A Michael Broad Blog
Thirteen days ago the Daily Mail online presented to the world a mysterious cat which they described as the Beast of St Albans. They said that the outsized moggy had leopard markings and was “definitely bigger than a domestic cat”. This cat was definitely not domestic they screamed but actually when you look at …
The latest big cat of Cumbria sighting and photograph is another fake. It is a ‘slow news day’ story. It is clear to me that the photograph of a cat on top of a dry stone wall in Cumbria shows a domestic cat. Domestic cats can reach 48 inches in length. They are often …
On a quiet news day we have mystery big cat sightings. There is one in Australia at present. News.com.au report a dramatic, black, mystery cat at least five times the size of a domestic cat only, as is always the case, the video record is of such appalling quality that we can’t tell what …
Today, The Daily Star has emblazoned across its front page the title: BRIT BIG CAT EATS BAMBI. The caption is: “a terrifying image of an infamous big cat roaming free in the UK has been snapped by a cabbie. It was taken close to an area strewn with mutilated deer corpses.” The animal is …
This is another one of those mysterious big cat photographs; only the cat is not big, more medium-sized for a wild cat. That is if the cat is a wild cat because even that is not certain. The photographer, Jack Drost, swears that the photograph is not photoshopped and I can believe him. Some …
This is the extraordinary headline (or words to that effect) in the Daily Star online newspaper. Black panthers are big cats. They are usually melanistic jaguars or leopards. Therefore, the headline suggests that there are a large number of very dangerous big cats wandering around the countryside and suburbia of the UK terrifying residents …
This is a big cat sighting which has all the hallmarks of journalistic fiction on a quiet day for decent news. However, this mountain lion sighting has ostensibly been confirmed by the police using a heat sensing camera. I can only presume that journalists are working with the police to drum up a bit …
I have a theory which explains why some people are fearful of the domestic cat and the theory links a fear of the domestic cat with big cat sightings. A recent, well-publicised, big cat sighting took place very recently near Paris, France. You have probably have heard about it. A woman thought she had …
