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July 03, 2008 | | The Beast of Exmoor is a big cat with sightings first reported in the 1970s. The Beast became notorious in 1983, when a South Molton farmer claimed to have lost over 100 sheep in the space of three months, all of them apparently killed by violent throat injuries. It is reported as being between 4 feet (1.2 m) and 8 feet (2.4 m) from nose to tail. Descriptions of its coloration range from black to tan or dark gray.
| Posted in categories: [Folklore] [TV] [Video] | Comments | Added by ace on January 04, 2009 | | i believe that it is possible that there is might be big cats a cross or something else i mean there is proof the dead sheep that were killed. i believe that they cant find the body becouse it decays fast. |
| Added by dracodraco on January 03, 2009 | | Iv'e seen the beast. It was about 6 in the afternoon. I was waiting by our car with my little brother, recoiuyh (I don't want to give any real names). I told recoiuyh to get behind our rock wall. It was about as large as an overgrown german shepard. Pitch black with rounded ears and a large tail. Yeah, I would have thought it was my eyes playing a trick on me too, but explain why 2 people saw it? |
| Added by concern human on January 03, 2009 | | I guess its a sabertooth you know like no body knows that they are still living on earth hiding from humans |
| Added by Ruby Vampire on December 30, 2008 | | I agree with tigeress. i dont agree with killing the poor thing though, its more scared of humans and wont kill one. |
| Added by Tigeress on December 27, 2008 | | All of you have got it wrong! haven't any of you heard of a were-cat( or in this case a were-leopard) before. This would explain elongated year, almost little or no clues to tracking down this beast. It over increased appitite that a normal large cat can't hold. It's very possible too. The only question is why it chooses to stay in that habitat. But that might be the human half repalling against the beast that he or she constantly lives with. trying to mantain some sembelnce of control. This would also suggest breeding so the orginol beast might have already died, I mean everyone knows that the "were' gene is a dominent gene. |
| Added by Legend Lover on December 22, 2008 | | Hey, If you cross reference it with the "Hound of Baskerville" it could be just two families fuding or someone trying to take controll of that area |
| Added by Shadow_hunter on December 17, 2008 | | I think we got a werewolf or something. as i could hear it is inteligent and savage. it´s stop killing when the marine soldiers was there. and startet right after they was gone.
what it is i don´t really know. but after studiyng werewolf and other canivores i really think it is somethign "non-humen" or "non-animal" of our spicies enclyclopedia. i dont think it is a new type of breeed. but it could be possible. |
| Added by random gye on December 09, 2008 | | is't it simple it is a leopard but we all know the rule that the DNA of a animal has to be similar enough so that they will be attracted to each other why not a leoion or leopard? |
| Added by Dark Angel on December 06, 2008 | | i think it could be some kind of mutation since some belive it is a little larger then a jaguar could be so maybe a mutation between two different kinds of cats |
| Added by dragon listener on December 03, 2008 | | this is a awsome beast (trying to meanit in the nicest way possiable.)I like all sorts of animals. |
| Added by dylan on December 01, 2008 | | i think i have seen one before i always hear a really loud growling but whenever i look out the window to see i see this big cat running pitch black very long tail at least 3 foot long me and my dad went searching for it one day when we saw a giant cat like foot print the next ever since that day nothing until one day i was walking up my sand mount and saw blood evrywhere i ran away and neve saw anything since then |
| Added by Tatyana on October 31, 2008 | | It's highly unlikely to be a new breed of big cat, or rather a cross-breed between two kinds of big cat - for a start, not being the same species they would instinctively attack one another as a competitor rather than think to mate. It just wouldn't happen; unless the fact that they were raised by humans instead of in the wild changed their behaviour. Also, a cross-breed would be infertile (like a mule) so a population couldn't be established - more likely to just be one creature that caused all the bother then the story got embellished and elaborated from there. So, if someone released a 'pet' panther or similar into the wild, then there's no need to assume it's a monster... |
| Added by ramon angelo t. tan on October 31, 2008 | | what I ment to say to built a trap is to dig the hole 8feet below |
| Added by nads on October 30, 2008 | | lol,, it's a black leopard.
two escaped/freed leopards were breeding, and a black leopard is a leopard with no pigment, go do some research ppl. the thing even moves like a leopard.
like a white tiger isn't some mutated tiger,, it's a genetic anomaly. it happens, even with ppl, called albino.
They are exceptionally smart, and know how to hide.
btw, one leopard can easily extinguish a farmers entire livestock, it happens all the time in south africa. |
| Added by ramon angelo t . tan on October 29, 2008 | | I say that the beast of exmoor is a creature that lurks in the lands the only way to capture it is by building a huge trap the first thing to do is to dig a huge hole about 7 feet long and we put inside the hole with some thorns and covered it with sticks and leaves and we tied a sheep to a wooden fence but when the beast of exmoor saw the sheep it will quickly run toreds the sheep but when the beast run toreds the sheep POW! the beast fell in to the hole and then we locked it with IRON BARS and now rain of is finally over in exmoor. |
| Added by werewolf alpha on October 28, 2008 | | im begining to wonder if all those big cats breed with one another and this one hapens to have a black fur coat buts its definatly no monster |
| Added by Mastersibuna on October 25, 2008 | | Its a black fox |
| Added by Devil Hunter on October 20, 2008 | | Can't you people see that this is just a big panther? Honestly. You guys have some wild imaginations. |
| Added by me on October 20, 2008 | | its nothing you should see my pet |
| Added by Sir Legend on October 13, 2008 | | It may be some sort of sabertoothed lepord or a black panther or maby just something entirly diferent like a one headed Cerberus. |
| Added by Brisinger bird on October 02, 2008 | | Poeple usually say their is no such thing as monsters or beasts. Sure that`s true but maybe a scientist could `ve acidentally fused two diferent animals this explanation may sound like a movie but it is 100% possible that this kinda thing could happen. |
| Added by ralyx_of_realm on October 01, 2008 | | sabertooth do not belong to the same species as the tigers or wild cats present today. this is spoof |
| Added by Kit Seraph on September 30, 2008 | | It's probably just a stray panther that either escaped or was set free and has breed. They said they don't know how many were set free by owners when that law passed so maybe a small percentage surived. As for being black and not being a leopard, maybe it's like that black bobcat that was caught in flordia or that black deer that was shot some where in oregon I think? Not sure. But anything is possible with animals. |
| Added by zzz on September 19, 2008 | | maybe it's a pumapard - a cross between a puma and a leopard. very rare though. |
| Added by jessica sanders on September 19, 2008 | | you all say it couldent possibly be a monster well i have one question for you all. What is the aspect of a monster? you all invision a monster as something strange and scary but in all reality whatever is doing this is nothing more than an animal acting on instinct there is the possiblity of it being the black beast of exmoor and if it is then we should just accept "the impossible" oh and for you who say let me see the two cross breed you should exsamine the law of species. the law is like this... dogs can breed with other dogs but dogs cant breed with cats. so knowing this isnt it possible for a leopard to breed with a sebertooth. but then the question arises on how could they have done that because of the time periods. meaning sabertooths were from the ice age and leopards are just a form of evolution and adaptation. i dont know but hey in only 14 so how could i possibly be right? -Jessica Sanders |
| Added by rachl on September 15, 2008 | | i read about this there should not be any more big cats near that area.some people say the deads are by dogs. the thing is thought to be bigger than cats we know about today. i think there are still cats there and they are bigger and better then we know. they had to grow that way to live and not be killed out there. the cats are said to be able to think like us if not better. |
| Added by Cbob on September 14, 2008 | | it was popular among the jetset crowd of the mid 60s to own large cats some got or were let lose like large snakes in the everglades in FL if some were the us cougar they are able to breed with any of the large cats of the world hence the crossbreeds and the reason the don't bight skulls the couger takes the throught it would still be a geneticly sound kill black is only a mutation in the jaguar and not anather breed of cat this mutation could be carried by the ofspring and a small population could be sustained in the backcountry of England |
| Added by Annie on September 14, 2008 | | It looks like a panther |
| Added by Anna on September 12, 2008 | | I think that its a cross between a minotaur and a saber tooth. |
| Added by xxx on September 11, 2008 | | i think it's probably some kind of leopard. a jaguar maybe, although from what i researched on jaguars normally break their victims' skulls, not bite their throats. |
| Added by HumbleMarty on September 10, 2008 | | I know I'm no expert but maybe it could've been a humanized big cat, wolf or even a humanized bear. I've heard of some people actually trying to keep a tiger cub as an exotic pet until it was too big to handle. A beast that size would probably have to have a black hole for a stomach, to eat 100 big wooly sheep within a month. |
| Added by ethelwolf on September 09, 2008 | | ...? it might just be a loose black panther or jagauar or something.. because iv seen jaguars before.. and the beast looks a hell of alot like a black panther or jaguar. |
| Added by ym on September 07, 2008 | | u call urselves scientists. people let jaguars, lepards, lions & other cats run loose right? well animals r not like humans. they only go by instinct. its possible that a jaguar & another type of cat like a lion or someting bread. which is why its not like any other cat. its a new bread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Added by fina on September 05, 2008 | | i like what you think or came up with thes creatures but is all you came up with you shoul native american thing like the skinwalker out in NM,AZ,and UT. or unless you people are scaredi double dare you. |
| Added by jose o. on September 04, 2008 | | the pictures simply show what seem to be jaguars, leopards, and panthers. maybe some wandered into the areas in search of food. nothing out of the ordinary though. |
| Added by scorp on September 02, 2008 | | i have strong beliefs on the aspect of impossible, however i do doubt it is a monster, but i still hold doubts it's a leopard. but i do think something is out there. |
| Added by Dazzle on August 31, 2008 | | probably a jaguar or a panther from the zoo |
| Added by Pretty Princess on August 25, 2008 | | Obviously u can see its a leopard its not a monster u ppl and plus deres is no such things as a monster killiing 1000 sheeps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Added by t on August 24, 2008 | | I agree |
| Added by yo on August 24, 2008 | | Imposible you say, the world was built on imposible. Its like a dog and a lepord.I think the mantacore came from this. |
| Added by DragonHeart on August 23, 2008 | | hey hey hey it is just a leopard people not a monster or a hound duh duh duh
and if it is not a leopard and it is a beast then sorry for the mistake.
SEE IT IS A LEOPARD A CROSS BETWEEN A LEOPARD AND A SEBERTOOTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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