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A PROWLING predator has been spotted in Flintshire for the second time in as many weeks.

“We thought nothing of it and climbed up to a high point towards the top of the quarry.

“We sat down to look for birds of prey through our binoculars and spotted the animal further round the quarry.

“From the binoculars, we could see that it wasn’t a sheep, hare, dog or badger, but some type of large cat. It looked like it was trying to catch birds that were nesting on the cliff tops.”

Mr Kardzis, 34, is the second Flintshire resident to report a sighting of a large feline creature.

As the Evening Leader reported last week, Stedman Woolnough and his wife Eleanor-May, of Penyffordd, got a shock when they spotted what looked like a black puma outside their house on Hawarden Road.

Eleanor-May, 67, said the creature was the size of a large dog and was wandering in and out of the hedges near the road, before it disappeared into a field.

Mr Kardzis, who works at moneysupermarket.com in Ewloe, added: “I couldn’t get close enough to work out exactly what it was, but it did not seem like it was meant to be there.

“I have certainly never seen anything like it before – not outside a zoo anyway.”

A North Wales Police spokesman said the force had not received any reports of big cat sightings.

[via Evening Leader]

The photograph of the strange-looking creature. (Courtesy: Al Watan)

A mysterious figure resembling a human being was sighted in the Doha Corniche’s parking lot, according to a report published in a local Arabic daily.

The report is based on the statement of an Arab expatriate lady who said she had seen the strange figure near the Oryx statue while walking in the area.

Quoting the woman, the daily said she took a picture of it in spite of being terribly frightened.

“She was very soon surrounded by a large number of people who also attested to the fact of what she had seen . But it suddenly disappeared out of their sight when they tried to go near it,” the report added, according to the Gulf Times, Thursday, April 23, 2009.

The image appears to be modeled on the African Kalanoro, somewhat (pictured), drawn by Harry Trumbore, from The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates.

[Lauren Coleman, Cryptomundo]

The Big Cats in Britain group is holding its 3rd annual conference at the Marton Country Club in Middlesbrough.

Investigators from around the British Isles and Ireland will be attending the meeting on the weekend of March the 20th to the 22nd.

Big Cats have been reported in the British Isles for over 50 years, and we are no closer to discovering just exactly what these animals are. The media focus has usually been on the ‘Beast of Exmoor or Bodmin.’ But the greatest number of reports, that BCIB receive, actually come from the North of England. Big black panther-like cats, lynx, pumas, are they really roaming our countryside?

Researchers from the beginning of this saga will be present at the conference to reveal their research. People such as Di Francis who first brought the subject to the public’s attention in the early 80s with her books the Beast of Exmoor, Cat Country and My Highland Kellas cats, will give a presentation on her never before published pictures of a large cat found on the shores of the Oban Estuary.

The event will also have previously unseen photos of a big cat in the British countryside brought along by one of the delegates.

Inspector Eddie Bell of the Durham Police will be presenting results of his 22 years of research in the area. His information on the subject in the North East is invaluable. He said: “I think there are wild-born animals out there - enough to maintain a local population. We have had very good sightings from people who should know, like biologists, and also other evidence such as a footprint identified as a puma near Barnard Castle.”

North east ecologist Ian Bond of the Northumbrian Mammal Group will also be speaking at the conference, he reports: “The focus seems to be mainly in the Tynedale area at present with sightings easily in double figures in the last two years. But there is also a good cluster of sightings near Whitby and the Trimdon Panther has been sighted again north of Hartlepool recently.

“I have no doubt whatsoever that there are some big cats out there, possibly of two or three different species.

“Some of the sightings have been made by excellent naturalists who are unlikely to have got it wrong.”

Chris Hall is another local researcher who will be speaking. Mr Hall has spent the last three years following up reports and interviewing witness in the area, he has been responsible for discovering previously unpublished reports. He has also organised, along with the Aycliffe and District preservation group, a vintage bus tour, with running commentary, to the Castle Eden Walkway.

Naturalist and Natural History museum curator Jonathan McGowan will be travelling from Dorset to present his findings. Jonathan is a prolific field researcher, and has found convincing evidence of large cats in the British countryside, and featured on last year’s History Channels ‘Monster Quest’ documentary, along with conference organiser, Mark Fraser.

Speakers will be coming from as far away as Scotland and the Irish Republic. Dr Peter McCue will be presenting a different slant to the subject, not everybody believes that these animals are flesh and blood creatures!

Other activities include:

·        Workshops with ecologist Rick Minter

·        Raffle

·        Books stalls and memorabilia

·        Northumbrian Mammal Group display.

·        Dorset big cat display

·        Field craft displays

·        A live web cam

·        Skulls and cats

This is a unique gathering of the country’s leading researchers on the subject. The audience will be invited to take part as much as possible, relating their own experiences or asking questions.

BCIB are looking for witnesses to contact them with sightings in their area, video footage, photographs are most welcomed. Your anonymity will be assured if that is your wish. A short film is being produced from the area, and any persons wishing to take part should contact BCIB for filming in February.

Conference organiser Mark Fraser said: “The subject of whether or not big cats exist in Britain is a popular one, nearly everybody knows someone who claims to have seen one of our mysterious felines. It is hoped by these gatherings we can get nearer to the truth and obtain hard evidence of these animals.”

Tickets cost for the full weekend £25 - one day £15 each.

All enquiries to Mark Fraser on Tel: 07766 416 211 or visit the Big Cats In Britain website at www.bigcatsinbritain.org

Villagers living along the Baleh river in Borneo fear a 100-foot snake could be lurking in the murky waters.

An aerial photograph that appears to show a gigantic snake swimming along the remote waterway has emerged, sparking great concern among local communities.

But it is not clear whether the photograph is genuine, or a clever piece of photo-editing. Some suggested the ’snake’ was in fact a log or a speed boat and others complained the colour of the river in the photo was too dark.

The most common theory is that the photo has been manipulated on a computer.

The image has even stumped the New Straits Times newspaper in Kuala Lumpur, which suggested readers decide for themselves.

However, on the banks of the river, villagers are convinced of the massive serpent’s existence and have even given it a name, Nabau, after an ancient sea serpent which can transform itself into the shapes of different animals.

Earlier this month scientists unearthed the fossil of a snake that was longer than a bus, as heavy as a small car and which could swallow an animal the size of a cow.

The 45ft long monster - named Titanoboa - was so big that it lived on a diet of crocodiles and giant turtles, squeezing them to death and devouring them whole.

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A BIG cat the “size of a labrador” is stalking the grounds near Prince Charles’ Highgrove Estate.

Two burly tree surgeons gulped in fear as the beast prowled under the willow tree they were felling.

John Vine and Nick Cole managed to snap the cat’s paw print after it slinked off at mid morning on Monday.

And experts think it’s is a credible sighting.

Mr Vine, 49, said: “I was working 50ft up in tree when Nick shouted to me to look down to my left.

“I saw this black cat, that I first thought was just a domestic cat. I only got the scale when I saw it come half-way up a gate post.

“The cat was the size of a labrador with a shimmering coat, like gloss paint and a black tail as long as itself.

“The tail was what struck me most. It seemed as though it was floating, curled up at the end and hovering in the air.

“The head was similar to a domestic cat, but slightly bigger.

“I wasn’t so much scared, as in awe. I think he was more afraid of me than I was of him. He didn’t slouch but just swept away like a wave.

“I’ve been a sceptic about these kinds of things in the past and though it was just old wives’ tales, but there’s no doubt in my mind now.”

The sighting was on a dirt track near the Highgrove Estate in Tudor Mead, Gloucester, around 11.30am.

Big cat expert, Frank Tunbridge, 60, has been tracking cats for the past 25 years and believes the men’s account is too similar to other recent sightings to ignore.

He said: “I think they disturbed this animal, working with their equipment and it came out of the thicket. You’ll never see them if you actively go looking.

“I went to the spot and found the hole it came out of - it was the size of a large steering wheel.

“These sightings are increasing and most of them are now so uniform that it’s clear a number of big cats have naturalised in the environment.

“How Mr Vine described it really sums up what others have seen. It is a credible sighting.”

He believes most of the big cats seen now are descended from animals like leopards or pumas released by owners after Dangerous Animals Act of 1976 tightened up regulations.

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A body found in the Big Black River near U.S. 80 late Monday and believed to be human was determined this morning to be that of an unidentified animal.

The determination came as an autopsy began at the Mississippi State Crime Lab in Jackson.

“It is not human,” Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said. “I repeat, it is not human.”

Speculation on Monday and early this morning had centered on Benjamin Bearrick, a 55-year-old Warriors Trail resident who has not been seen since January 25, two days after he drove his next-door neighbor and tenant to a hospital with fatal stab wounds.

The death of Shawn Sponholz, 50, was ruled a homicide.

Bearrick was questioned and released, but was not found two days later when deputies went to his home for further investigation.

The discovery came one day after a widespread manhunt through the Bovina area involving trained dogs and more than 60 deputies and volunteers.

The sheriff said Investigator Chris Satcher was at the crime lab this morning when medical examiners determined the body was not human.

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When American reader Todd took this photo of a pyramidal monument in the Cedarwood Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut, he spotted what he believes to be a spirit or a fairy sitting placidly beneath it. Todd would be delighted to hear other Paranormal readers’ comments on his photo. Please get in touch with your comments.

Mark Fraser of the research organisation Big Cats in Britain has kindly passed on the following picture that has just been submitted to BCIB. The photograph of a possible Alien Big Cat was taken by Paul Dennys, who explains: ‘I took this photo in North Cornwall. I’m a natural history photography student with Falmouth University. I was with three other students, getting a panning shot for a short film (no film footage was taken) and was setting my exposures on my still camera when I heard: ‘What the hell is that? Is it a wild cat?’ I focused on the cat and shot (not a a great exposure as I was still setting up). Once I took a shot I looked up to see a dog-sized black cat sprint into a bush. I think you can tell from the photo that it’s not a normal-sized cat.’

Our thanks to Mark Fraser, BCIB and Paul Dennys. The photograph is copyright Paul Dennys, all rights reserved.

More than 1,000 people claim to have seen the Loch Ness monster since a mysterious shape was first photographed 75 years ago.

References to a monster in Loch Ness date back to St Columba’s biography in 565 AD.

But the myth only took its modern form when reports of a strange object and then a series of mysterious photographs appeared in press during the 1930s. The BBC website has marked the 75th anniversary of the appearance of the first of these photographs with a recap of the most iconic Nessie images to date.

A NEW sighting of South America’s ‘creepy gnome’ has caused panic among locals after a group of youngsters claimed a ‘midget monster’ ran towards them at night. The teens – who recorded footage of the freaky being on their mobile phone – said they are now “too terrified” to go out at night.

Experts who examined the latest footage, taken in the town of Clodomira, province of Santiago del Estero, Argentina, last week, say it is ‘credible’. But sceptics say the sidestepping ‘gnome’ could be a speedy child or even a small animal.

Last week’s footage was taken by Juan Carlos Roldan, his brother Javier and five friends, who were larking around by the water fountain in Clodomira. Juan, who filmed the creature, referred to it as “something that looked like a dwarf”. He said: “It was walking sideways and was wearing dark clothes. But it was impossible to see its face because its face was covered in shadows.”

One of the lads, who were aged 15-22, yesterday told Argentinean reporters: “We were messing about - singing and dancing - when we heard a loud rustling noise from behind us. “This tiny thing started running down Avenue San Martin at us. It had a pointy head and dark clothes. “It was a person of incredibly low stature. We filmed it then got scared and ran off.

“This little thing was barking like a dog - but running sideways on two legs. It headed off towards the football stadium.” Juan added: “We stopped for a while around a block away from where we saw it. Then we returned and picked up the pieces of clothing that we had left behind and our bikes too but we didn’t see anything else.”

Photographic expert Aldegonda Alvarz, of Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero, yesterday said: “This video footage seems credible. We could be looking at another ‘petido orejudo’ - small being.”

The original video of a ‘creepy gnome’ recorded in Argentina last March caused millions to be stunned around the world. It sparked hundreds coming forward to report similar sightings while a town’s mayor and police chief admitted they had known about ‘the creepy gnome’s’ existence for 20 years. Teenager Jose Alvarez first caught the creature on film while larking about in his hometown of General Guemes, in the province of Salta, Argentina. He said: “This is no joke. We are still afraid to go out - just like everyone else in the neighbourhood now. “One of my friends was so scared after seeing that thing that we had to take him to the hospital.”

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