Above is my latest map showing an update of big cat sightings in and around Suffolk in the four months between November 2025 and March 2026. There is commentary on the sightings in the map here.
My map of reports of big cat sightings received in the year 2025, which accompanies my annual report for that year.
Above is my map of big cat sightings covering the period from July 2024 to February 2025, including “historical sightings” that happened earlier but were reported in this period. There is more detailed commentary on this map here. This was my first map with an update since the publication of Mystery Animals of Suffolk.
Mystery Animals of Suffolk has several maps showing the distribution of sightings of different types of big cat in and around the county.
Here is a sample map, showing sightings of puma-like felines in the county in recent years. While reports of puma sightings in East Anglia were once relatively common, accounting for around a quarter of reported sightings, these are now much rarer. Puma sightings in and around Suffolk have tailed off to almost none since 2018.
The map below is an update, showing sightings from the period 2017-2022. It also features earlier sightings (mostly from the 2010s) which recently came to light. Reports were mostly of black leopards in this period, with a lynx and a possible melanistic lynx from the west of the county. There was also a sighting of a puma just over the Cambridgeshire border, after an absence of puma reports since 2018.
See also Suffolk Coasts and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty’s A Map of Mystery – Secrets of the Suffolk Coast.
It features Black Shuck, the Orford Merman, the Rendlesham UFO Incident, Wool I Am the mammoth, the Sudbourne tank training ground and Lawrence of Arabia when he was stationed at RAF Felixstowe.
There’s now also the Untamed Earth digital map of folklore and strange phenomena worldwide, with Suffolk stuff being added (Zoom in on England’s East Coast until you find Suffolk). It’s linked from here.
My map of reports of sightings received from July 2024-February 2025 is here.
East Anglia, where’s that then? Good question! See my map and explanation here.