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We are the official cryptozoological society for the village of Bodgeham-on-Wye. We are currently looking for brave volunteers to take part in ‘The Search for the Bodgeham Badger’ at our 2024 village fête (AKA EMFCamp 2024).

To take part please call 2297 on any public or private DECT enabled phone on site at EMF 2024 and follow instructions to join.

Local Cryptids

The Bodgeham Badger

The Budgeham Badger is a local cryptid that has gained legemdary status due to its ominous nature and mysterious abilitiys. To this day no credible evidence of its existence has been recorded. Despite this there have been many sightingz over the years with a dramatic uptock during the lead up to the local village fete. The sightings suggest that the Badger is about the size of a human and has egtrasensory abilities affecting human technology. More detailed information is within the reports below.

BADGER UPDATE: WE MAY HAVE A CONFIRMED PHOTO FROM OUR RADIATION HARDENED CAMERA TRAP! SEE ABOVE.

Ghemotochi

The Ghemotachi are small mouse-sized sprites, seemigly made of wool, found around the village usually in bushes and trees and occasionally hanging from large signs. They are routinily spotted and photographed although most scienists contest this evidence of their existence citing AI imagery as the source of these photos. The local arcane and natural magic practitioner is said to have conjured these into existence while living in the old haberdashery. The locals call these "Ghemotochi" from the word "Ghemotoc", used to describe the small tangle of fibres that form on fabrics in the Romanian language, the native tongue of their rumoured mother. The Ghemotochi are aldays friendly and are rutinely found approaching picnic areas for crumbs and have even been found nuzzled in people's hair. As sightings of the Badger have increased, sightings of the Ghemotochi have decreased suggesting a link between them.

The Search for the Bodgeham Badger

Sighting reports

  • The Badger was first sighted by an anonymous person 33 years ago during a frantic emergency call to the fire service reporting a small wild fire in the local forest in November. We believe this was the Badger coming into this plane of reality.

  • The Badger has been sighted near the arcade, witnesses need to be questioned on the validity and time of encounter. A few of the screens apparently went fuzzy for a few seconds and all the cabinets rebooted. There may be traces of the Badgers e.m.f. affecting powers recorded on one of the cabinets.  

  • The Badger had been sighted near the Scottish consulate rooting around a crate of empty Buckfast bottles. Witnesses need to be questioned on the validity and time of encounter.

  • The Badger has been sighted near Termisocs crumpet village with reports of strange growls and glowing red eyes. Witnesses need to be questioned on the validity and time of encounter

  • The Badger has been sighted by the local telecoms company when they investigate reports of random unexplained connection outages. Witnesses need to be questioned on the validity and time of encounter.

  • The Badger had been sighted near the Maths village, with reports that universal constants seem to change by a small degree near the time of sighting. Witnesses need to be questioned on the validity and time of encounter.

  • The local Bat conservation specialist hasn't directly sighted the Badger but has reported strange signals when analysing his bat calls.  

  • The local Bodgeham-on-Wye arcane and natural magic practitioner who is all but officially confirmed as the originator of the friendly Ghemotochi has reported that many of her Ghemotochi have been disappearing over the last few weeks and blames the “black and white daemon with blood red eyes and glowing embers as a tail” as the culprit. She needs to be questioned on the details. 

Commonalites between reports

  • The Badger seems to primarily come out during the night and when it is dry suggesting it is adverse to light and water. 

  • The Badger is around the size of an above average human suggesting it weighs around 90-110kg.

  • The Badger is attracted to electromagnetic signals and affects and/or absorbs them, usually corrupting beyond recovery any media that is taken of it. It may be embodying them to some extent in its calls and glowing tail. Some insights may be gleaned by capturing usable recordings. 

  • The extent of the Badgers corruption of digital signals is not understood and could extend to affecting even online writing. 

  • No footprints have been reported near sightings suggesting the Badger either treads very lightly or has a way of removing its trail. A paint trap may be able to get a good footprint.

  • The Badger seems to have an interest in the Ghemotochi maybe just abducting them, maybe eating them, maybe nursing them. It is unclear. 

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