Beast of Dean

The Beast of Dean, also given the colloquial name 'Moose-Pig', is a cryptid, reported to live, or have once lived, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. It is said to resemble a wild boar (Sus scrofa), but abnormally large in size. In 1802, tired by being harassed by the mysterious giant boar which, reputedly, was large enough to have felled trees and crushed hedges and fences, farmers from the village of Parkend undertook an expeditio... more

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