Archive for the “Mystery Cats”
Posted by: Karl Shuker on June 4th, 2013
Many different hybrids between the smaller species of wild cat have been recorded over the years, but I would like to mention one particular interspecific (indeed, intergeneric) cross featuring smaller cats here – because, as far as I am aware, when I originally included details of it in the article of mine (Wild About Animals, [...]
Read: A Surprise of Servicals »
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Posted by: Nick Redfern on June 1st, 2013
“…only a few weeks previously a deer had been found dead, after having been dragged into a ditch, with two puncture holes to the neck – trademark signs of a big cat attack…”
Read: The Curious Cats of Cannock »
Categorized as: Alien Big Cats, Cryptozoology, Eyewitness Accounts, Lair of the Beasts, Mystery Cats, Phantom Panthers | 1 Comment »
Posted by: Nick Redfern on May 23rd, 2013
“…As you negotiate a sharp bend – a bend you have traveled on probably hundreds of occasions and one which is particularly dense with tree cover – you slow down and turn on your high beams to help illuminate the blackness that beckons. Suddenly, your eyes become hypnotized by something incredible on the right-side of the road…”
Read: An Alien Big Cat in the Woods »
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Posted by: Karl Shuker on May 23rd, 2013
With almost 900,000 hits since I uploaded it on 12 June 2012, by far the most popular of all of my 300+ ShukerNature posts is my exposure of three online black lion photographs as computer-modified fakes (click here). In that same post, I also included some information concerning various alleged sightings in the wild of [...]
Read: A Hitherto-Unseen Photo of Ranger, Scotland’s (Nearly) Black Lion »
Categorized as: Alien Big Cats, Cryptozoology, Mystery Cats, ShukerNature, Zoological Parks | 1 Comment »
Posted by: Karl Shuker on May 3rd, 2013
Surprising as it may seem, not all black panthers are black… “Black panthers, i.e. melanistic leopards, are exotic-looking felids at the best of times, but the individual constituting the principal subject of this present ShukerNature blog post was a truly exceptional female black panther, purchased from Dublin Zoo during the early 1980s, and exhibited for a few years at [...]
Read: Cobweb Panthers – A Silvered Surprise »
Categorized as: Alien Big Cats, Cryptozoology, Mystery Cats, Phantom Panthers, ShukerNature | 1 Comment »
Posted by: Nick Redfern on May 2nd, 2013
“Cats were disappearing from Redruth, Falmouth, and Penryn over the summer…”
Read: Cats: Big and Missing »
Categorized as: Alien Big Cats, Lair of the Beasts, Mystery Cats, Phantom Panthers | No Comments »
Posted by: Nick Redfern on April 26th, 2013
“For over 100 years, a potentially significant dead cat has been sat in storage in a British museum…”
Read: A UK Lynx: 1903 »
Categorized as: Alien Big Cats, Cryptozoology, Mystery Cats, Phantom Panthers | 4 Comments »
Posted by: Nick Redfern on April 22nd, 2013
“…In late 2012, fear and chaos broke out in the English county of Essex, when rumors spread like wildfire of a fully-grown, man-eating lion on the loose…”
Read: Reviewing the CFZ Yearbook »
Categorized as: Alien Big Cats, Books, Cryptid Canids, Cryptozoologists, Lair of the Beasts, Mystery Cats, Phantom Panthers, Reviews | No Comments »
Posted by: Nick Redfern on April 21st, 2013
A new CFZ Yearbook is among us…
Read: Published: A New CFZ Yearbook »
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Posted by: Nick Redfern on April 18th, 2013
“…They were called in the Highlands and the Western Isles of Scotland, the Black-Cat Spirits…”
Read: Britain’s Big Black Cats »
Categorized as: Alien Big Cats, Cryptozoology, Forteana, Lair of the Beasts, Mystery Cats, Phantom Panthers | No Comments »
Posted by: Nick Redfern on April 6th, 2013
“…the pair was shocked and scared witless by the surreal sight of a shambling, hairy man-beast that loomed out of the darkened fringes of the roadside, ‘threw its arms around in the air,’ and proceeded to ‘shout at us, like a big roar…’”
Read: A Village of Beasts »
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Posted by: Nick Redfern on April 5th, 2013
“In early 2009, I spent several days delving deeply into the old archives of a variety of Texas-based newspapers, and uncovered a number of significant reports from years-past of big and exotic cats on the loose in Texas.”
Read: The Crypto Cats of Texas »
Categorized as: Alien Big Cats, Cryptozoology, Eyewitness Accounts, Lair of the Beasts, Mystery Cats, Phantom Panthers | 2 Comments »
Posted by: Nick Redfern on March 22nd, 2013
“…the brown cat-like creature appeared to have been taken by surprise by her car…”
Read: A New UK Mystery Cat »
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Posted by: Nick Redfern on March 10th, 2013
The latest edition of the CFZ Yearbook has just been published…
Read: CFZ Yearbook: 2013 »
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Posted by: Nick Redfern on February 21st, 2013
“Certain of South America’s alleged mystery cats may in reality be of canine rather than feline identity…”
Read: South American Cat or Dog? »
Categorized as: Alien Big Cats, Cryptid Canids, Cryptozoologists, Cryptozoology, Eyewitness Accounts, Lair of the Beasts, Mystery Cats, Phantom Panthers | 1 Comment »