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In the English language there is such a thing as phantom cats. It denotes large feline animals, for example, jaguars, lynxes, cougars and leopards that are found far beyond the limits of their habitat. Phantom cats or their tracks were repeatedly seen in various countries around the globe: in United States, Canada, UK, India, Finland, Denmark, New Zealand and so on.
There are many theories for the emergence of such cryptids. Some consider that predators run away from zoos or private collections, after which forced to survive in places where their habitat is difficult. Other suggest that this phenomenon is rather supernatural, and everything faults in space-time or portals in parallel worlds. Still others are sure that we are talking about some unique beasts, who live freely in the wild in small groups.
In England, there is its own famous phantom cat – the Bodmin beast. Since 1983, he was repeatedly seen in the hilly and swampy Bodmin Moor area in the county of Cornwall in the south-west of the country. Eyewitnesses describe cryptids as a huge black cat, which Appears in the fields and near forests. The animal is not approaching human dwellings and generally eschews people, so no one cares still failed to photograph the Bodmin beast near.
However, there are many pictures in which the mysterious the creature is shown running in the distance. Specialists researching these materials claim that foxes are imprinted on many of them, large dogs and even bears, which are impressionable British taken from afar as a Bodmin beast. However, some photos lead experts into real bewilderment because they portray namely large predators from the cat family, which simply do not can roam in the Foggy Albion.
Why is the Bodmin Beast always black?
In 1995, when a mysterious animal began to notice especially often, British authorities were forced to investigate with the goal is to determine whether such a Bodmin Moore really lives living creatures. In this investigation, government agents found in the forest a skull of a young male leopard, but for some reason almost did not attach any significance to this find and simply left, saying that there are no cryptids here.
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Messages about meetings with the Bodmin Beast come from Bodmin Moore so far. And, it would seem, after how many years no one can tell where the predator came from, but at all information has recently surfaced that may shed light on the truth.
The current owner of the Dartmoor Zoological Garden in the county Devon, bordering Cornwall, shared the other day with compatriots very interesting information. According to Benjamin Mi, he now became aware that in 1978 the then mistress of the zoo Mary Chipperfield illegally released into nature not far from the village of Sparkwell, three cougars capable of procreation, two of which were females and one male.
Chipperfield is reportedly in debt to the bank, and its zoo unexpectedly shut down. At this very time, the owner brought a cougar there. The woman realized that now she would have to send at her own expense animals to their homeland, and decided not to spend already flowing from it money by ordering to open the cages and release predators to freedom. Five years passed, and in Bodmin Moore they began to notice the same or different phantom cats that quickly got the nickname Bodminsky beast.
Benjamin Mi claims that if this story is true, then cougars, probably bred and somehow adapted to life in England. However, this theory convinced few, since real cougars led would be much more natural, and would not cause people mystical fear. And then, why cougars are always black? ..
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