When I’m not working as a builder, I’m an independent big-cat researcher. I don’t claim to be an expert, but I’m active in the field. For the past 15 years, I’ve been corroborating eyewitness sightings and laying camera traps as part of a nationwide, online, alien-big-cat network. The press likes to call us “the camouflage brigade”, but I think I’m just a normal guy. I do look good in camo, though!
I’ve always been fascinated by big cats. I’ve had dreams about them since my childhood. I now believe it’s a distant, instinctive memory of when we were hominids and were preyed on by leopards.
I first learned that there may be big cats in the wild in the UK back in the early 1970s. My dad told me that the army was out trying to shoot a mountain lion that had been seen in our area. Then, following a sighting that my father-in-law had in Guildford in the early 2000s, I took an interest and joined the Big Cats in Britain group online.
Excerpt from The Guardian
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