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T Sandy Gunn and the mermaid I once met a man who claimed he saw a huge black panther (circa 1990) near his farmhouse in Scotland. It had a pheasant in its mouth. He ran to get his shotgun but the creature had vanished. I knew the man and I judged him trustworthy, without guile or motive. Even if I didn’t believe him, I would suppose that he was mistaken rather than lying. However, black leopards and jaguars do exist and there is a stuffed puma in an Inverness museum that was captured many years ago in Glen Affric in the Scottish Highlands. Another story is told on pages 105-107 of Wade the River, Drift the Loch by R Macdonald Robertson, (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1948.) A shepherd,…

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