During the late summer of 1901, several people reported to the Police that they had seen the silhouette of what they believed to be a very large animal against the dusk sky near the village of Embleton, Northumberland. A farmer had also reported unusual damage to hedges and fences on his land. On the 29th of August that year gamekeeper Jethro Pogle and his apprentice Mungo Depth shot at what they thought were poachers creeping through woodlands but discovered to their surprise that they had actually shot and killed an enormous badger. The badger was said to be fourteen feet long, four to five feet high at the shoulder and twenty one stone in weight. Unfortunately only anecdotal evidence exists about this strange beast but it is said that the pelt of the animal was big enough to make three fine coats and that one of these coats is kept in a house in Embleton.