THINK ABOUTIT SIGHTING REPORT
Date: 1790
Sighting Time: Unknown
Day/Night: Unknown
Location: Between Denbigh & Wrexham, England
Urban or Rural: –
Entity Type: enormous black beast almost as long as the coach horses.
Entity Description: Unknown
Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter III) Close observation with animate beings associated with the object.
Duration: Unknown
No. of Object(s): 1
Size of Object(s): almost as long as the coach horses
Distance to Object(s): Unknown
Shape of Object(s): beast
Color of Object(s): black
Number of Witnesses: Unknown
Source: BBC North East Wales
Summary/Description: A stagecoach traveling in a lonely road was attacked and overturned by an enormous black beast almost as long as the coach horses. The terrifying animal tore into one of the horses and killed it, while the other horse broke free from its harness and galloped off into the night. The moon that month seemed blood red, probably because of dust in the stratosphere from a recent forest fire in the Hatchmere area. The locals thought the moon’s color was a sign that something evil was at large.
Investigative Analysis
The 1790 Denbigh and Wrexham encounter stands as a compelling historical example of High Strangeness. While modern cryptozoology might categorize this as an “Alien Big Cat” (ABC) or phantom feline, its classification as a Close Encounter of the Third Kind (CE-III) acknowledges the intense physical interaction with a non-standard biological entity.
The atmospheric context—specifically the reported “blood red” moon—adds a layer of environmental anomaly often associated with significant historical sightings. While modern science attributes the coloration to stratospheric dust from forest fires, the timing of such an “omen” alongside an attack by a creature described as nearly the length of coach horses suggests a synchronous event typical of high-strangeness cases. This incident highlights how anomalous phenomena were historically interpreted through the lens of “evil” or the supernatural, masking what may have been an early encounter with an unidentified non-human intelligence.
