Reservoir cats

Monday 13th July 2026

Another weird story from my backlog. I truly have no idea what this animal is. My gut reaction screams “OTTER!!” but I have no real evidential argument to back this up.JD

Mystery of ‘big cat‘ caught on camera swimming across UK reservoir – Daily Express

EXCLUSIVE: Witnesses have claimed to have seen large cat-like animals roaming in rural areas

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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.