Cheshire is one of the most dangerous places to live according to 999 calls - that is if you are scared of tigers, pumas, panthers and lynxes.
A tiger has been spotted prowling along the banks of the River Dee, a lynx with paw prints as big as a "human hand" killing sheep, cats and chickens, and a large wild cat terrified a caller who was sure it was at large in Tarporley town centre.
And one resident reported that a lion had escaped from the Zoo and was living in their garden at a house in Ellesmere Port.
But it is not the first time people have reported that they have seen big cats at large in the county. Last month motorists were alarmed when a picture of the King of the Jungle prowling on the M56 was spotted on twitter, and rumors spread a lion was loose in Chester in 2013 - both turned out to be false.
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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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