Stunned student discovers graveyard of mutilated sheep sparking big cat fears
Stunned student discovers graveyard of mutilated sheep sparking big cat fears
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A student was stunned when he found a number of mutilated sheep carcases in a scene resembling a “graveyard”, amid fears of a big cat in the area. Harlem Karma, 18, had been enjoying a stroll through the countryside in the outskirts of Kendall in Cumbria when he came across the horror after a tip-off. Describing the scene, he said the bodies had begun to rot and smell - with many already picked clean by an unknown beast.
Harlem says his find was proof of the big cat rumoured to haunt the countryside, known as the so-called Beast of Cumbria - which he claims to have once seen. He said: “The sheer numbers of dead sheep was really weird, It was like a graveyard. "Like many people I grew up on stories from British folklore like the Loch Ness monster and the Beast of Exmoor so I started doing my own research. I was informed of the field in Kendal and went to look and it was full of mutilated sheep.
"The smell of rotting flesh was awful. The distress to the muzzles and neck indicates a big cat kill.”. He added he strongly believed the wilds of Cumbria could hide big cats. Harlem said: “The sheer vastness of Cumbria and its diverse landscape and wildlife increases chances of there being big cats here. “Last year I saw what I believe to be a black, melanistic leopard. I was on the bus at the time as it effortlessly jumped over a dry stone wall and continued into a wooded tree line.
"Since then I have collected several reports from this area of an animal with the same description with sightings dating as far back as 2011. The reports in Cumbria are always of a large black cat but there's very little hard evidence when it comes to big cats in Cumbria. "I'm aiming to get some solid evidence of these mysterious creatures without revealing their locations specifically. I'm hoping to feature a few interviewees in the film too to help strengthen the believability of the phenomena here in Cumbria.".
