A missing puma, a misidentified mutant greyhound? The Lakenheath big cat wave of 1965

A mysterious cat-like animal, a missing puma, a misidentified greyhound – what really happened around Lakenheath in February 1965?

I keep discovering long forgotten waves of big cat sightings in Suffolk, each new historic Suffolk big cat wave I discover gets get more bizarre than the last one.


The big cat wave of February 1965 - recorded by the Bury Free Press and Newmarket Journal at the time - is no exception. You can read my account of the whole extrordinary saga of the "missing puma", the "mysterious cat-like animal", the hunt for it involving at least two police forces (one using tracker dogs) and the nigtmare-fuel mutant greyhound with a “weirdly-shaped head and strange-looking eyes" here, at bigcatsofsuffolk.com.