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Saturday, September 08, 2012

BIG CAT NEWS: Essex, and Rutland

The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in.

It takes a long time to do and is a fairly tedious task so I am not promising that they will be done each day, but I will do them as regularly as I can. JD

Starting off in woods on the Rutland/Leicestershire border where there have been several sightings. Interestingly, Corinna and I were there last November and I distinctly heard a leopard coughing. We were in woodland owned by a local animal sancturay, and it turned out that they had several leopards off show...

Big cat sighting: Oakham couple spot panther-like cat in woods
This is Leicestershire
ESSEX may have grabbed the lion's share of attention but Leicestershire is not without its own reports of big cat sightings. An Oakham soldier and his wife spotted what they believed to be a large cat prowling through the undergrowth at Wakerley woods ...

Couple report 'big cat' sighting in Wakerley Woods
Rutland Times
“It couldn't have been anything else other than a big cat. “It was less than 100 yards away and slightly worrying, but it didn't appear frightened by us and it just strolled off. “I told my wife who was a lot closer to it than me and she was a bit ...

The Essex big cat sightings continue, and meanwhile in St Osyth everyone still does their best to cash in on the furore of a few weeks ago.

Essex residents claimed to have seen a lion
This is Hull and East Riding
THE possible puma is not the first big cat sighting to be reported this summer. Officers spent almost 24 hours combing the countryside around Clacton-on-Sea after a group of residents claimed to have seen a lion in St Osyth, Essex. But after search ...

St Osyth cashes in on big cat scare as choc sales soar
Clacton and Frinton Gazette
Cops called off the hunt after finding no evidence of the mystery big cat. The Beast of St Osyth later turned out to be nothing bigger than a ginger tom called Teddy, owned by Leisure Glades Park resident Ginny Murphy, 51. Email · Print this page ...

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