Beast of Cumbria: Wildlife videographer shares Ambleside sighting

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Beast of Cumbria: Wildlife videographer shares Ambleside sighting | News and Star

The ‘Beast of Cumbria’ is a long-standing rural legend rooted in decades of reported sightings of large wild cats roaming the county’s fells, forests …

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.