Strange Animals In Lancashire?

[Dickydevo]

Please can anyone tell me if they`ve ever seen or heard of any strange animals in Lancashire?

 

[Mythopoeika]

Why Lancashire particularly?

 

[AgProv]

Right on the very fringes: Reddish Vale Country Park in Stockport has its own ABC sightings, variably of a black panther or or large leopard-like cat. This only just clips into Lancashire: according to the historical country boundaries, the border between Cheshire and Lancashire runs right through the middle of the town. Everything north of the river Mersey is historically in Lancashire; anything south is in Cheshire. Stockport, however, is where the Mersey rises at the confluence of the rivers Goyt and Tame. (the county boundary is clear in west Stockport after the Mersey rises. In the East, the line of the Goyt/Tame system served a similar function. Reddish Vale Park and its ABC are to the north of the Goyt and are historically part of Lancashire, though not by very much! oh, and not many people bother about this "Greater Manchester" nonsense very much. It may be technically correct, but nobody's petitioned to have Lancashire Hill renamed as "Insignificant street in central Stockport that used to mark the old county boundary Hill"...)

Anyway, there have been enough sightings of an ABC in the country park for it to raise questions as to what people are actually seeing. RVCP is part of a "green belt" that can be traced, in an unbroken way, back into the Pennines, so who knows, something might have its "range" here and is occassionally seen by people...

 

[Dickydevo]

Why Lancashire particularly?

I am writing a book with a friend called The Mystery Animals of Lancashire