Hi Venetian
I found the following link but am not sure if it's near??
[url]What's on the prowl in Ryton Wood ?[/url]HTH
Moonfairy
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Thanks. Yes, that's the story. My searches won't have worked maybe as my friend said it was in "Brandon Woods" which are near to the named Ryton area.
I used to get Fortean Times. In fact I was one of their first subscribers, going waaaay back to I think 1974. An article in that magazine once listed UK Big Cat sightings and not one county hadn't had one. But big cats are usually quite retiring. I once lived in Yellowstone Park, USA, which has pumas or "mountain lions" and never ever saw one, whereas bears would come looking for you! 😮
V
V, Fortean Times have a website: www.forteantimes.com
and they have an email update subscription service too. Plenty of cryptids still knocking about!
Yes, thanks, I know about the site, but I tell ya, I've been interested in the paranormal, cryptozoology, UFOs and what-not since I was twelve. I feel there's only so much I can usually take in (!), and I'm full up with the information! Few things get solved: the wierd and wonderful just goes on....
Pals and I kind-of inwardly fell out with FT anyway, when it went so glossy and commercial, probably too frequent to fill well, and then the two great founders sold it.
V
I'm late in posting this so it's too late to find a link. I was on a train 1 1/2 weeks ago and picked up a Metro. A news item there is that a policeman saw a four-foot-long black cat, in daylight, walking along a railway line in Scotland. Ah! I kept the paper. Metro of July 29 actually. He took photos with his mobile and one is reproduced. Looks like a puma. It was near Helensburgh, Argyll.
So UK Big Cats are certainly still out there.
V
I think this may be the video, V, which I noticed on the BBC website a few days ago:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8172064.stm
H.