appears to show a suspected big cat stalking walkers in a British beauty spot. The animal, onlookers reckoned, was “twice the size” of a normal cat you would more likely find dozing lazily in a house window to the anger of the local bruiser pooch. The was spotted on farmland near Askrigg, North Yorkshire.

The Telegraph and Argus reported a passerby, who remained anonymous, said the sighting had come after a sheep had been “ripped to shreds” in a field nearby. The same person had could be the offspring of a panther spotted in the area around a decade ago. “My friend has a farm track and it was just at the end.

.. It looked about twice the size of a normal cat,” they said.

“Not long ago around my other back field, I called the farmer because there was a dead sheep. They’ve never seen anything like it because it was ripped to shreds. “You’re talking older farmers, 70-year-old farmers, and they’ve never seen anything like it.

They added: “There are quite a lot of things on these moors which do make you wonder.” The chilling situation developed when the sleek black feline was seen on a private farm track on November 13. The New Nessy was around four to five feet long, a witness said.

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