I was telling my son about the beast of Basingstoke and promised to gather some info...... can't find any. Can anyone help?
Ta in advance
there is a reference on the Basingstoke not Boreingstoke web-site and in wikipedia site, but neither contain any real info.
The Beast of Basingstoke
There have been many sightings of The Beast of Basingstoke in the countryside around Basingstoke since 1993 it is believed to be one or a pair of Pumas
Thought it was more like a sandy coloured animal - Lion like in shape and colour - think your getting the Puma story mixed up with the West country one.
It made the national news about 15 - 20 years ago - sightings were all focused around Crabtree Plantation - even made the GMTV news feature if i can recall!!
(22-10-2008 04:26 PM)basingstokeroyal Wrote: [ -> ]Thought it was more like a sandy coloured animal - Lion like in shape and colour - think your getting the Puma story mixed up with the West country one.
It made the national news about 15 - 20 years ago - sightings were all focused around Crabtree Plantation - even made the GMTV news feature if i can recall!!
There are many stories round the UK of big cats living in the wild - there's the beast of bodmin and when I was a kid we had the surrey puma. I suppose it's possible that some numnut released some cats into the wild but i'd have thought we'd have had a definitive sighting by now. Shame that all the photos that do come to light are so poor, just like the nessie, big foot, yeti ones.
(22-10-2008 04:26 PM)basingstokeroyal Wrote: [ -> ]Thought it was more like a sandy coloured animal - Lion like in shape and colour - think your getting the Puma story mixed up with the West country one.
My other-half once swore he saw a black/dark coloured cat streaking across a field, as we came through Sherbourne-st-Johns early hours of a Monday morning heading towards Popley 4. With my eye-balls though, I missed it. It was before the days of me wearing specs
I can't guarantee what he saw... but it certainly shook him up a bit. he was convinced he had seen the beast of Basingstoke