not report their encounter.

Another theory is this could be Paranormal but what about the solid evidence. I'm in talks with somebody who was able to find some prints near the village of Flixton. Now I'm not an expert but to me they do seem to look like some large canine footprint. As well as this I have spoke to a witness who saw a humanoid wolf like creature (Dogman) at North Yorkshire Moors - the Flixton Werewolf?

Is this an ancient paranormal beast that has been seen since the beginning of time at Flixton & the North Yorkshire Moors or is it a flesh and blood creature? Could there be a community of these creatures thriving and hunting in these areas and will we ever get the concrete proof that we need that a canine humanoid is really living in our wilderness?