Report from George Markie
Third sighting of big cat in Sutherland
From the Fortean Times No 25 Spring 1978
Original source Aberdeen Evening Express 14 December 1977
On the morning of 14 th December 1977, a gamekeeper, Donald Mckenzie, of Dunedin House, Bettyhill, and his son found the carcasses of six sheep out on the barren moorland. Then they saw what they believed to be "a lion or a puma", shot at it, and believed they winged it. But it escaped.
Only the day before, crofters out hunting foxes, started the cat-like beast from cover, and believe they too might have nicked it with their shots.
The local report closes with the info that this same (or similar) animal was sighted back in the spring, in Caithness.
Aberdeen Evening Express 14 December 1977
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