For centuries, large black predatory cats have been said to prowl the countryside of

Britain, even though no such species is known to exist there.

Are the big cats of Britain just a tall tale, or might there be some truth to it?

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com, tracking the wild big cats of Britain.

Some refer to them as ABCs, alien big cats, black panthers and similar big cat species,

completely out of place in the British Isles, most particularly the Welsh countryside.

Not only is it trivially easy to find photos on the internet taken in recent years, it's

just as easy to find old stories that go back farther than we would reasonably expect people

to be importing them into the Isles.

They pray on deer and livestock, leaving carcasses that we can test for DNA and for identifiable

tooth marks.

ABCs are captured on film and in digital images, and they photograph much better than bigfoot,

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