Toe Monsters of Cheddar Gorge

Cheddar Gorge is famous for making cheese. The town makes the best known, and tastiest, cheese in the entire world. It’s even better than French cheese, even the stinky ones.

For eons, the cheesemakers of Cheddar have stored their truckles in caves. This is because in ancient times there were no refrigerators or coolers; they didn’t even have electricity! The deep caves offer a cold place to safely store cheese so that they can mature and develop their distinctive taste that makes them so delicious and yummy.

Every now and again, even in the cool environment of a cave, something goes wrong. According to local myths, a few centuries ago, one particularly large lump of cheese got wet, became mouldy, and eventually turned radioactive. Unfortunately, some unexpecting rabbits ate the nuclear cheese. This caused them to mutate into the Toe Monsters.

It’s a secret. No one knows for sure. If the police did know they would have arrested the Toe Monsters decades ago. It’s rumoured to be magical. The few survivors who have seen it are usually unable to remember its location. Probably because they were too busy running for their lives to concentrate on anything else!

One witness, a schoolgirl called Georgie, returned to where she thought it was. She was accompanied by a small army of soldiers, who brought a couple of tanks and lots of big guns. To Georgie’s embarrassment, despite being in the “right place,” she couldn’t find the cave. It had disappeared. All she remembers is that it looked like a giant mouth, with big scary teeth.