Anyone have encounters with anomalous or 'supernatural' animals?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

As most people know, there are no big cats in Britain. There are only two species extant on the island, the domestic cat and a small Scottish Wildcat (felis silvestris grampia). This has not stopped many people over the years encountering what they believe to be Pumas and Panthers all across the island, which by right should be impossible, as these animals are not native to and have not been introduced to the UK countryside.
In 1986, my parents managed a small campsite in Argyll, in the west of Scotland, in a very rural area. The campsite was supplied with drinking water from a reservoir in the hill behind our house, so occasionally my dad would take my brother and I (he was thirteen, I was ten) up the path to check that the water pipes had not frozen and
ruptured overnight.
One day, as we were walking up the hill on a weekend morning, my dad happened to notice something in the rocks on the hillside. He gestured to my brother and I, and we both clearly saw a large cat, perhaps four or five feet long scrambling over some near-vertical rocks. The cat was dark, perhaps a dark brown or black, and larger than a dog, which it could not be mistaken for.
This was, naturally, strange, but the incident eventually receded into memory until a year later when my mother and I were driving home along the shore from a nearby village. At a small bay, where the road skirted a pebbled beach, a huge black shape lept onto the road in front of the car and dashed into the woods. It was clear daylight in summer, and the sighting was at very close quarters. Again, the cat was about five feet long.
These Alien Big Cats (ABC's)are anomalies. They should not exist in places like Scotland, or, for that matter, Eastern North America, but thousands of people see them every day. Anyone here had a similar experience.

Here's some web evidence and info.

Specifically referring to our local experience in mid-Argyll in the mid-1980's:

http://www.bigcats.org/abc/sightings/1985/index.html

8th January Castle Sween, Knapdale, Argyll Tawny cat, large tail, larger than fox.

11th January Loch Head Farm, Knapdale, Argyll
Large cat-like footprints found in snow.

25th January Kilmartin, Kilmichael, Argyll Large tawny cat Three sheep killed - headless.

27 th January Ford, Kilmichael, Argyll Puma-like, larger than dog.

2nd March Inverary, Argyll Large cat, cat-like head, large tail, large paws.

July Furnace, Inverary, Argyll Large black cat, large blacked tip to tail, flat feline face, large paws.

3rd November Ormsary, Kilmichael, Argyll Large tawny/grey cat.

The above places are within 20 or so miles of each other. I lived at Castle Sween.

[Loonman]

1. The Dover Demon

http://www.para-normal.com/nuke/html/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1774

I've never seen it, but the people who reported it would have nothing to gain but ridicule by reporting it.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

2. That's a very surreal story.

People have been experiencing that for about thirty years, right?

[Loonman]

5. Yep

Too weird to be fake, I think there is some credence to it.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

7. Who knows. I'm unwilling to dismiss all that evidence out of hand.

These people have experienced something, however much it offends our rational thought. Still, it does boggle the mind, much like the Mothman experiences.

[Minstrel Boy]

13. oooh, Mothman!

Mothman rawks.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

15. It's a fantastic story, in the true definition of the word.

Can we seriously put all of the Mothman experiences down to a few rogue birds? Mothman lives!

[Whitacre D_WI]

3. You are a strange little man.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. Hey! I'm six feet!

I'm a strange medium-tall man. Get it right!

[Whitacre D_WI]

6. I wasn't talking about that.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

8. Well, since I got that Swedish Pump, things have gotten a whole lot better

Oh yeah.

[m-jean03]

14. fughet it

Dumb threadjacking:eyes:

RE: this post, not yours btw

Edit: It said "Can you say Swedish Penis Enlarger with an english accent like Austin Powers?" OK---AYYYY m-jean you really need to go get some breakfast...

[Screaming Lord Byron]

16. Just did.

:evilgrin:

[m-jean03]

17. Sexy --

You must be awfully shag a delic, baby :D

[Screaming Lord Byron]

9. kick

[m-jean03]

10. Well, there was Oscar

:-)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

11. Was he a Wilde animal?

[m-jean03]

12. Ha-ha

Oscar the Mixed & Wilde Animal. Yes.:) But you might want to ask A_Schwarzenegger about that to be sure.