In 2002, a wave of Bigfoot sightings swept across the town of Bolam in Northumberland, UK. Over the course of several days, several people saw the dark, clumsy and large creature, which immediately received the nickname "British Bigfoot".
In January 2003, a team of cryptozoologists went to Bolam and they found three Yeti eyewitnesses who had seen him at Bolam Lake and recorded their stories. They also assured that they themselves caught a glimpse of a strange creature.
And in February 2003, a scandalous article was published in a local newspaper entitled "How the jokers scared everyone with the Bolam Beast." It told how a guy and a girl confessed that it was they who made all the hype, dressing up in a yeti costume.
A couple of 17-year-old Harriet Warman and 18-year-old Alex Dordoi got hold of a carnival costume of a gorilla, and in the summer of 2002, teenagers wandered in this costume for three days in the local Kielder forest, taking turns changing into it. They wanted to do their own original project for the school and create photos in the style of classic Yeti shots.
Harriet and Alex were very surprised later when they saw stories about "Bolam the Beast" in the newspapers. And their project really became famous and made a splash in their school when they presented it.
So was it just massive fake hysteria? Not everything is so simple in this whole story.
To begin with, you need to confirm that yes, all the cases of observation of the Yeti in Bolam took place precisely on the days when Alex and Harriet were running through the forest. The problem, however, is that people saw this Yeti at least 40 miles from where the teenagers claimed they were and took the staged photos.
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Friends were preparing their project in the Kilder forest, and the Yeti was seen near the Bolam lake. It is about 40 miles in a straight line from the lake to Kielder Forest. According to the assurances of the guy and the girl, they have never been to the lake in a yeti costume.
True, the Gosforth High School, in which both teenagers studied, is only 7 miles from the lake. Could another student have made the same joke? This is not an impossible scenario.
Bolam lake.
But even if it was just another guy in a suit in the summer of 2002, who did the research team see in January 2003?
There is an important point to make here. These people came here with only one purpose, to learn about the yeti and it is desirable to see the yeti. That is, the image of this yeti was in their heads during all the days that they stayed here. But what if the Yeti they saw was only a product of their consciousness and expectation, that is, the so-called thought form?
Thought form is an esoteric term. Esotericists believe that when a person deeply, often and thoroughly thinks about something, an energetic message arises in the mental plane, emanating from this person and a thought form arises from him. This being, born of human consciousness, acquires an independent existence and has an astral body and mental essence. For example, if you think only about the bad, there will be only bad around you.
Here you can go back to the eyewitnesses of The Beast from Bolam. It is likely that the very first one could accidentally notice Alex and Harriet running through the forests, but then, when he told others about this and new eyewitnesses of the Yeti appeared, this time seeing him by the lake, the creature they saw could be that very thought form. They heard about the local yeti, thought about him and about meeting him and gave birth to a thought form.
There is also a nuance, since the Yeti was seen by the lake on the same days when teenagers ran through the forest, is it possible that the thought-form was generated by just a couple of teenagers? After all, all three days in the forest, they thought mainly about the Yeti. Are there any limiting distances for a thought form that it can move away from the person who created it? It is difficult to find an answer about this even among esotericists.
In fact, this hypothesis can be applied not only to the "beast from Bolam," but to many other cases. For example, to the regular observation of Nessie at the Scottish Loch Ness. Most of these observations were made by tourists who came to this lake with the hope of seeing the monster.
