What's eight feet tall, covered in hair and roams around a
wood in Northumberland?
Well, whatever it is, it's no joke for people living near Bolam Lake.
A number of fishermen and walkers at the beauty spot near Belsay have spotted a "hairy man-beast" like the legendary Yeti of the Himalaya mountains in Nepal.
And on Friday a team from the Centre for
Fortean Zoology in Exeter are beginning an expedition to find the creature.
It is being led by scientist Jonathan
Downes.
He says there have been a couple of "close encounters" with the beast.
And his team will try to tempt the beast into a trap by offering it food.
"We don't know what it is - but we have some photographs of footprints."
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