“It’s in the trees, it’s coming…”

I have been following the news reports that remains of a new human-like species have been found on the island of Flores in Indonesia. Local tribes report that they still occasionally see these tiny “hominins” (only three feet tall, they are similar to, but not the same as modern man). If these tiny pygmy hominins managed to exist side by side with ourselves, then possibly Neanderthals also did so, since there seems to be so much evidence (especially in Buckinghamshire) that “something” was hiding out in the wastelands at least until the later medieval period.

Perhaps Neanderthals still exist, hiding in the dense forests? The Nixons own a two-hundred acre wood immediately above their house in Wales which is definitely creepy. No-one ever goes there – it is almost sheer mountainside, and there is only one easy path into it. The Nixon brothers mainly just use the wood for motor-bike scrambling. I walked into it once, on my own, and experienced a cold clammy feeling of… what exactly? It was as if a silent voice was saying: Get out of here quickly.

It was like that moment in the film Night of the Demon / Curse of the Demon (based on the story by MR James) with Dana Andrews saying the famous line (immortalised by Kate Bush): “It’s in the trees, it’s coming…”