Bodmin Moor Beastie Sightings - Anyone Got Recent Photos or Footage?

by Bex5 · 2 years ago 504 views 5 replies
Bex5
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#3716

I'm doing some research into the Bodmin Moor creature reports (what people call the Beast of Bodmin) and I'm trying to separate actual documented sightings from folklore. The sightings go back centuries supposedly but most of the recent ones seem to be from the 1980s onwards.

I've found loads of anecdotal accounts but hardly any actual photographic evidence, which strikes me as odd. In the modern era with everyone carrying a camera on their phone, if this creature exists and is still around, surely someone's got decent footage by now?

Not looking to debunk anyone, genuinely interested in what evidence exists. Photos, trail camera footage, paw prints, anything concrete. Believers, what's your best evidence? Skeptics, what would convince you it's something more than stray dogs and misidentification?

Phillsy89
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#3721

The lack of good photos is actually the strongest indicator that it's probably just big cats (escaped from collections or released by owners) and our brains doing the rest. We're pattern-recognition machines. See something in the shadows, assume monster.

Jack G.
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#3722

I've hiked Bodmin Moor about a dozen times and never seen anything unusual. Plenty of foxes, some very large dogs, interesting shadows. That's the thing - Bodmin's proper moorland, loads of natural explanation for sightings. But that doesn't mean something genuinely unusual has never happened there.

LakeDistrictDrifter
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#3724

The thing about trail cameras is that genuine cryptids (if they exist) would likely be intelligent enough to avoid them. We're looking for something that's managed to stay hidden for decades. It wouldn't be stupid enough to walk past every camera.

Rory Hill
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#3725

genuine cryptids (if they exist) would likely be intelligent enough to avoid them
Right so we've moved the goalposts to 'it's so clever it avoids all evidence of its existence.' That's unfalsifiable, mate. By that logic, literally anything unobserved could be explained as 'intelligent enough to hide.'

Hollow Phantom
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#3726

I took some photos up there last summer that I genuinely couldn't explain at the time. Turned out it was just a reflection off my lens. But if I hadn't investigated it properly, I might've added to the Beast mythology. That's how these things propagate.

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