It’s been 10 years since the ‘Milwaukee lion’ mystery. Social media says there was a big cat …

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Reports of a large cat sighting in Milwaukee’s Riverside Park surfaced on the Nextdoor app, reminiscent of a similar incident 10 years prior. In 2015

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.