I'm a freak. I have hands and I have feet.

And if you saw me, you'd faint, you'd be petrified and mummified, turned into stone.

These were the words of Geff,

the strangest entity that bewildered a farming family

and most of the United's kingdom

when his story was reported in national newspapers

across the country.

It is impossible to deny that there is a serious amount of evidence for Gep's reality,

said Mr. R. S. Lambert of the BBC in the 1930s.

We could be forgiven for believing that Geff was a man or a boy,

but in fact Geff was an animal, an animal that appeared not quite of this world.

The closest in description of Geff, or Jeff, as he became known, was apparently a mongoose that could talk.

Mungus is the English name for a family of herpestae, oh gosh, for Ferpastidae, oh my goodness,

who are small carnivores native to Eurasia, Africa and Southern Europe. Well, they visually

look a little bit like mare cats. They have long bodies, long angular faces,

and short legs with a tail, and in fact they were venerated in ancient Egypt for their

ability to handle venomous snakes. Geph, who was most colloquially called Jeff, also took on other appearances too, though,

varying from a very strange-looking cat to something that looked a bit like a pig,

and other indefinable small monsters.

Mostly, though, Jeff was invisible.

He appeared, in the 1930s, on the Isle of Man.

The Isle of Man being a British island, quite small, most famous for the Titi motorbike

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