NEWS | A member of the public spots ‘big cat’ in a Herefordshire village

_{Wednesday 27th August 2025}

NEWS | A member of the public spots ‘big cat‘ in a Herefordshire village

“A large black “puma” like cat, it was at the size of a Shetland pony. “We saw it move across the path and into the bushes. “We were about 100 metres …

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.