Predators on the Moors

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For over two hundred years, the rural communities of the United Kingdom have fallen victim to attacks by mysterious feline intruders. As incidents involving these unidentified creatures continue to be reported, we examine the evidence and question whether there really are predators on the moors.
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[@wanderingman8921]

Since the 'hundred acre wood is theoretically located in England, I choose to believe this is Tigger.

[@superangler350]

I am 100 percent with you although more likely heffalumps and or woozles

[@JonsTunes]

I saw some poo!

[@jamesfracasse8178]

Tiggers deranged brother.

[@superangler350]

@@jamesfracasse8178 or pooh's brother teddy Kruger

[@wolfsongmoondancer1428]

Wandering man Have you seen Piglet after midnight? lol.

[@Mirokuofnite]

You should never run from a big cat. You'll only entice it to chase you. Best bet when dealing with say a mountain lion is to make yourself look big, yell and throw things at it. Or be armed with anything. But given how mountain lions operate, it's less stumbling upon one and more walking in the woods and suddenly your top heavy. A big cat will stalk and ambush you.

[@Gruntvc]

^This. Also don't bend down or turn your back to them. They will likely attack. Respect big predators.

[@kodyking4362]

as someone who has been stalked by what i hope was a mountain lion, i can confirm this.

[@hilljack7159]

Eye contact is key with big cats ..... they will bluff charge more often than not unless eye contac is made .

[@fuju7871]

If I was put in front of a puma right now I feel like I would open my jacket, hold it to my sides so it looks like I'm wide, then I start grunting and doing other low pitched sounds while running towards the cat, trying to kick it. Don't know if that would make it turn away or not

[@trishpipkins]

We have Panthers in Florida and they will scare pretty easily if you stand up to them. Thankfully I've never had to do this myself. I'll stick to my mini black house panther thanks.

[@itzHippoHiPP0Th3Gam3r]

For those worried about the dog, Marley. He survived and recovered

[@queandroid3045]

Based and caring-pilled

[@JoseDorda]

I watched the movie, he died.

[@danaparsonsliquidcosmosart2669]

Omg thank you!..

[@the_evil_thing2122]

Source: trust me bro

[@aah20mbdin37]

@@the_evil_thing2122don’t chat shit

[@JAMESBOND-jm2lj]

The Moors are creepy enough without any predators at all

[@Kardia_of_Rhodes]

And that's why I love them so much

[@sbstnpofadder]

Mystic Beauty

[@lmao.3661]

i love the moors

[@AnthonyIlstonJones]

"Do not shtray from the path!" :-D

[@josephmontanaro2350]

What if these sightings are ghosts of the primordial big cats that used to roam these areas back when they were forests thousands of years before they were turned into moors by early humans? :D

[@jessicabarczewski1910]

I remember a story about a man in France during the Middle Ages who was accused of murdering local children. After his execution, more children mysteriously disappeared but in one case a witness saw a child being dragged into the woods by an unknown creature. An artist rendition of the creature was made but the creature wasn't identified until some years later. It was a lion. So of course the question became what was a lion doing in rural France.

[@mirandagoldstine8548]

Most likely it was a noble’s escaped “pet”.

[@errortryagainlater4240]

A lot of unexplained attacks/deaths in the middle ages were most likely wolves, bears or imported big cats. It would have been pretty easy for a predator to hide in Europe's hugeass forests back then.

[@oliverm7138]

Actually, Asiatic lions used to be found in Greece and parts of Eastern Europe going as far west as Switzerland. Tigers called Caucasian tigers, an isolated population of Amur tigers, crossed central Asia into Europe around 10,000 bc and were around till around 60 years ago, where they were last seen in Turkey and then in Central Asia in Turkmenistan. However, there are still leopards in Romania and in Turkey, as well as some populations moving into Greece.

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

Interesting!

[@left4deadian]

lions used to live in europe.

[@uninterupptedwriter]

It seems very plausible to me that an imported species managed to breed, adapt and survive in the countryside. Those images were pretty compelling.

[@stephk5797]

Yeah I had to laugh as he was saying "undefined dark shape" and theres a straight up photograph of a panther clear as day on the screen x'D

[@lexofexcel886]

Kinda like the many pythons living in the Everglades which were released pets. Or the hippos in Pablo Escobar's private zoo that apparently fostered a population in Colombia.

[@stephk5797]

Hence the pets and shit disappearing tho - cats can have a huge range, especially if they're unchallenged

[@ProcyonDei]

@Hannah Dyson You mean the areas dotted with woodlands inhabited by deer and the occasional farm/ranch for livestock?

[@filipematias5127]

@cosmicryda G Click the join button next to the subscribe one!

[@Kainlarsen]

"Ian Bradyyyyy, and Myra Hinnndleyyyyy.... Very friennnnndlyyyyy" In all seriousness though, I suspect some of these sightings are possibly large cats from less-than-scrupulous circus groups who chose to abandon their old animals, rather than face legal ramifications for owning endangered species.

[@NodDisciple1]

As someone else mentioned, I believe the well-to-do and aristocrats imported them in too. I honestly think there's a reason the reports started to escalate in the 70s after a ban was announced on the ownership of exotic animals. And even before then, you know some of those creatures got away from their owners in centuries past, but the owners obviously chose not to admit to it to save their own hides.

[@jaysonlee4394]

@@TheCaptain610Throbbing Gristle 🤘

[@matthewmoran5297]

@Col. George S. Patton, Sr. By wealthy people no less.

[@the4bidden142]

Bedtime stories did a video "25 Cromwell street " so I thought of Ian and Myra too.

[@axollot]

Britain's own Tiger King on the moors came to mind. The same type of exotic rescue perhaps?

[@tomahawk2001]

Seen one just outside a town in Lincolnshire. Driving home one night about 10 years ago, a huge black cat ran across the road straight in front of my car. It was quite an open road so even though it all happened so fast, I got to see it cover some descent distance. It was an incredible sight, it can only have been about 10 meters away. People have tried telling me I was seeing things, or it was a large domestic cat etc etc. Not a chance, I know exactly what I saw and it's something I'll never forget. It filled each side of the road as it crossed. It bought a smile to me when it happened because I got to see this amazing creature so close, and it still does when I think back to it now 😊

[@NodDisciple1]

Be careful. Large cats are not a joke.

[@LK-gl3rj]

My late father often recounted a similar story. In the 1970s he was driving at late night along the rural roads of Somerset in South England, and a huge panther-sized cat ran across the road in front of his car. He recalled that there was a ring-pattern on its tail.

[@Idle_Hands]

unfortunately memory is really deceiving and fleeting, on first recolection of a memory about 40% of it differs from the reality, on second recolection it's more like 70%.

[@lodnisroub]

We have bears in the closest high mountains. A local joke: What to do when you meet a bear? Nothing, bear will take care of everything

[@Samm815]

I thought the saying was "if it's black fight back if it's brown lie down if it's white goodnight."

[@happy5642642]

Russian: Wait til I finish this bottle of vodka

[@johnmcmanus7809]

@reaper6088 speciest you mean!

[@AlecArmbruster]

​@@Samm815 If it's a black bear, you actually don't even need to fight back. Their eyes tend to widen when they see an unexpected human and they book it in the opposite direction. Brown bear on the other hand.... yeah.

[@grantswan8525]

I kill bear Cubs with petrol

[@greyskyy4760]

I remember my dad telling me once that when he was younger that he used to go to a night club in Yorkshire ( I'm going back about 40 year). And they had two panthers in cages next to the door as you was going in. And it was rumoured that when it closed down they just let them go. I believe that some of the sightings are real.

[@oliverm7138]

My great gran said that you could buy big cat cubs at petshops for the same price as a bull terrier or a guard dog pups.

[@greyskyy4760]

@@oliverm7138 I genuinely believe some of these sightings are real. Not all but some.

[@oliverm7138]

@@greyskyy4760 I would say 80% are BS but the rest are true

[@winjinsinjon]

there was a sighting of a big cat near wakefield (west yorkshire) only a couple of years ago, personally i think its rubbish, you can understand it in the wilds of Scotland or a large area like dartmoor but not in an area with a large population.

[@anvilbrunner.2013]

1984 38 years ago my cousin & I were camping on South Yorkshire's Blackamoor. A big cat came circling us & growling. We were shaking in our boots & turning to Jesus as we made ourselves scarce I don't mind admitting. We returned in daylight & found the remains of a lamb nearby to our camping spot. It'd have been aged about 4 to 5 months. Blackamoor never has sheep grazing on it. I think we were lucky it'd brought it's supper along with it before encountering us. But now after reading your comment I'm thinking perhaps there were two big cats on either side of us growling. Maybe we weren't being circled.

[@johnwhiteX]

Initially read this as “Predators on the Moon” and thought to myself “bedtime stories you’ve done it again!” Still excited for predators on the moors!

[@leonelroque4248]

John White that’s what I read too!! 😂

[@wandarichardson4213]

That would make an awesome story.

[@abrahamedelstein4806]

@@wandarichardson4213 You mean like when David Scott raped James Irwin on the moon? True story, or at least if you believe Irwin's wife. Look it up.

[@TheT3MK4]

John White 😂 I read title like “Predators on the Moon” then wondering why panther like creature in moon?

[@tamlandipper29]

I also now want predators on the moon. I mean if we get a telescope and say we see them... Future astronauts nay have to go armed with lever action winchesters.

[@electromagneticdave7552]

*English:* "Oh my god. There may or may not be a large animal wandering through those woods!" *Americans:* "Hold my mountain lion, grey wolf and grizzly bear"

[@Kaidona]

lol, one of the first photos looked a bit like a bear.

[@jeffreyskoritowski4114]

In America we that's any day that ends in a Y.

[@errortryagainlater4240]

@@Kaidona I wouldn't be surprised if there were bears on the moors tbh

[@Ahalaya]

And that's just the start of the list.

[@MP-ut6eb]

Africa : *Laughs loudly in Lions, Leopards, Cheetahs*

[@Ksweetpea]

Sounds like some idiot in rural U.K. bought a panther cub and let it go when it got too big and dangerous (edited to note I commented before watching this completely)

[@sgauden02]

More like SEVERAL idiots in rural U.K. bought a panther cub and let it go when it got too big and dangerous!

[@runlarryrun77]

@Hannah Dyson Moors aren't always completely barren. Some are dotted with wooded areas & there are often lots of livestock for any large feline to eat.

[@essen00cat]

99% sure that is the case here.

[@jonathanstevenelliottejeda2834]

true

[@jacobprice2579]

Just as likely to be some idiot from The City tbh

[@DinnerForkTongue]

The recurring story of black panthers is not at all implausible. As spoken in the video, Victorian-era-and-beyond rich Brits kept big cats as exotic pets, and what's more exotic than a melanistic leopard or jaguar? Even the descriptions of most of these attacks match those of a confident but inexperienced cat going in for a kill or a territory defense squabble.

[@jamesknapp64]

Yeah I agree, that's way too reasonable of a take.

[@SuomiFinland93]

And yet nobody has ever taken a video of one.

[@raiactiene3875]

​@@SuomiFinland93 The video even explains that a domesticated panther was caught in the 80's, so it's not really a question of if they are real or not, but how many continue to exist. Big cats are notoriously hard to hunt compared to similar sized predators, especially those cats who become familiar and wary of human populations, such as the asian and african Maneaters of the 19-20th century. While a bear may idle around a suburb looking for food, becoming more and more obvious to others as it blunders about, cats are solitary and focused on remaining unseen. It seems quite likely that a population of big cats that number in the double digits would continue to evade video evidence, simply based on the law of averages; those that do see the creatures are unlucky in that they either don't have a camera on them, or fail to record a video fast enough before it disappears once more.

[@mirandagoldstine8548]

Agreed. There needs to be stricter pet owning laws. Like if you own an exotic creature you go to jail for 10 to 25 years and are forced to pay a hefty fine which is extended if your “pet” destroys another person’s livestock. I don’t believe in supporting the exotic pet business.

[@pingwingugu5]

About the big cats in UK, I was told by my coworkers that at some point (I think it was mid 70s) there was an abrupt change in UK law. It practically made illegal to own big cats (lions, tigers, pumas etc.) by private owners. The ZOOs got quickly overflown with those animals so the only option for the owners was to put their beloved pets down. Well as you can guess some of the owners released their cats into the wild instead of killing them. A lot of those big cats sightings could be those released animals and all of this is because of poor implementation of the law... I bet PETA was cheering when UK introduced this ban.

[@S.Trades]

It was introduced in 1976 then amended 5 years later.

[@stuffedsomething1699]

I remember actually seeing a big cat of some kind, most likely a jaguar while growing up in Thetford. Honestly think that the last theory about captive animals being released for fear of legal reproductions is the most likely cause of a lot of these sightings.

[@bellewhite3764]

Me too! I'm so glad it's not just me! Taxi driver and I saw the rear of a large tanned cat after it crossed the road ahead of us just as you leave Thetford on the way to Bury, we were so stunned we didn't say anything for the rest of the journey. I've also seen a huge black cat in the fields by Walsham, it looked like it was half playing/half hunting a crow that was hopping near it. So Norfolk/Suffolk have their share of big cats too.

[@marhawkman303]

@@bellewhite3764 If you were to release 5 Pumas in Sussex within a year at least one would probably have wandered all the way to Scotland :D those things don't stay put.

[@KirstyCampbell22]

When I was nine or ten, whilst living in the Scottish Highlands (around 2004 or 2005) I was on a dog walk along a remote road and I'm not even kidding when I say that I saw what looked like the back end of a Jaguar-like creature. Black in colour, long tail, walking like a big cat or dog. Convinced it was something similar to this!! I'm not even joking, never seen anything like it. As I passed the part where it was, it had completely disappeared. Not one to imagine crazy stuff like this, I'm sure I saw it, but I must have imagined it... right? Plus, I was with one of my siblings who also saw it!! They said it looked like it was walking on its knuckles!! Proper freaky!

[@teaspoonsofpeanutbutter6425]

Fancy seeing you here! Keep it where it is please - if it crosses the water to the islands I'm coming for ya!

[@Exedus20]

Probable a fully woo cryptid.

[@smoketuba533]

u have ligma

[@teutonicorder6284]

Kirsty Skye i believe you my friend, i have also witnessed things in nature when i was younger

[@AndroctonusHector]

Crazy story I believe you mate

[@lucieirl]

I’m from Salisbury in wiltshire, and my grandad, before he passed, swore blind he’d seen a panther. He owned a small field in a small village/area called Ford, and it was shaped like a wiggly L. In the top of the ‘L” was just a lot of trees and in the rest it was shaggy grass, a home built shed, chickens and occasionally a neighbouring field’s sheep or horses. He went through the trees one early morning (5/6.30?) and saw a huge black/grey shape up on hind legs scratching its claws on the tree. I don’t know if he shot his gun, but he remembers grabbing for it, but the animal just started and ran off. For the next 25 years he would hold true to that, and when my dad started taking us camping (me, sister, brother, mother) he would show us the tree that it supposedly scratched. It had grown some in the quarter century but there really is long marks in the tree about 7ft off the ground, as if something did consistently scratch there. I don’t know why my grandad would lie, he was your typical stoic man, a war time baby who was always one to rationalise and tell you to grow a spine, not be stupid etc. As a carpenter with a love for his small holding, I can see why a huge black cat was a worry for him. Thankfully he never lost a chicken but just this last year my grandmother was walking her dog round the field and he came running back with a whole sheep leg in his mouth. The sheep’s body was never found by the farmer. So clearly a very hungry fox or wiltshire has its own panthers roaming. Edit: got my maths for the years wrong. Double edit; my dad would like to qualify that the field is right next to the slope of a railway track that comes from the West Country and he believes that’s a clear pathway for big cats to travel as humans don’t walk there so it’s a safe pathway to travel.

[@liamprice157]

Is that Ford in west sussex?

[@tylertalbot5170]

I'm from Norfolk and you see them all the time not jaguars tho what I've seen look more like pumas but still

[@benrussell7501]

I am from Salisbury, and saw a very large black cat in roughly 2015 whilst driving over farmland langford / wylye way

[@lucieirl]

Ben Russell I’m not surprised! What time of day was it?

[@marhawkman303]

@@tylertalbot5170 Knowing Pumas they probably roam the countryside a lot. In the US we've radio tagged them to study migration patterns. As far as they range in the US it wouldn't surprise me if one was to wander all the way from Sussex to the Firth of Forth. They're not as big on territory as one might suppose. They make dens more for having place to raise cubs than as permanent dwellings.

[@meg4891]

"...the natural world continues to find ways to subvert and surpass human preconceptions." Brilliant! I respect the writing in these episodes more than anything I have ever encountered in the crypto world.

[@fernh290]

Harrods used to sell exotic pets in the 60s and 70s (including cubs of big cats). I imagine there were a few let free on the moors.

[@andycleary6209]

Quite possibly by rich dickheads wanting to hunt them for sport.

[@NodDisciple1]

@@andycleary6209 Or got more than the expected when the fools wanted an exotic "pet."

[@marhawkman303]

@@NodDisciple1 "it's cute, but it keeps clawing the furniture".

[@oliverm7138]

@@andycleary6209 My neighbour and I had the same conversation just three weeks ago about an estate in Yealand, Silverdale, North West Lancashire.

[@Potionette81]

Yep, a famous case being Christian the lion back in the late 1960s. How anyone could imagine they could cope with a lion (or any large exotic creature) as a pet I have no idea!

[@Al3xtheMeh]

I would love to someday see some videos about supernatural/cryptids on the African continent. There's probably thousands of interesting stories passed down through the various different tribes, religions, and cultures,

[@NodDisciple1]

Mokele-Memebe is probably the best starting point as it's the most famous.

[@MaximilianonMars]

@@NodDisciple1 yes and the companion animal Emela-Ntouka the triceratops type.

[@MadderMel]

Yes there are predators on the moors , most are discarded exotic pets !

[@edwardaugustus9680]

Indeed. My aunt was security at a storage yard for imported cars. She saw one one night, don't recall the details just that it was on the outside of the perimeter fence. She would hear from local gossip a few days later that a exotic pet had escaped.

[@SuomiFinland93]

@Madam Meouff Because they have all the things you can legally buy so they move to illegal stuff

[@465marko]

A few pedos, too.

[@marhawkman303]

@@edwardaugustus9680 In the case of Pumas, they're fine with the climate of Britain. This species has been seen in every part of Canada south of the Tundra. The woods of Britain is just another forest to them. Their only competition for food is people.... unless they eat the people.

[@TheWoollyFrog]

@@marhawkman303 They live as far south as Patagonia. They have adapted to almost every biome in the Americas. Mountains, deserts, rainforests, etc.

[@blackshuck1175]

I used to live on Dartmoor in a village called Horrabridge. At the time my father was in the Royal marines. I remember one day my father phoned my mother and told her not to take the dogs out on the Moor that day because a lion had been seen near Bickley barracks and the marines had gone after it. All I know is that later that day the local news shared footage of a police helicopter videoing it on a thermal camera. The theory is that the animals were exotic pets let lose on the moors when the laws changed.

[@OverlordMake]

Actually, never run away from a large predator (especially feline ones). Instead, back away slowly while facing Them the whole time.

[@marhawkman303]

in the case of cats being quiet is a bad idea. Adult Humans are big enough Pumas can get frightened into backing down... this can be temporary though so don't take your eyes off them. What was it David Tennant said? "They're faster than you can imagine. Don't look away, don't even blink."? Something like that I think.

[@Potionette81]

Splendid work as always, chaps! When I was at secondary school, my class went on a week's outdoor education trip to Brecon Forest, and went camping for one night in some nearby fields. The teacher said there had been sightings over the years of a big, panther-like cat prowling around the fields: nothing happened but none of us got any sleep that night.

[@andycleary6209]

Bet your teacher slept like a log knowing none of you would leave their tent :)

[@genericpersonx333]

I would be more surprised if there wasn't evidence of the occasional big cat, be it a modern feral sort or the vestige of an ancient population long driven to the brink of extinction, wandering Europe. After all, just because Civilization has successfully driven off or destroyed most every large predator (Greece once had lions, for example) on the continent over the last three-thousand years doesn't mean there can't be a few still clinging on.

[@drakron]

There are several reasons, the first being Europe is overpopulated and have been for centuries and the second is the most important one, ecosystem. Euroasia climate simply isnt suitable for big cats that simply could not survive even if there was no humans as they would compete with smaller felines and canines such Lynxes, Wolves, Foxes and Wildcats that would simply starve them since they fit the ecological niche much better. Another reason why there are no myths is because humans seen then die off (well the mentioned Lions, Caves one too) and thus that is still within the subconscious as something that is gone (not to mention Europe very own migration waves that would not even seen then), wolves on the other hand were very much present (and were until within the last 2 centuries) and thus had a larger presence, it was more likely someone would think they saw a wolf that a tiger.

[@TopsyTriceratops]

I'm leaning more towards the explanation of these felines being the product of idiotic humans. Something exotic is inevitably brought from another land and is either released or escapes to cause havoc. It's happened in almost every country, which almost always ends in tragedy for both the exotic creature and the local animals. I don't think these are supernatural whatsoever, just a very sad case of human neglect and foolishness.

[@quietone748]

@Hannah Dyson Roe Deer. Otters.

[@NodDisciple1]

@Hannah Dyson Deer? Sheep? Dogs and Cats? Livestock and Fatstock? On the contrary. There's plenty for them to feed upon if the escaped population is relatively small. And as professional hunters from both sides of the pond would tell you, Mountain Lions, Panthers, Leopards, and the like are amongst the most hard quarry to track and hunt. Because they're so good at staying quiet, hid, and covering their tracks. And their better senses help them to know when danger is coming.

[@georgebogdan397]

Interdimensional beings

[@essen00cat]

Finally someone with a bit of sense.Lots of Rich people living out in Rural areas With massive homes and lots of Land.They definitely have the means to purchase and import/export all types of big cats and exoctic animals.Its no stretch of the imagination that maybe sometimes these animals escape or more maliciously let loose into the wild.

[@TopsyTriceratops]

@Hannah Dyson That is true, and the main obstacle to this problem, I feel. They probably learned to live off of smaller animals, pets and livestock. Not only that, just because the government put a ban on buying the poor things doesn't mean people don't still smuggle them in. Who knows, some of these cats could be very recently imported.

[@albertg7297]

Still the best channel on youtube, thank you guys for continuously providing me and many others an escape from the constant pressures and worries of everyday life. You all deserve way more recognition and exposure, the quality of your art is beyond outstanding. Thanks again, friends.

[@steelemagnolia3773]

Mikey, Your art featured at 16:25 is exquisite! It is so beautiful and you are so talented!

[@EphemeralProductions]

JTBoneQueen : great picture of kitty, huh?

[@mikeyturcanu5595]

JTBoneQueen thanks 😸

[@EphemeralProductions]

Mikey Turcanu : indeed Mikey! Your art is sensational and these videos would be NOTHING without it!!! You are one of the backbones of this channel! Bless ya, mate!

[@fillmorevoid4883]

Nice use of some colour with the green cats eyes

[@Garbagejuicewaterfall]

So dark Haunting even!

[@jakeus2575]

Granddad encountered one at Scarborough a few years back, was out on a walk and could see it crossing the path about 100ft up the path. Remember him telling us all when he got home

[@1991megster]

Pretty sure these are from people that owned large cats illegally and released them when they got too big to care for over the past century.

[@DinnerForkTongue]

Damn straight. A cub is cute and all but after it grows up and is eating their idiotic owner out of house and wallet, the first time he wakes up with 60kg+ of feline on top of him, off it goes with no thought of the consequences.

[@mickswann357]

Indeed, particularly when you consider that most of the sightings come from places like Exmoor and the Scottish Highlands, which are exactly the sort of wild open areas people would choose when releasing such an animal.

[@stefanfun]

The problem with that theory is, animals who were pets tend to act completely different from animals that spent their entire life in the wild. They tend to not fear humans/being seen by humans and usually turn into very visible "problem animals" and are killed shortly after. (If they are predators, that is)

[@blackflagsnroses6013]

S.T. Funken they’re just wild descendants of previously owned big cats

[@stefanfun]

@@blackflagsnroses6013 possible

[@pauljackson112]

Oh, they're out there alright. Back in the mid 90s my cousin and I saw one no more than 20ft away in some woodland up in the Lake District. Long story short, I fortunately had my wits about me so we got out of there unscathed. Nobody believed us of course. "It was probably a dog", they said. Yes - a dog which looks exactly like a puma (it was a black) and displayed the same characteristics as a big cat stalking its prey. I'm sure we could mistake something like that - in broad daylight - at a distance of 20ft. ... but anyway, as I say - they are definitely out there.

[@damienm.9677]

It’s weird that these accounts are met with so much resistance. It’s very plausible that exotic pets or zoo/circus animals escaped, resulting in a very small population of big cats in England.

[@RebeccaG90]

Pumas aren't black. It sounds like you came across a melanistic leopard or jaguar.

[@pauljackson112]

@@RebeccaG90 - Correct, and I have absolutely no idea why I said "Puma". Must've been having a brain-fart moment! Good catch, thanks :)

[@schizoidboy]

I heard this one saying about big cats. I forget what most of it was but it started with "if you see no cat sign you got them all around you" and it progresses to the point where their right there with you. I live in New York and the Panther isn't supposed to live here but I've heard people claim they're here. Get away from the city you got mostly mountainous highlands filled with forests that are also filled with deer - a panther's favorite meal. Just because you don't see them doesn't mean they're not there with you. Incidentally, if you got hundreds of livestock animals getting killed then there has to be something out there eating them.

[@Kaidona]

Considering people are insane enough to keep animals like tigers in their apartments, I'd believe it if someone told me a big cat was loose in the urban regions of the northeast.

[@moonshapedabsolution]

We had several big cat stories in Scarborough, North Yorkshire too. Seems to me that they could be descended from those cats released in the 70's

[@sethseth9059]

This was Tiger King's fault. One of his customers let a cougar out in the wild.

[@FranzFridl]

I'm disapointed there are no more comments like this one

[@TealWolf26]

My mind went there too. What Big Cat Monarchs you got Britain?

[@Whiteshell204]

It was a Carole Baskin sting operation

[@stunner9005]

Once he gets out of prison he should be put on this “issue”.

[@unofficial_computer]

It's amazing to see how you've evolved! From water paints to full-on animation! I am impressed!

[@drmonty7350]

From someone who lives in Devon, it’s great to see that our myths and legends are being addressed. Great episode 👍👍

[@SuperDiablo101]

Why the hell does this remind me of the Sherlock Holmes story " the hound of the Baskervilles"?

[@DinnerForkTongue]

Because of the black cur.

[@jamesfracasse8178]

The setting which also takes place in the Moors.

[@SuperDiablo101]

@@jamesfracasse8178 and around the same time frame.... colonial england 17 to 1800s

[@PackerFan1919]

Because Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was inspired by the stories he heard about the Beast of Exmoor.

[@sarahsnedden9968]

My grandparents live in Hertfordshire and when I was around 10/11, they often told me that when they went out for dog walks they would see deer carcasses high up in trees. They reckoned that circuses/rich people let these big cats loose when they got too big to control!

[@marhawkman303]

carcasses in trees is typical Puma behavior. Anything big enough to drag a deer up a tree is big enough to kill you.

[@immenseabe]

I've lived in Devon all of my life so its mad you're covering this and mentioning places like south molton, I've always got the impression its miss-identification of wildlife but the moors are hella creepy on their own anyway

[@marhawkman303]

Pumas count as "wildlife" :D they're non-native in the UK, but.....

[@robdee81]

I live in yorkshire and have observed from my garden a black creature that i at first thought was a dog but it moved differently and its tail was long and did that curve hang big cats tails do , we saw it again about a week later but never again. I live in an area with alot of cattle and also wild deer. This happened only about 2 months ago. Maybe it was a dog and im dumb , but it was odd enough for me to question. Edit - Wow at 12:11 you use a photo of black Puma like creature spotted less than a mile from my home a couple years ago on a golf course. This may be and looks alot like whati saw. Futher edit- now youre creeping me out with the black dog harbinger of death story , i saw this puma/ black dog around the time i lost my Dad to prostate cancer.

[@NodDisciple1]

I am very sorry about your loss. Still, I'm more inclined to think it's just escaped exotic game.

[@d.bleazard7242]

We had them on the greenway in span valley when I was a kid

[@OrbioneKenobie]

Bempton werewolf?

[@Alefwithhat723]

Good job, but tripped at the ending. To anyone who reads this: DO NOT RUN AWAY FROM BIG CATS, WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAVE RUNNING SHOES! THEY WILL ASSOCIATE THAT WITH YOU BEING PREY!

[@adelest9500]

ok, but what are you supposed to do in case you meet a big cat? (I've heard one story where man was attacked by a lynx, and saved himself by grabbing it and throwing it to the ground and then hightailing it out of there, but I don't know if it's a good strategy in general)

[@MrHolyvern]

So glad you're covering this subject!!!! When I was younger I used to cut out any articles from the papers, i was fascinated by the subject

[@danbagnall7501]

I'm so glad you did a video on this! I lived on Dartmoor most of my younger life and this subject really gave me some pride of where I came from! There is still plenty of stories to have with Dartmoor alone like the hairy hand bridge for example. Keep up the good work chaps can't wait for the next one

[@wangstanation6400]

These big cats are definitely the results of some rich guys releasing their pet puma/mountain lion/whatever big feline into the wilderness after the cats got too big for them to take care of

[@quietone748]

@Hannah Dyson Sure they can: Rabbits, birds small deer are plentiful

[@DinnerForkTongue]

@Hannah Dyson Roe deer. Sheep. Pets. Fish in waterways. Think again.

[@adelest9500]

@Hannah Dyson maybe that's why they're attacking people's pets and livestock

[@maywenearedhel]

@Hannah Dyson oh honey, you didn't grow up in puma country did you? They're cats. They'll eat anything they can sneak up on. And they're VERY good at sneaking.

[@NodDisciple1]

@@maywenearedhel Indeed. Bless their hearts for being so ignorant on how resourceful, sneaky, and dangerous these creatures are.

[@randomlyentertaining8287]

I'd like to take this new video to mention that your channel is one of the few that I'll always come back to and rewatch videos from that I've already seen several times before. That's just how good your content is.

[@rogerhargreaves2272]

Again, beautifully researched, illustrated, written and narrated. I live in rural Monmouthshire but have never witnessed a large cat myself, but know of people that have. You just don’t know what’s lurking out there.

[@Gruntvc]

Where we live, you can still rub into large predatory cats. I can potentially see these big cats existing, more so than a lot of other paranormal stuff covered on this channel. Anyway, great video and still waiting on to get my copy of your book.

[@picturemetrollin2093]

When I was 8 years old, I stayed with my grandparents who live in the mountains of sw. Virginia. Around 2:00am I woke to a woman screaming outside. A few seconds later my father came in the room where my cousin and I were at and told us what was really screaming. It was a mountain lion! I never stayed with my grandparents again.....Nope!

[@Whiteshell204]

*A "black panther" is not its own species-it's an umbrella term that refers to any big cat with a black coat... "Black leopards are more common in Asia than in Africa*

[@soundbite914]

This channel lives up to its name, I've fallen asleep soundlessly twice this week.

[@neopagan1976]

Thank you so much for this brand new episode, guys. Your episodes just get better and better. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@8bitorgy]

my wife told me about her encounter with a black panther in a florida state park. she said she and a few of her friends were literally backed out of the forest. everyone walked backwards picking up sticks to defend themselves from theatening attacks from the animal. this took almost an entire evening and when everyone finally got to the camp, the rangers simply LAUGHED about the whole thing. my wife did not and still kinda doesn't even comprehend that there's anything paranormal and always assumed the rangers were being jerks. just had to get that off my chest

[@AutumnWind92]

The legendary Florida weirdness

[@BoxStudioExecutive]

why is there anything paranormal about a big cat?

[@8bitorgy]

@@BoxStudioExecutive it's why the rangers laughed. They thought this thing is an urban legend and there's no such thing. Apparently this is the defacto thinking to anyone that takes this subject seriously. To pros, you might as well be talking about Bigfoot

[@BoxStudioExecutive]

@@8bitorgy except pros know that panthers are native to florida...their hockey team is even named after them....nothing bigfoot about it. maybe the rangers were laughing because humans pose more danger to panthers than the other way around.

[@NodDisciple1]

@@BoxStudioExecutive Yeah...an above comment said it wasn't that hard to chase them off.

[@rsuriyop]

It's simple... Some rich person's wild big cat had somehow escaped from it's enclosure. Nothing supernatural or cryptic at all.

[@WildMorgan]

You're not saying anything new that they didn't already say in the video. Of course, if you'd actually watched the video, you'd know that.

[@kelimcfeli2119]

You used to be the highlight of my Sunday’s, now you’re the highlight of the whole week. Thanks for giving me something to look forward to during these weird times 😊

[@NodDisciple1]

Dear God...WHAT is your pfp!?

[@fegtynpax5147]

One benefit of this global lockdown is that we are getting a steady stream Bedtime Stories videos every Sunday! Thanks again!

[@thegoverner100]

Legend of Spring Heeled Jack animation would look fantastic on this channel! Keep up the great work!

[@heresyisecstasy]

The art in this episode is especially good, the drawings of the cats are beautiful

[@Goaliedude30]

These types of videos and stories are awesome, especially the most recent ones. Great work and keep them ALL coming!

[@saydvoncripps]

I've seen one. About 12 years ago, walking home really late one night, I saw a big cat, about the size of an adult fox, an d black in the road . It disappeared into what I thought was a garden but was a drive way to a big house. This was in Mill Hill North West London. I called the police but by the time they came, it was long gone. The copper told me people do get big cats as pets that sometimes get out or are unwanted an just set free. I've wondered though, Mill Hill is an affluent suburb with many large houses, was the cat I saw slowed to roam the grounds at night to keep people away and it had slipped out? The cop didn't seem surprised at all. I wonder if they knew.

[@mattrickswayze2917]

Damn it feels good when a new Bedtime Story pops up!

[@Pembroke.]

It could be a hybrid exotic animal, which was not uncommon within the UK. Rome at the time brought in many beasts from around the empire to fight in the arenas. Even the English royals had cats, elephants, rhinos to name a few which could have escaped into the countryside and thrived into the present day. They could also be discard exotic pets that people have smuggled into the country and thrown out as they don't want them anymore.

[@JoeSkylynx]

The first rule of hunting is having a respect for the creature you are hunting. When I'm listening to these stories, all I hear is people mocking the possibility instead of walking with it as truth, and going from there. Mountain Lions are notorious here in the United States for catching people unaware. In my neck of the woods, North Dakota, we had several incidents in the last two years of hunters shooting mountain lions after the hunters were ambushed in their hunting spots. Big cats ain't anything to chaff at. They'll hunt you like you would hunt a deer. Slow and very methodical critters. If people treated these big cat sightings as actual cases of big cats that need to be dealt with and not to be laughed at, said cats would have their numbers dented. Judging by the areas where they are being reported, the most likely case is that the big cats are hiding in unused mine shafts/caves. Same shit happens here with mountain lions. Give them some marshy fields with tall grass and you have a big cat that can literally pop up from any hole and take prey back into it. Only a skilled hunter would be able to track something akin too it. If the Lions of Tsavo are anything to go on, it'd take months as well.

[@NodDisciple1]

Can't help it if other people want to play games, fam. Play stupid games. Get stupid prizes.

[@NodDisciple1]

@@evilallyv8928 I remember hearing Mountain Lion Hunters could ask for top dollar when hunting them due to how infamously hard these cats were to track, sneak up on, and trap. And, something tells me you have your fair share of horror stories too. Involving both mundane beasts and things that you couldn't officially put on the books that wouldn't quite fit in the realms of accepted science.

[@kittyhawk9707]

Joey Skylynx ..why not ..you know...stop going out and shooting them for fun ..then you won't get hurt... I love it when hunters get their asses handed to them by their so called prey..... I do so hope one day your gun jams.. ..

[@kaiishere016]

It's probably because predators are mostly unheard of here in the UK. The worst things you could typically run into here are wild dogs, adders (which don't really attack unless provoked), or in specific locations, boars. In addition to that, hunting isn't really a thing here anymore, it's pretty rare. Then, even given the evidence, the idea that a big cat could survive in certain parts of the UK is doubtful. There's a lot of open land, and not much prey. Of course, they could still be out there, but these reasons are probably why no-one takes it too seriously.

[@angebrowne1730]

Thank you. Up until the 1960's or maybe 1970's it wasn't illegal to own wild animals here. It was possible to buy them from pet shops or even Harrods. Various well off people bought big cat cubs. The stories range from some escaping, being put out when they lost their cute novelty appeal to being set free rather than being sent to a zoo when the laws came in which thankfully made ownership much more difficult. It is possible some bred in the wild.

[@user-kt8yp5ho2y]

Wow, another cryptid story on my favorite channel. I love you Bedtime Stories! :) ;) :3 :D

[@forktaildevil38j44]

I subbed when you had around 20k subs. Im so glad to see how the channel has grown! You people create such entertaining content. Thanks very much!

[@the-engneer]

You have a magically unique combination of illustrations, and voice narration. I work nights, so I have to have background noise from my phone to sleep during the day, and this channel is the only one that doesn't jolt me awake with a bunch of colorful lighting, and to top it off you have very interesting content! Your channel is almost the only reason I can get any sleep, so thank you!!!

[@joshglover2370]

People get big cats as exotic pets, then abandon them when they become unable to control them or care for them... It's so sad! 😢

[@jaimegreene9557]

Yet another story I am very familiar with, yet have not heard quite a many of the facts that you you've presented!! I love it

[@steelemagnolia3773]

So the U.S. has the Legend of Bigfoot and the U.K. has the Legend of Big Cats...I would be 1000x more scared of the Big Cats, personally. How about you?

[@Infomanica20]

Big cats are less scary cuz i think theyd kill you way quiker. Bigfoot would like take you a prisoner or do something before killing you.

[@Kumo5980]

Yeah because the big cat would aim for my neck and kill me instantly!

[@Dherkin_McGhurken]

I got to deal with mountain lions and cougars where I live. I'd rather take Bigfoot as they'll walk away.

[@iamalpharius9483]

I dont care what "big" it is. It's not on my greeting list.

[@nil981]

Britains gun laws that make it virtually impossible to get a gun.

[@jbmp1390]

I don't know what I'd do without your channel. You are amazing. And you cover SO many topics and specific things I've been interested in for years when it comes to UFO's, supernatural, cryptids etc etc. Sometimes it's like you've read my mind when I get the notification you've posted a new video and I see the name 🙂. Thanks for doing what you do, and the high level of work you put in and QUALITY that results in 👏👏👏. Only thing I could say I'd like you to do more is this, more cryptids please! lol 🙂

[@giantbully1]

This happened to my nephew last year in 2019, he lives just of an army training area in south England, he was out shooting rabbits with a compressed air rifle, however he said he saw two great big green eyes and a low grow , needless to say he jumped into the car and rung the police who came and explained it all , in the Victorian times it was looked upon to have exotic animals such as panthers and leopards and such, then at some stage the goverment brought in a n exotic animal tax which led to animals being thrown out, but the manage to survive on military grounds , sad but true .

[@pyewackett5]

Some very strange happenings on moorland where I live too. They're called the Longdendale Lights

[@jeffjeffreym1830]

I was on a ramble with a friend in the summer of 1994 when we had a close encounter with a big cat. We were walking close to Bough Beech reservoir, in Kent, when it happened. A very large, long and sleek panther nonchalantly loped out of some woodland and then crouched down in a field of wheat. Later we discovered that there had been numerous reports of a big cat seen in the area and there was a press cutting in the local museum.

[@EphemeralProductions]

Did you try to get close to her or see her better?

[@jeffjeffreym1830]

@@EphemeralProductions No, it crouched and slipped into a field of wheat and disappeared. We couldn't see where it was. I returned a couple of days later, with a decent camera and powerful lens, but alas...

[@EphemeralProductions]

@@jeffjeffreym1830 aww. Well glad you got a chance to see her for just a minute. They are lovely animals

[@MandyMan24]

I love how each Sunday night, I get to end the week settling into bed with the latest Bedtime Stories’ story! For future videos, can I request the Order of Nine Angles, Dulce Base/underground lizard people, Sawney Bean and the Toronto Tunnel. Also, shout out to Belfast.

[@bellewhite3764]

I second Sawney Bean! 👍

[@desto16]

Much love from Kenya 🇰🇪🇰🇪🔥🔥❤

[@NodDisciple1]

Sure you have plenty of experience w/ big cats.

[@Geister7]

I remember seeing episodes about this on Discovery and Animal Planet. Always fascinating that the military couldn't find the culprits and that there aren't clearer pictures

[@sneakysnake7695]

Animals are more elusive than terrorists with big-fuck-off-rocket-launchers

[@NodDisciple1]

@@sneakysnake7695 Quite so. If they're smart they'll import a professional tracker and hunter from Latin America, North America, and/or Africa to do the dirty work. You need a different set of skills and life experiences to track a wild beast.

[@marhawkman303]

@@NodDisciple1 I'd get a guy from Canada if possible. The climate matches better. Also Canada has plenty of Pumas wild.

[@misottovoce]

Ooooo! Alone that opening scene of the black beast with glowing green eyes was eerie. Great artwork again and so perfect with your narration. Excellent story. Thank you!

[@KatTheScribe]

I loved this one! The story and the artwork, thanks Bedtime Stories 😊👍🏻♥️

[@thesneakypirate5190]

I live in the south West of England and I can absolutely 100% tell you there is nothing in the way of dangerous big cats here, the giraffes are the real menaces especially when they get chasing the local indigenous panda population.

[@EphemeralProductions]

If these kitties are real, they are BIG ol kitties! Lol

[@christophergenther3517]

I'm absolutely convinced we have a little big cat presence in Britain. I spotted a large black cat heading into a wooded area on the edge of a farmers field in like 2007/2008 in County Durham (directly opposite a field which houses reindeer owned by Richardson's Garden Centre if you want the specifics!). A few years after that I was in the library and saw a book titled something along the lines of "Wildlife of Northumberland and County Durham", I thought I'd flick through it quickly - curious to see if there was anything that I considered 'common' was in fact a local variety or rare elsewhere et etc. I saw 'big cat sightings' in the index and immediately went to the page. Can't remember the exact figures but there was 200+ big cat sightings reported to the police from 1995-2005 in County Durham alone and I've been convinced ever since. Or should I say I've felt validated ever since, I was 'convinced' as soon as I saw it lol. The book went on to explain how some wildlife expert believes there is an ecological niche for them and a high enough level of farm animal predation to reasonably conclude there are at least a couple dozen out there

[@andrewpicard2476]

BedTime Stories. Im do glad to see you guys making new content. When i become capable again to contribute you guys are first on my short list. I find the art captivating with the voice and pace tells stories of mystery like none other on KZbin, and i hope you keep up the great work..again, THANK YOU!

[@jedi196]

Back in about 2014 while biking to my mothers, I live in the city she lives in the countryside. The way I biked follows a river that had a few scattered houses and is mainly a pinic spot witch goes on for a couple miles or so and at the end of it is a sewer plant you can go through. Coming out on the far side of the actual sewer facility (parking, entrance etc) the road goes on for another 2-3 miles till you hit the country road. Either side of the road are hedges that go along the whole way, anyway as I started for the 2-3mile road it goes up hill quite steep at first and at the brow of the hill on a field to my left was this huge black slim shape sprinting full speed running from left to right straight for the hedge/road. It was on four legs and was low to the ground it was large dog size but streamline and longer. My mind was scanning for what it could be and it took some time to focus the image in my mind and when it did it was no question a large cat like a Jaguar. It was pure black and I feel like it must have been chasing a rabbit to be running full tilt as there was no other concernable factor. This is a daily used road so I have no idea if the thing had been seen before or not but I saw one 100% in Norfolk, England.

[@DinnerForkTongue]

Definitely not a jaguar, those fuckers are WAY bigger than dogs. Could be a lynx.

[@jedi196]

@@DinnerForkTongue I really don't see how it could have been. Lynx's are compact and kinda square shaped. This thing was long and tube like with a long tail and a strong bulky head. Everything about it fits within the Black Panther category

[@kevinwessels4810]

No one: Bedtime Stories: "Pyooma."

[@themirrorsofmymind]

Oh. I thought it was spelled "Pew-ma". But then a _"Pew-ma"_ would probably trot after you calling: _"Where are you, my darling?"_ and when it had you cornered it would smother you with kisses...

[@mysticallymerry5523]

@@themirrorsofmymind Pepe le Pew-ma!😏😄

[@marhawkman303]

@@themirrorsofmymind poo-ma?

[@themirrorsofmymind]

@@mysticallymerry5523 That's it!

[@Pottedmeat2101]

I swear I’m getting that black bedtime stories hoodie next payday. I gotta have it 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@bryancroidragon457]

I remember watching a documentary on this subject when I was in elementary school. Wow, does this ever take me back.

[@captainexcabier]

It seems pretty straightforward that these are pets that have been set loose and have gone wild. This is why they are so bold and fearless around humans, and why weapons and sirens are known to them.

[@baddragonite]

There's a similar situation here where I live in Mississippi. For whatever reason people doubt that things like panthers exist here. I didn't know this until recently. I've lived in Mississippi my whole life, in towns, in the woods, in farm areas. I've seen them before and alot of people I know have as well and you have to plan around them. Like I thought it was just accepted that they existed here because everyone has seen or knows someone who has seen them but they're technically not on record so by the books they don't live here it's weird. I could see a similar situation happening in Britain. Not as much untamed wilderness there but the similarities ring a bell with me.

[@MegaWiccan13]

Bad Dragonite I believe you. With all of the documentation that they have presented. There has to be panthers here in North America.

[@moongoddess590]

@Bad Dragonite Oklahoma here. Small town outside of Tulsa, Catoosa lived there for years. My daughters in-laws had a place on river bank close to railroad tracks as well (not that they have any significance noted been mentioned) they raised pigs. My daughter began telling me they had started missing pigs, sometimes finding grotesque carcass remains. Along with at night what sounded eerily of a woman screaming. Which I laughed off but not the pigs missing. Asking why she said a black panther. No way I told her. Not long after going over there one evening as I was leaving heard the screams. Ran back in they (son-in-law parents/my friends) told me exactly same as my daughter had. They told me Panther escaped from circus(?) The screaming sound is linked with mating, not always though. Beginning to believe obviously something, still not sure about circus escape. I did hear shortly after there really was one it had happened within 3-4 years before. Ironically was being told relating to something else. Heard it's screams one more time after. They lost a sweet dog as well and quit raising pigs thinking that's what brought it around. Probably true regarding since it did end. I didn't realize the voice of a Panther could sound so creepy but thinking about it a meow has somewhat of a high pitch. Reading/hearing the escaped circus animals, either they had a real problem confining their animals (given the abuse reports) during an abusive episode out of fear managed to get away or defending itself got away with the handler freighted enough to not do anything. Also could be the easiest way to explain something for unknown reasons if they are around anywhere to give explanation. Why not wanting people aware is strange if that's the case. I was brought up being told bears and rattlesnakes didn't exist in Oklahoma. Proof proved both wrong. Rattlers for the most part in the more desert like terrain in the panhandle.

[@marhawkman303]

@@MegaWiccan13 and by "has to be" what you really mean is "we have plaster casts of paw prints"

[@melissajacobs5822]

Im quite disappointed that ive not seen any big cats in person here in CT!

[@marhawkman303]

@@melissajacobs5822 Hmmm maybe try visiting Maine? Connecticut seems a bit too... urbanized.

[@TrevorOFarrell]

Now the bedtime stories I loved is back.

[@jolovesblackcats]

I live in Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, we have them up here too. I have a friend, an ex Police woman who saw one, twice, early hours of the morning. Plus a couple of other people I have spoken to witnessed them, one in a village, cheeky as you like broad daylight, strolled down the main st. The other was woken by his dog barking one night early hrs, he looked into the large back garden to see a massive black cat walking in his garden. ( The dog was indoors) I asked a local Ranger if he'd seen anything in our area, he said no but a local farmer had found a dead sheep up a tree, throat ripped out of it, nothing native can do that. Love your channel, thank you so much. 💜 Keep safe everyone.💜

[@DinnerForkTongue]

African leopards are known for hoisting their food up onto tree branches. Stops it from being stolen by lions and hyenas.

[@robspadre5519]

Of all the so-called Cryptid tales, this certainly seems to be plausible. Remember, gorillas were considered to be cryptids until 1909.

[@johnpk5831]

For a second, I thought I was going to hear "Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!"

[@user-nx9eq2wq7t]

I live near Dartmoor in Devon and I know a few people who reckon they've seen big cats and even wolves up there. It's a vast expanse of rugged mountainous land but there aren't many trees so I feel like it'd be hard for something that big to stay concealed up there. Either way, Dartmoor is said to be very haunted and there are countless legends and rumours about the place. It's beautiful there too!

[@jancyvargheese5351]

Is there actually wolf sightings in Dartmoor?

[@swedisheinherjer]

4:21 that growl gives me the chills :(

[@aconcernedcommissar6261]

'They were the footprints of a gigantic hound' Sorry couldn't resist that just goes through my head eveytime i hear about it Though I did go to Devon and see a what looked like big black animal (thought it was a cat at the time) from a distance but now i think just saw a dog and misjudged what it was and its size due to not getting a good look at it

[@NodDisciple1]

Yeah...I had my dad look at some of the pics. He said the paw prints were too vague to properly identify. It lacked the tell-tale claw marks that could properly identify it as a cat or a dog (since dogs are unable to retract their claws).

[@anthroposlogica9379]

"they are not lions...they are the ghost and the darkness"

[@sargonixofur1234]

Great job. Keep ‘em coming. Always enjoy your stories.

[@joshuafaust9042]

Hey guys, I’ve been a watching yalls videos over the last 2 years, it’s truly my favorite thing on Sundays to look forward to. I’ve been really hoping for awhile you guys do an episode on Roswell. Any plans on covering this one ? (This is me begging!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼) you guys are amazingly talented and just seem to get getter with each passing episode. Keep up the awesome work !

[@MeekCrayon]

"There is something in the moors." Dunn Dunn Dunn! Oh yeah