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The Curious Incident of the Runners in the Night-Time

We could use some more mystery and drama about daily training runs, as mundane as they usually are. The U.K.’s Westmorland Gazette tracked down a suitable saga.

“Two terrified runners have spoken of their face-to-face encounter with South Lakeland’s mysterious big ‘black cat,’” the paper reported. “It follows years of apparent sightings of the curious creature in Kendal, Levens, Natland, Witherslack and in the Winster Valley.”

Anjela Jones and Eve Grayson were traversing the foggy moor during their evening jog (OK, I don’t know if it was a foggy moor, but it makes for a better story) when they spotted an animal shape in the dark. Angela said the animal was jet black, the same size as a labrador, had long legs, a tail and was staring straight at them.

“We stopped, shone our head torches towards it to get a better look and saw two orange eyes and the outline of a large feline animal,” said Angela “It was definitely a big cat.”

Let’s put on our deerstalker caps for this one. I have a theory…

But it’s hard to devote sufficient attention to solving this mystery while being distracted by the photo accompanying the story.

Is this meant to be a re-enactment of the incident? Did the two women really hide behind a thin tree branch and pull it down in order to see?

Even more baffling is the photo caption: “Angela Jones and Eve Grayson, who say they saw South Lakeland’s mystery big car.” That’s right, it says “car.” Were they really hiding behind a tree branch from a big black car?

The reporter adds to the riddle when he describes the culprit as “the mystery moggy.” The term can be applied to a cat, but also a cow, a mouse, or “an untidy woman.”

Hmmm… definitely a three-pipe problem.