Along Four Ashes Road there lies a cemetery and crematorium, here, local legend has it, you can meet with a figure whose height varies from one and a half to two and a half metres and who has no face, instead its upper body is surrounded by a grey mist.

In ‘The Star’ newspaper of September 26th 1986 there appeared a report about a sighting on Four Ashes Road which had taken place on the 20th of that month. At that time twenty one year old Mark Nursey was driving his girlfriend, Allyson Bulpett, home in the evening. It was near midnight when they approached the Hughenden Garden of Rest along the road. Suddenly a large figure loomed into view. As the car approached they saw that it was a man completely dressed in green and standing nearly two metres tall. The figure began to wave at them, so Mark slowed the car down, whereupon the man stepped into the road, glared at them and then vanished. Mark described the figure as looking like it was wearing a big green jumper and he couldn’t make out its head or hands.

When the newspaper article appeared several people came forward saying that they had had a similar experience. Most notable was from a twenty eight year old warehouseman, Phil Mullett, who had seen the figure eight years previously and within metres of where Mark Nursey and Allyson Bulpett had seen it. Phil saw the figure around 21:30 when it appeared from the right hand side of the road. Phil drifted into the middle of the road whereupon the figure turned towards him and waved its arms. Phil felt that it was trying to warn him to keep back. As he got closer it drifted into the hedge on the other side of the road then it suddenly reappeared, moved to the middle of the road, turned and lifted its arms. By then Phil was so close he could not avoid it even though he braked. When the car had stopped he got out and looked back but there was nothing there. He described the figure as about two metres tall and appearing perfectly solid. It was bright green, did not appear to have any hands or feet and, instead of a face, there was just a misty grey round shape.

Numerous theories were put forward as to what the figure was but none were satisfactory. The most popular was that it was the Green Man, a spirit of the forest who appears on numerous inn signs throughout the Chilterns.

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