July 12, 2013

Aussie Big Cat Sighting

REPORTS that a big cat may be wandering the district’s scrubland have raised the interest of big cat hunters and sent the communities of Sea Lake and Nandaly into a frenzy of speculation.

One farmer has publicly confirmed his sighting, made on his property near Sea Lake. The Guardian has also received anonymous reports of sightings and strange livestock behaviour in other nearby areas.

Sea Lake farmer Nic Harrison was willing to go ‘on the record’ and tell the story of his “frightening” big cat experience which occured while he was spraying crops.

“I was spraying at the time on my first lap around the paddock, so I was concentrating on not hitting the fence and this huge cat just appeared,” he recounted.

“It was actually hanging around the rabbit warren and then as soon as it saw the tractor it sort of slunk down to the ground and ran.”

Mr Harrison claimed the cat disappeared into dense bushland adjacent to his property after he startled the animal.

He said he spotted the animal in broad daylight, about 2pm, at a distance of 20 to 30 metres.

While sightings of melanistic leopards — commonly known as panthers — are not unheard of in country Victoria, Mr Harrison believed what he saw may have been a spotted leopard.

He said there was no chance it could have been a regular feral cat, or fox.

“I’ve never seen one like it. It had spots like a leopard and it had a huge long tail. Its tail was as long as its body. I’ve never seen anything like it.”

“As soon as I saw it I thought: ‘This is too big not to say anything and not worry about.'”

Big cat investigator Simon Townsend, who runs the website Big Cats Victoria said Mr Harrison’s sighting sounded like a “boomer”, and it was made at “very close” range.

He said while he had not previously received reports from the Sea Lake or Nandaly areas, “anything is possible”.

Read the rest of the article here: Big Cat Sighting

About Craig Woolheater
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005. I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films: OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.

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