'Panther' Spotted Near Chorleywood Watford Observer

Workers widening a highway may have upset more than the local residents. A motorist said she was stunned to see a large black feline prowling just yards from the roadside at around 3pm last Thursday afternoon. Elsewhere, when a professional artist spotted a big black cat near his home in Montcoffer, he made a life-sized cardboard replica of the beast: The Beast is back! More on the subject of these mysterious felines in Big cats in Teesside? and Is this paw print proof of a big cat roaming in Derbyshire?

The Global Monster Template Cryptozoology Online

Richard Freeman lays out six categories, based upon his realization that "All around the world it seems very specific kinds of monster archetype are seen again and again in every culture. Each civilization will have combinations of these monsters in its culture. I call this the Global Monster Template." Elsewhere, Jon Downes blogs about The Father of all the Turtles and Richard Muirhead does the same for The Ropen-a living pterosaur in Melanesia?