Following two sightings of a large black
cat near the town earlier this month, more people have come forward to
say they have seen what looked like a ...
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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. Curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy
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It began with dark mutterings in the local pub,
that a strange beast might be stalking the woods around the little
village of Woodchester, savaging the local wildlife and frightening
local dog walkersNow, even the National Trust is suspicious and experts are carrying out
DNA tests on the carcasses of two roe deer found mutilated in the
Gloucestershire countryside.A local walker discovered the second carcass in the National Trust’s
Woodchester Park, near Stroud, on Wednesday last week. Experts from the
University of Warwick were called in on Friday to take DNA samples from
the two carcasses, the first of which was found near the village of
Dursley.READ MORE
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cat is back in Gloucestershire believes tracker Frank Tunbridge This is Gloucestershire THE big cat prowling the Five Valleys is back, believes tracker Frank Tunbridge, after it jumped out of a tree and frightened a woman who's seen it twice before. The startled woman came face-to-face with the black, puma-like creature in the Golden ... |