The day BBC’s Clare Balding saw a ‘big cat’ in woodland near Gloucestershire border

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The day BBC’s Clare Balding saw a ‘big cat‘ in woodland near Gloucestershire border

Sightings of ‘big cats‘ in Gloucestershire and beyond have been widely shared, with some even saying they have DNA following a sheep attack in 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.