Beast of Bodmin

The Beast of Bodmin, also known as The Beast of Bodmin Moor (Cornish: Best Goon Brenn) is a phantom wild cat purported to live in Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. Bodmin Moor became a centre of these sightings with occasional reports of mutilated slain livestock: the alleged panther-like cats of the same region came to be popularly known as the Beast of Bodmin Moor.

In general, scientists reject such claims because of the improbably large numbers necessary to maintain a breeding population and because climate and food supply issues would make such purported creatures' survival in reported habitats unlikely. Such sightings and stories may simply be a more modern manifestation of earlier stories of mythical black dogs and other such creatures in remote areas of Britain, such as those that inspired The Hound of the Baskervilles.