Saturday 30 August 2014

The mystery of Britain's alien big cats

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In 1983, a farmer in South Molton, a small town in the southern English county of Devon, reported a startling loss in livestock: 100 sheep had been killed, apparently violently, over a period of three months. Their throats had been slashed across. For many, the slaughter confirmed the area's vague but persistent legend, sighted since the early 1970s, of a large, possibly phantom cat. Named for the hilly moorland it was said to roam, they called it the "Beast of Exmoor."

The public reacted swiftly. The Daily Express offered the equivalent of a \$1,600 reward for video footage of the Beast. More...

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