Not Just Ghosts Haunt Edinburgh and Scotland

NOT JUST GHOST HAUNT EDINBURGH,

Not Only Ghost walk the streets of Edinburgh, West Linton, Penicuik and the Pentlandhills,
Between 1930 and 1997 there have been sightings of a large cat in the areas around Edinburgh this has been seen by a few people and also there have been reports of sheep being killed around the area the cat has been seen to date it seems the cat has left humans alone. Below we list the sightings and what they saw plus reports if any made to police or the SSPCA.
1930 West Side of Pentland hills: sheep attacked however no one sees the cat or what caused the attacks to the sheep paw prints are found         beside some of the sheep and blood trail leads off up in to the hills.
1979 Rosslyn: near to where the Rosslyn Chaple is a witness saw what he thought to be a puma sitting on the path about 6 feet in front of him   the witness says it sat for a few minutes then jumped over some ferns and made it's way up a small hill where it stopped to                                       look back at him he said it was golden brown with a black bar running across it's nose at 6 feet or less the witness must have got                            a clear view so he would have known what he saw.
1982 Penicuik: an animal of the same type and colour was seen as that in 1979, this was seen by witnesses walking along the disused railway       track when the witnesses were out for a walk with there children, the witnesses described the cat as being the size of a lion and                              having a long tail it appeared to be haunting in the field next to the track. The cat did not seem to worry about it being watched                                 from the path and after a few minutes disappeared further up the field and out of sight from the group.
1982 Penicuik: about a month after the above incident the cat was seen again this time by a farmer out working on his farm, he said the cat          was out to stock his sheep and seemed to be hunting them. He said he moved his tractor towards the cat, which he said had dark  fur and a tail 3 feet long. When it heard the sound of the tractor the cat run off towards the hills at the back of his field. This was reported to the police and they with the help of the SSPCA did a search of the nearby land but nothing was found at that time.
1982 Penicuik:a few days after the farmer had seen the cat a monk from the nearby abby saw a cat like the one everyone else had seen near the  abby, he knew of the farm cat and he phoned the police again this time they thought they new they had a big cat on the loose as sheep had been killed that weekend at a farm a few miles from West Linton by a large cat.
1986 West Linton: on the road between West Linton and Penicuik a mother and daughter were traveling towards West Linton when they saw a    large cat sitting in the road watching the car come towards it before jumping a gate and running off over a field.
1989 Pentlandhills Ninemile burn: a group of walkers were out following the Ninemile burn route when they saw a large cat walking towards a      field of sheep. they lost sight of it as it jumped a wall in to the field of sheep.
1997 unkown road: witness saw a large cat lying by the road, she thought the cat might be unwell and reported it to police and SSPCA.
1997 West Linton: reports of large paw prints being found outside of a farm by the farmer.
1997 report by the SSPCA in the papers: We have had many sightings of a large cat in the Mid Lothian area and Pentland hills however we can    confirm that no cat has been found. Large parts of the area are desolate and who knows what might live up there.
Large cats have not just been seen around the area of Mid Lothian but also in West Lothian could this be the same cat as they are known to haunt wide areas of land for food, but with sheep,cows and horses all living outside on the Hills and in fields why would it need to travel with food right at hand?. Why since the last report in 1997 has the cat not been seen since. There is still reports of sheep killing the last one in 2011 at a farm just short of Edinburgh Airport but that was said to be a fox although some say the bite mark was to large for a fox to make. Another report of a cat in Edinburgh was in January 2011 when foot prints of a large cat were found in a garden in Newhaven. So what is out there? what is hunting sheep and where has it gone?.