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I once got mauled by a cougar. Janice 52 from Wigan
That’s terrible
@@maxkeane2545 its left me scared for life
lee locker was it a wild animal and where abouts did it happen it’s so sad to hear
Curse of the snaggletooth
lee locker where?
There are few cougars living near me!
I see cubs every time I go to see family in Devon
Are they tame or wild lol
Ones a bit timid!...the other 2 are proper wild...almost dangerous...lmao
@@therickpound the wild ones are best lol
Why dont u have any pics
I keep getting local cougars popping up in my area
Where abouts just curious
Yeah well I farted and it stank
Cellar Door You’ve got a dirty mind because I wrote it as a sarcastic comment and forgot ads pop up saying that
Back in 2009 I was roughly 300 foot away from a black panther on a logging road 4 miles outside Llandovery in mid Wales. It was stood sideways to me and I could not believe how big it was. Unfortunately no photograph because I was too scared to move. Most people would not believe there could be animals like this wandering around wild in the countryside. It stood there for over five seconds until it walked into the woodland. Best thing I’ve ever seen in the UK.
James Stotty I’ve seen one twice in the same area 17 years apart. They are most definitely out there.
Those are called "house cats" Einstein
@@eviljoel 😅 ha ha...
There must have been a few black panthers around cus I saw a black panther in Northamptonshire about 5 years ago
@@trevor5485 Which area of Northamptonshire , without giving the place away?
"I knew it was a puma that I saw......because it made me puma pants....................😅
skunksmoker14 LOL
Brilliant!!!!
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loooool
Har Hardy har har
the comments on this make the video 100x better 😂
@Sandcastle • I read that just at the moment 2:07
Bude in Cornwall in the early 2000s was a hot bed for sightings, there hasn’t been any for a long time here but a footprint was discovered and proven to be that of a panther very close to Bude. My sister was about to enter a cliff path through a gate and she seen a huge black animal running like a big cat with a long black tail, safe to say she ran to the car and disappeared
I was working away at a house on exmoor back in the 1990s . The house owner told me his daughter's who kept horses, had witnessed large black leopards on many occasions. Usually in the early morning when they were tending the horses. He was very sincere and I have no reason to doubt his account.
I saw a lion in Scotland once. It was in a selection box.
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I'm a South African, used to live in Cornwall in the mid to late 90's, We heard a lot of stories about the beast of Bodmin moor, one misty morning while harvesting mushrooms (a story for another day) on Bodmin moor we , as a group of 5, two English girls and 3 South African men saw a leopard in a tree. Absolutely no doubt. Leopards are highly reclusive and even in places like the Okavango Delta it is rare to see one, they are there in the south west for sure, we also found a few prints and faeces. They can be living in your back yard and you wouldn't know it until your pets went AWOL. No real threat to people, they will disappear before confronting
I know this might sound crazy but I just saw a black leopard this evening out of a train window 4/9/22 around 18:30pm between grateley and Salisbury I was heading from Andover in Hampshire to Salisbury it was walking along the hedgerow I got a very good veiw of the leopard. It had about a 3ft long thick black tail, long fishing line type shiny whiskers boney shoulder blades and trust me I’m not a bloke to make things up I was very close to the animal so I could see the size of this beautiful creature I had to do a double take as I thought I was seeing things lol unfortunately I couldn’t get a picture as the train was moving to fast to snap it these lovely leopards are definitely here in our countryside I just hope we all look after and protect this rare cat I’m just so glad I got to see this beautiful leopard because I doubt I’ll ever see a second one in my life time.
I know what I saw and nothing will make me think otherwise ..it was many years ago driving along a dual carriage way in the early hours ..An extremely large , what I believe to be a panther, leaped over the central barrier in the full glare of my headlights and went across the road then disappeared into the fields!!
I used to live in Lypne Kent a very small village at the time . I was the volunteer church gardener back then . One day I saw the most amazing beautiful cat walk into the field below me . I was able to judge it's height against a farm fence . Once home I Googled ' beautiful cat face but short stumpy legs ' Picture came up of a Northern European Lynx !! Apparently Lynx have been unknown here in the UK for a very long time .
Theres apparently a lot in scotland but no one sees them
That was port Lympne zoo!!
I saw a panther 25 years ago in Scotland calmly walking up the side of a hill alongside a drystone wall. Unmistakable it definitely was a big black cat. There definitely out there and all over the country.
THere has never been a black cougar nor black Panthers brought to England as pets.
No you didn't
I saw a black panther in Northamptonshire about 6 years ago and that’s right in the middle of the country, so I agree they are all over the place, just in the shadows
sure you did bud, sure..
@@andrewa9694 This is an idiotic statement. There are more than 50,000 exotic big cats in America kept as pets. I am obviously not counting big cats native to North America. The ones raised as pets too long don’t usually make it very long.
I've been seeing a Cougar quite regularly for a few years now. Great shag
I saw the Helensburgh panther about 6 years ago. I spotted a black cat in the distance, down the rail track and decided to watch it. I needed to stop and rest anyway. It slowly made its way towards the bridge is was standing on. The first time I saw it side-on, when it crossed the tracks 150m aprox from me, I realised that maybe it's not just some farm cat. It continued to get closer until eventually I was looking down on it at a distance of about 25m. What a creature! It's glossy black fur was beautiful. The way it moved was graceful and powerful. I'm blessed to have seen it. It was about the size of a labrador. You definitely see bigger ones at the zoo, but then they get fed better, don't they.
Could only have been a leopard or jaguar, which are alot bigger than a labrador. Do I say you're talking bollocks
I saw a unicorn fornicating with mermaid just outside Hartlepool. It was Halloween in a remote car park.
Think they was dogs mate 😂👌🏼
Aaron Davies it’s true, I know what I saw and don’t need to research any further. I am certain it was a unicorn and mermaid.
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Tommy T 😂
@Aaron Davies yes he's what's wrong with this world,not believing a bunch of liars and virgins who want to believe pumas and fucking jaguars have been predating and breeding in Gloucestershire for thirty years without one solid bit of evidence!😂😂
As a kid I could’ve sworn that I saw a large black cat jump up a tree as I was running through this field by my house. It scared/intrigued me so much I wrote to the mayor of the area I lived lol, they brushed it off but till this day I still wonder what it was
Yo that was me lool why u snitching
You may laugh but Iv seen one of these large cats quite recently , it was a Black leopard looking cat , it was daylight it walked through a field with lambs in it and hid in a bush , I tried to photograph it but couldnt see anything on the photo.Its quite common knowledge here that these animals are walking amongst us .
Saw one out lamping one night on the edge of exmoor, been shooting for years ...everyone laughs but I knew what I saw
100% they are out there, confirmed sightings in Forest of Dean by Forestry Commission workers counting deer populations, it's on record with the Government, easy to find on the net. Ray Mears has said he's seen 3 in the UK, if Ray says they are about then that's good enough for me.
They haven’t caused any trouble, so why not do the unthinkable and leave them alone.
I live in Colorado, we have several mountain lion attacks a year, but they're usually just on children or people going hiking so no one really minds.
Oi. They aren't doing any harm to them.
Yes i agree with you, let them be, they doing no harm.
@@scottcantdance804 well thats why the average American has two kids, never know when you need to sacrifice one lol 😜😂😂
@@peterweeks2831 they could snatch a child out of a park and they run 30 mph or more....they need to be shot
I walked my dogs early morning a few weeks back at Moyles Court. In the wooded area I spotted a large black cat. Was moving very fast in the tree line, & my brain didn't compute what I was seeing until it had gone. Big cats are deffo out there!
No you didn't.
I live in a residential area and I saw a large black cat - panther. It scaled up a tree so I moved quickly away I then heard a loud crack and a large branch had snapped due to the weight of the cat and landed in the middle of the road.
Hi there, we’re currently producing a new documentary on this subject and we would love to hear about your sighting via a recorded phone call. This can be completely anonymous or you can choose to be credited at the end of the film. The phone call would take no longer than 10 mins. Is this something you would be interested in? If so, please email me at mike@grizzly.co.uk. Thanks, Mike :)
I'm sitting here watching this video in the mountains of Colorado where I have lived my whole life off and on I've never seen a large cat here, but we know as a fact that they're everywhere! so it could be that you're just not seeing them and they're really there.... It doesn't take long for released animals to start a breeding population ,ask Florida about their pythons!
@Steve Whiting they really generally do not go after people and if they ever do stand your ground try to make yourself look as big as possible , I do know that here in North America , there are more people killed by Moose each year! than by big cats... so don't lose too much sleep. Best intent ,take care..
@Steve Whiting wow!👍
I've been intouch with keele university last year when I encountered a leopard on the north face of Ben nevis in deep snow on our way up to the cmd route. I photographed fresh leopard prints in the snow as big as my hand. I was told by 2 experts it's the hind feet of a fully grown leopard.
@chief Mcnasty Yes of course if you have email I can send you the same pictures I sent to Keele and Jonathan mcgowan.
But you can't post the photos on KZhead? What's that smell.....???
There have been numerous sightings of pumas/ leopards in various parts of Cannock chase
20 years ago a listener phoned BBC Radio 4 news and gave a live commentary on a big cat walking along a footpath near Pagham Harbour, Sussex. I kept chickens and ducks nearby and a couple of weeks later I had four chickens taken from a run without a feather left behind. There was a hole dug under the fence but there were enormous paw prints in the mud. I was convinced it was a big cat who took them as foxes cause mayhem. Should have got an animal expert to check the paw prints.
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@@williecosgrove you are
@@yamahajog04
My dad saw a panther/black leapord in the new forest replacing a water main. About 97-99 I can't remember. He said it was quite old looking very relaxed like it had been domesticated. 3 other workers sat there watching it. Guessing a released pet.
There have been lots of sightings of both pumas and black 'panthers' in the New Forest. Where was this one?
I saw a Puma in Leeds It was in sports direct
Knew this was coming.
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Fuck me bro. The shithole i live in, people get terrored for wearing puma.
Theres literally thousands of puma trackies in Leeds 😂
I saw 1 just off the m62 near Oldham
The comments are hilarious and 6 years ago I may have joined in ...... wish I never saw that large black cat late in the summer evening walk across a gold grass feild at the back of my English country side home .... I watched it prowl and walk the tree line , and no body believes u they think ur mad 🤦♀️
Back in the mid 1970s I saw a man in Southport walking along with a black leopard on a lead. I just remember thinking how strong the chain looked that was its lead. Being a lad then I thought nowt of it and forgot about it.
in my area my dad and someone used to take his 3 lions for a walk and when they instituted the law thatyou cant keep them they let all of them out and there was pions tigers panthers and cougar
Southport, Lancashire? Because there have been big cat sightings in the countryside around that area like, Parbold, Rufford, and such
My grandma saw someone get a black leopard out of a van and walk it down the street on a chain in Manchester. This was probably in the 70s-80s not sure though
Hopefully they stay Elusive because if it comes out they live here humans will do what we do best and destroy them
There'll be someone who wants to shoot one to prove they exist.
@@JesusChrist-ir1td Yh but I’ll allowing if there killing live stock but other then that idk
I live Plymouth uk, I have seen 2 separate pumas at 2 different places on Dartmoor, i actually had a photo of its paw print, which i took to a well known Plymouth bigcat watcher / observer, who confirmed it to be from a young male puma. This is what eventually led to me working with bigcats and wolves at a wildlife park. They are out there
shapumawildcat What is YOUR opinion on these big cats in the UK? 👍 or 👎?
I really don’t doubt it, their in Australia to hundreds of people of seen them in Victoria
My mate Arty right, he seen em up by Shaugh Prior and that. Says they were eatin like sheep’s and that but I don’t believe em mate cos he said they were tame and that. Can’t make up my mind and that. Would do you think
That’s my mate Arty in disguise you old tinker and that. Lives above the ship inn in the Barbican. No kidding me they daft fucker. Pint one day Arty ?
I’m a farmer near Princetown, Dartmoor. I keep sheep just like my dad and his dad did. Never have I seen or saw any signs of a big cat and neither did my dad but my grandad said there was a small amount released many years ago that were pets but died out quickly. I’m 46 and spend every day on the moors, if there was big cats about I’d have seen them!
I once was stalked by a cougar in the country suburban area of south england. She followed me all night and I even climbed a roof of a petrol station to try and buy time to call a taxi. Calling them again to find out how long it would be, i was told that it had been cancelled, to my confusion and terror. After booking another, i went to the edge of the roof to see if the cougar was still there, and as soon as she saw me, she begged for me to come down, back to her place and she would do anything I want. I continued to decline her offer.
About 8 years ago I saw a big black cat in the countryside on the south coast ..I was working on a barn roof and at first I thought it was a dog but it didn’t move like a dog..it’s shoulder blades moved like a cat..I had no phone on me to take a picture..but as it was moving through extremely over long grass you could clearly see the head and shoulders above the grass..about an hour later I went down for lunch And walked to the spot where I had seen it ..I’m 5 feet 9 and stood in the grass which came way over my knee which means the head of this cat or whatever it was would of come up roughly to just below my waist..I asked the customer who I was working for if he or any neighbours had a Black dog and he said no..I told him what I saw and he wasn’t surprised ..the reaction I got from my freinds when I told them though was different ..you can imagine how hard they laughed when I said I saw a cat that came up to roughly below my waist...I could be wrong but I know the difference between how a cat and dog moves..again it was how the shoulder blades moved that struck me as odd..ah well who knows?
I’ve spotted a huge black cat up the racecourse in Oswestry Shropshire! I was on my bike on the downhill section and in the woods I saw the big cat as I was walking back up the hill! I ran as fast as I could because I knew what it was! A big black panther 😳it’s been spotted a few times in the last four years or so........I spotted it around 2012 🤙🏻
Same, 2012-2013 in Northamptonshire
A while back I thought I might have seen something that looked like a cheetah. Asda, 24 hour shopping centre, crisp aisle.
I have seen a Eurasian Lynx in the Chiltern Hills by Wendover. Thought it was a fox at first but the tufts of hair on the ears give it away. Literally like winning the lottery seeing one...
I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at trader vics ! o yeah , his hair was perfect.
A wolf is not a member of the cat family lol
@@domwaller7391 neither are those things roaming around the english countryside .
Parrmik, did a little old lady get mutilated late last night?
Little old lady got mutilated late last night, werwolves of London again.
I think I saw the same guy at that Chinese food place in SoHo, Lee Ho Fooks.
I saw a black panther 20 years ago in Cambridgeshire. They are out there. Great doco!!
Matt, that amazing. I too was really close to it. My mate and I, on his 50cc motorbike, surprised it coming from around a bend on a country road. It was on the grass verge looking right at us, from about 10 foot away. It then bounded away. How did you see it that close? I’m intrigued.
@@mattjarrett7274 Awesome. That's pretty scary. I'd of crapped myself!! ha!
@@mattjarrett7274, What's that smell???? It's certainly not big cat shit!
I saw a panther West Norfolk coast last year. On common land. I heard it first. Took a look round a hedge it just layed there in the sun. Heard again it in autumn woodland sounded above us in the trees. Freaked my kids right out.
@@tw15t3dup5 You drink too much fella.
I've seen a lynx in Buckinghamshire about 10 years ago. I knew it was a lynx because of the distinctive ears.
The smell must've given it away!
I’ve seen a wild Lynx about 15 years ago in Burnam Beeches nature reserve, was at 1:00 am and I remember it because it had what looked like a cross / X at the top of its ears like it was a snow leopard or something.. only just realised now that they were rare.. was in early 20s and thought it was a normal thing in forests etc
A colleague and I saw a black panther walk past our works vehicle at 2am on the Broadlands estate in 2006.
Lived in norfolk for 10 years only one time saw panther late summer
Definitely big cats in Norfolk.
There's a black panther living near me it regularly comes round for tea once i was walking and it decided to blindfold me take me to its big cat lair i went in and to my surprise they could speak English!! There was about 10 cats thier with about 25 kittens i was so surprised they said they only showed me their secrets because i invited some of them over for tea then they blindfolded me again and apologised and explained that for security reasons they couldn't let anyone know where their lair was.
Finally - an honest comment.
In around 1987 I was learning to drive on the forestry tracks where I lived in Mid Wales next to the Epynt military range and a full size black Panther walked out of the wood up to the car. I sat there as its head was over the bonnet of the car, it stood there for about 30 seconds looking straight at me from aprox 2meters (car bonnet) it then turned and walked away, I followed it in the car for about 200 yards before it disappeared back into the woods. It made me very fit cycling back at night through the forestry as i didnt hang around.
15 years ago I came upon 2 mountain lions whilst out hunting rabbits one night in a field we were just about to lamp near the village of lamington in Lanarkshire I tracked them through 2 large fields as they were fleeing from us we got to see them both as the lay on the side of a hill for 10 mins watching us from about half mile away it was amazing to see this I have been hunting the countryside most of my life and that was the first time I had ever seen them the area is huge with tinto hill on one side and miles and miles of remote moors on the other side perfect for them to roam as they please full of white or mountain hares so no one will ever tell me there not out there hunting along side us out of site there were 4 of us that night in question this was a pair of puma cougar or mountain lion not black cats I truly believe they are a breeding pair hunting together that night it was in summer just before the lambs were dew to be born that's why we became aware they were in the field they passed through a field full of sheep and caused them all to flea the sheep were all over the place up ended as they must have scatter every were we could hear them bleating like mad I knew somit was not rite when I turned the lamp on it was carnage in the field best allways be safe and go out in those areas with company
I had a encounter with a gray lynx type cat in huddersfield. 2005 ish. Watching me from the woods at the back of my house. Just been out to get the rugrats in for dinner. Peeping from behind a big tree. Blinked and it had gone.
The amount of wild deer in the UK is staggering and more than enough to support leopards.
I see one 20 year ago on the back roads epping . This thing was 200lb plus and huge and was sitting on the corner of the road without a care and it just wondered off into the fields. I phoned the police to report it because I thought it escaped.
I live in the UK and was almost killed by a cougar when I was 17. She tied me to the bed and rid me like a pony. Still have the scars on my back.
One curious as to how she scared your back if you were tied to the bed and she was riding you like a pony she got 10 foot arms or Sumet 😂
100% there are big cats here and I am 200% there are pumas/mountain lions/catamount here I have seen 2 young cubs running along a Devon country road huge bushy tails up and one of the main things I noticed was the black lined white spots on the back of their ears that resemble eyes to ward off other cats 👌🏼
There have been many sightings in Wiltshire, and I myself have seen 2 big black cats, and have seen evidence of a big cat kill of a sheep.
About 10-15yrs ago, we were playing in some woods in East Kent, and we were told to leave by people in a 4x4 because of big cat sightings (very close to Windham Wildlife Park, but might be before they had big cats themselves)
I was stationed at RAF st mawgan when I was in the US Marines...we trained quite a bit in Dartmoor and Exmoor. I can tell you for shure you have puma, ( north American mountain lion)... I saw the kills, (sheep) and a couple of tracks, ( I've hunted them). Not many though, the Moors are so heavily vegetated with grasses and moss there just aren't many opportunities to leave tracks...... puma, like leopards avoid humans like the plague....and typically they will watch you move through their territory from a distance, almost like an escort....98% of the time they know where you are, long before you even have a clue that they are there...attacks are very, very rare..and are usually driven by disease, or starvation...point?? you don't really need to worry about them, they will stear clear of you!
@Steve Whiting ....nothing in particular, north American mountain lions are , very house cat like, they meow ( much deeper, raspy), they pure...and they'll kill ya if you corner one....for years dogs have been used in hunting them because they are so elusive...the dogs sniff them out and give chase, tree the cat , then the hunter shoots it....hey avoid humans, but will watch you from a distance as you move through their territory. You don't typically stumble on to one, they'll typically move out your way, yet be vary close and watch you....leopards ...don't know much about them.......sounds like your government wants to keep a lid on things so as not to cause panic people are kinda stupid like that, so ....good luck in your search.
I was in the Forest of Dean a couple of years ago and heard the very same, blood curdling, rolling growl that the black leopard makes in this video, about 10 feet away from me. I slowly backed away without turning around, to about 50 feet away, and watched the spot I'd heard the growl coming from, for about 30 minutes but didn't see anything, or hear another sound. There is no mistaking that sound. It was not a wid boar, common in the forest, and whose vocalizations I'm very familiar with. Without doubt it was a big cat, a very big cat.
There are reports of a very big black cat in the Forest of Dean from a number of people. It seems that this specimen is bigger than the usual panthers spotted around the UK.
I was walking along a country/woodland walkway, stopped to sit at a bench and heard a the same growl as you describe, very close to me in the bushes/treeline, then the unmistakable roar of a Puma/mountain lion. Safe to say I shit my pants and promptly got out of there (walking sideways not running 😂) nobody believed me at all, but I know what I heard...didn't see it, but it was 100% a puma from the gutteral growl and then high pitched roar it made.
In the mid 90,s I was driving in Hampshire towards Dorchester and a 1/4 of a mile after crossing the Stour at Little Canford at approx 5.30 in the morning when a large brown Puma like cat crossed the road in front of me in that lazy but fast way of cats. What is strange though is the fact that paw prints are not found at the sighting sites.
I definitely see a wolverine ordering hot wings in a Dixie fried chicken in Ipswich.
They are real. I saw a black leopard/jaguar. A relative of mine saw the same. And a family friend saw a puma. 3 separate sightings. The family friend described the animal she saw as a 'skinny lioness' which is basically a puma. She was so scared by the encounter that she has not gone for morning walks in that area since!
No you didn't.
@@juntus89 Freemason troll bot!
@@truthseeker3536 What?
Does anyone remember from a few years back the story of Claire Balding the BBC sports presenter, when she was doing a radio show from a forest somewhere in the UK? She said that just ahead of her she saw a big black cat cross the road. I can't remember the follow up to this.
The radio programme was Ramblings on BBC radio 4. It was near Symonds Yat, Gloucestershire. Her companion on the walk said they see it often.
This old lady like can you believe it- from your encounter not really just sounds like my girl wanted to be on camera. But living in rural England myself I have seen and heard some spooky unexplained animal noises and sights for as long as I remember
Zoo's have lost many big cats over the years . I used to go Sea Trout fishing in South Wales. Coming home at 2.30 in the morning we saw 2 on the A465 heads of the valley road. I also saw one running across a field near Sawston in Cambridgeshire at 6 O'clock in the morning. Linton Zoo just a few miles away have Lost at least one in the past. We also had Horses attack in the area, their wounds were confirmed to be made by big cats.
I've seen 2 Bob cats near caerphilly
Skull was found in North downs Kent. Was confirmed as a large cat.
Even more in Wales along with signs of wolves (even heard wild howls at night), you can find it google just about but KZhead seems to knock off all the videos on it
It was from a tiger skin rug
I do believe there was/is a black panther in the Brough area of Hull as I saw one about 14 years ago. We were looking for a flat & I looked out of the window & saw a large black cat (way bigger than a domestic cat, more like an Alsatian size) lurking in the undergrowth eyeing up the sheep in the field. It was not a dog as it moved like a cat & the end of its tail was rounded. Convinced it was a black panther. Wish I had filmed it.
We had a few big cat sightings near where i used to live on the outside of a village in kent. My mum even saw one down a country lane, she knew it wasn't a doge or some other kind of animal because of its tail
In the lates 90s there was multiple sightings of a big black cat round couty durham. I think it was even caught on a police dashcam if i remember right.
My Mom and I encountered a black puma/panther near Estepona in July. We regret not reporting it. We were on an orthanological walk which was hardly used and went into a tight passage like valley surrounded by bamboo and then we heard the growl. We ran and were tracked back to the next remote Spanish village.
I’ve been in a tight passage in Spain too
When i was a little girl there was a knock at the door and it was a big fury stripy tiger it said excuse me im rather hungry and could he join us for tea.. long story short my whole family was massacred
NICE ONE.
R.I.P
A little girl called Damien?!? Your parents must be odd.
Love you guys great work xx
Live in Dorchester - have spoken to rail workers who (obviously) work up and down the southern lines. They come across half eaten carcasses etc. It seems to be common knowledge that big cats use the fences along the railway as a running trap...
aye, no doubt..fortunately these guys were particularly specific in their differentiation of remains and so on. I can't remember myself but the men i've spoken to are sure of the presence of big cats on the lines..
@Steve Whiting holy moly, i see what you're saying. Thank you! Don't forget there are folks round here that eat the roadkill.. but yes i know there have been sightings around puddletown middle school.. one personal friend having watched one from a short distance not far from there. Another mate and I have seen tiny wild boars a few times...which is nice but kind of surprising if we have these apex predators around..maybe there's some "balance" being restored to the food chain as the video suggests..
They ain't helping control those pesky seagulls tho are they 😂
Gull populations are worryingly decreasing over the UK. I live near a part of the coast where they haven't encountered humans feeding them and they're lovely animals; such grace and poise when flying.
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Thanks for a good overview. I watched because I think I probably saw a black panther in Hampshire this week, and have been looking round for evidence as to how common they might be. (I've reported it to the British Big Cats Society BTW.)
I also seen it tonight In grately Hampshire out of a train window
@@robbie7298 Interesting! Quite a few sightings have been from trains.
@@anotherfreediver3639 probably because they are fast and it only gives you a second to the views the animal- therefore your brain has less information to work on and therefore your memory is exaggerated.
@@Just_shush_now What a load of rubbish. They are often seen from trains. In fact there are so many reports now, thousands of people have seen them. And the majority don't report their sightings!.
@@Just_shush_now In some cases, yes, but not in all. However, nearly half of all sightings are by people out walking, and there the sightings often last a minute or more.
Imagine hiking in the woods and you stop to take a crunch in the bushes because you've started crowning, and that thing was eying you up. That turd wouldn't take much persuasion 😂😂😂
My brother and i saw what looked like a black panther, large in size, on a sunny day during a woodland walk through the new forest.
My uncle owned a pair of black leopards in the 60s And I have a pair of pumas size 8
Baby feet
@Richard Phillips why say that ?
I've see one of these big black cats in a woodlands near Old Langho, in Lancashire, About 4 years ago. I remember staring at it and it stared back at me for about 30 seconds befor it walk off.
In the early 2000s me and a friend saw a black panther cross the road and run up the hedge line just as you come out of waton on stone just after the railway bridge
I lived in stibbington a little village off the A1 and I’ve seen one also and a lot of people round the village also spotted it
I live in West Sussex in the National Park close to Goodwood and we have a lot of woodland and although I haven't seen any big cats there have been sightings in the newspaper. One night, maybe 8pm 9pm when I was walking my Siberian husky in the depths of the common she decided to be naughty and ran off, not coming back to me when I called her. So to get close to her quickly I decided to cross a big patch of tall trees rather than take the path way back round and while crossing over this patch of trees I felt like something was watching me, although like I said I could not see a big cat and haven't I just felt to my very core that there was some sort of animal watching me and deciding whether to pray on me or not. Luckily I made it back to my car before I had the chance to find out to which my husky storm also came running back over and jump straight up into the car another reason that I think there may have been some sort of the big cat that scared my dog to.
where are the photographs, hair samples, scat, kill sites, car collisions, attacks?
Very unlikely your gonna get a photo. Elusive
@@kb8729 Here in the USA we have elusive big cats in massive areas of untouched wilderness. Despite being highly elusive, they are still captured on remote cameras, hit by cars, tracked, trapped, and seen by hikers, hunters, etc. If they were there conclusive evidence would be found. Especially on such a small and densely populated island.
@@ZGADOW thank you for speaking Logic. They always say the UK have big cats, The news papers always print fake pictures, people actually believe this shit.
Salisbury museum two jun
@@kb8729 theres more than you know trail cams on game shoots are told to delete .if you have a group of people wanting to pay 10 grand for a days shooting you dont want people running all over your land trying to take photos and trying to kill it .these major estates are in a strange position do they shoot them and look after there game and dont tell no one or put it out to the world there here and have every tom dick and harry all over the land
i met that zoo keeper in exmoor zoo he told me they can smell the male and females from miles away and are trying to find mates. ive since seen a leopard on 3 separate occasions in Bath
In the summer of 2022, I was camping near the village of Brockenhurst in the New Forest. At approximately one o'clock in the morning, I heard a deep roar, and then some twigs braking. All went quiet for a minute and something was moving round my tent. The guy rope must have been hit because the tent shock. Then, the wall of my tent moved inward as if something was pressing against it. In addition, there was no wind. After this all was silent. The animal noise was nothing I know to be indigenous to Great Britain. I am convinced that it was a big cat. This is an honest account.
Saw a documentary about UK cats some time ago. In one scene the camera was looking up from a valley floor at a large black cat sat on a dry-stone wall next to a gatepost. Didn't look all that big but suddenly a huge beast jumped up on the wall next to it. After about ten seconds both animals jumped down into the field on the far side of the wall. When the camera crew got to the location they measured the post at just over 5' high and when the film was re-run with a post of similar length to the bigger cat super imposed into the shot next to it it was short by a long way.
Can you remember what film it was?
There are fascinating animals in the uk i love your country regards from brazil
we have these big cats in australia , American army introduced them and no one beleived they were around until sightings started happening on camera of encounters . these big cats are really good at hiding
In Hampshire, romsey, wellow area. Have seen weird looking animal scat along with kills. Couple sightings of big cats in the area that go a few years back.
Yeah I heard about some village in Scotland where a rich guy had a pet panther and then when it became an adult it escaped and now it lives in the countryside around there
How long ago?
I wish I had my cam in my car when I saw a bigcat slinking across the road between Gatwick and Reigate back in 2010. It certainly wasn’t a dog by the way it slinked and far too big for a domesticated cat. I lodged the sighting with the police.
Seen one around the Chilterns a few years back .
If your interested a large black cat was seen twice in the woods near colerne army base and again in st Catherine's woods (southwest uk) . The sightings were years apart if I remember
Someone will be claiming they have seen a Sabre tooth tiger in Weymouth or a Mammoth in Poole park next.
Someone told me they saw a wolf in Parkstone once. Had a fair amount of smeg on it too.
forbiddencrisis so true 😂
Funny you should say that......
Coincidentally, i see a Dragonfly along the Jurassic coast
I saw a grey fox or small wolf in Epping forest
I've wild camped in these areas for years. Not only have I not seen one, I'm mindful in places where they do live, while alive they're hard to see, think how many badgers, foxes, birds, and deer that hikers come across dead. I get that if they're in the UK, they'd be rare, and most don't hike, but enough of us do, esp in places like the New forest or Devon.
Someone needs to take a look at here in the afan forest park and surrounding areas. Especially in the upper mountainous reaches of the valleys.
I see a big black cat in Hawkinge, Kent. 100yards away, strong build body keeping low, I soon put my dog on the lead and left the field lol
Very difficult as there is no such animal called a panther!
There's in fact 4 animals in the panthera family. And in fact there's an animal called Florida panther. 😉
@@rigorousrangel6394 The Florida Panther is a black cougar, a panther in south America is normally a black jaguar and in Africa it's a black leopard but any big black cat will be called a panther!
@@user-lf3wr8rh7r wrong the Florida panther is not black. And your original comment was "Very difficult as there is no such animal called panther!". I simply pointed out there's an animal called panther in Florida. Now I also understand that black jaguars and leopards are referred to as black panthers but they're still leopards and jags. There's 4 of the big cats that belong to the panthera family, tigers, lions, jaguars and leopards these are considered the big cats. Cougars do not belong to this family, yet the particular group of cougars that live in the Everglades are somewhat different than cougars elsewhere and apparently Floridians wanting to be special call their cougars Florida panther. Cheers 🍻
We are talking about a melanated leopard, no?
I have had several family members tell me first hand accounts of seeing big cats in the UK, including one where my mum, aunt and grandmother saw a large black cat walk through their farm and jump a security fence that was over 6 feet tall just like a house cat might jump onto a 2-3 foot garden wall
House cats don't struggle at all with 6 foot fences!
@@user-lf3wr8rh7r they don't leap over them in 1 bound though
The read The black beast of Exmoor years ago, it made me a believer.
2007 dudley area west midlands, a horse had its ribbs ripped open and one leg was chewed on, still unknown what acctuly happened but I was only a kid back then walking home from school, told my mother and I was accused of fibbing till it was posted by the horse owner
I’ve seen a lynx cat in the uk countryside. 10m away whilst walking down a train track at stover near Heathfield. Beautiful animal but I absolutely shit myself and gave it legs
Did it not have legs before?