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Colne Engaine: Growls – is beast back?

A couple called the police after hearing a "panther" in Colne Engaine.

The man and his wife were having a cigarette in the garden, in Rainbow Way, at about 7.45pm on Monday when they heard a noise.

They described it as a "deep growl, as if from a panther or tiger", which came from fields on the Halstead side of their garden.

The man told police he has lived in the area most of his life and was "a country boy", yet he had never heard a sound like it before.

Recently, the so-called Beast of Essex - a black panther-like creature - was sighted in Colchester and near Harwich.

9:27am Thursday 27th March 2008

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Posted by: Citizen 139 on 4:30pm Thu 27 Mar 08
If he's never heard a sound like it before then how can he describe it as a "deep growl, as if from a panther or tiger"?

Sloppy reporting.
Posted by: The Word on 9:05pm Tue 22 Apr 08
You know a growl from a bark you certainly would know there were somthing strange wouldent you well wouldent you!
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