A story featured in ‘The Sun’ seemed to prove that big cats do in fact roam the British countryside. This ‘proof’ comes from some video footage shot by teaching assistant Coryn Memory, 45, in Stroud, Gloucs. The article reports that Coryn claims to have seen the creature five times, before finally managing to catch it on camera.
Experts on ‘The Sun’ video, analyze the size, distance and gait of the creature before concluding that it was in fact a big cat!
The debate about whether big cats actually exist in Britain has gone on for generations, with rumoured sightings, shady photographs and the finding of slaughtered livestock feeding the media frenzy about these feline creatures.
The big cats even got their own nicknames much like prolific serial killers (well I suppose they are if you look at it from the sheep and cows point of view), one of the most famous being The Beast of Bodmin Moor! So virulent were the reports of a big cat in the Bodmin region and also due to the great numbers of livestock found violently slaughtered, that the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food were sent in to conduct an official investigation in 1995. Though they did not find the ‘beast’ or any evidence that it had ever lived there, the report did state that it could not prove that a big cat had not lived in the area.
Royal Marine snipers were actually sent in to hunt down our other major infamous big cat, ‘The Beast of Exmoor’ 1983, and though some Marines did allege to have seen the stealthy creature, no big cat was ever found!
Either way, one thing is for sure, the British folk love a good ‘big cat tail’ (pun intended) part of me hopes that this is finally the proof all of the ‘believers’ have craved for so long…But there is also a part of me that doesn’t want it in concrete, because debating their existence and subscribing to all the myth, legend and fables that the stories of these creatures bring with them is just too much fun!
via The Sun
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