Beware the Kellas cat! That’s what you might’ve heard back in the 1980s when some people in Scotland started to attribute large cat sightings and the violent deaths of sheep to an elusive predator. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

The Kellas cat earned cryptid-like status, named after the Moray village of the same name, where several specimens were recorded. It was described as being large, dangerous, and a nightmare if you owned sheep. People had a lot of ideas about what it was: a melanistic wildcat, a weird-looking feral domestic cat, or even a new species with “ cheetah-like adaptations ”.

What was the Kellas cat?

A documentary from 1986 reported on the unmasking of the Kellas cat, speaking to locals who had se

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