The walker, in his 30s, is certain he caught a snap of the wild beast throughout a recent journey to Dartmoor.
Jon, who didn’t wish to give his full identify over on-line trolling fears, says he and his household have been so unnerved by the sighting they shortly left the scene.
And on the way in which again to their automobile they stumbled upon a half-eaten deer carcass, he claims – including to their fears.
Jon, from Devon, mentioned: “Whatever it was, my concern was that I did not need it to come back in the direction of us.
“When I first noticed it, I finished right away and instructed my household ‘Don’t panic and keep the place you might be. I believe there is a huge cat or canine up forward’.
“It simply felt a bit surreal and fairly unusual that my first thought was ‘huge cat’.
“I managed to get my phone out and got a picture just in my hand before it walked along a bit and ran into the woods – it had a huge tail, must have been a metre long with some white on the end.”
The household have been walking to Fernworthy Reservoir on August 27 once they encountered the suspected huge cat.
While walking on a foremost path close to the forest, the person initially noticed what he believed to be a stray canine.
However, after watching the thriller animal transfer, he realised it extra intently resembled a big cat.
After noticing the close by household, he says the creature walked additional up the trail and over the forehead of the hill, earlier than stopping with simply its head seen.
The household determined to show round and walk to close by Grey Wethers stone circle – however needed to head again into the forest at a unique level to get there.
And on the way in which the Jon claims they made a morbid discovery of an half-eaten deer carcass subsequent to the trail.
Then, whereas walking again to the automobile, the person claims they heard ‘roaring’ within the distance.
Jon mentioned: “I’m fairly a peaceful character so I assumed I used to be seeing issues and remained calm as I had my canine and youngster with me and did not wish to panic them.
“I used to be disillusioned – I assumed I used to be seeing an enormous canine however my mind knew it wasn’t because it was so cumbersome on the again finish, the rear legs and again finish have been as cumbersome because the entrance finish and it regarded very highly effective and massive.
“We determined to show round as we had our one-year-old Labrador and our youngster with us.
“We determined to walk again into the forest possibly 1 / 4 of a mile additional up and right away my son mentioned ‘what’s that?’.
“There was a half-eaten deer carcass simply off the trail within the woods and within the path there have been fairly a couple of bones about 4 to 6 inches lengthy with damaged bones from a rib cage.
“We then had to walk through thick woodland to get back to the car and while we were walking, we heard a roar – we thought we were going mad.”
Big cat ‘sightings’ have occurred everywhere in the UK – though conclusive proof of their existence has by no means been discovered.
Recent claims have been made about ‘leopard DNA’ being found in Gloucestershire.
However, a scientist mentioned earlier this week the existence of massive cats within the UK is unlikely as a result of lack of sheep maulings.
