Leopard

14395_panther

The Saturday Strangeness

123. The Crystal Palace ‘Puma’ The huge, dinosaur models outside Crystal Palace are not the only monsters present around Crystal Palace. The press just cannot resist lapping up some stories and turning them into inaccurate legends. And so on 8th August 2009 the ‘Palace puma’ …

13275_tigerclawing

The Saturday Strangeness

113. The Tiger of Edgware Edgware, situated in north-west London, is not ‘big cat’ capital. It never has been. We’ve all seen news clips on television and read newspaper articles of police hunts for alleged monstrous felids on the moors, in back gardens and local …

Photo by law_keven on flickr.

The Saturday Strangeness

Photo by law_keven on flickr. 102. African Big Cats In London? For more than twenty years I have researched sightings of mystery animals across London, Kent and Sussex. I am the UK’s only full-time ‘big cat’ researcher. And yet never, in all my moments of …

10132_thamesmead

The Saturday Strangeness

70. The Thamesmead Prowler During the early hours of Saturday 10th August at Goldfinch Road, west Thamesmead, a man awoke and peered around his curtain into the blackness of the night. A small animal startled him in the distance as it scurried around a corner …

7665_leopard-head

The Saturday Strangeness

33. Big Cat Round Up 2007 was a record year for my own research into ‘big cat’ sightings – www.kentbigcats.blogspot.com – although London and the infamous ‘beast of Bexley’ was reasonably quiet, this proved to me that such animals had wider territories. In January a …

5650_lion2007.19.03

BoB Encounters Of The Furry Kind

The Beast of Bexley has been spotted again… … this time carrying off a bloodied, wailing infant in its foul, be-slavered jaws. Not really. But that would be really cool, wouldn’t it? Or rather, no, that would be terrible and tragic and cause for sorrow. …

2966_Centrepoint_by_MrTopf

Extra, Extra

The Government today begins a consultation process to decide whether or not to give Ken greater power over the rail services. And talking of Ken and transport: he announced yesterday that kids under 11 will travel free on Tube. With one proviso: “You have got …