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
25 years ago today
1987: In search of love (from the AP): "A mysterious cat-like animal thought to be stalking the piney woods of southern New Jersey, startling residents with ear-piercing screams and mauling house pets, probably does not exist and may have been nothing more than a romantic fox, An investigation has not been able to turn up concrete facts to confirm the fast-spreading rumors of mauling leopards and wild panthers that prompted citizens to band together to comb the woods in search of the mystery beast." Said investigator Capt. Bruce Young, of New Jersey Fish, Game & Wildlife, "It may have been a male fox in the breeding season or a house cat in the woods."
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