Inch thick bite marks on the lower branches of a Clethra barbinervis, a Japanese shrub with long fragrant blooms, were found broken and the bark chewed off.

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Pub manager Mark Phillips said staff told him that the man reappeared at about 11pm with bits of bark hanging off him and flesh gouged out of his limbs.

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Occasionally it would pounce on a piece of bark that had fallen off the firewood, or a shadow.

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Two years later they're found living off tree bark, wearing animal skins and making nutritional smoothies out of locally gathered herbs and their own urine.

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Cut from choice portions of pork and beef shoulder, the franks are grilled then finished off with Bark Butter, a house mixture of smoked lard, butter and sea salt that gives Bark dogs an unmistakable flavor.

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Immediately they did this, however, people started thinking 'Aha, this is a special plant, ' and they climbed over the fence and started to take off little branches and leaves and pieces of bark.

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