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persists to some extent in the public imagination; alleged sightings continue to be reported occasionally around Exmoor long after an escaped exotic pet (such as a leopard or puma) would have died, while one national newspaper reported a found carcass alleged to be the Beast of Exmoor that was later identified as a dead seal. Beyond these rumours regarding the creature itself, it has been posited by one journalist that the lasting legacy of the urban legend may be as a mythological base that real-life wildlife stories such as the
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owing to a lack of convincing evidence for the presence of these animals. Supposed sightings made from a distance have been largely written off as domestic cats close to the subject being misidentified as a larger animal sited farther away, with one folklorist considering such sightings of creatures
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Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) said: "Neither Natural England nor Defra have received any credible reports of wild living or breeding big cats in Britain in recent years. Defra is not currently engaged in any work related to the management of wild
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One particular instance of note of this phenomenon is the "Beast of Exmoor" (sometimes referred to as the "Exmoor Beast"). While stories about the Beast of Exmoor originally surfaced in a similar fashion to other local "big cat stories", with sightings of the creature reported as early as 1970, the
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According to recent accounts by social scientists and environmentalists (widely supported by scientists and governmental agencies), most claims and beliefs about the presence of so-called 'alien big cats' (henceforth big cats) in
Britain are largely imagined fantasies, social constructions and
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Since the early 2000s, there have been several claims by individuals in different parts of the UK of having suffered attacks by supposed big cats, though to date there is no substantive evidence proving these were in fact attacks by a non-domestic species of cat. Such claims include that of an
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having to be rescued after spending two nights stuck in his own trap, no large cat has ever been positively identified to explain such incidents as the 1983 livestock slayings, with them now being attributed to other causes such as large dogs. Despite the lack of evidence, the Beast of Exmoor
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Cotswolds Big Cat. The search for physical "evidence" to support these claims has typically been found to have far more ordinary and less sensational origins. In the case of the Beast of Bodmin, when a skull found in the River Fowey was presented to the
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to be little more than a "media artifact" driven by
British journalistic practices in the 1970s and 1980s while another described it as the result of a situation where "media-generated interest encourages rumour, misinterpretation, and exaggeration".
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Phantom sightings are common throughout much of the UK, with BBC Wildlife
Magazine in 2006 reporting the "top ten" counties or regions of Great Britain where claims of sightings had been between April 2004 and July 2005 were as follows:
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Kingdom where unexplained animal deaths, typically livestock, would be blamed on such imagined creatures, such as the Beast of
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in the New Forest in the year 1400. The story is first recorded in the marginalia of an 18th-century bible. In the late 20th century, sightings of the lion were recorded in the vicinity of the Red Lion Pub,
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and given the name "Lara" before ultimately being transferred to a zoo in France to breed. The captured lynx was found to be only 18 months old, although considerably larger than an average domestic cat.
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in the space of three months, all of them apparently killed by violent throat injuries. The claim that these livestock had been killed by a mysterious beast led to "nationwide interest", with the
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zoo, being given the name "Felicity". Zoo director Eddie Orbell concluded that the animal had been tamed and might not have been released for long, noting that it enjoyed being tickled.
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Franklin, Adrian (2016). "Far from the madding crowd: Big cats on
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media-driven hysterias (Buller 2004; 2009; Monbiot 2013).
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snipers to hunt down (and presumably kill) the creature.
1354:"'Big cat' Canadian lynx was on the loose in UK in 1903"
1302:. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. p. 56.
1199:. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. p. 54.
333:, a man in southeast London, a 74-year-old woman in the
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descended from crossbreeding between domestic cats and
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shot in Devon in 1903 is now in the collection of the
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pulled a giant, red, antlered lion from the ground at
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626:big cats in Britain and has no plans to do so."
1222:Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology
591:"Essex lion: Charting the big cats of Britain"
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36:A sign requesting information on big cats in
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1377:"Was it really a leopard that was spotted?"
1153:"The mystery of Britain's alien big cats",
778:Simpson, Jacqueline; Roud, Stephen (2000).
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1271:"Leopard Fact Sheet | Blog | Nature | PBS"
699:"The mystery of Britain's alien big cats"
610:"On the trail of Britain's wild big cats"
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1410:"Meeting the Hayling Island Jungle cat"
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1084:Pseudoscience: A Critical Encyclopedia
834:. Christopher Tower Reference Library.
1109:"No evidence for Cotswolds 'big cat'"
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2725:Time travel claims and urban legends
1760:Angikuni's disappeared Inuit village
1137:. University of Plymouth. p. 3.
1019:"HI-tech search for Beast of Bodmin"
564:Strachan, Graeme (28 October 2020).
457:, and was subsequently put into the
1639:The babysitter and the man upstairs
1498:"The Beast of Cricklewood is caged"
1435:"'Big cat' sightings (FOI request)"
935:Davenport, Justin (22 March 2005).
1442:Police Service of Northern Ireland
1169:"Big cats in Britain: in pictures"
1044:Morris, Steven (16 January 2012).
965:"Expert tears into cat conspiracy"
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914:"'Big cat' attacks man in garden"
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1815:Black children as alligator bait
849:. London: Penguin. p. 204.
781:A Dictionary of English Folklore
672:Hambling, David (19 July 2001).
2527:University of Cambridge legends
2324:Lampshades made from human skin
1470:Hewett, Chris (11 March 2014).
1408:Naish, Darren (17 March 2013).
1224:. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
608:Wilding, Mark (14 April 2019).
124:Folklore and historical stories
81:Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976
2790:Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
2383:Legends of Catherine the Great
1820:Black Dog of the Hanging Hills
937:"Hunt for 'beast of Sydenham'"
832:History of the Red Lion Boldre
674:"It's a lion... no it's a cat"
640:Anthropology and Cryptozoology
119:Reported sightings and attacks
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2935:Animals in the United Kingdom
744:10.1080/0015587X.1992.9715841
419:The taxidermied remains of a
71:, though in one 1980 case, a
2894:Lists of legendary creatures
2475:The Dark Side of the Rainbow
2329:Soap made from human corpses
1932:Lincoln–Kennedy coincidences
1709:Litter boxes in schools hoax
1674:The Dark Side of the Rainbow
1496:O'Neill, Sean (9 May 2001).
1220:Eberhart, George M. (2002).
810:Celtic Literature Collective
540:The Siege of White Deer Park
2940:British legendary creatures
1704:Lighthouse and naval vessel
784:. Oxford University Press.
464:On two separate occasions,
393:Proven captures and remains
108:Felis silvestris silvestris
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2889:Lists of fictional species
2553:Man Proposes, God Disposes
2336:Lone gunner of Flesquières
1984:Sightings of Elvis Presley
886:"Police 'big cat' warning"
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916:. BBC News. 22 March 2005
845:Cobbett, William (2001).
337:, and a man in Cornwall.
2720:McDonald's urban legends
2367:Zegrze Reservoir Monster
2125:Hanako-san of the Toilet
1296:Monbiot, George (2017).
1193:Monbiot, George (2017).
1087:. ABC-CLIO. p. 21.
137:Black Book of Carmarthen
2498:Strategic steam reserve
2453:999 phone charging myth
1967:Philadelphia Experiment
1133:Channing, Iain (2016).
806:"Arthur and the Porter"
329:eleven-year-old boy in
2488:Phantom social workers
2393:Hitler's pet alligator
2160:("Slit-Mouthed Woman")
1962:Phantom social workers
1694:Killer in the backseat
1323:Charles, Alec (2012).
723:Goss, Michael (1992).
543:– children's novel by
459:Highland Wildlife Park
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348:Natural History Museum
218:, he saw a "lucifee" (
128:A medieval Welsh poem
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2319:German Corpse Factory
2257:Konstantinos Koukidis
1840:Brown Mountain lights
1382:The Inverness Courier
1081:Regal, Brian (2009).
872:BBC Wildlife Magazine
427:) killed by a car on
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2950:Mythological felines
2879:List of creepypastas
2828:_9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9
2634:Bass Strait Triangle
2604:Elephants' graveyard
2388:Lenin was a mushroom
2303:Vanishing Hotel Room
2112:Curse of the Colonel
1937:Lost Dutchman's Mine
1906:The Hands Resist Him
1765:Oak Island money pit
1744:Vanishing hitchhiker
1629:2016 clown sightings
1541:on 10 December 2006.
1476:This is Local London
1389:on 24 September 2015
1332:Journalism Education
292:Number of sightings
18:Beast of Bodmin Moor
2748:Jan Harold Brunvand
2655:Flora and Fauna Act
2376:Soviet Union/Russia
2090:Monkey-man of Delhi
1999:Seven Gates of Hell
1825:Black-eyed children
1780:Thetis Lake Monster
1622:White lighter curse
1503:The Daily Telegraph
1173:www.telegraph.co.uk
471:In 1996, police in
226:Contemporary claims
112:Scottish population
2579:Spring-heeled Jack
2574:Ratman of Southend
2537:Isaac Newton's dog
2532:Croydon Cat Killer
2168:("Wriggling Body")
1898:Lake Worth Monster
1888:Maryland's Goatman
1375:McAllister, Bill.
1025:. 13 November 1999
973:. 29 December 2008
830:Lyndhurst (1989).
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1352:(25 April 2013).
1250:Discover Wildlife
1157:, January 8, 2015
1094:978-0-313-35508-0
999:. 18 January 2019
856:978-0-14043-579-5
791:978-0-19-210019-1
597:. 28 August 2012.
570:Press and Journal
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387:Emperor of Exmoor
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2884:List of cryptids
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2145:Kisaragi Station
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2004:Sewer alligators
1989:Richmond Vampire
1883:Goatman's Bridge
1865:Choking Doberman
1830:Blue star tattoo
1770:Screaming Tunnel
1664:Coghlan's coffin
1649:Bermuda Triangle
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