In January 1879, a canal labourer travelling through rural Staffordshire claimed that a strange black creature with enormous white eyes leapt onto the back of his horse near a lonely canal bridge. When he tried to hit it with his whip, the lash supposedly passed straight through its body. The encounter became part of local folklore, and the creature would come to be known as the Man-Monkey of Ranton.
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https://www.lovegnosall.com/stories/man-monkey-of-bridge-39
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1406777
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1253301
https://visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/953200
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