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
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
Saturday, 28 December 2013
UK SIGHTING - Will DNA tests solve the mystery of Gloucestershire big cat sightings?
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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