The following written confession was submitted via email:

I'm a 16 year old currently living in England, and I had an encounter with a creature that was so strange that it resembled a dinosaur.

The encounter happened back in December of 2019 when I was with a group of friends in the small village of Bolton le Sands. We all met one day in the hopes of building a Bushcraft shelter, like the ones you see all over YouTube. One of my friends at the time… said that he knew a spot that was isolated and hidden, everything that we could have hoped for. So, we all agreed to follow him to the unknown location. After about twenty minutes of walking through farmers fields and thin paths, we were met with a barbed wired metal fence, and to the left of that on a tree, there was a sign that said 'private' obviously being young kids, we ignored the sign and carefully climbed over the metal fence. After we all successfully got over, we looked around for a brief minute to observe the creepy yet somewhat beautiful forest. it was so creepy that some of the trees even looked like tortured souls with faces. maybe we were all just being paranoid, but we all got a similar feeling that we were being watched. After about five minutes of walking through the dense woodland, one of my friends said that he had seen movement in the distance. He pointed forward, and to all our shock, there in plain sight, we laid eyes on the strangest, most obscure creature we had ever seen. It looked like it belonged in a science fiction movie. the best way I could describe the beast, is that it looked like the raptors from the jurassic park movies. every single one of us stood in panic, as we watched it quickly run into neighbouring tree line. I counted down from five to one, and we all ran backwards towards the fence, and climbed over with sheer fear, as if the creature was chasing after us. We ran, with no stopping all the way back to my house. We sat down in my living room, and discussed what we had seen. we all agreed at the time that the creature looked like some sort of dinosaur.

Nowadays, none of those friends believe or even take recognition of the encounter, and all put it down as being natural, possibly a deer of something? I just don't know how they could even mistake that thing for a deer. To be honest, I'm happy I saw what I saw that day, as it lead me to finally create the YouTube channel that I run today. 

Thanks for taking the time to read my encounter Tony. I appreciate your work and how you help bring these topics to light.

Check out another dinosaur-related confession in Written Confession: The Napping Dinosaur in Grass Valley, California.