There were a few years, especially in the late 80s and 90s, when the British were very used to hearing stories about the so-called Exmoor Beast (The Black Beast of Exmoor) .type of stories occurred especially in the areas of Exmoor or Somerset, where many witnesses talked about the presence of a beast of large size and black, which attacked farm animals, especially livestock.
They were called ghost cats, the great cats of the United Kingdom or even the Alien Big Cats.It was an event that lasted a few years, but already a time when the "sightings" of these strange creatures ceased to occur.The legend has evaporated like those uncomfortable acts that nobody wants to talk about.
Was it something real? Or was it just a legend? Like so many others in the United Kingdom? We invite you to discover it with us.
The mystery of the great cats of England
Today, in West Sussex, for example, we continue to see old posters detained by time in the forests, with images of large black panthers.It is requested that if someone sees something strange related to "big cats" inform the authorities.
Just for that reason we It gives a clue that something must have happened, and that perhaps, it had very little ghostly.However, let's start from the beginning knowing all the events.It was in 1983 when in Somerset, a farmer discovered a terrified tomorrow that close to 60 of his sheep had been attacked .
The police and veterinarians were amazed to see that this carnage had been carried out by a great predator. Many of the sheep were devoured and their bones crushed.How could it be? In England there are no cougars, no lions or tigers...So?
It is suspected, of course, of the wolves, although the biologists expressed time and again that no wolf or wild dog was capable of making those wounds, everyone went into a panic, especially farmers.However, little by little the population was assuming the authentic reality.The first is that the wolves were "eliminated" long ago of the British Isles.It cannot be ruled out that there is a copy to this day, but they have not been seen for a long time.
The second aspect was even more frightening: that creature was capable to tear apart the corpses of their victims or even transport them to caves or to the branches of the trees.It is created a real panic, and as fear is free it is common that it intermingles The ghostly with the concrete, the supernatural with the reality of the facts.And one of those realities is that there were large footprints: it could be a cougar or a jaguar.
The most acceptable witnesses on the part of the experts declared that it was a black fur animal, much bigger than a mastiff. The hair was short and the eyes were very bright, green.They saw him running and perching on the rocks and trees with extreme agility. The experts were divided. If it was a cougar, a panther or a jaguar, it was rare for them to be seen by the man so easily, but the attacks on the cattle they were causing offered evidence more than clear that they were facing a large predator in the heart of the British countryside.
But...where had it come from? One might suspect someone who voluntarily introduced an animal of these characteristics in the United Kingdom, who raised it and later abandoned it to its fate.It is not the first time, however, the most disturbing thing in which these events occurred in different counties , that is, there was no single cat, but several. Then?
Nigel Spencer of the Great Feline Society of Great Britain , I commented that it could be treated of a puma, a black leopard or even a lynx.According to the same explanation, in the United Kingdom it has always been suspected that there may be large cats not yet cataloged.They are small communities but have always given clues to their existence throughout the centuries.
The other suspicion is that they are lynx. Big size lynx. Something not very accepted, but as a theory must also be taken into account.The third and final assumption already we a little more restless.Several voices were raised to say the following: "could be animals created by genetic engineering and that were voluntarily or accidentally released to the British camp» .A today, and for more than 20 years, nothing similar has happened again.
And now tell us...with what theory do you stay? If you liked this article, also know all the curiosities about black cats.
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