The Beast of Bodmin is a phantom wild cat which ranges in Cornwall in the UK. Bodmin Moor became a centre of these sightings with occasional reports of mutilated slain livestock: the alleged leopard like cats of the same region came to be popularly known as the Beast of Bodmin Moor.

British big cats, often referred to as alien big cats (ABCs), phantom cats or mystery cats, are large predatory cats said to be roaming the country of the British Isles. For many years their existence has been debated and many scientists dismissed them as fake. To this day they are thought of as an exotic part of British wildlife by some and as an urban legend by others. Those sighted are often claimed to be "panthers", "pumas", or "black cats".

The cats could have escaped from traveling circuses in the Victorian era.
The cats could have been released by people who attempted to create a population for hunting or some other purpose in Victorian times, when many animals were released into the countryside. This was legal until the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. There is an argument to reintroduce the Eurasian lynx to Scotland.
The cats could have escaped during the 1960s and 1970s when it was easy to keep dangerous animals without breaking the law of the time.
They could have been released after the Dangerous Animals Act 1976 came to force. Many owners did not want to have animals put down or taken away, so they released them in remote locations where they established feral populations. This is probably the most likely explanation, and is the most often heard. The British Big Cat Society claims to have evidence of at least 23 releases of big cats in Britain.

Some people believe that they are supernatural creatures that haunt remote areas, or are in some way associated with the Devil Dogs or Barghests, such as the Black Shuck, of other areas of England.
Some people believe they are ghosts of cats which died in the past.
Some people believe the cats may be from another dimension and have entered ours through "wormholes".
It is possible some sightings are mistaken or imagined.

The area around Cheddar Gorge in Somerset has become a hotspot for big cat sightings.

Beast of Exmoor - Eyewitness testimony has produced a number of different descriptions. Most accounts report the animal as being a large cat either resembling a puma or a panther. It is recorded as being somewhere between four and eight feet from nose to tail, standing very low to the ground, and as having the ability to leap over 6-foot-tall fences with ease.

Twice we thought we saw Big Cats, both were silly sightings. I think I wrote this somewhere else too, but not the second one. We were up in the hills, and saw a small cat, cross the road, and for some reason we thought what if it is a baby panther, it was a just a normal small kitten tiny, crossing the road, it was probabaly us thinking well a kitten that small but so far away from any houses must be a wild cat, it was probabaly just away from it's home. We drove past where we saw it again, and saw it again twice faraway, wanting to take a picture. Another time I was driving I saw a man drive a 4 wheel motercycle, thing a farmer, then a thing that looked like a small lynx black, crossing the road later, all legs out like a sprinting horse. I drove to where I saw it go, it was a dog standing by the farmer, in a field of sheep, it would have been seen. We have more authentic and correct sightings of paranormal creatures elsewhere. Great fun subject though, with the best netowrk on the Yeti on the internet.

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