A big cat report from Cornwall

Sunday 2nd August 2026

A fairly typical big cat report accompanied by a video from which I have stolen a frame grab. I don’t want to sound like I’m always being negative, but although the animal is admittedly vaguely cat shaped, there is no sense of scale and no way to tell whether it is an enormous Siberian tiger or a domestic moggy. Cue a whole pile of death threats accusing me of trying to destabilise cryptozoology, when in fact I’m trying to do the exact opposite JD

Big cat‘ spotted wandering through field in Newlyn – Cornwall Live

A man has captured footage of a “big cat” wandering through a Cornish field. … Holidaymaker Wez Awad said he spotted the large black feline “strolling …

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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.