New Norfolk-Norwich Panther Encounters
Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 3rd, 2009
New sightings of a mysterious black beast and the discovery of a mutilated deer this week added more credibility to the stories of a big black cat prowling Norfolk, United Kingdom.
The fresh evidence came after various of tales of a mysterious panther-like black animal being spotted in north Norfolk and close to Norwich, north and east of the city boundary.
The mutilated deer was found by two teenagers, 18-year-old Diana Turner and a friend, as they walked along Weavers Way near Stepping Stone Lane just outside Stalham.
The teenagers took a photograph of the carcase which they later showed to Barrie Slater, the father of Miss Turner’s boyfriend.
Mr Slater said they had struggled to think of anything else that could have caused the damage – other than a large, and perhaps feral, dog. He said: “There is nothing around big enough to do that much damage. It appears to have had its neck broken which is the sort of thing big cats do. It’s an enormous bite.”
Mr Slater contacted the North Norfolk News about the deer after seeing newspaper photographs of huge scratches supposedly left by a big cat on a tree near North Walsham on last Sunday.
Jill Nobbs saw a large, dark coloured animal in the field at the bottom of her garden in Blofield.
She said: “The creature was about the size of a Labrador but longer and thinner and it ran extremely quickly.
“There were no signs of anyone walking a dog. I believe it was a wild animal, probably a puma.”
She added that the animal was chasing something red – possibly a fox or a small deer.
Shaun Baxter, a househusband from Bowthorpe, near Norwich, said he saw the “black panther” leaving his mark while out shooting rabbits in a field off Bacton Road between North Walsham and Edingthorpe.
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About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
The more sightings one gets, the closer are the “authorities” to accepting the reality that most ordinary people know—there really are “black panthers” running around the woods.
Keep showing yourselves, felines!!!