For as long as we have a mass media that exists purely in order to entertain the lowest common denominator in society and sell them overpriced nonsense, with no hint of journalistic ethics this is going to be what happens.

We often have these reported, but what you do not hear about is the efforts of the researchers finding them. We have chased black bin liners on the side of roads, tyres that people have reported as a large black cats, teddy bears placed strategically, and recently one researcher risked life and limb to video a greyhound in the middle of a busy motorway that the witnesses were adamant was a puma. We have a body report at least once a month.

Researchers, ordinary people, across the British Isles spend a lot of time and effort chasing these things up, solving the case before the press get hold of it, and turn it into another non-event. But we usually do not publish these things.

The CFZ did exactly what they should have done, based near the beach, they retrieved the skull and specimens, brilliant. Although the press have done the damage now, and big cats roaming the British countryside will be regulated to the ranks of nuts and crack pots again, because of this. The CFZ have the evidence, and it should be noted that I am not aware of one British big cat researcher claiming that this was a big cat, only the media did this. I was actually cut off by a couple of reporters because I would not state that this was even possibly a big cat; so we were never heard, our opinions were not wanted, simply because they wanted it to be something it was not.

Researchers, cryptozoologists across the world do a lot of hard work that is never heard about; damn the bloody media

Mark Fraser Big Cats in Britain

Cryptozoologists around the world are responsible for moving the media madnesses to scientific realities.