strangest thing you have ever seen

[Phirce]

about 5 years ago me and some buddies was camping and something ran up the cliff after us. So we grabbed a .380 pistol and a pitbull and chased after it. We seen it running very fast. It looked like a massive dog with long hair. My buddie shot hit three times but it didnt faze it. the next day we looked to see if we could find a blood trail but there was no blood. It was kinda freaky.

[Oneswunk]

Do you always run through the woods shooting unknown animals?

Welcome to ZS.

[Phirce]

lol no. But it tried to attack us first, and the friend doing the shooting is one of those guys that thinks everything is a conspiracy and has a stock pile of guns and ammo. So yeah he is one of those crazy guys that someday i may have to talk down from a ledge. lol

[KentsOkay]

lol no. But it tried to attack us first, and the friend doing the shooting is one of those guys that thinks everything is a conspiracy and has a stock pile of guns and ammo. So yeah he is one of those crazy guys that someday i may have to talk down from a ledge. lol

[wee drop o' bush]

This

One of my rams that my husband found like this early in the morning.



The cheap disposable camera didn't catch the rake marks in the wool or the 4 puncture wounds in its neck.

Rooks, Jackdaws etc had scavenged on the carcass once what ever killed it had left.
We have good Ministry approved fencing, all our gates are closed & many even are padlocked.
My husband checked the sheep in that field that morning & only saw 12. They were huddled in a corner, vey spooked and in his words "the sh*te was running out of them"
He couldn't see the 13th anywhere but eventually found it at the opposite end of the field as you see the ram lying.
Vets, experts etc visited that morning & confirmed it looked like a big cat kill. We had a man ask permission to hunt whatever killed the ram, free of charge if he could dispose of the predator how he liked.
I cannot confirm that it was a big cat and I won't try.
No matter what killed the ram, something big did & that kill was the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
We found another sheep carcass eaten the same way a year later.
I also heard very high pitched cries & saw the outline of something big on the farm 2 nights after the first kill.

[Czechnology]

Rooks, Jackdaws etc had scavenged on the carcass once what ever killed it had left.
We have good Ministry approved fencing, all our gates are closed & many even are padlocked.
My husband checked the sheep in that field that morning & only saw 12. They were huddled in a corner, vey spooked and in his words "the sh*te was running out of them"
He couldn't see the 13th anywhere but eventually found it at the opposite end of the field as you see the ram lying.
Vets, experts etc visited that morning & confirmed it looked like a big cat kill. We had a man ask permission to hunt whatever killed the ram, free of charge if he could dispose of the predator how he liked.
I cannot confirm that it was a big cat and I won't try.
No matter what killed the ram, something big did & that kill was the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
We found another sheep carcass eaten the same way a year later.
I also heard very high pitched cries & saw the outline of something big on the farm 2 nights after the first kill.

Damn. That would be rather unsettling. Maybe start leaving a dish of milk and/or some bread out on your doorstep at night, just in case?

[wee drop o' bush]

Rooks, Jackdaws etc had scavenged on the carcass once what ever killed it had left.
We have good Ministry approved fencing, all our gates are closed & many even are padlocked.
My husband checked the sheep in that field that morning & only saw 12. They were huddled in a corner, vey spooked and in his words "the sh*te was running out of them"
He couldn't see the 13th anywhere but eventually found it at the opposite end of the field as you see the ram lying.
Vets, experts etc visited that morning & confirmed it looked like a big cat kill. We had a man ask permission to hunt whatever killed the ram, free of charge if he could dispose of the predator how he liked.
I cannot confirm that it was a big cat and I won't try.
No matter what killed the ram, something big did & that kill was the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
We found another sheep carcass eaten the same way a year later.
I also heard very high pitched cries & saw the outline of something big on the farm 2 nights after the first kill.

Damn. That would be rather unsettling. Maybe start leaving a dish of milk and/or some bread out on your doorstep at night, just in case?

Yeah we tried that but no joy.
I wanted a pair of gloves made from it's hide.

I live only a short distance away from a safari park so I was used to the sound of lions at feeding time anyway.

[m ellis allen]

Rooks, Jackdaws etc had scavenged on the carcass once what ever killed it had left.
We have good Ministry approved fencing, all our gates are closed & many even are padlocked.
My husband checked the sheep in that field that morning & only saw 12. They were huddled in a corner, vey spooked and in his words "the sh*te was running out of them"
He couldn't see the 13th anywhere but eventually found it at the opposite end of the field as you see the ram lying.
Vets, experts etc visited that morning & confirmed it looked like a big cat kill. We had a man ask permission to hunt whatever killed the ram, free of charge if he could dispose of the predator how he liked.
I cannot confirm that it was a big cat and I won't try.
No matter what killed the ram, something big did & that kill was the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
We found another sheep carcass eaten the same way a year later.
I also heard very high pitched cries & saw the outline of something big on the farm 2 nights after the first kill.

doesnt brittan/scottland have a large cat mystery of their own?
dont know if you,ve seen this yet ---> http://www.britishbigcats.org/

[Crazy Wolf]

Rooks, Jackdaws etc had scavenged on the carcass once what ever killed it had left.
We have good Ministry approved fencing, all our gates are closed & many even are padlocked.
My husband checked the sheep in that field that morning & only saw 12. They were huddled in a corner, vey spooked and in his words "the sh*te was running out of them"
He couldn't see the 13th anywhere but eventually found it at the opposite end of the field as you see the ram lying.
Vets, experts etc visited that morning & confirmed it looked like a big cat kill. We had a man ask permission to hunt whatever killed the ram, free of charge if he could dispose of the predator how he liked.
I cannot confirm that it was a big cat and I won't try.
No matter what killed the ram, something big did & that kill was the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
We found another sheep carcass eaten the same way a year later.
I also heard very high pitched cries & saw the outline of something big on the farm 2 nights after the first kill.

doesnt brittan/scottland have a large cat mystery of their own?
dont know if you,ve seen this yet ---> http://www.britishbigcats.org/

How well can those mysterious big cats swim?

Wee drop, have you ever asked the preserve how they monitor their animals?

[wee drop o' bush]

Rooks, Jackdaws etc had scavenged on the carcass once what ever killed it had left.
We have good Ministry approved fencing, all our gates are closed & many even are padlocked.
My husband checked the sheep in that field that morning & only saw 12. They were huddled in a corner, vey spooked and in his words "the sh*te was running out of them"
He couldn't see the 13th anywhere but eventually found it at the opposite end of the field as you see the ram lying.
Vets, experts etc visited that morning & confirmed it looked like a big cat kill. We had a man ask permission to hunt whatever killed the ram, free of charge if he could dispose of the predator how he liked.
I cannot confirm that it was a big cat and I won't try.
No matter what killed the ram, something big did & that kill was the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
We found another sheep carcass eaten the same way a year later.
I also heard very high pitched cries & saw the outline of something big on the farm 2 nights after the first kill.

doesnt brittan/scottland have a large cat mystery of their own?
dont know if you,ve seen this yet ---> http://www.britishbigcats.org/

How well can those mysterious big cats swim?

Wee drop, have you ever asked the preserve how they monitor their animals?

m ellis thanks for the link. Yeah I researched the BBC.org & looked at photos/evidence on their website. It was markedly similar to the state of our ram.
We informed the Police, other relevant authorities & neighbours etc.

Crazy Wolf that's a good point. The preserve had closed to the public by that stage but still looked after whatever big cats it hadn't been able to rehome. It had unofficially for years sold cubs to collectors. There was no legalisation regarding keeping dangerous non-native animals at that point. So people did & probably still do own Pumas etc.

I think if it was a big cat (and I do suspect this) it escaped or was let go from a local private menagerie.
But this is not the sort of thing you tell people lightly...as we did get met with derision & disbelief. Which I understand totally, to be fair.

[duodecima]

Wee drop, have you ever asked the preserve how they monitor their animals?

m ellis thanks for the link. Yeah I researched the BBC.org & looked at photos/evidence on their website. It was markedly similar to the state of our ram.
We informed the Police, other relevant authorities & neighbours etc.

Crazy Wolf that's a good point. The preserve had closed to the public by that stage but still looked after whatever big cats it hadn't been able to rehome. It had unofficially for years sold cubs to collectors. There was no legalisation regarding keeping dangerous non-native animals at that point. So people did & probably still do own Pumas etc.

I think if it was a big cat (and I do suspect this) it escaped or was let go from a local private menagerie.
But this is not the sort of thing you tell people lightly...as we did get met with derision & disbelief. Which I understand totally, to be fair.

Huh, having met someone who had a run-in with a mountain lion, (And another guy who still had one as a pet! *facepalm*)I certainly wouldn't make fun of the idea. But I think we're more used to the idea of the occasional big predator over here.

If the disbelieving folks don't think it was a big cat, what do they think it was then?

[wee drop o' bush]

A Large Labrador Retriever was one suggestion that I got. Dog worrying of sheep is awful. The flock gets run into the ground, through barbed wire, snatched and tore at by dogs. Pregnant sheep abort through the stress of it and many are ripped & bitten. I can't blame the person for thinking that.
It was just the one sheep that was harmed though. All the rest were clearly agitated but physically unharmed.
For all intents it looked as if one ram had been picked off, killed and then
eaten whilst the rest were ignored.
Also we maintain our wire fencing yearly to keep dogs out. What ever got into and out of the field had to jump over 4' fencing.

[Psypher]

Afghanistan 2003: Local national that was wounded multiple times by the Taliban and had lost a leg. He had a super-secret prosthetic. Sure, it looked like a full polymer prosthetic on the outside, but it's what was inside that counts. He had a short mortar tube built into the shaft of the leg and the upper part of the leg actually had the ability to house a single round. Now I'm not one for pointing anything that can go "bang" at my sensitive areas, but that takes it to a new extreme.

It thrust me into recalling Bruce Campbell cutting off his hand and mounting the chainsaw to it. Was it Evil Dead or ED2?

[Collie of Doom]

Afghanistan 2003: Local national that was wounded multiple times by the Taliban and had lost a leg. He had a super-secret prosthetic. Sure, it looked like a full polymer prosthetic on the outside, but it's what was inside that counts. He had a short mortar tube built into the shaft of the leg and the upper part of the leg actually had the ability to house a single round. Now I'm not one for pointing anything that can go "bang" at my sensitive areas, but that takes it to a new extreme.

It thrust me into recalling Bruce Campbell cutting off his hand and mounting the chainsaw to it. Was it Evil Dead or ED2?

That is AWESOME. That even beats the guys in Iraq who built tubes into the bed of their HiLux pick up, and then put a false bed on top of that. The whole thing could rotate up at an angle so you could launch, then drop the bed back down and high tail it OUT before the gunships showed up, pass checkpoints with no problems. But mortar tube in your fake leg? Totally trumps that.

[Gray Gator]

A Large Labrador Retriever was one suggestion that I got. Dog worrying of sheep is awful. The flock gets run into the ground, through barbed wire, snatched and tore at by dogs. Pregnant sheep abort through the stress of it and many are ripped & bitten. I can't blame the person for thinking that.
It was just the one sheep that was harmed though. All the rest were clearly agitated but physically unharmed.
For all intents it looked as if one ram had been picked off, killed and then
eaten whilst the rest were ignored.
Also we maintain our wire fencing yearly to keep dogs out. What ever got into and out of the field had to jump over 4' fencing.

A 4 foot fence will not stop a large cat. About 20 miles north there is a known pride of cougars. Our DNR has denied this for years. I looked at there website at that time and they posted cougars could not be hunted or trapped. Now they acknowledge their existence.

[coyotebc]

My old german shepard use to jump our 6 1/2 foot fence

[allofthemonkeys]

Working late nights at the gas station, I have seen some interesting things, but one of the top ones was a latino man with a swishy voice and WAY to much make up.

[wee drop o' bush]

A Large Labrador Retriever was one suggestion that I got. Dog worrying of sheep is awful. The flock gets run into the ground, through barbed wire, snatched and tore at by dogs. Pregnant sheep abort through the stress of it and many are ripped & bitten. I can't blame the person for thinking that.
It was just the one sheep that was harmed though. All the rest were clearly agitated but physically unharmed.
For all intents it looked as if one ram had been picked off, killed and then
eaten whilst the rest were ignored.
Also we maintain our wire fencing yearly to keep dogs out. What ever got into and out of the field had to jump over 4' fencing.

A 4 foot fence will not stop a large cat. About 20 miles north there is a known pride of cougars. Our DNR has denied this for years. I looked at there website at that time and they posted cougars could not be hunted or trapped. Now they acknowledge their existence.

I agree about the 4' fence

We found scratch marks on trees from it scropping it's nails. Eventually the relevant agencies acknowledged the existence of big cats here too.

[Akin]

Not sure if it's true, but allegedly there are more tigers in the US than in anywhere else on earth. Mainly in private collections, both legal or not... a few years ago one was suspected, then confirmed, then eventually killed, roaming around northern Los Angeles. Not sure if they ever found out where it had come from, but obviously an escapee from a private collection...

I realize you're in Ireland, but I'd be amazed if the same kind of thing doesn't go on elsewhere...

---

I've seen an odd thing or two in my day, mainly late at night in deserted places. Ahh, the joys of my career in the private security industry back in the nineties!

[wee drop o' bush]

Do tell Akin!!!

Yeah private collections of exotic animals are popular the world over, I think

[Ashurah]

Hey all,

So about 1 1/2 weeks ago me, my dad, and my sister witnessed 2 cat creatures in our back yard. They were about the size of a bobcat, with some really strange markings on their faces, similar to a bobcat, but the head shape was all wrong. More like a cat. When we saw the face of them in the headlights, it almost reminded me of the joker, or cat from alice in wonderland. There was white fur around the mouth, and in the light it looked like a giant clown smile. We thought they might be some kind of feral house cat, but we've never seen a house cat/feral cat with any of the markings, size, and shape of these creatures. One was noticibly larger than the other one. I'm assuming they were male/female. The larger one when walking kinda moved like a pig. Both had a black line all the way down their backs, and their tails had black stripes. Similar to a raccoon. We watched the creatures for about 20 minutes, and were simply amazed. The animals temperament was interesting, as they showed no fear or agression towards us, so long as we stayed about 10 ft. away. When we first saw them, the larger cat was next to the smaller cat in what I think was some bizarre mating ritual. He had his chest puffed out and his hair was all on end. I say "he" only because I assume he was a male. We first approached in a vehicle, but eventually got out when we realised that they were not going anywhere. Eventually, as we continued to stare, take pics, and get closer, they began to walk away and disappeared into the brush of our back yard. As soon as I had access to a computer, I started searching the nets for pictures as to what they might be. We uploaded the pics, compared them, and did find what we felt was a near pefect match in the scottish wildcat aka highland tiger. The problem is, we live in wisconsin, and they are a rare cat found in scotland/england.

The following morning, we decided to investigate the area where we seen the animal. We found many tracks in the snow, and the tracks were at least twice the size of a normal housecat. I'm confident that this is true because we have compared them to known cat tracks. There is a healthy population of semi-feral cats in the area. I realise that the animals that we saw may simply be some genetic mutant house cat, but if so, it was a near perfect clone of the highland tiger. Wierdest scariest f'n cat i've ever seen in my life. That is all.
-Me

[Bearcat]

Afghanistan 2003: Local national that was wounded multiple times by the Taliban and had lost a leg. He had a super-secret prosthetic. Sure, it looked like a full polymer prosthetic on the outside, but it's what was inside that counts. He had a short mortar tube built into the shaft of the leg and the upper part of the leg actually had the ability to house a single round. Now I'm not one for pointing anything that can go "bang" at my sensitive areas, but that takes it to a new extreme.

It thrust me into recalling Bruce Campbell cutting off his hand and mounting the chainsaw to it. Was it Evil Dead or ED2?

That sound more like the girl from Planet terror with the machine gun leg.

[Rebel Pariah]

I didn't know they watched american cartoon's over there, but it sure sounds like it

[Mission_Survivor]

When I was about 8 or 9, I saw two "ghosts" (one male the other female) walk out from one of the bedrooms into the hallway. My bed room door was opened, as I watched in horror I let out a gasp. One of the apparitions turned and looked at me and stopped the other one from walking down the hallway into the kitchen. I quickly covered my self with my monster/ghost proof blanket (the magic ones that most kids have). A moment passed then I lowered my paranormal shield and peeked out to see the female specter give a solemn grin. I felt that she was trying to say sorry for spooking me. The male motioned his head down the hall and continued to walk. The female then half way raised her hand in a good bye gesture. My eyes were wide and heart racing as they turned into the kitchen. I did not tell anyone about this event. But a few weeks later, my aunt had locked her keys inside her car and as we were trying to "break in" a man offered to help. After he unlocked her car door, he asked who lived there. My sister told the stranger that we lived there a few months past. He asked if we had seen any ghosts. My sister said no, but the man continued to explain that a young newly wed couple were murdered there some many years back. Again my heart picked up pace, because the ghosts that i saw that night, were dressed in wedding attire.

Many strange things occurred in that house over the years.