Beast of Bodmin Moor?

I'm not from England :p but this story and similiar stories have fascinated me since I was a kid. I remember hearing about this story some years ago and the very idea of a "large cat" in a Country like England grabbed my attention !
I mean in a Country as large as the U.S. , it is a little easier to believe such things , England is much smaller thus you would think animals such as that would have less places to hide or live.
I wonder if they are escaped zoo animals or pets , I like to think though that they are something as of yet undiscovered or long forgotten.
The huge snake stories of Africa I find interesting , bigfoot , yeti , the giant sloth stories of South America , the various lake monsters of the world, that wierd thing down in Texas , Mothman , Jersey Devil...
Cryptozoology is very fascinating to me.
 
Check out www.cryptozoology.com. Lots of neat stuff on there, plus a "sighting" list. Bigfoot? Nessie? Possible. Bigfoot going through interdimensional portals between worlds and is an environmental god. Nah. (Actually read that hypothesis on a bigfoot website.)
 
There was a 1 hour tv program about this on the Discovery, or History channel awhile back.
The government even went so far as to get some Royal Marine snipers out, to setup in hides in one area where serious livestock depradations were taking place, but after a week with no sightings, using night gear, etc. They called it off.

One sighting of a lion in one town turned out to be a large domestic housecat.:eek:;)
 
Good article. That picture of the Beast looks like Bailey, the cat who lives behind my house, and thinks my bird feeder was put there for his amusement. Those dove are too stupid to live!

We have our own "monster" around here. It is a very real one although probably as rare as the Beast of Bodmin.

It is the Florida Panther. It eats dogs and other things.

http://myfwc.com/whatsnew/05/south/pantherpet.html

http://myfwc.com/panther/

Our hockey team is named after it.
 
At 1st glance, I thought this was about Boudin Noir- another beast entirely...
 
s0laris said:
Yep, there's various stories from around the country about big cats. I used to live in Gloucester and there were regular tales of sightings.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4833450.stm
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The sequence of events in s0laris's link seems the most likely explanation. A lot of people owned large cats as pets. This practice became illegal. People released their pets. A breeding population may be established in some areas.

There are possible new mammal species still being discovered, like this one. But usually in remote areas that were rarely, if ever, explored before. I look first for a paper to be published in a reviewed science journal.

There are new species of other critters, like invertebrates, being discovered all the time. It is astounding how little we still know about our own planet.
 
Hound of the Bakersfield ?



EsavB said
Who you callin a devil ???
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Dont deny it ! I know somehow , in some way , you are involved in the Jersey Devil coverup.



:D
 
I used to live to the south east of Bodmin Moor in a small village called Polperro and the story was on the South West England News at least twice a year. There are just to many sightings, videos and photographs for it not to be true. The thinking is that when the wild animal act came in which prohibited private ownership without jumping through hoops for the Government, a number of big cats were illegally released on the moor. The best video is one where the cat is walking along by a field hedge and you can see tractor tracks for a comparison of the size of the cat.
 
Andrew Taylor said:
The thinking is that when the wild animal act came in which prohibited private ownership without jumping through hoops for the Government, a number of big cats were illegally released on the moor.
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Nice. Legal one day, illegal the next: illegal to keep and illegal to release. Was any provision made for turning the animals over to the authorities, or did the government simply wash its hands of the problem it created?
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Nice. Legal one day, illegal the next: illegal to keep and illegal to release. Was any provision made for turning the animals over to the authorities, or did the government simply wash its hands of the problem it created?
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Actually, its even better! If you read the articles, it WAS legal to release the animals for several years after it became illegal to keep them. So much forethought from the government. Again.

Andy.
 
Excellent! Restoring the environment to its pristine Pleistocene perfection, "where every prospect pleases, and only man is vile" :D
 
rebeltf said:
I wonder if they are escaped zoo animals or pets , I like to think though that they are something as of yet undiscovered or long forgotten.
The huge snake stories of Africa I find interesting , bigfoot , yeti , the giant sloth stories of South America , the various lake monsters of the world, that wierd thing down in Texas , Mothman , Jersey Devil...
Cryptozoology is very fascinating to me.
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Many times mountain lions, lynx, and panthers have been reported in regions where they were previously unknown. Often, after years of official denials (even though tracks and scat have been found), someone finally shoots one, proving the "experts" wrong.

"Phantom" cats and dogs are something entirely different, and some of these reports are so off the wall that they completely blow the witnesses' credibility. Just like sasquatch, mothman, and Jersey devil, such a thing can never be proven, since it doesn't exist in physical reality. People have been hunting sasquatch for over 50 years with nothing to show for it.

How you gonna shoot a spirit, or trap it in a cage? Can't be done.
 
What was the name of the "monster" in France that supposedly terrorized the rural province of "Jepadeu" (I know its spelled wrong). The movie Brotherhood of the Wolf was based somewhat on this tale. I think it was termed a werewolf by the villagers.

Gevaudan (Gevaudin), town's name.
 
"Werewolf" in French is "loup garou". Was that it?

Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night
Can become a wolf when the wolf's-bane blooms
And the moon is shining bright.​
 
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