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    The Yorkshire Yeti 

    The Hereford Twiggywitch 
A mythical creature sighted on both sides of the Anglo-Welsh border
  • Plant Person: The Hereford Twiggywitch's a little skeletal being made of twigs and leaves.

    The Souter Seawolf 
A giant aquatic wolf blamed for deaths along the coast of Tyne and Wear.

  • Canis Major: The Seawolf described as a giant wolf as big as a boulder.
  • Wily Walrus: While the Seawolf isn't a walrus itself, the episode it's in does bring up walruses and ends with scientific reports proclaiminhg it to merely be a vargrant walrus.
  • Would Hurt a Child: It is accused of attacking and killing a young girl out playing, as well as many other children.

    Stag Men 
Creatures resembling upright-walking deer that travel with herds of regular deer. Unlike other cryptids, they asren't confined to one place in Great Britain.
  • Beast Men: The Stagmen are described as upright-walking deer.
  • Mars Needs Women: Myths surrounding them, including one account of one of them ambushing two women and the documentary bringing up fauns beforehand, hint they do this, though thankfully nothing is explicit.

    The Cumbrian Dregpike 
A giant lake monster resembling a giant pike with horse's mane and legs, allegedly living in the waterways of the Lakes District.
  • Fiendish Fish: The Dregpike is aggresive hunter that most reports describe eating humans or animals.
  • Mix-and-Match Critters: The Cumbrian Dregpike is described as being a giant pike with horse's legs.

    The Woodwose of Cannock Chase 
A large, hairy wild man said to live in Cannock Chase, a section of forested land in Staffordshire.

    The Ramflaggie of Argyll 
A monstrous goat from western Scotland.
  • Ascended to Carnivorism: Most goats are herbivorous, but this one is only described as being a meat-eater.
  • Gruesome Goat: It's a giant predatory goat that is believed to cause devestating avalanches and in some stories is treated as a devil figure.
  • An Ice Person: Folklore says it can control snow and ice.

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