Mystery Animals of Suffolk
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Big cat sightings, wildmen, Black Shuck and other Suffolk mysteries. Book by Matt Salusbury (Leiston Press, 2023), also a place for reporting local big cat sightings. https://bigcatsofsuffolk.com/
Wearing my "martyr's arrows" T-shirt for St Edmund's Day.
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Wearing my "martyr's arrows" T-shirt for St Edmund's Day.
Plan to re-introduce 50 European wildcats to mid-Devon in the west of England. Long extinct in England, the UK’s wildcat population is now critically endangered, confined to around 115 individuals in the Highlands of Scotland. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Once-extinct European wildcats set to make a comeback in England
Fifty wildcats could be reintroduced to the countryside in south west England, conservationists say.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Plan to re-introduce 50 European wildcats to mid-Devon in the west of England. Long extinct in England, the UK’s wildcat population is now critically endangered, confined to around 115 individuals in the Highlands of Scotland. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Avian influenza discovered at Debach - near Woodbridge, #Suffolk - exclusion zone in place. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6914e9...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Avian influenza discovered at Debach - near Woodbridge, #Suffolk - exclusion zone in place. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6914e9...
Suffolk-based correspondent of shooting website says attacks by muntjac deer on dogs are common, including fatal attacks. Notes that many male muntjacs have broken fangs. www.shootinguk.co.uk/gundogs/do-m...
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November 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Suffolk-based correspondent of shooting website says attacks by muntjac deer on dogs are common, including fatal attacks. Notes that many male muntjacs have broken fangs. www.shootinguk.co.uk/gundogs/do-m...
Report of a black big cat (melanistic leopard?) seen 8/11/25 at Haddon Approach, #Suffolk (on the Deben, opposite Woodbridge). "Slinking into cover ... jet black - strong muscular back end and cat tail... four times, possibly five times as big" as a domestic cat. Seen for 10 seconds +_10m away.
November 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Report of a black big cat (melanistic leopard?) seen 8/11/25 at Haddon Approach, #Suffolk (on the Deben, opposite Woodbridge). "Slinking into cover ... jet black - strong muscular back end and cat tail... four times, possibly five times as big" as a domestic cat. Seen for 10 seconds +_10m away.
The Ling lioness - encounters with pumas on the Norfolk-Suffolk border in the 1990s, with thanks to @edinburghforteansociety.org.uk and Gill Thornton
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November 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The Ling lioness - encounters with pumas on the Norfolk-Suffolk border in the 1990s, with thanks to @edinburghforteansociety.org.uk and Gill Thornton
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World's first photo and footage of a white Iberian Lynx (leucistic, not albino, so it doesn't have pink eyes). www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
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November 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
World's first photo and footage of a white Iberian Lynx (leucistic, not albino, so it doesn't have pink eyes). www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
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"NESTLÉ'S MILK RICHEST IN CREAM", on a corner of Cannon Street, #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk #GhostSign #GhostSigns
October 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"NESTLÉ'S MILK RICHEST IN CREAM", on a corner of Cannon Street, #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk #GhostSign #GhostSigns
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More fungi from Suffolk, specifically Ickworth House NT - Hen of the Woods, more Verdigris Roundheads, Dyer’s Mazegill and Weeping Widow
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October 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
More fungi from Suffolk, specifically Ickworth House NT - Hen of the Woods, more Verdigris Roundheads, Dyer’s Mazegill and Weeping Widow
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"Fairy loaves" - fossil sea urchins - and "Devil's toenails" fossil shells 🐚 (mussels?) at Framlingham Museum, #Suffolk. #FossilFriday.
October 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"Fairy loaves" - fossil sea urchins - and "Devil's toenails" fossil shells 🐚 (mussels?) at Framlingham Museum, #Suffolk. #FossilFriday.
38 years ago #otd, the night of the great hurricane of 15 October 1987, 3 police marksmen from Norwich were called to Thrigby Zoo in Norfolk. They stood by, ready to shoot Jomo the leopard 🐆 in case a tree fell and crushed his enclosure and he escaped. The tree stayed up and Jomo stayed in the zoo.
October 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
38 years ago #otd, the night of the great hurricane of 15 October 1987, 3 police marksmen from Norwich were called to Thrigby Zoo in Norfolk. They stood by, ready to shoot Jomo the leopard 🐆 in case a tree fell and crushed his enclosure and he escaped. The tree stayed up and Jomo stayed in the zoo.
"Pride in Place" govt. funding for "deprived neighbourhoods" to include - within #Suffolk - Ipswich, Felixstowe West, Lowestoft Central and Lakenheath.
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Restoring pride to Britain’s most deprived neighbourhoods
'Pride in Place' is an ambitious government plan to hand power and funding to local people to rebuild community pride. How will it work?
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October 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"Pride in Place" govt. funding for "deprived neighbourhoods" to include - within #Suffolk - Ipswich, Felixstowe West, Lowestoft Central and Lakenheath.
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Witness today described encounter from original 1990s #Suffolk big cat wave. "Large../dog-sized... black animal... shape & movements of a cat... prowling across an open field" between Foxhall and Seven Hills Roundabout, #Ipswich, seen on the way to school, between 1994 & '97.
October 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Greater Anglia - the train operator that serves #Suffolk - returns to public ownership this weekend www.eastsuffolk.one/news/local-n...
Greater Anglia Trains to Return to Public Ownership
Greater Anglia, which runs trains across Suffolk - as well as Norfolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, and Hertfordshire, will return to public ownership this weekend.
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October 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Greater Anglia - the train operator that serves #Suffolk - returns to public ownership this weekend www.eastsuffolk.one/news/local-n...
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Saturday 18 Oct, 6.30pm: The Woodwoses and Wildmen of Suffolk. FT regular Matt Salusbury investigates Suffolk's wildmen in an online event. Please email chronicles@dunwichmuseum.org.uk and get your free ticket at on our Eventbrite page!
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The Woodwoses and Wildmen of Suffolk
An online talk by Matt Salusbury onSuffolk's strange woodwose figures.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Saturday 18 Oct, 6.30pm: The Woodwoses and Wildmen of Suffolk. FT regular Matt Salusbury investigates Suffolk's wildmen in an online event. Please email chronicles@dunwichmuseum.org.uk and get your free ticket at on our Eventbrite page!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-woodwo...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-woodwo...
The Sea Serpent Killer's sceptical scrapbook - naturalist Sir Richard Owen collected newspaper cuttings on sea serpent sightings over many years - one of the oldest cryptozoological cuttings libraries. My article from @forteantimes.bsky.social - mattsalusbury.blogspot.com/2025/10/scep...
Sceptical scrapbook of The Sea Serpent Killer
This article first appeared in Fortean Times , FT 462, October 2025. Owen's scrapbook includes this 1877 engraving of a 60ft(18m)-long s...
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October 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The Sea Serpent Killer's sceptical scrapbook - naturalist Sir Richard Owen collected newspaper cuttings on sea serpent sightings over many years - one of the oldest cryptozoological cuttings libraries. My article from @forteantimes.bsky.social - mattsalusbury.blogspot.com/2025/10/scep...
Report just in of a sighting of a Labrador-sized black big cat with "rounded ears", seen "prowling/stalking" from a few metres away in car headlights in Martlesham Heath Retail Park, #Suffolk (on the edge of Ipswich) at 10pm on 04 10 25.
October 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Report just in of a sighting of a Labrador-sized black big cat with "rounded ears", seen "prowling/stalking" from a few metres away in car headlights in Martlesham Heath Retail Park, #Suffolk (on the edge of Ipswich) at 10pm on 04 10 25.
Evidence for lions in Roman Britain - bite marks on the skeleton of a gladiator from York.
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Evidence for lions in Roman Britain - bite marks on a gladiator's skeleton from York - Big Cats of Suffolk
Analysis of a human skeleton from what is a believed to be a cemetery for gladiators from Roman York shows bite marks on the bones of one individual, known as . This strongly suggests the…
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October 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Evidence for lions in Roman Britain - bite marks on the skeleton of a gladiator from York.
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An 18th-century caracal wildcat an it's keeper at the Tower of London bigcatsofsuffolk.com/an-18th-cent...
An 18th-century caracal wildcat and its keeper in the Tower of London - Big Cats of Suffolk
An Asian caracal wildcat, a gift to the East India Company from the Nawab of Bengal, its puppet ruler, arrived at the Tower of London in 1759. Named the Siyagoest, the caracal was accompanied by…
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October 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
An 18th-century caracal wildcat an it's keeper at the Tower of London bigcatsofsuffolk.com/an-18th-cent...
Locally sourced mammoth 🦣 tooth 🦷 on display in Framlingham Museum, #Suffolk, #FossilFriday.
October 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Locally sourced mammoth 🦣 tooth 🦷 on display in Framlingham Museum, #Suffolk, #FossilFriday.
Report of a black big cat "similar to a house cat but way bigger" - twice the size, seen 28 09 25 by a cyclist 🚴 riding at night in the 425-mile Equinox Further race somewhere between Diss and Wangford, #Suffolk. Another rider in the race reportedly had a big cat encounter the night before.
October 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Report of a black big cat "similar to a house cat but way bigger" - twice the size, seen 28 09 25 by a cyclist 🚴 riding at night in the 425-mile Equinox Further race somewhere between Diss and Wangford, #Suffolk. Another rider in the race reportedly had a big cat encounter the night before.
The Woodwoses and Wildmen of #Suffolk - a Dunwich Museum
talk -
Saturday 18th October 2025 6:30pm online via Zoom. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-woodwo...
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talk -
Saturday 18th October 2025 6:30pm online via Zoom. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-woodwo...
@DiscoverDunwich.bsky.social
The Woodwoses and Wildmen of Suffolk
An online talk by Matt Salusbury onSuffolk's strange woodwose figures.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The Woodwoses and Wildmen of #Suffolk - a Dunwich Museum
talk -
Saturday 18th October 2025 6:30pm online via Zoom. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-woodwo...
@DiscoverDunwich.bsky.social
talk -
Saturday 18th October 2025 6:30pm online via Zoom. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-woodwo...
@DiscoverDunwich.bsky.social
The burnt out hulk of the warship The Royal James, which caught fire at the Battle of Sole Bay, forever immortalised as an obstacle on the Southwold Adventure Golf ⛳️ course
September 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The burnt out hulk of the warship The Royal James, which caught fire at the Battle of Sole Bay, forever immortalised as an obstacle on the Southwold Adventure Golf ⛳️ course