The ‘black panther’ once seen roaming the Somerset countryside

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The ‘black panther’ once seen roaming the Somerset countryside – Bristol Live

Since the 1960s, there have been numerous accounts of big cats being sighted across the country. Video footage, photographs and paw prints make …

Jonathan Downes

Cryptozoologist, naturalist, musician, singer, composer, poet, novelist and Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology since 1992. Jon was born in Portsmouth in 1959 and spent his infancy in Nigeria and his childhood in Hong Kong. His wife Corinna died of cancer in 2020, leaving him with two stepdaughters and a six year old granddaughter called Evelyn.