#227 Old Ned’s Devil - The Man-Monkey of Staffordshire

But It Was Aliens

The extraterrestrial comedy podcast where we probe several simian sightings from 1878, 1879, the late 1800’s and as recently as the 1980’s in England within the United Kingdom. Is there a ghostly gorilla roaming the lands of the Shropshire Union Canal? Does this creature stalk those who pass Bridge 39? Is this creature cold? Or is the creature responsible for these several shocks actually the lingering spirit of a deceased workman from the area, as the police of the day seemed to believe? Or perhaps a gorilla on horseback roams the British countryside to this day? Was this thing a Pokemon? Alongside that it is pondered as to what gorilla’s like to do with bananas… HERE HE COMES BANANA SLAMMA KONGO BONGO’s HERO. All that and more on this week’s file.

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Music created via Garageband. Additional music via: https://freepd.com - thank you most kindly good people. When Kev sang the Donkey Kong Country theme, the theme of the actual Nelvena and Medialab-produced cartoon composed via Pure West was underlaid because IT HAD TO BE DONE. There was a tiny tiny snippet of the Indiana Jones theme song aka The Raiders March as Kev hummed the tune, which was composed and conducted via John Williams courtesy of Polygram, Sony Music and Colombia Records. We closed out the episode with the ’Staff Roll’ aka credits theme from Nintendo’s 1990-1992 Super Mario World from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, composed by Hero of Sound Kōji Kondō.

Sources:

Spooky Isles: https://www.spookyisles.com/man-monkey-shropshire-union-canal/

Canal & River Hub: https://canalriverhub.co.uk/the-shropshire-man-monkey-bigfoot-of-the-uk-canals/

Cryptid Archives: https://cryptidarchives.fandom.com/wiki/Man-monkey?fbclid=IwAR03wGDwI197Dm1MTHUywofoqHOTNGRkVWlTg1KAPymAFp2kOFg49Rd7Ass_aem_AfMkMBwLWL-MDHTmBfnrVf1V9-1-DeaZzo89gHHzS6zZntfvGsiBjFQ9feIhTSQ4oj8

Karl Shuker article: https://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2010/09/devil-of-mystery-from-smethwick.html?m=1