What did we see last night..?

[GallopingHighRoad]

We had been away for a few nights and travelled back quite late. Towards the end of our journey, this was about 2am, we were driving along an A road in a rural area when something crossed the road in front of us in full headlights for about 3 seconds. It was about the height of a person, maybe 6 feet or over, but had short powerful legs and hips which seemed to move in a circular fluid fashion. It was not a deer because it stood on two legs. This was in the midlands and the area is traditional rolling fields and woodland. In this particular spot there are no houses or buildings, nearest is over a mile away. We drove back today as its only 7 miles from home to look at the road layout and whatever it was moved into a wide bowl shaped field dropping down to a stream. Any ideas?

@emmyren4

We stayed at Fawsley Hall once and had a dinner more terrifying than anything yet mentioned on this thread.

Guessing they did a better job on your wedding, pp!

You need to start a thread on that!

Road runner?

Nancy75 there are a few wallabys in Warwickshire there are frequent reports in the local paper of them escaping and roaming around the countryside. Yep I found it hard to believe but it is true

@GallopingHighRoad

I am going to have to conclude it somehow with all the help suggestions and especially *@Laiste* drawing. I am verging on an upright deer, perhaps with some brambles or something wrapped round its legs, doing something really weird like out of The Far Side on a cold winter's night.

But worth a check, so we are going back to those roads tonight with a flaks and a blanket.

Yay! Oh OP I want to come too!

Llama, and you just didn’t see the back legs.

Wallaby maybe. They are quite common in rural areas.

So many Wallaby suggestions yet they are so short....

Have you tried calling Scully and Mulder?

So lots of Mumsnetters searching the same vicinity in dead of night?

whispers 'They say, in the dark of winter, you can see ghostly lights flickering across the fields, where none should be ...'

Is it Mr Tumnus

Just googled online. That road is next to a place called Goblin Hill. "Scucca-Beorg" old Germanic name for Devil's Hill.

Alpacca? Could look human front on. Big topknot of hair too

Sounds like a kangaroo hula hooping to me

@ALongHardWinter

Was it this?

That has to be gayest looking sylvan ever!

Lucifer! Conjured up by the local witches coven

@Stravaig

So lots of Mumsnetters searching the same vicinity in dead of night?

whispers 'They say, in the dark of winter, you can see ghostly lights flickering across the fields, where none should be ...'

If there's a hotel nearby, I'm in, sadly I can't drive at the mo.

If someone's prepared to drive, I'm happy to get out of the car and follow this creature on foot....

@GallopingHighRoad

Just googled online. That road is next to a place called Goblin Hill. "Scucca-Beorg" old Germanic name for Devil's Hill.

Also sounds like Zuckerberg but that's a whole other story 😂

Sasquatch?

Could it have been someone arsing about like The Raynes Abbey Ghost in James Herriot?

I love stuff like this. Fascinating!

I've got to work 7 till 10 and I have FOMO for this thread now!

I'm driving that road tomorrow.... will keep a look out!

Isn't there a ghostly coachman at Fawsley Hall? (Misses point of thread...)

Why do people keep saying Wallabies? The OP has said many times it's the height of a human..

Oooh I have just seen the location. I am about 10 miles from there, I am going to take a drive out that way when I am Covid free

@oakleaffy

This???

Wtf is that?