Bigfoot: The Gambino Film

Phil Gambino and Paul Baracas announced in 1959 that they had recorded footage of a Bigfoot at Cobridge Creek. The two minutes of footage, which became known as "that Gambino film", showed a Bigfoot walking along a clearing and at one point eating what appeared to be a chicken drumstick or possibly even a filet-o-fish. Many Bigfoot supporters hold this film as the best evidence of the big hairy bastard's existence.

However, in 1992, following the deaths of Gambino and Baracas in a pedalo disaster, Steve Carp, a longtime friend of the pair, claimed that the footage was faked using a local teenager suffering from Down's Syndrome (that they had borrowed from a special school) dressed as Bigfoot. Gambino's wife, Sharon (or "Shaz" to her friends) refutes Carp's claims, though later married him.

Christmas And New Year UFO Reports (Part II)

25 December 2012

When local vicar Rev Charles Cockshoot saw a UFO over Burslem on Christmas morning, it changed his life forever. "It made me realise that everything I believe in is nonsense," said the 'Strictly Come Dancing' fan, 50. "I quit the church there and then and am now much happier."

27 December 2012

Making her way home to Birches Head after picking up a copy of the eponymous debut album by acclaimed singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones for just £3 in the HMV sale, bricklayer Tuft Godfreys witnessed a UFO crash. "One of the flying spacecrafts pulled out in front of the other, causing the crash," said the 'Dancing On Ice' viewer. "The two aliens got out of their ships and argued about who was to blame. I didn't get involved."

31 December 2012

When angry loner Nigel Maycock took to the top of Packmoor Tower on New Year's Eve, intending to pick off random revellers with his sniper rile, he didn't expect to see a UFO! "I expected bloodshed," laughs the postman, 50. "I was setting my scope up when I saw one of them UFOs. Looked like a new one too."

Christmas And New Year UFO Reports (Part I)

This time of year is always a busy one for UFO spotters, as many aliens head home for the holidays, often too drunk to worry about covering their flight paths from prying human eyes.

19 December 2012

Burglar Ken Toxic was shimmying up a drainpipe at a legally undisclosable location in Bentilee (his ex-wife's house) when he witnessed a flying saucer go overhead. "It was saucer-shaped and it was flying," said the common thief. "And I couldn't identify what it was. I don't know if there's a name for such a thing, but that's what I saw," added the self-confessed fan of Tina from 'Corrie'.

21 December 2012

Jobless Reg Milker was returning to his home in Tunstall home from a late night drinking sesh, when he looked up at the sky while urinating into a postbox to see three spaceships flying in formation northwards. "I don’t know where they're going," said Reg, who prefers Maria to Tina in 'Corrie'. "But they were sure in a hurry, they were going dicking fast."

24 December 2012

Santa didn't have a lot of stops to make in Stoke this year because everyone was so naughty, so residents of Sneyd Green had to make do with watching overhead illegal sky races by drunken teenage aliens.

Ridgeway

Ridgeway, located in Stoke's grim north, was once the site of Stoke's largest fool's gold-prospecting location, its population slowly decreased over the course of the 20th Century until the last residents left in the 1980s.

A group of hunters, lead by the intrepid Lyndon Jeffries, discovered traces of the valuable metal in 1888 in the mountainous area. Fool's Gold was at the time more valuable then real gold, but not as valuable as rolled gold. Jeffries and his crew immediately built a mine to pump for the metal.

Ridgeway, yeaterday

After the government introduced the Fool's Act of 1898, lowering the value of fool's gold, the bottoms fell out of the local economy and the town became all but deserted as its fledgling population fled north to look for work. The town was finally emptied in 1914, when the last residents fled into hiding in the mountains to become war deserters. Most of the metal buildings were broken up and used as materials to kill Germans with.

Today, the town has been restored to something like its pre-WW2 glory for the sake of tourism, though many of the buildings today are merely paintings of the buildings on big bits of wood. Fool's gold-mining and shoot-outs are re-enacted for the benefit of tourists and schoolchildren forced there on school trips.

It is mainly used nowadays by paintballing companies.