Recent sighting brings ‘big cat legend’ back | The Catalina Islander

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Recent sighting brings ‘big cat legend’ back | The Catalina Islander

A recent visitor to Catalina Island spotted an animal that seems to have revived the long-time island legend of a large black cat roaming the .

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.