>>>GREAT INTERESTING READ<<<. UK 'Beast of Bont returns' as 20 sheep found massacred' Daily Telegraph.

This is a really odd and strange story of the mutilation of some sheep, torn to shreds by an unknown predator.

'The mutilated carcasses were torn to shreds and scattered across moorland near to the Devil's Bridge in the Cambrian Mountains near Aberystwyth, west Wales.

The area has long been linked to the so-called “Beast of Bont”, a big cat believed by some to have been on the loose for decades.

Locals have reported sighting of an unknown creature since the 1970s, and now fear the predator could have struck again.

Mark and his partner Annette, 40, were walking down a valley at Devil's Bridge when they began stumbling across the sheep carcasses.

They found two big groups of mutilated sheep and lambs in fields about two miles apart. Most had been stripped bare - leaving just mounds of wool and bones.

Mark, from Borth, Ceredigion, said: "After about an hour of walking in remote land, quite high up on the mountains, we found a couple of dead sheep.

"As we walked further and higher we came to some woods and again we found several more dead sheep.

"Each time we saw them we thought that something had quite clearly attacked them because they looked like they had been ripped apart.

"It was a very strange feeling when we saw the sheep because some of them were lambs with just half of their bodies, or just the rear of the back legs left on the field.

"I could also see a small lamb which looked to me as if it had been carefully placed in the corner of some building ruins.

"This one was untouched but it appeared that it had been put there for a reason - maybe to come back to it later."



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