"how is Elvis? and have you seen him lately?"

[Rabbitsmacker]

Hi this might be a lot off topic here, but i'd thought i'd ask it anyway. I just saw a bit of a ropey one sided program called monsterquest on tv, it was bashing on about weird dogman werewolf type stuff from of course, the good old USA. They had in this instance a hunter who had supposedly had several encounters (not romantic!!) with a creature while out in the backwoods. Lots of other reports from direct sightings to just hearing things in the woods that were unidentifiable.
most of this i put down to far to many E numbers and the american population being very easily over excitable.(no offense meant.)

i know from my first foray into the woods at night that you can be easily spooked if you are uneducated. myself and mates had the wotsits scared out of us by what was nothing more than deer barking and then crashing through the woods away from us!

we have our occasional exotics in the british isles and wondered how many of you have actually seen PROOF, not just had "a feeling! or heard something" i mean prints and bodies, film or photos! of our big cats and anything else you might have seen.

it's only a light hearted convo bit like ghost stories round the campfire!

i could think of no-one better to ask than the bushy community, who spend ample time in the woods, have you seen a spook spectre or ghost?!/!!?

cheers all, have fun and merry xmas!
Rob

 

[phaserrifle]

I've definately encountered some very strange creatures around the new forest, especially in some woods near bealieu road station.

"scouts" they call 'em. their young are known as "cubs". and if thier not proof of strange lifeforms, I don't know what is

 

[Omegarod]

A few years ago I saw one of the large black cats (black jaguar) here in the Forest of Dean. It crossed the track I was walking along, about 50 yards in front of me, walking very slowly and deliberately. No doubt whatsoever about its identification.

Rod

 

[wizard]

Odd, but I just saw a show about a large black cat that roams the forests in the UK! Loads of people report the large cats but no proof positive they really exist.

On another note, my son used to go camping with some friends and they had a large loudspeaker arrangement they took and broadcast weird noises in the forest. Silly, but you know those youngsters!

 

[rik_uk3]

Saw a couple of UfO's up in Snowdonia back in the 70s.

 

[Chinkapin]

My wife and I once got a very clear look, at an animal that is not supposed to exist in America. We were traveling a deserted road very late one night, and an animal that bore an exceedingly strong resemblance to a hyena crossed the road in front of us. This was in a heavily forested and lightly populated area.

I have since read that the Native Americans claimed that there was just such an animal with a large front quarter and a smaller hind quarter with massive jaws that they called Shunka Warakin (carries off dogs). Some early settlers claimed to have seen them, but none since around 1900. Most biologist think that it is myth, a few believe that it may have existed, but is extinct now.

I have had extensive training in biology and know one animal from another. We both know what we saw and it just shouldn't have been there, but there it was.

But of course, we are from "the good old USA," and being members of the American population, we "are very easily over exciteable." So, based on that I wouldn't put any credence to our report at all. I think it would be much safer and certainly more comfortable to rely on trite and hackneyed stereotypes.

 

[Spikey DaPikey]

I read this webpage the other day, talk about coincidence !

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/shunka-found/

 

[Chopper]

Elvis! He's sitting next to me!

 

[John Fenna]

I saw "The Beast of Boncath" - a very large black feline, several years ago, prowling the bank of the Teifi.
There have been no reports of this beastie for a while so it probably died....

 

[gowersponger]

there have been a few diffrent people that have reported seeing a black panther around gower south wales in the past.

 

[Tetley]

In 1987 I spent 3 days hunting the "beast of Bodmin Moor" along with several dozen Marines and Police dog teams as it was reportedly killing livestock , our tally was half a dozen Black sheep and a Labrador before they hauled us off the moors

 

[Apac]

I remember this exact topic been raised last year, It got quite heated at times. i'm pretty skeptical myself, in a scientific way i would reserve my judgment either way in till some indisputable evidence arose, hearsay just doesn't cut the mustard unfortunately!

 

[MartinK9]

Bumped into these three one night - turned my hair grey

 

[legin]

Native Americans claimed

As their history was oral, I tend to put quite a bit of credence to their "claims." I reckon that there may still have been the occasional mammoth in America only a few hundred years ago. Also, it is a BIG country and although "explored," I do not believe all life forms have yet been catalogued there. Come to that, I don't think all life forms in schoolboys' ears have been catalogued yet!

Nigel.

 

[gowersponger]

the beast of bodmin is a visita a spirit that returns in visitation

 

[Everything Mac]

a friend of mine swears bline he saw a black cat in dorset once! lol.

needless to say he get a right earful of mickey taking when it is brought up.

cant say i have ever seen such a thing myself but accounts of them cropping up occur too often for there not to be summit behind it.
just my 2p
andy

 

[Rabbitsmacker]

i'm glad to get some responses to this, thought with the combined hours spent in the outdoors it was a good question to ask on here. there was some sheep deaths locally in the watton area of norfolk that the police put down to sheep worrying with dogs by locals, but the farmers were more inclined toward big cat attack. but again, there was no proof. no doubt with the demise of keeping of dangerous animals that many were released but just how many have survived and managed to breed?
i'm not an expert on the ecology of it, but it seems to be that species such as mountain lions and the more aloof animals manage to survive and breed without large prides so is it plausible that successful breeding of these animals happens in the UK?
it's a mystery as toya used to say.
keep the replies coming in tho!
cheers all
Rob

 

[Wild Thing]

Well as Kirsty Mccoll said.

"There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis"

 

[Humpback]

I saw him last week in Norway with a Blue Light. Apparently he works for THEM


Sorry, I'll get my aura

 

[Spikey DaPikey]

Well as Kirsty Mccoll said.

"There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis"

There's an Ork works in the pub swears he's Elvish