Mrs Breen says her husband walked towards the creature and that it began growling at him. “I told him to step back but he ignored me. He thought it was a chimpanzee or something. He got closer to it and when he was within 15 feet or so it reared up on its legs. It was very tall and it was carrying a big stick.”

The creature then reportedly “smashed the stick against a tree” a number of times and it took off at a high speed. Mrs Breen says the ordeal lasted about 4 minutes.
“It ran so fast through those trees, like it had done so a thousand times,” The creature was described as having a chimpanzee-like face but with a “broader nose” and it was covered in “dark brown black fur”. Breen recalls the animal being approximately 8 feet tall. “I don’t know if this was a Bigfoot but my husband didn’t think we got these types of things in Ireland,” she said. And Mrs Breen, who had previously laughed at other stories from the woods her mother had told her in the past, says she now knows there is a “weird ape” roaming the woods of the British Isles because she has seen it.