The compiler of the archive noted that the description of colour, coat pattern and ear tufts suggests a lynx. An escaped or released lynx would fit the 1927 reports and later captures. The scar gives the report more weight than most, but there was no examination of the animal.
Beasts & cryptids
The Woman Bitten by a Large Cat at Drumnadrochit, 1976
Hillside at Drumnadrochit
Summer 1976
- Evidence
- Single witness account
- Access
- Open ground
- Location
- 57.341, -4.485 (Parish-level only, treat as an area)
Sources: Scottish Big Cats archive, Woman bitten by large cat [other]
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