As a teen I was walking through the dense forested hills and valleys surrounding Niederreifenberg in rural Germany. Having (stupidly) strayed off the track in this very remote and unpopulated piece of forest, I ended up at the bottom of a steep grass-sided valley. The only exit was up the slippery wet grass, but at the top was an electric cattle fence. Unable to hold onto the grass to prevent slipping back down AND lift the single filament fence with a stick at the same time so I could crawl under it, I was somewhat buggered. Then a large German bear arrived out of nowhere and helped me. I should point out that the “bear” was a heavy set, hirsute man - I believe they are known as bears in certain communities - in his mid-50s and more than a match for my 135lb, 16 year-old self. The bear held the fence so I could escape the valley and get back onto the forest track - I was no longer buggered! Him speaking no English and me little German, communication was down to basic hand gestures. When he placed his fingertips to his lips, kissed them and then excitedly pointed them at me and then back at himself, I realized that buggery was very much back on the cards unless I beat a hasty retreat and somehow reached civilization again. Smiling politely I waved “goodbye” and nonchalantly walked the 50 or so meters to the closest bend in the pathway where, the bear now out of sight, I ran until I thought I was going to puke up my very soul. That’s my encounter with a bear while out walking. Lastly, the “nonchalant walk” I did was probably over 10mph, so next time any of you Cool Dudes are worried you’ll miss the train/bus/ferry connection home because you’re walking too slowly, imagine there’s a large, hairy, randy pervert who’s taken a shine to you just a few paces behind. Trust me, you’ll find an unexpected burst of speed. Stay Cool.
round here there is supposedly a supernatural big black dog called a Gytrash. Theres similar legends around the country. One time when I was a kid on holiday somewhere (I foget where but it was south/midlands type area) I snuck off and went for a walk alone in some woods and saw up ahead of me a huge fallen tree, two triangular shapes like ears pointe dup over the top of the log as if a giant dog was hiding behind it. I ran out of there. Still dont know what I saw.
A local legend from back when I still live in the US, in my homestate there was the legend of the goat man, who by all descriptions, resembled Baphomet. He'd go around mutilating cattle at night in a town called Bowie. There was also a legend called the "Snallygaster" which people theorise the name comes from a butchering of German the German word Schneller Geist, which means quick ghost. It's a weird cimera creature. I personally never saw anything weird in the woods near my old home, but there was one night at a friends house, from deep within those same woods a sound was coming from it we couldn't identify, best I could describe was like a mixture between an owl and a bear, making some kind of... whooping sound. That did scare me.
Can I just say how darn impressive it is that you actively went looking for something that you are allergic to. This level of dedication is just supreme. Loved every second of it. Nicely done cool dude :) Hope things aren't too bad with Eunice down on the Isle, stay safe.
Storm Eunice has absolutely trashed the mimosa tree in my garden. I am just praying it doesn't fall on my neighbours green house. Meanwhile congratulations on being the first person to ever use the It is one of my favourites along with
Great video Marek, really enjoy this, sadly the only urban myths we have near me are "Chaddy" a man who stalks the woods and will bum you if he catch's you in the tunnel (that's genuinely something thats been told around my area for at least 30 years or more) and theres a new urban myth i accidently start a few years ago called The Shi**ing Jogger" after i accidently walked in on one going to the toilet in a bush in our local woods, lol. again 100% true, lol.
A friend and I once saw a bat fly into a tree and a cat jump out. We came to the only sensible conclusion that the bat turned into the cat and the legend of the batcat of York was born. Thanks for the vid. “Big shat” really tickled me. Stay cool.
This video brought back SO many memories. Thank you! I grew up on the other side of those fields between Morton and Yaverland, and my brother and I spend most of our summer holidays playing in them. We never saw a big cat in the fields, however I definitely saw a big something in the Brading Roman Villa field when I was about 14... it could have been a large black dog but there were no humans around except me and it was sort of prowling...!!) One time when playing in the Yaverland fields my brother and I did find a very dead owl and decided to bury it. When we patted down the earth we heard it hoot! So we quickly dug it up and tried to bring it back to life by putting it on the electric fence! That made its eye open and we were so scared we threw it into a near by bramble patch and ran away! When we went back the next day it had vanished!
@@cdwc HAHA you threw it on an electric fence holy shit man. I remember when my cousin and I were kids we went down to a pond, we were camping near it. we went down with our fishing rods, and saw a duck just sitting there, then my damn cousin started whacking the thing with his rod, I tried to stop him, I always wondered why he did it, he either knocked it uncousious, or killed it, I carried it back to camp because I felt bad for the poor thing.
My cousin saw the beast of Bodmin while out riding his bike in very rural east Devon. When it looked at him, he cycled back home as quickly as he could in a panic.
Try Sheba cat treats next time they won't be so yukky or rank like cat food. Daphne sounded a bit hoarse! Great doodles especially the pirate 🐈. German Shepherd was a good emergency back up choice - very loyal, protective & can run very very fast. I liked your 'Morning has Broken' keyboard playing, it reminded me of Sunday School, we always sang this hymn. Looking forward to seeing more of these mysterious animal sighting videos.
Thanks cool dude. I expect I will be going through all the hymns we used to sing at school gradually. Hopefully I can find some more weird things to base walks on soon.
"Have you ever seen a strange thing on a walk?" asks the bald man with round eyes, 2 open tins of cat food on leopard paper plates in his bag and a folded-up home-printed picture of an alsatian in his pocket.
hmm, my son and I were driving home from a nearby mountain, we live in the pyrenees you see. We were descending and saw a, quite large cat-like animal, a greyish colour. At first I though, must be a fox, they're quite common around here, but I've never seen a grey fox, and the native foxes here are orange anyway, so it was either an Iberian Lynx that somehow made it's way here, or a grey coloured fox. Just thought that was interesting.
Damn, this was gold! Funny stuff. I bet there is some sort of big cat out there. I read recently about a new trend of people buying hybrid breeds of a Serval mixed with domestic cat. Maybe one got away or was let go.
I think there may have been an issue with the bait. Perhaps Pork Chops or a Kebab may have been more appropriate. As for having a picture of another cat on the plate, that was a mistake. Cats are territorial and don't care for rivals. Perhaps if there had been a picture of Tippi Hedren on it then you may have had better results. Also, humming "Born Free" may have helped. Overall, a cutting edge natural history video to rival anything that David Attenborough has done.
Thanks for the good advice cool dude. I will have a look for Tippi Hedren plates next time I go to Tescos. I may have been looking down the wrong aisle.
Things that go bump in the night .. Best put those lights on folks .. And don't kick the cat .. Really enjoy your videos Marek .. Such a Cool Dude Thank You for the Smile on me Dial .
🐾🐾 🐱 Big cats are so elusive. In the western US, pumas are everywhere but only saw one once. I was walking along near Sequoia NP in California, and a large black bear approached. We both stopped and looked at one another before the bear trundled off. I guess it was one my lucky moments or just smelled like old hiking boots.
Mum used to go on about Black Shuck being a thing in Norfolk and I used to take the 🐈 with me on dogs walks but no-one mistook him for anything fierce. If you think cat food stinks you should get a whiff of 🐈 (dogs love it, still very protein rich). Hope your neighbours' fence survived, stay cool
The branch is still hanging off too high to reach. I have also noticed they have a greenhouse in their garden nearby. It is so stressful. Meanwhile I based the new emoji on a sort of Black Shuck.
Fish. Any old fish. Cats will have your arm off for a bit of fish. Quite literally if it is a big 🐈. Once sat looking for Nessie for hours. Didn't see a thing except the peace of the Loch, so I won't complain. I drive across Bodmin regularly and in bad weather you can see why the Beast of Bodmin legend continues. Some great walking up there, Marek. Worth an amble....?
Alright! great vid marek! my dad once caught an escaped polecat from neighbours garden in my brother's school bag. the cat scratched all the inside of his bag and then shat on my brother's school books. my dad returned the polecat to the owners who denied it had escaped and said it was someone else's. my dad insisted and gave it them anyway, my dad's pretty good like that. right now for big cat bait? have you heard that big cat poo keeps small cats away? then maybe small cat poo attracts big cats to stay.
A pole cat shat on my homework is definitely a great excuse. I still don't understand how some people have cat litters in their kitchens. It is literally shit in your kitchen.
Was fully expecting you to come face to face with a hungry leopard type deal....shocked the Sheba didn’t do the trick. Still, I know that if there’s things to be spotted, it’ll be you spotting em, so I can’t wait to see what you decide to track down in the next videos! Love the mysterious isle vibe 😁👍🏼
I could totally sympathise with the whole smelling of cat food thing. A few days ago, I did some market research on dog food. All I had to do was open several of those little tins, pour it into a dish and rate the consistency and smell of it(🤢). They provided wipes and I scrubbed my hands afterwards but for the rest of the day, all I could smell was dog food. Still, I got money to do it. 🤷😂 Great vid and I hope that the storms your way calm down soon . 😁
I saw a big cat at Cranmore in 1989 I was walking up a road in the countryside to see my family I had my baby son with me which is why I know what year it was he was only about one year old and I saw this giant black cat easily the size of a big dog wandering along between the vineyard vines that was there.
i just want to recount my experience as a small child in the 1970s. we used to go to the isle of wight every summer, in august. sometimes we went to parkhurst forest for picnics, and i liked to wander off into the woods by myself to look for reptiles and dragonflies. there was always a frisson of danger to parkhurst forest which i enjoyed. a chance that we might be assaulted by a violent escaped prisoner, like magwhich in great expectations. we must have visited it 20 times. and not one time did we ever see a big cat. or witness anything weird or unusual.
One of the first things I pack, when going for a walk, is a large ball of wool in case I ever meet a big cat face to face. A number of years ago me and a few friends were in some woods, in winter, resting up mid way through a bike ride. As we were about to leave we heard this feline noise coming from the darkness. The nearest house was some distance away, but could have still been a domestic. That's not what the darkness was telling my mind as we all launched into full run away mode. We were all laughing about it riding as fast as we could away from the, probable but not definite, tabby.
Sounds like you are lucky to have survived. From your description that was definitely a hell cat I didn't think about bringing the wool. Will pack it next time.
My catslove Dreamies. Every time I shake the bag, the cats suddenly appear. You should try this approach, although for a big cat, you'd need a giant bag of Dreamies. I'm thinking fish flavour, because all cats love fishes 🐟
I have not heard of Dreamies. I'm allergic to cats, so it maybe why I am quite ignorant about cat behaviour I will be sure to take some on my next big cat hunt.
From my limited experience at tracking cats, I find the pickled onion monster munch and Bakewell tarts mushed up together is a highly enjoyable meal for the feline beasts
I have absolutely no idea. I just looked up mead to see if it had an alternative meaning, but no. Maybe I should have drunk some of the boggy water to see how it tasted.
Perhaps try a simple saucer of milk to tempt out reclusive felines or maybe tie a ball of wool to a convenient branch. This they find irresistible. Derbyshire to my surprise does not seem to have many big cat sightings.
I live on Bodmin Moor. There are no big cats here, regardless of what you might hear. More strange though, there have been many sightings of wallabies. I don't think they eat cat food. Do you have any suggestions for bait?
I did some similar hunting once albeit on the internet. In the late 00's The Grove of Titans location in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park was still a secret. A grove of giant Redwood trees. I studied blogs and google maps, read the book, for environmental reasons the location was kept a secret. But I found it using all kinds of clues. Today it is common knowledge and the area location is trampled and ridden with erosion. The book is The Wild Trees by Richard Preston, a thoroughly wonderful read for the lovers of big trees, nature and mystery. I did see Spring-heeled Jack once on the Ewell bypass near Epsom.
..lots of spring-heeled Jacks there today, blown through by the wind. And the station is shut due to a tree on the line at Epsom. Free public broadcast announcement for you, right there.....
I had not heard of it before but I was just reading about it on Wikipedia. It sounds amazing. It is such a shame it was ruined. It is one of my life's ambitions to see a Giant Redwood.
@@cdwc You can see loads of them in the UK. Few big ones near Chartwell in Kent. There are at least three in your neck of woods, Cowes Osbourne House, Ventnor Blackgang Chine and Shanklin in Rylestone Gardens.
@@cdwc ok and just read. Father and son spotted a puma on a beach Lly? Peninsula and leaopards spotted in a foreign country spotted on camera you know stuck to a tree the peninsula is in Wales UK
Also FYI big cats tend to like to chase their food so to be thorough you should probably do the route again but running and pulling a plate of cat food along behind you.
This is a good idea. I will tie a piece of string round my stomach and drag a plate of sausages next time. The extra weight might push me below 2mph though.
A fish would be a good thing to attract cats. Cats always want to eat thing that are not for them, so if you leave a fish out say something like 'this is my fish and not it's for cats'.
Did you write the handbook after moving to the Isle of Wight, if you did the inclusion of a Red Squirrel for 5 points does stack it a bit in your favour as the island only has Red Squirrels. Saying that in the nearly two years I've been over here I've only seen 4 squirrels, two trying hard to kill themselves in front of the buses I was on, one that had already succeed in getting itself killed by traffic and one running across my garden. Whereas when I was living in south London I pretty much saw a grey squirrel everyday. The favourite food of the cats I've had in life has been cheese, maybe try a nice piece of mild cheddar if you try to spot the mysterious Isle of Wight Black Cat
Is just a big kitty. No big deal. Best thing you can do for real if you see a wild big cat is stay very still. Make yourself look as big as possible and back away slowly. Never let your eyes off it. And if you've got some sheba on you, leaving it as an offering of peace lol As for flavor, I'd have gone with one chicken and one fish. Usually cant go wrong with fish.
@@cdwc ahhh yeah, they can get scary at times. Biggest thing is NEVER run away from a cat haha even if they were uninterested in you from the start, if you run it will instantly trigger their hunting instincts.
He lives in Brightstone Forest. I came across him one night and am now a scared dude. I definitely wouldn’t walk around that forest smelling of cat food
The Isle of Wight isn't even real man. Biggest "ghost/big cat" story of all time. While I typed this my fork from my fork and knife pair of eating my current tea utensils has vanished. VANISHED. Not even joking. And believe it or not my room has just ben smashed up. Did the Cat man do?
Great video. My dad's cousin, Mel Clarke (RIP) ran the Sportsman's Rest in Porchfield. Here is a link to the video interview he gave after seeing the beast in the early 80s ruclips.net/video/bRj4iPr6hEk/видео.html
@@cdwc Thanks Marek. Mel moved on from Porchfield to run the Fountain in Cowes, where he sadly died, in 1987. Great guy, definitely a Cool Dude. Keep up the good work fella. Really enjoying the content.
Came here for the cat food advertisement that popped up after the video.Clicked on it, then came back and clicked on it again, so you'll get the 0.00000001 pence of revenue.
As a teen I was walking through the dense forested hills and valleys surrounding Niederreifenberg in rural Germany. Having (stupidly) strayed off the track in this very remote and unpopulated piece of forest, I ended up at the bottom of a steep grass-sided valley. The only exit was up the slippery wet grass, but at the top was an electric cattle fence. Unable to hold onto the grass to prevent slipping back down AND lift the single filament fence with a stick at the same time so I could crawl under it, I was somewhat buggered. Then a large German bear arrived out of nowhere and helped me. I should point out that the “bear” was a heavy set, hirsute man - I believe they are known as bears in certain communities - in his mid-50s and more than a match for my 135lb, 16 year-old self. The bear held the fence so I could escape the valley and get back onto the forest track - I was no longer buggered! Him speaking no English and me little German, communication was down to basic hand gestures. When he placed his fingertips to his lips, kissed them and then excitedly pointed them at me and then back at himself, I realized that buggery was very much back on the cards unless I beat a hasty retreat and somehow reached civilization again. Smiling politely I waved “goodbye” and nonchalantly walked the 50 or so meters to the closest bend in the pathway where, the bear now out of sight, I ran until I thought I was going to puke up my very soul. That’s my encounter with a bear while out walking. Lastly, the “nonchalant walk” I did was probably over 10mph, so next time any of you Cool Dudes are worried you’ll miss the train/bus/ferry connection home because you’re walking too slowly, imagine there’s a large, hairy, randy pervert who’s taken a shine to you just a few paces behind. Trust me, you’ll find an unexpected burst of speed. Stay Cool.
I wonder how many lost teenagers that man has kissed by the fence. I expect he probably put it there in the first place.
round here there is supposedly a supernatural big black dog called a Gytrash. Theres similar legends around the country. One time when I was a kid on holiday somewhere (I foget where but it was south/midlands type area) I snuck off and went for a walk alone in some woods and saw up ahead of me a huge fallen tree, two triangular shapes like ears pointe dup over the top of the log as if a giant dog was hiding behind it. I ran out of there. Still dont know what I saw.
It sounds like you saw the Kettering Treedog! I had not heard of the Gytrash before. I looked up some drawings of it. It's terrifying.
oooh "Hello there, Shrouded Hand here"
A local legend from back when I still live in the US, in my homestate there was the legend of the goat man, who by all descriptions, resembled Baphomet. He'd go around mutilating cattle at night in a town called Bowie. There was also a legend called the "Snallygaster" which people theorise the name comes from a butchering of German the German word Schneller Geist, which means quick ghost. It's a weird cimera creature. I personally never saw anything weird in the woods near my old home, but there was one night at a friends house, from deep within those same woods a sound was coming from it we couldn't identify, best I could describe was like a mixture between an owl and a bear, making some kind of... whooping sound. That did scare me.
I really like the extra touch of the kitty paper plates. 👍😺
I thought it would help lure the big cat in.
Can I just say how darn impressive it is that you actively went looking for something that you are allergic to. This level of dedication is just supreme. Loved every second of it. Nicely done cool dude :)
Hope things aren't too bad with Eunice down on the Isle, stay safe.
Storm Eunice has absolutely trashed the mimosa tree in my garden. I am just praying it doesn't fall on my neighbours green house. Meanwhile congratulations on being the first person to ever use the It is one of my favourites along with
@@cdwc Is your garden now full of those annoying, fluffy, yellow, balls?
Great video Marek, really enjoy this, sadly the only urban myths we have near me are "Chaddy" a man who stalks the woods and will bum you if he catch's you in the tunnel (that's genuinely something thats been told around my area for at least 30 years or more) and theres a new urban myth i accidently start a few years ago called The Shi**ing Jogger" after i accidently walked in on one going to the toilet in a bush in our local woods, lol. again 100% true, lol.
I think a video about Chaddy the Tunnel Bummer would be a RUclips hit.
Lol ello mate!
You were taking some risks there Marek, especially with your allergies!
Finally someone recognises how much I risk my life for the sake of this channel
A friend and I once saw a bat fly into a tree and a cat jump out. We came to the only sensible conclusion that the bat turned into the cat and the legend of the batcat of York was born. Thanks for the vid. “Big shat” really tickled me. Stay cool.
I think you should definitely spread more rumours about this tremendous bat cat.
I laughed so hard all the way through this. Brilliant video!
Nice one. Thanks cool dude.
"Past this bunch of dickheads" - 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant! That cracked me up! Im sold. On hearing that alone earned my subscription! Great video cool dude!
Thanks cool dude.
Glad you weren't mauled
You didn't seem to whistle to alert/attract any nearby cats after deploying the food/bait
It is difficult to remember these things when your life is in peril.
Really enjoyed video
This is the only you tube channel i come back to to read the comments !
Ha. Yes. I think the community on here is brilliant. Lot's of very good comments.
This video brought back SO many memories. Thank you! I grew up on the other side of those fields between Morton and Yaverland, and my brother and I spend most of our summer holidays playing in them. We never saw a big cat in the fields, however I definitely saw a big something in the Brading Roman Villa field when I was about 14... it could have been a large black dog but there were no humans around except me and it was sort of prowling...!!)
One time when playing in the Yaverland fields my brother and I did find a very dead owl and decided to bury it. When we patted down the earth we heard it hoot! So we quickly dug it up and tried to bring it back to life by putting it on the electric fence! That made its eye open and we were so scared we threw it into a near by bramble patch and ran away! When we went back the next day it had vanished!
p.s our cats really like crisps, so may try a packet of walkers next time?
The owl adventure sounds brilliant. I expect the owl may have been more traumatised than you having been buried alive then electrocuted. Ha.
@@cdwc HAHA you threw it on an electric fence holy shit man. I remember when my cousin and I were kids we went down to a pond, we were camping near it. we went down with our fishing rods, and saw a duck just sitting there, then my damn cousin started whacking the thing with his rod, I tried to stop him, I always wondered why he did it, he either knocked it uncousious, or killed it, I carried it back to camp because I felt bad for the poor thing.
Love the piano playing:-) definitely can hear an improvement👍👍
Ha. I think I am regressing.
We also had a big cat in Buckinghamshire or so they say 🐈
These big cats get everywhere, or maybe it is the same one
My cousin saw the beast of Bodmin while out riding his bike in very rural east Devon. When it looked at him, he cycled back home as quickly as he could in a panic.
How big was it?
@@cdwc About the size of Rick Waller dressed as a Pather.
Try Sheba cat treats next time they won't be so yukky or rank like cat food. Daphne sounded a bit hoarse! Great doodles especially the pirate 🐈. German Shepherd was a good emergency back up choice - very loyal, protective & can run very very fast. I liked your 'Morning has Broken' keyboard playing, it reminded me of Sunday School, we always sang this hymn. Looking forward to seeing more of these mysterious animal sighting videos.
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Thanks cool dude. I expect I will be going through all the hymns we used to sing at school gradually. Hopefully I can find some more weird things to base walks on soon.
"Have you ever seen a strange thing on a walk?" asks the bald man with round eyes, 2 open tins of cat food on leopard paper plates in his bag and a folded-up home-printed picture of an alsatian in his pocket.
One of them was a tiger plate.
I saw a yellow panther about a mile and a half just outside Shepton Mallet, Somerset.
Is a yellow panther a leopard?
@@cdwc It didn't have spots. It had a yellow coat with a creamy white underbelly.
Uncanny impressions of those ladies voices.
Tell my agent
Nice to see you driving the bus again.
i can see why shrouded hand loves this content its quality you know what im subscribing keep it up
Nice one thanks cool dude.
Another one hopped over from shrouded hand here, subscribed and joined up!
Always like a bit of Marek art 😊
It is almost animation now.
Brilliant voice acting!👍
Someone tell some casting directors.
hmm, my son and I were driving home from a nearby mountain, we live in the pyrenees you see. We were descending and saw a, quite large cat-like animal, a greyish colour. At first I though, must be a fox, they're quite common around here, but I've never seen a grey fox, and the native foxes here are orange anyway, so it was either an Iberian Lynx that somehow made it's way here, or a grey coloured fox. Just thought that was interesting.
That must have been cool. At least you were safe in the car.
@@cdwc haha well, both lynxes and foxes typically run away at the sight of humans, unless they're rabid.
Damn, this was gold! Funny stuff. I bet there is some sort of big cat out there. I read recently about a new trend of people buying hybrid breeds of a Serval mixed with domestic cat. Maybe one got away or was let go.
I bet there are loads of weird creatures hidden away in millionaires houses on the island.
I think there may have been an issue with the bait. Perhaps Pork Chops or a Kebab may have been more appropriate. As for having a picture of another cat on the plate, that was a mistake. Cats are territorial and don't care for rivals. Perhaps if there had been a picture of Tippi Hedren on it then you may have had better results. Also, humming "Born Free" may have helped. Overall, a cutting edge natural history video to rival anything that David Attenborough has done.
Thanks for the good advice cool dude. I will have a look for Tippi Hedren plates next time I go to Tescos. I may have been looking down the wrong aisle.
Vintage PAHR soundtrack!
My cat eats grated cheddar cheese. Perhaps try that flavour next time. Stay Cool
I think I might end up eating that myself cool dude.
I like that you're mixing things up a little bit.
Thanks cool dude
Things that go bump in the night .. Best put those lights on folks .. And don't kick the cat ..
Really enjoy your videos Marek .. Such a Cool Dude Thank You for the Smile on me Dial .
🐾🐾 🐱 Big cats are so elusive. In the western US, pumas are everywhere but only saw one once. I was walking along near Sequoia NP in California, and a large black bear approached. We both stopped and looked at one another before the bear trundled off. I guess it was one my lucky moments or just smelled like old hiking boots.
That sounds absolutely terrifying. Did you carry bear spray. You forgot to use the new cat emoji
@@cdwc Sorry for the late response Marek.I had no bear spray. But it all happened so quickly I don't think I would've had time to use it 🐈
That was brilliant. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍 Proper laugh out loud moments. Keep it up Marek. Hilarious. 👍
Nice one. Thanks cool dude.
Beautiful big cats in the video. My cats are now stepping up their food intake in an attempt to gain Big Cat Status 🐅
This could prove very expensive in the long run if they are successful cool dude.
@@cdwc Very Uncool, financially 😾😾😾😾
Mum used to go on about Black Shuck being a thing in Norfolk and I used to take the 🐈 with me on dogs walks but no-one mistook him for anything fierce.
If you think cat food stinks you should get a whiff of 🐈 (dogs love it, still very protein rich). Hope your neighbours' fence survived, stay cool
The branch is still hanging off too high to reach. I have also noticed they have a greenhouse in their garden nearby. It is so stressful. Meanwhile I based the new emoji on a sort of Black Shuck.
Fish. Any old fish. Cats will have your arm off for a bit of fish. Quite literally if it is a big 🐈. Once sat looking for Nessie for hours. Didn't see a thing except the peace of the Loch, so I won't complain. I drive across Bodmin regularly and in bad weather you can see why the Beast of Bodmin legend continues. Some great walking up there, Marek. Worth an amble....?
Yes I will get down that way soon. I can't believe you didn't use the new emoji
@@cdwc Being a wild and crazy rebel, I like to live on the edge..... so only prepared to use it......NOW
Alright! great vid marek! my dad once caught an escaped polecat from neighbours garden in my brother's school bag. the cat scratched all the inside of his bag and then shat on my brother's school books. my dad returned the polecat to the owners who denied it had escaped and said it was someone else's. my dad insisted and gave it them anyway, my dad's pretty good like that. right now for big cat bait? have you heard that big cat poo keeps small cats away? then maybe small cat poo attracts big cats to stay.
A pole cat shat on my homework is definitely a great excuse. I still don't understand how some people have cat litters in their kitchens. It is literally shit in your kitchen.
Pure class!
Was fully expecting you to come face to face with a hungry leopard type deal....shocked the Sheba didn’t do the trick. Still, I know that if there’s things to be spotted, it’ll be you spotting em, so I can’t wait to see what you decide to track down in the next videos! Love the mysterious isle vibe 😁👍🏼
I was a bit disappointed in Sheba too. That was £1.20 down the drain.
I could totally sympathise with the whole smelling of cat food thing. A few days ago, I did some market research on dog food. All I had to do was open several of those little tins, pour it into a dish and rate the consistency and smell of it(🤢). They provided wipes and I scrubbed my hands afterwards but for the rest of the day, all I could smell was dog food. Still, I got money to do it. 🤷😂
Great vid and I hope that the storms your way calm down soon . 😁
Did you get paid by tin? Surely they should be testing it on animals?
@@cdwc Well yes, you'd think that wouldn't you?I suppose the daftest part about it is that I don't even have a dog. 😂
@@cdwc By the way, no I didn't get paid per tin but it took me half an hour and I got £15.So not too bad.
Hope you're OK with that pesky storm Eunice, no winds up here in Inverness but 6 inches of snow today....nice
I would have preferred the snow. It is still blowing a gale.
I saw a big cat at Cranmore in 1989 I was walking up a road in the countryside to see my family I had my baby son with me which is why I know what year it was he was only about one year old and I saw this giant black cat easily the size of a big dog wandering along between the vineyard vines that was there.
i just want to recount my experience as a small child in the 1970s. we used to go to the isle of wight every summer, in august. sometimes we went to parkhurst forest for picnics, and i liked to wander off into the woods by myself to look for reptiles and dragonflies. there was always a frisson of danger to parkhurst forest which i enjoyed. a chance that we might be assaulted by a violent escaped prisoner, like magwhich in great expectations. we must have visited it 20 times. and not one time did we ever see a big cat. or witness anything weird or unusual.
Maybe all the big cats had gone on their summer holidays?
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One of the first things I pack, when going for a walk, is a large ball of wool in case I ever meet a big cat face to face. A number of years ago me and a few friends were in some woods, in winter, resting up mid way through a bike ride. As we were about to leave we heard this feline noise coming from the darkness. The nearest house was some distance away, but could have still been a domestic. That's not what the darkness was telling my mind as we all launched into full run away mode. We were all laughing about it riding as fast as we could away from the, probable but not definite, tabby.
Sounds like you are lucky to have survived. From your description that was definitely a hell cat I didn't think about bringing the wool. Will pack it next time.
My catslove Dreamies. Every time I shake the bag, the cats suddenly appear.
You should try this approach, although for a big cat, you'd need a giant bag of Dreamies.
I'm thinking fish flavour, because all cats love fishes 🐟
I have not heard of Dreamies. I'm allergic to cats, so it maybe why I am quite ignorant about cat behaviour I will be sure to take some on my next big cat hunt.
I hope you got some Strawberry Flavour Laces while you were at Tesco Extra.
From my limited experience at tracking cats, I find the pickled onion monster munch and Bakewell tarts mushed up together is a highly enjoyable meal for the feline beasts
Two delightful things merged together to make something horrific.
Why was the first area called something Mead? Seems an odd name for a location. Anyway, fun walk; one of my cats is purring her approval right now.
I have absolutely no idea. I just looked up mead to see if it had an alternative meaning, but no. Maybe I should have drunk some of the boggy water to see how it tasted.
@@cdwc Mead is an archaic word for meadow.
Perhaps try a simple saucer of milk to tempt out reclusive felines or maybe tie a ball of wool to a convenient branch. This they find irresistible. Derbyshire to my surprise does not seem to have many big cat sightings.
It would have been difficult to balance the milk in the saucer for the walk whilst holding a camera.
I live on Bodmin Moor. There are no big cats here, regardless of what you might hear. More strange though, there have been many sightings of wallabies. I don't think they eat cat food. Do you have any suggestions for bait?
Use big cats as wallaby bait.
Apparently there are wallabies hopping about in the Peak District too but I have no idea how to tempt them
How did you discover there were no big cats on Bodmin Moor?
You should find out when big cat mating season is and buy a tiger costume you might tempt one out of hiding.
Yes I might practice on the Tigers in the zoo first to see what they are into.
I did some similar hunting once albeit on the internet. In the late 00's The Grove of Titans location in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park was still a secret. A grove of giant Redwood trees. I studied blogs and google maps, read the book, for environmental reasons the location was kept a secret. But I found it using all kinds of clues. Today it is common knowledge and the area location is trampled and ridden with erosion. The book is The Wild Trees by Richard Preston, a thoroughly wonderful read for the lovers of big trees, nature and mystery.
I did see Spring-heeled Jack once on the Ewell bypass near Epsom.
..lots of spring-heeled Jacks there today, blown through by the wind. And the station is shut due to a tree on the line at Epsom. Free public broadcast announcement for you, right there.....
I had not heard of it before but I was just reading about it on Wikipedia. It sounds amazing. It is such a shame it was ruined. It is one of my life's ambitions to see a Giant Redwood.
@@cdwc You can see loads of them in the UK. Few big ones near Chartwell in Kent. There are at least three in your neck of woods, Cowes Osbourne House, Ventnor Blackgang Chine and Shanklin in Rylestone Gardens.
A serval got through a window of an Hampstead House London awhile ago yes
That sounds absolutely terrifying. They can jump almost as high as a house (that might be a slight exaggeration).
@@cdwc ok and just read. Father and son spotted a puma on a beach Lly? Peninsula and leaopards spotted in a foreign country spotted on camera you know stuck to a tree the peninsula is in Wales UK
A lot of cats are nocturnal, you should attempt the search again when it’s really dark
A search for tigers in the dark?!?
Perfect opportunity to get a night vision camera
And try another kitty food
A very impressive investigation, hopefully the Met Police are taking some notes!
Also FYI big cats tend to like to chase their food so to be thorough you should probably do the route again but running and pulling a plate of cat food along behind you.
This is a good idea. I will tie a piece of string round my stomach and drag a plate of sausages next time. The extra weight might push me below 2mph though.
Surely a gazelle or zebra based food product would have had definite success.
A good shout. I will take one of each next time cool dude.
A fish would be a good thing to attract cats. Cats always want to eat thing that are not for them, so if you leave a fish out say something like 'this is my fish and not it's for cats'.
I will bring a fish next time and write 'Marek's' on it's back.
Did you write the handbook after moving to the Isle of Wight, if you did the inclusion of a Red Squirrel for 5 points does stack it a bit in your favour as the island only has Red Squirrels. Saying that in the nearly two years I've been over here I've only seen 4 squirrels, two trying hard to kill themselves in front of the buses I was on, one that had already succeed in getting itself killed by traffic and one running across my garden. Whereas when I was living in south London I pretty much saw a grey squirrel everyday. The favourite food of the cats I've had in life has been cheese, maybe try a nice piece of mild cheddar if you try to spot the mysterious Isle of Wight Black Cat
I saw one on a walk the other day. I never saw one between the ages of 6-44. I have been lucky enough to have one regular visit my garden.
Is just a big kitty. No big deal. Best thing you can do for real if you see a wild big cat is stay very still. Make yourself look as big as possible and back away slowly. Never let your eyes off it. And if you've got some sheba on you, leaving it as an offering of peace lol
As for flavor, I'd have gone with one chicken and one fish. Usually cant go wrong with fish.
I watched that video of that jogger being chased by a puma and am now permanently terrified of big cats.
@@cdwc ahhh yeah, they can get scary at times. Biggest thing is NEVER run away from a cat haha even if they were uninterested in you from the start, if you run it will instantly trigger their hunting instincts.
He lives in Brightstone Forest. I came across him one night and am now a scared dude. I definitely wouldn’t walk around that forest smelling of cat food
How big was he? It sounds pretty scary.
@@cdwc much bigger than a Labrador but not as big as horse, and scarier than both
Ha Dude, EVERYONE knows you can only attract big cats with a bowl of Frosties or a bag of Cheetos
Yes of course. I can't believe I didn't pay attention to this when it was on the telly.
Someone once threw some cat food at me and some went in my mouth and it tasted like crab paste
I want to know the story that led to them throwing cat food at your face. :face:
A funny, crazy lollop-lappa - More adorable than the best of Venice:
Great job
Nice one cool dude
The Isle of Wight isn't even real man. Biggest "ghost/big cat" story of all time. While I typed this my fork from my fork and knife pair of eating my current tea utensils has vanished. VANISHED. Not even joking. And believe it or not my room has just ben smashed up. Did the Cat man do?
This sounds like the work of that cat that smashes up lamps for sure.
You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs. Well, I look around me and I see it isn't so
Great video. My dad's cousin, Mel Clarke (RIP) ran the Sportsman's Rest in Porchfield. Here is a link to the video interview he gave after seeing the beast in the early 80s ruclips.net/video/bRj4iPr6hEk/видео.html
Thank you, what a fantastic video. Mel was definitely a cool dude.
@@cdwc Thanks Marek. Mel moved on from Porchfield to run the Fountain in Cowes, where he sadly died, in 1987. Great guy, definitely a Cool Dude. Keep up the good work fella. Really enjoying the content.
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Ha. I wish.
I bet you foxes or magpies, will have that catfood. It wont last long!
That pigeon was probably killed and eaten by a rabbit.
I would love to see a pigeon killing rabbit.
Came here for the cat food advertisement that popped up after the video.Clicked on it, then came back and clicked on it again, so you'll get the 0.00000001 pence of revenue.
Excellent advert clicking cool dude. All those clicks go towards more cat bait.