Many people may be forgiven for assuming that blue tigers are as plausible as pink elephants, but cryptozoologists think otherwise – and for good reason.
Harry R. Caldwell was a Methodist missionary based in China during the early part of the 20th Century. He was also a keen big game hunter, and during his travels he encountered a truly amazing creature whose existence is still disputed by scientists but whose reality was, for him, an indisputable fact. In spring 1910, Caldwell was in the Futsing region of Fukien (now Fujian) Province in southeastern China when he first heard reports from villagers concerning a particularly ferocious but elusive tiger of extraordinary appearance.