During the 1930s in Victoria’s Gippsland district, mystery beasts of
the feline kind were said to be slinking and stalking through the thick
undergrowth. Experienced bushmen were left shaking in their boots, kids
were kept home from school by worried mothers, brave dogs bolted with
their tails between their legs, and farmers were unwilling to venture
outdoors without their rifles at their sides.
On 30 October 1933, the Gippsland Times reported that a “big fawn-coloured, cat-like beast” had been spotted roaming the Gippsland ranges for the past 12 months.
“The mystery of an unknown animal, said to have been seen in
different parts of the Gippsland ranges during the past 12 months, has
been deepened by a report made on Monday by a Trafalgar farmer. He says
he has seen a big fawn-coloured, cat-like beast
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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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