An eight-foot werewolf has apparently moved into an abandoned industrial area of Hull in England.

At least seven witness have reported seeing the hairy thing over the past few months.

And now even Alice Cooper wants answers.

The 69-year-old shock-rocker posted on his Facebook page: "So there are suddenly several reports of a werewolf like creature near a small town in the U.K. Do you think it could be real?"

He's not the only one wondering.

A local councillor has started tracking the accounts of the half-man, half-dog creature in the Barmston Drain -- a water channel built in 1798 to dry out salt marshes. And locals have even gone out hunting for the thing.

"It was stood upright one moment. The next it was down on all fours running like a dog. I was terrified," one woman, who said she was watching it from a bridge above,told the Daily Express U.K.

"It bounded along on all fours, then stopped and reared up on to its back legs, before running down the embankment towards the water."

The witness descriptions bear an uncanny likeness to Old Stinker - said to prowl the Yorkshire Wolds, not far away.

The legend of Old Stinker goes back hundreds of years.

"The Yorkshire Wolds was actually one of the last parts of England to have wild wolves. Old Stinker was said to be operating on the other side of them but it would be no distance at all for a large animal to get to Hull," Charles Christian, author of A Travel Guide To Yorkshire's Weird Wolds, told the Express.

Local historian Mike Covell told the Hull Daily Mailhe wants to solve the mystery.

"If it was just these two people seeing something, I might start getting suspicious," he told the paper. "But everyone who has reported sightings have been really down-to-earth people who are shaken by their ordeal."