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In the summer of 1977, Kimberley Mather's disappeared whilst camping with friends in the infamous Oakhill's wood. She was just sixteen at the time. Her boyfriend, John Fisher, searched for her that night in the wood when he heard her screams but could not find her. What he later reported to the police he did find has since become legend; a creature as though of sticks and bone. In 'when the wood screamed' Dan Jackson, journalist for the Oakhill's Post, investigates the disappearance of Kimberley Mather's through a series of revealing interviews with those significant to the case including retired chief of police Jim Burkett, who coordinated the search for Kimberley, Eddie Mather's, Kimberley's brother, and John Fisher, who for the first time publically discusses what exactly he encountered that tragic night in the wood.