Bodmin Moor Beast and the 1995 Ministry of Agriculture investigation

Record summary

The Bodmin Moor Beast was a prominent British big-cat report during the 1990s, involving livestock injuries, sightings and alleged paw prints. In 1995, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food conducted an investigation and reported that it found no conclusive evidence of a dangerous exotic cat. The case matters for comparison because it shows how media attention, ambiguous spoor and ordinary livestock predation can combine into a durable cryptid narrative. The underlying sightings remain difficult to evaluate, and the official conclusion did not prove that every report had a single cause.