Monster Snake Spotted On Cannock Chase

by Jason Clarke

Cannock Chase has seen some cryptid activity again this past week. The Cannock Chase Post has reported sightings of a super-size serpent and a panther-like beast.

One report actually came from the newspaper’s online forum where a local resident known only as Vonnie described what she had seen on the evening of Thursday 30th April.

“At approx 18.25 this evening my husband and I were driving from Rugeley along Penkridge Bank road towards Cannock when half way up the bank some 50 metres from the junction by Silvertrees we both saw an animal cross in front of us long, lean jet black and much larger than a domestic cat it moved from right to left into the wooded area, we both were amazed and both had the same opinion this could not have been a dog, deer or small cat.”

The Chase is well known for it’s unusual sightings of everything from big cats to cavemen. The Morningstarr* reported on a sighting of a large black cat on the Chase last summer. It was spotted near the German War Cemetery, well this week a rambler contacted the Cannock Chase Post to say he had spotted a 14 foot snake whilst walking near the German War Cemetery. This is at least the third time a large serpent has been reported on Cannock Chase. There was a report in 2006 where a witness claimed to have seen a large snake like a python, and in 1976 Mr Norman Dodd spotted a large serpent like creature emerging from a pond.

In an interview he gave with cryptozoologist Nick Redfern, Mr Dodd said “It was a bloody stifling day. I remember swigging something to drink and having a bite when there was something moving on the bank. It sort of wriggled. It was like its whole body seemed to sort of shake and wobble as it moved.”

“I know it saw me ~ or saw the car, definitely ~ because it looked right in this direction and then went back to what it was up to, just laying there.” He continued.

Nick Redfern has his own theories on what the giant snake could be, he wrote this on his blog:

“Dodd’s eye-opening report was one of those that almost sounded too good to be true – and yet the wholly independent story of a giant snake seen in the Cannock Chase woods in early 2006 suggested to me that such Loch Ness Monster-like beasts were indeed on the loose in the area – and, perhaps, they still are…

However, there are two more rational explanations. Pythons, a popular pet, have been known to be dumped by unthinking pet owners. They can grow to a huge length, but would not last long in our climate.

Also, grass snakes grow to quite a length – though nothing like the size of the super serpent recorded.”

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