Reported British Big Cat Sightings
Current interest in Big cat reports appear to stem from the late 1950s, with news stories of the Surrey Puma and Fen Tiger. In 1963 the Shooters Hill "cheetah" was reported from that area of London. and in 1964 came similar reports from Norfolk. From the 1970s reports spread across the country; the Beast of Exmoor was reported from Devon and Somerset and the Sheppey Panther has been rumoured to exist since that decade. In 1980 came the first modern report from Scotland, and the Kellas Cat was shot there in 1984.
Greater interest in phantom cats grew from headline stories of the Beast of Bodmin from 1992, and Dumfries and Galloway (the Galloway Puma). A large black cat known as 'the Beast of Dartmoor' was seen by fourteen people in the summer of 2011 in the Haldon Forest. There were many more news stories from different parts of the country.
In the early months of 2011, a great number of sightings of a 'panther' in Shotts, North Lanarkshire, stirred locals and began to be reported in the local press, after a couple of months, these reports ceased with the assumption that the 'panther' had moved onto pastures new.
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