I know it's easy to make fun of these people, but ultimately, it's completely harmless. There's no need to make fun of them. These are older folks that have found a community with a shared interest where they can enjoy the outdoors and get plenty of exercise and free themselves of the stresses of everyday life. Which is something we all want to some degree.
The UK used to be full of strange phenomena Stories of Fae are widespread throughout history and folklore all over the world and are often told of being like ‘small children with old faces with grey or green skin’ They have power over wind and storms, an affinity for mining copper and carry mysterious lights They were also harmed by iron, now as of the industrial revolution iron is everywhere and we no longer see them but we do see strange lights in the sky, odd weather phenomena and grey/green creatures (aliens) the size of children with old wrinkled faces… coincidence? We’re not the only nation to tell these stories either, even in South America there’s tales
There's a pretty big phasmid that lives near the old fortress just off the coast at Martinaise, in Revechol Me and me mate Kim saw it, pretty sure it wasn't just the speed kicking in
Anyone who struggles to believe that there are big cats loose in the UK should check out the list of big cats shot, killed on roads or captured. Theres almost 50 recorded including some you just wouldn't expect such as a snow leopard shot in Kent.
But the official line is they aren't there... I've seen large black cats twice, once in Ayrshire and once near Lochgoilhead. Both were to my untrained eye black leopards.
@@CS-zn6pp Beast of Bodmin Moor Cornwall. It goes back an unrealistic amount of time. Like 100 years there have been sightings, however, recently in the St Austell clay pits there is a verified polaroid of a PREGNANT female Panther! If you look at the claypits from the top of Rough Tor (biggest hill in Cornwall and basically directly West of the clay pits, it is just a green belt the entire way through. It could possibly hold a population and it may even be linked up and down the entire length of the country - however, this is very hypothetical. What's more, I have SEEN the "beast" aka Panther/Puma, I remember the box jaw, I remember the tail curled and as long as half its body. I remember the stocky, low frame and the long strong legs. Crazy!
@@stinkrat1016100 years is not unrealistic. The Romans were known to capture exotic animals and transport them around their empire. It's been going on fire a long time. Not a totally crazy idea that a small population of strong ones survive in an enforcement which is otherwise fairly harsh for them.
@@samw1501 You're going back two thousands years, there isn't prey for the animals and there isn't enough for them to breed with. If they was a male and a female after so much time they'd be so inbred they'd have insanely short life span. Google generations of inbred humans, they're messed up af after two/three generations of inbreeding. It's a pretty crazy suggestion.
Around 3-4years ago I was driving through Doncaster at night in a fielded area and something big ran infront of my car really quickly it scared the crap out of me especially because I saw that it didn’t have fur, feathers and I saw how big its teeth were…I drove a few miles away to a lay by and convinced myself I saw a escaped ostrich because who the hell would believe me if I said I saw a dinosaur? And no this is not a joke
I grew up in the north east, in a pretty rural area. And the story people would tell was, Travelers/gypsies would have big cats as pets. Then the laws changed making them illegal, so they where just kind of let loose in the country side. Im not certain how accurate that is but seems possible.
There was a big cast expert who’d spent years studying them in the wild who concluded Britain has a breeding population of big cats, I think cougars or something like that. Anyway, they found fur and animals remains and the like. Combined with a fair few distant photos and a lot more sightings, it seems quite likely. British big foot feels like a bit more of a stretch though.
There is a good reason too, iirc it was prior to 1976 you didn't need a wild animal license, but as soon as the wild animal license legislation came into place, some people who owned things like big cats released them into the wild. Be a bit like the wild boar, they'll breed and thrive long as there is food and good shelter for them.
There is a huge black cat that roams areas of bolton. A taxi driver with passengers was going over top of rivi and a huge panther like cat crossed the road. Many sightings in Bolton. Its length was the width of the road. Ive seen a lynx cat close up in lostock personally.
@@nofearjustlove1508 where I sighted the cat, there is ample deer and other small mammals. The river, Bradshaw Brook, connects a few nature reserves, from Leverhulme upstream to Turton, a path easily navigated.
There was a large black cat spotted in north wales near rhyl/pensarn, its possible there may be a mating couple, or just the same cat covering a large distance
Tbf I’m not sure the concept of some wild cats having once been released into the wild and still managing to survive is rlly a “Cryptid”, we have several animals not native to here that were recklessly bought over or released
@@Uncanny_Mountain So youre saying that in order to give the idea of a British Bigfoot credibility or not, you need to be an " All Knowing God". OK pal. How about you look at the evidence from a place that probably does have Bigfoot, like the USA and compare it to the UK. Evidence from the USA: thousands of sightings, film footage, footprints, recorded vocalisations, tree structures, A native culture who has always acknowledged their presence for hundreds if not thousands of years, vast wildernesses and plenty of dense forest and areas of extremely low population density UK: a couple of alleged sightings Doesnt stack up does it. You dont need to be a god to evaluate evidence. You just need a brain. The same brain you would need to realise that your use of the Divine infallibility fallacy in the context you use it is a fallacy itself.
The Elemental spirits love to shapeshift and they do some strange things. They are intelligent and after my own encounters with them I wouldn’t advise anyone getting involved with anything spiritual unless they are prepared for life changing event's to take place. It isn’t a game so don’t become a game to them. Spirit is always present, don’t poke a nest unless your prepared to get stung
i crossed paths with a panther cat at around 3:30am on a grassy field as i was walking home from a friends house we both walked around the corner of a fenced off part of the field at the same time about 30 foot away from each other. we both stopped and watched each other for around 15 seconds before walking away across the fields. as we saw each other its head lowered and its front shoulder haunches stood out as well as its ears against the streetlights behind it and i could easily see the shape of its head and body and tail as it was sillohoueted. it felt like minutes i was frozen knowing if i moved i was probably dead but luckily it just turned its head and walked away. i went home and reported it to the police. this was in stockton on tees in the north east of england around 2005.
This is a true story , when I was 16 I joined the army , we did map reading In whales , people spoke about a “beast of Betsy Croyd “ I laughed , it wasn’t untill I saw a sheep carcus wedged high in a tree , I saw this with my own eyes and know only one animal can do this , In the old days rich ow ed exotic cats , as law came in and they had to kill them or get rid , they released them and boom here we are today
im from Bolton a few years ago i use to use working terriers .on one day we were out three terriers and two lurchers which suddenly came flying out of a small Forrest and would not go back in which these dogs were scared of nothing ,but from the far edge of the forest a large black animal went skulking of into the distance and gone .it was bigger than the lurchers .looked very feline which were about thigh high definably to big for domestic cat .
Sorry Guys there is no way that a Panther is 1.5 in height...that's bigger than a Tiger...Panthers are typically 28inches to 32inches well below the 60inches or 1.5metre claimed in the video...whatever was seen it most definitely wasn't a Panther.
I think he misjudged the figures, because as he was describing its size, he put his hand at his side at hip height, so although he said 1 1/2 metres he was indicating around 1 metre or a bit less
If there’s one thing people are terrible at it’s estimating sizes, really wouldn’t be surprised if most of these sightings turn out to be house cats because we really can be that bad at estimating sizes when something’s far away
You’re having a laugh if you think there’s a big cat running about in England…you can’t walk 5 feet without tripping over a fence or crossing a main road, there’s no where to hide in England, nothing but farmland and towns/cities
You fail to understand the goal is not to go out and prove/disprove the existence of these imaginary creatures. The goal is to not sit at home listening to your wife/husband compalining about the small fortune you wasted on nightvision and thermals. :D
I saw a large black panther like cat in Lincolnshire, about 15 years ago. It was easy to see it was not a domestic cat - apart from being way larger (two crows at a short distance behind it gave me better comparison for size). It had squarish, more angular body typical of panther, and the tsil was different from a domestic cat. Before that time, by several years, my son came running into our sitting room (in Scotland), shaking and crying that he'd seen a giant cat walk through our very rural front garden. I dismissed it as a misidentification and assured him it was a deer, but he was adamant it was a big cat of some kind. Only years later, when talking to someone on a bus, did I discover there was indeed a big cat in the area for a while at that time. It was a fawn brown colour and stalked farmland for several weeks at least. It was chased off a field of sheep by one farmer and was seen on land around the village of Moniaive. These big cats simply are not cryptids any more. They are out there, are breeding, and are being sighted regularly by farmers especially. Farmers have no need to get excited about mythical creatures and make things up. They're too busy for that kind of thing.
only 6% of the UK is urban, surprising isn't it, in my opinion there are small bipedal hominids that exist around area's that they are sighted, there are plenty of estuary's pickled with fertile clams cockles , rabbits edible plants etc
Sorry, but what evidence do you have for claiming that there is a population? I have seen wild cats big and small in the wild in their natural habitat and have never once seen a truly convincing photo or video taken in the UK, nor have I ever seen convincing photos of evidence such as pugmarks, if there were a population, there would be plenty of really convincing sightings and irrefutable camera trap photos/videos and photos of genuine unarguable pugmarks, not just photos of dodgy large dog pugmarks with claw marks. Puma researchers in the USA have no trouble at all obtaining really good trail camera videos of Pumas, even though they may not see the animals, yet no such videos from the UK exist. A population of big cats could not exist in this country unnoticed, meaning that if there is a population, their presence would be undeniable and that is not the case, to be genetically viable long term populations of animals need to be in the 100s ideally 1000s, a few escaped or released big cats, if they met up and bred, would produce an extremely inbred population that would suffer inbreeding depression and likely soon die out, even if people are not hunting them, they would be killed on roads, especially here given how many roads there are and how busy the traffic is. Pumas in the US are frequently killed on roads, as are leopards in Asia and Africa, this would contribute to them dying out. Yes there are masses of reported sightings, but most of these are just too unreliable to be taken seriously.
Hi mick I've got growled at on tape as well would love to come out with yous I've got 640 thermal with night vision and recorders and a 270 degree hide
Big cats aren’t cryptids lol and there’s absolutely no reason to assume the UK doesn’t have small populations of puma or leopards, the uk is literally the PERFECT environment for those two species of big cat, endless prey and no real predators. England has about 10 species of animal, from 3 types of deer, porcupine, wallabies, squirrels etc all these animals are not native but have become naturalised in the uk because the environment fits these animals so well, no one questions the animals I just listed but for some reason they don’t believe we have big cats, even though we shouldn’t have all those other animals, but we do… so I don’t understand why people find it so hard to believe, I can only assume it’s because they think all big cats have the same requirements as lions as tigers, obviously no one is suggesting the UK could support a population of lions or tigers, that is totally out of the question, but with leopards and pumas it’s absolutely possible for them to be in the UK.
You are somewhat missing the point, whether leopards and or pumas can survive in the UK isn't really that relevant, if there is no truly convincing evidence that they are here, of course leopards and pumas could thrive here, but given the huge number of deer we have as well as livestock, I see no reason why tigers could not in fact also survive here perfectly well, but obviously that wouldn't be a valid reason, to believe that there are tigers living here, we know that there aren't. In the USA both conservationists/scientists and amateur wildlife enthusiasts have no difficulty obtaining excellent trail camera video footage of wild pumas, despite very few people actually seeing the animals, I watched a puma video compilation from Washington State yesterday and just now a compilation of Florida Panther videos and the Florida Panther is the most endangered of all US puma populations, there at most only 230 adult Florida Panthers, not many, but they are still caught on camera, so why are there no such videos taken here. Videos not just taken by people looking for these alleged big cats, but by other people putting out cameras, like conservationists, or gamekeepers or amateur naturalists like myself. I put out trail cameras and get great videos and photos of lots of local wildlife, there must be a huge number of people putting out cameras all over the UK and yet no one is getting convincing conclusive videos of big cats. I've obtained a couple of videos of pole cats, but I have never ever seen one, I've only ever seen an otter once in around 10 years, but I have countless trail cameras videos and photos of them. I'm sorry, but the evidence is just not there, there is every reason to believe the UK doesn't have pumas or leopards. As for wallabies and even the odd porcupine we know that they are here, because people have not just seen them, they have photographed them using proper cameras, that are actually capable of taking identifiable photos of animals, unlike the iPhones and whatever that people only ever seem to use to film big cats, someone else in a recent video on this topic made this point by including a photo of an albino wallaby they had photographed in the wild here in the UK.
@@pixelman2955 I presume by squirrels he meant Grey Squirrels which aren't native and whilst I don't think there is a population of porcupines, there have certainly been media reports, there's one from the BBC September 3rd 2023 "Porcupine on the loose after evading Suffolk Police", the real point that undermines his argument, is that people who know where they are can go and photograph wallabies and get high quality shots of them, that are undeniable, no one can claim that they are not here. No one seems to be able to get undeniable big cat photos, and the elusiveness argument doesn't wash, because trail cameras destroy that argument, people obtain excellent footage of wild cats of all sizes using trail cameras in their natural habitats around the world, but no one ever gets such footage in the UK, except of our few surviving European/Scottish Wildcats, never of big cats or lynx or whatever.
Big cats were classified as dangerous in the 70's in the UK and required licenses to keep, so many were released onto the moors. Interviewer is your typical fresh out of uni kid that thinks he knows everything while having essentially zero life experience. Disrespectful to all those involved with zero interest in trying to understand what is being discussed, while dressing up his surface level bone-idled research as quips and gags in pursuit of low-rate tiktok comedy and bonus points with his studio chums.
How can it be a cryptid when it's pretty well known we may have big cats in some isolated parts of the UK most definitely in Wales where there was recent DNA tests confirming it but no way on earth is there anything as big as 1.5 meters height unless it stands on 2 legs 😂😂😂
As I replied to someone else ; I think he misjudged the figures, because as he was describing its size, he put his hand at his side at hip height, so although he said 1 1/2 metres he was indicating around 1 metre or a bit less. Plus don’t laugh at these people, they’ve seen something that can’t be explained and they’re going out and putting a lot of time and energy into finding answers, better than sitting at home watching tv, they’re doing something worthwhile and getting out! It would be cool if they’re efforts got further evidence unexplained on not
@@rebeccalucysmith9689Don't laugh? Sorry hard not to really it's been proven there are big cats in the countryside it's been known for years but the idea of calling it a cryptid is hilarious and the over exaggeration of the facts, a panther would probably be mid thigh maybe and as for doing something worthwhile they are walking around trying to prove something that's already proven it's kind of like reinventing the wheel but hey don't let that stop you from being a Karen 😂😂
@@occamsrazor3128 I’m far from being a Karen, I was politely sticking up for these researchers, rather than laughing at them. And actually the big cat sightings aren’t proven yet but doesn’t mean they don’t exist . What’s so laughable about a cryptid? It’s just a rarely sighted undocumented animal. I find it fascinating. As humans we need to remember that we don’t know everything. Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
@@rebeccalucysmith9689 I'm laughing at cryptid because cryptid by definition is an animal that is claimed to exist but has yet to be proven i.e bigfoot, werewolves ect as far as I'm aware most of the human race has seen or heard of a panther and other big cats so it's hardly a cryptid and yes it has been proven a quick Google will show you otherwise it's also well known they were released in the 70's when licensing came into play I mean you could buy most big cats from Harrods of London again a well known fact.
It keeps them busy. Besides, large non-native felines have been caught, runover and shot in Britain. Needle in a haystack to find them, but there probably are a handful of released or escaped foreign moggies at large.
😂😂😂 it were about this eye... (hand steadily increases in height testing parameters)... its ed were about 1 1/2 meters high 😂😂😂. So... were looking either for a lost cow or an escaped donkey then 😂
Nah mate theres no panther knocking about in Bolton. If there is what i saw at beginning of video, about the panther. Itll attack a adult as their quite big cats. As for all the other cryptids in England its a big NO. Everything the guy said about the other cryptids are from America not England. IE dogman raptor etc, only thing that might be over here are big cars that escaped from pet owners and zoos. Im in Salford and have never heard of anything of the likeeven big cats. What that guy saw was probably a fox. They sound like cats when they scream or bark.
