Mystery Animals of Suffolk

"NESTLÉ'S MILK RICHEST IN CREAM", on a corner of Cannon Street, #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk #GhostSign #GhostSigns

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.

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.

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?

"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.

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.

Greater Anglia - the train operator that serves #Suffolk - returns to public ownership this weekend www.eastsuffolk.one/news/local-n...

Includes my @forteantimes feature "Every old woman pronounced for a witch", a short history of witchcraft sceptics, from Fortean Times FT 367 back in 2018.

The Woodwoses and Wildmen of Suffolk An online talk by Matt Salusbury onSuffolk's strange woodwose figures.

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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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...

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.

Interesting footage from Darsham in Suffolk - Big Cats of Suffolk I was sent some interesting footage of a black cat moving around a freshly harvested field in Darsham, near the major A12 road, not far from the coast and not far where I am based…

Interesting footage from Darsham , #Suffolk.
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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…

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 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…

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.

The animal "playfully" followed the cyclist at speed" (16mph) for a few seconds before "disappearing".
As he was following the race route on his GPS in darkness, the witness didn't know where exactly he was at the time of the encounter.

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 An online talk by Matt Salusbury onSuffolk's strange woodwose figures.

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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Wildman with a club, flanked by two lions, on the font at St Michael's Church, Framlingham, #Suffolk.

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

Fish and seafood mosaics on tables at Southwold Pier, #Suffolk.

"Beware of the Gulls" poster, Southwold Pier, #Suffolk.

Visitor to #Dunwich Museum today recounted sighting of a black big cat 🐈‍⬛ on the bank by the side of the Hangman’s Hill footpath and track near @RSPBMinsmere.bsky.social nature reserve, #Suffolk, sometime between 2003 and 2009.

I am aware of two projects in #Suffolk using trail cams to monitor for possible big cat activity - one in North Suffolk and one in the Bawdsey Peninsula. Details to follow in the fullness of time.

Report just in of a sighting of a "tabby" big cat seen near Hadleigh, #Suffolk, seen on 31/08/25/ Hopefully more details to follow.

Purple Heather and yellow gorse in bloom across heathland

Heather in full bloom across coastal heathland in East Suffolk #WildFlowerHour

Report just in of a sighting of a black big cat walking across a field in the morning of 21 08 25, seen from a distance of 400m away, in Fornham St Martin cum St Genevieve Parish, #Suffolk.

"Premenstrual Exacerbation" was the alternative explanation the internet offered. Surely, though, "no leadership or toxic leadership could apply to most industry sectors these days?

Bigfoot remains a moneymaking hoax Once again, someone has rather uncreatively posed a hairy man prop as an amazing find and put it on display for all the rubes to pay to see. This time, it's at the New York State Fair.

I've updated this story with the identity of the guy and his appearance at the fair.
Bigfoot remains a moneymaking hoax – Sharon A. Hill

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I'm sorry, what is PME? Some sort of industry? Protective Multiple Earthing, according to the internet.