BIG cat sightings are reported across the country every year, and Herefordshire is no exception. From attacks on horses and sheep, to strange sightings in dark lanes, there has been plenty of potential big cat activity in the county over the years. A wave of ‘black beast’ sightings were reported during the late 1990s, with famous Herefordshire cases include the Woolhope Wildcat in 1994 and numerous spottings of the Herefordshire Phantom Feline, also known as Big Puss , from 1996 to 2000. But reports later dropped off and by 2002 the county had claimed bottom place in a nationwide table of sightings. But in December 2009, Hereford man Steve Hall saw a feline-like creature, about two-and-a-half feet tall, stalking its way over farmland near Newtown Crossroads and recorded it on video.
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