Concerning Newspaper Reports
On this page you will find big cat photo links to tragic stories that appeared in British newspapers. All of them raise questions and could be said to point to possible big cat involvement. If big cats were responsible for killing these poor people, and this is known or suspected to be the case by the investigating authorities, it's unlikely that this will be revealed to the public, for fear of creating widespread public alarm.
The few example stories featured here surely only scratch the surface. Over the years, many bodies and human remains have been found in British woods and the countryside in general, with the cause of death being 'unexplained' and indeed hundreds of them have remained unidentified. There are also several thousand long-term missing people in the UK too. How many of these people may have actually met their end because of a big cat, with their bodies then possibly dragged into dense thickets never to be seen again?
Having said all of this, we must remember that thousands of people get mauled by dogs in the UK each year, with some attacks being fatal, farm workers are killed by cattle each year, members of the public are sometimes killed by stampeding cows and even bee keepers die as a result of bee stings. Nevertheless, with predatory big cats living in the British countryside, it's a good thing to be aware of their existence and to take it into account when thinking about walking in woods alone at night etc. Remember that there are no public statistics about fatal attacks on people by big cats living in the wild in the UK and most fatal attacks will never be known about by anyone anyway!
The few example stories featured here surely only scratch the surface. Over the years, many bodies and human remains have been found in British woods and the countryside in general, with the cause of death being 'unexplained' and indeed hundreds of them have remained unidentified. There are also several thousand long-term missing people in the UK too. How many of these people may have actually met their end because of a big cat, with their bodies then possibly dragged into dense thickets never to be seen again?
Having said all of this, we must remember that thousands of people get mauled by dogs in the UK each year, with some attacks being fatal, farm workers are killed by cattle each year, members of the public are sometimes killed by stampeding cows and even bee keepers die as a result of bee stings. Nevertheless, with predatory big cats living in the British countryside, it's a good thing to be aware of their existence and to take it into account when thinking about walking in woods alone at night etc. Remember that there are no public statistics about fatal attacks on people by big cats living in the wild in the UK and most fatal attacks will never be known about by anyone anyway!
The Monkton Mystery
Below are links to a tragic story that appeared in British newspapers in January 2022. It certainly raises more questions than it answers and does seem to point quite strongly to possible big cat involvement. This tragic news report about a woman, whose 'mutilated' body was found one mile away from her car, near Monkton in Ayrshire, after calling the AA for breakdown service, certainly rings alarm bells. It is highly unlikely and virtually unthinkable that any woman on her own would go wandering off across fields for a mile late at night, especially when awaiting breakdown assistance. Perhaps she did, however.
The question is: were foxes and badgers really to blame for the 'mutilation' described in the newspaper reports? The answer is almost certainly no. Foxes and badgers are timid, especially ones living in the countryside, and are unused to seeing human bodies and would be very unlikely to even go anywhere near a body so soon after the person had passed away, let alone do what the newspaper articles suggest they may have done.
Did this poor lady really die from natural causes after walking one mile away from her car in the dark, the car that she was supposed to be staying with to await the arrival of the very people she had called for assistance, or is there an altogether different and far more sinister explanation? Was she actually the victim of an attack by a big cat, by or very near her car?
There have been a number of big cat sightings in Ayrshire. If this lady got out of her car for any reason, a leopard could have easily crept up on her and then dragged her body one mile away across the fields to a 'safer' area away from the road. If this is actually what happened this would explain why she was found where she was found and why she was found as she was found.
It's telling that only three comments were allowed under this story in the Daily Mail. It's likely that quite a few of those who know about the big cats living in our countryside would have made comments and I know some such comments were made but none were allowed to be made public.
One day there will be an inquest. If a leopard was involved in this tragic story will the public learn the facts? I suspect not. Whatever happened, surely the lady's family and the public do deserve to know the truth either way, however. The whole subject of big cats living in the British countryside needs to be brought out of the shadows and into the light.
The question is: were foxes and badgers really to blame for the 'mutilation' described in the newspaper reports? The answer is almost certainly no. Foxes and badgers are timid, especially ones living in the countryside, and are unused to seeing human bodies and would be very unlikely to even go anywhere near a body so soon after the person had passed away, let alone do what the newspaper articles suggest they may have done.
Did this poor lady really die from natural causes after walking one mile away from her car in the dark, the car that she was supposed to be staying with to await the arrival of the very people she had called for assistance, or is there an altogether different and far more sinister explanation? Was she actually the victim of an attack by a big cat, by or very near her car?
There have been a number of big cat sightings in Ayrshire. If this lady got out of her car for any reason, a leopard could have easily crept up on her and then dragged her body one mile away across the fields to a 'safer' area away from the road. If this is actually what happened this would explain why she was found where she was found and why she was found as she was found.
It's telling that only three comments were allowed under this story in the Daily Mail. It's likely that quite a few of those who know about the big cats living in our countryside would have made comments and I know some such comments were made but none were allowed to be made public.
One day there will be an inquest. If a leopard was involved in this tragic story will the public learn the facts? I suspect not. Whatever happened, surely the lady's family and the public do deserve to know the truth either way, however. The whole subject of big cats living in the British countryside needs to be brought out of the shadows and into the light.
Woman, 55, is found dead in a field with her body ‘mutilated by foxes’ after her car was found broken down a mile away on rural Scottish road
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Horror as woman's dead body found 'eaten by foxes' days before Christmas
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Woman found dead with body ‘partially eaten by fox or badger’ after car broke down
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Woman’s body ‘eaten by foxes’ after she left broken down car for walk
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ROADSIDE HORROR Woman’s body ‘eaten by foxes’ after she left her car when it broke down on the side of the road
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Missing woman's body found 'eaten by foxes' after she left car when it broke down
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Woman’s body ‘eaten by foxes’ after leaving broken down car
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Missing woman's body found 'eaten by foxes' after she left car when it broke down
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Woman found dead after car broke down 'partially eaten by fox or badger'
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Scotland horror as woman found dead ‘eaten by foxes’ days before Christmas | UK | News
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Scottish horror found dead woman eaten by a fox a few days before Christmas | UK | News
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Missing motorist found dead after body mauled by wildlife in field
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Woman in Scotland gets out for walk after car breaks down and is eaten by fox
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Scotland horror as woman found dead ‘eaten by foxes’ days before Christmas | UK | News
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Woman's body found ‘eaten by foxes’ after she left car when it broke down
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After she left her car when it broke down, her body was discovered ‘eaten by foxes.’
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Body Remains Found Up A Tree
This tragic news story is about a man who was missing for three years and whose body remains were found 40 feet up in a tree in Meyrick Park in Bournemouth. You can read here about some of the important background information that was not in the newspaper reports. Many big cats live in Dorset and a leopard had been seen in the local area (and warned about), just before the poor man went missing.
There were a number of people sleeping rough in the wood where the tree is located, including the man who disappeared, I have been informed, some in tents and others just in sleeping bags. This prompted someone who had seen the leopard and who knew it was living nearby and had found many of its field signs, to warn about its presence in the area because of his real concerns for the safety of those sleeping in the wood primarily. Not long after this first warning was given the man went missing. Just after this the man who had given the initial warning then repeated the warning to another official and a week later the rest of the rough-sleepers left the wood.
The tree itself, a rather thin and very tall flat-topped evergreen tree, was not the sort of tree that could have easily been climbed without professional climbing gear and there were many other trees around in the location with low branches that could have been chosen by someone who wanted to climb up a tree. It was noted by the two big cat experts who investigated the site at the time that the tree trunk showed clear evidence of having being climbed by a big cat and also showed the marks of the climbing crampons used by the person who retrieved the body remains from the tree. It's a truly tragic story and has its own tragic 'official' explanation, with no mention of a leopard anywhere!
N.B. It must be pointed out, for the sake of reporting accuracy, that no rope was found in the tree.
You can read about this story in more detail in this new book: The British Big Cat Phenomenon: Environmental Impact, Politics, Cover Ups, and Revelations: Amazon.co.uk: McGowan, Jonathan: 9798839169654: Books
There were a number of people sleeping rough in the wood where the tree is located, including the man who disappeared, I have been informed, some in tents and others just in sleeping bags. This prompted someone who had seen the leopard and who knew it was living nearby and had found many of its field signs, to warn about its presence in the area because of his real concerns for the safety of those sleeping in the wood primarily. Not long after this first warning was given the man went missing. Just after this the man who had given the initial warning then repeated the warning to another official and a week later the rest of the rough-sleepers left the wood.
The tree itself, a rather thin and very tall flat-topped evergreen tree, was not the sort of tree that could have easily been climbed without professional climbing gear and there were many other trees around in the location with low branches that could have been chosen by someone who wanted to climb up a tree. It was noted by the two big cat experts who investigated the site at the time that the tree trunk showed clear evidence of having being climbed by a big cat and also showed the marks of the climbing crampons used by the person who retrieved the body remains from the tree. It's a truly tragic story and has its own tragic 'official' explanation, with no mention of a leopard anywhere!
N.B. It must be pointed out, for the sake of reporting accuracy, that no rope was found in the tree.
You can read about this story in more detail in this new book: The British Big Cat Phenomenon: Environmental Impact, Politics, Cover Ups, and Revelations: Amazon.co.uk: McGowan, Jonathan: 9798839169654: Books
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Tragic Discoveries In A South Devon Wood
This tragic story certainly rings alarm bells. A man who left a pub on the edge of Torquay in South Devon at around 10:50 pm on Saturday May the 21st, 2016, then contacted his family at 5:45 in the morning to inform them that he was 'lost in the woods'. During the search for him that followed, human remains were found in a coastal wood on the following Tuesday that had been there for some considerable time. The next day, the body of the missing man was found just 200 metres away from the human remains that were discovered the day before.
Questions remain regarding this sad story. The unfortunate man who sent a text to his family at dawn made no mention of 'multiple injuries' and one might easily assume he could have found his way out of the woods and down the nearby road shortly afterwards as it was light but something happened to him that prevented him from leaving the woods and he was found with 'multiple injuries' four days later. The inquest concluded that the cause of death was 'multiple injuries'. What caused these fatal multiple injuries? An attack by another person was ruled out, as the multiple injuries were said to be 'non-suspicious' but this term does not cover animal attacks. Could it be that this poor man, and possibly the other man too, fell victim to a local big cat?
NB The woods are in a steep-sided valley sloping down to the sea, with broken boulders and rocks lying around at the top end, with hazardous holes in the earth around them and it's not easy to get out of there quickly. If the poor man who was being searched for did indeed have an encounter with a big cat just after sending the text to his family at dawn, it's possible that he could have tried to flee in terror, sustaining injuries because of the hazardous terrain, even if he was not actually 'attacked' by a big cat. It's important to point out however, that the lower parts of the woods, where this man's body was found, do not have the hazards found at the very top. On thing is certain, this is a very sad story indeed.
Questions remain regarding this sad story. The unfortunate man who sent a text to his family at dawn made no mention of 'multiple injuries' and one might easily assume he could have found his way out of the woods and down the nearby road shortly afterwards as it was light but something happened to him that prevented him from leaving the woods and he was found with 'multiple injuries' four days later. The inquest concluded that the cause of death was 'multiple injuries'. What caused these fatal multiple injuries? An attack by another person was ruled out, as the multiple injuries were said to be 'non-suspicious' but this term does not cover animal attacks. Could it be that this poor man, and possibly the other man too, fell victim to a local big cat?
NB The woods are in a steep-sided valley sloping down to the sea, with broken boulders and rocks lying around at the top end, with hazardous holes in the earth around them and it's not easy to get out of there quickly. If the poor man who was being searched for did indeed have an encounter with a big cat just after sending the text to his family at dawn, it's possible that he could have tried to flee in terror, sustaining injuries because of the hazardous terrain, even if he was not actually 'attacked' by a big cat. It's important to point out however, that the lower parts of the woods, where this man's body was found, do not have the hazards found at the very top. On thing is certain, this is a very sad story indeed.
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Human Remains Found In Woodland
This story certainly rings alarm bells too and concerns the discovery of what are 'believed to be human remains', discovered by a walker in woodland near a nature reserve in the West Midlands in June 2022. The death is being treated as 'unexplained'. Perhaps a big cat was involved, certainly the location is an ideal one for big cats to be living in.
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