Big cats sent to Coventry

Monday 29th June 2026

The English Midlands seem to be the favourite hotspot for mystery cats this summer. The anatomy of the press interest in such hotspots is almost as interesting as the cats themselves, and I thinkv that if we could understand this mechanism it would tell us an awful lot about how the modern media machine works. this is not to say, however, that these animals do not exist. There is too much evidence to the contrary. JD


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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.