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Star Carr

Star Carr

Historical landmark in EnglandWikipedia

Search complete. 7 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Star Carr".

Sep 10, 2026

Robert ClotworthyNARRATOR
28:23
North Yorkshire, England, 2015.
Robert ClotworthyNARRATOR
28:26
Archaeologists excavating a Stone Age settlement known as Star Carr make an extraordinary discovery.
Robert ClotworthyNARRATOR
28:34
Under layers of dense peat, they uncover a ritualistic headdress that is 11,000 years old, one that would have been worn by a shaman or priest.
Lynn PicknettSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
28:47
As long as there's been people, there's been the idea that certain people, certain special people, can shift their shape.
David ChildressSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
29:50
We have UFO activity and what would be werewolf activity in Europe, particularly in Yorkshire.
David ChildressSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
29:58
And so we have to wonder, is there some connection between UFO activity and these shapeshifters? It would seem so.
Robert ClotworthyNARRATOR
30:07
In 2016, nearly a dozen sightings of the Flixton werewolf were reported in the nearby town of Hull, just 50 miles south of Star Carr.
Robert ClotworthyNARRATOR
30:18
Witnesses claim to have seen the creature feasting on the blood and flesh of local dogs, leaving residents gripped by terror.
Paul SinclairGUEST
32:46
It's, it's really captured mas- me as well.
Paul SinclairGUEST
32:49
Uh, the arc- the carr's, Flixton Star Carr, which is the low wetlands that I've just discussed that, that a- attach to the village, but the, you know, they're, they're literally within hundre- hundreds of yards from the bottoms of some of these people's gardens.
Paul SinclairGUEST
33:04
And it used, in Paleolithic times, that's over, I don't know, 8 to 12,000 years ago, it was a huge lake.
Paul SinclairGUEST
33:12
Uh, obviously the, the inhabitants then would not have called it Lake Flixton, but it would've been known as Lake Flixton in, i- in, in modern day.
Paul SinclairGUEST
33:27
They've found some of the most important artifacts anywhere in the UK or the world.
Paul SinclairGUEST
33:32
They've found headdresses with red deer antlers, uh, frontlets and, and a- antlers attached with eyes drilled in them or bored in them with primitive tools.
Paul SinclairGUEST
33:44
But what's interesting is the archeologists believe that the people who inhabited Flixton Star Carr were much more than hunter-gatherers.
Paul SinclairGUEST
33:51
They found ev- evidence of mass animal sacrifice and horse butchery, and they believe that these people, these inhabitants of Flixton Star Carr, were shaman or, or, or practicing shamanic ritual with due t- based on what they've found.
Martin VauxHOST
10:54
And back then, the dead were frequently buried in shallow pits where they were allowed to decompose, and then they were subsequently dug up so that specific bones, primarily the cranium, mandible, and long bones, could be harvested for use in shamanic dances or kept as domestic talismans.
Eleanor ConlonHOST
11:12
And we know from sites like Star Carr in Yorkshire that human remains were mingled with animal artifacts during these processes-
Martin VauxHOST
11:20
Oh, yeah
Eleanor ConlonHOST
11:20
... which suggests a worldview where the human soul was fluidly linked with the natural world, and beasts and game in particular.

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