Mysterious ‘predator’ stalking villagers around Dartmoor unmasked as a fat cat – The Sun

Thursday 23rd October 2025

Locals around Dartmoor, where the Hound of the Baskervilles was set, have described numerous sightings of the large predator in the wild in recent …
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 an eleven year old granddaughter called Evelyn.