Sydney, Australia's largest and richest city, is also the most bloody place.
In Sydney's history, some emotions never go away.
Some stories are always a mystery.
Among the many city legends in Sydney, there are eight stories that make many people racked their brains and make many ponder and can't sleep at night.
This week we will temporarily leave CBD, for a walk west, come to Sydney's second business card, Blue Mountain, to take a look at the legend that there has always been a strange creature, God out of sight, but see blood seal throat!
The Phantom Cat of Blue Mountain is here again!
Friends who have lived in Sydney for a long time may have heard more or less about the Blue Mountain Phantom Cat. To be sure, it's not a myth, it's a real mystery, because in the last 100 years, at least 600 people have seen the ghost cat, but no one has ever been able to find it. Let alone find out where it came from.
But it is known that this ghost-like creature
Extremely cold and cruel, once it appears, there will be a blood case.
You may not believe that the last time someone saw this phantom cat appeared, just last week! Still in Blue Mountain!
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Last week, Blackheath resident Steven Muiser inadvertently saw a huge black animal moving in a distant bush near Coxs River. Although it is more than 150 meters away, it can be seen that the animal looks like a cat both in its walking posture and in its shape!
But the "cat" is at least five times bigger than the average domestic cat and the first reaction of Steven is to shoot it with a mobile phone! Because he has had pets for so many years, he has seen all kinds of cats, but never seen a cat can be so big! This black cat is at least 1 meter tall and 2 meters long! Such a colossal thing, he was almost certain, that it was by no means a cat.
Steven, who lives in Blue Mountain, has heard about the Phantom cat since he was a child, so he naturally associate himself with this strange animal. As Steven pulled out his phone and was ready to record the video, the cat, who had been walking leisurely, suddenly accelerated and disappeared into sight, so Steven captured only a flash of footage.
What Steven saw once again brought people into the fear of a "ghost cat".
There it is again!
Until then, all the information about the Phantom was highly vague, and most of it was late at night or in the dark, like a ghost. But it happens every once in a while. This information is enough to convince people that the Phantom cat exists.
If you take a careful look at it, you'll see how this fearless phantom cat exists like death.
In 1920, Bowen had a mystery about the disappearance of 13 people.
The first rumors about Phantom cats began in Sydney, Bowen Mountain, because of age, there is no clear record of the year, only in the early 20th century, that is, 100 years ago. At the time, there was a small village of 13 people in, Bowen Mountain, who lived by peddling their fresh vegetables on the side of the road.
But I don't know which day, all the people in this village suddenly disappeared!
When Town council, who belongs to the small village, was sending people to notify some of the administration, he found the whole village empty, with only sharp scratches on the wall and rooms falling apart.
No one, no sheep, no life, no blood. All life in this village disappeared like a human being. And the scratches all over the wall seemed to be reminding of a bitter battle that had taken place here. Then a farmer who had passed said he seemed to have seen a beast that looked like a tiger leopard and a black cat.
It's like a black ghost.
As a result, there is a terrible ghost cat "butcher village" rumors, has been the residents of nearby hearts lingering shadow.
1980 s, grose Vale showed up twice
In the 60 years since the "ghost cat" slaughtered village, few bloody rumors have ever been heard (or perhaps because the information spread at the time was not as advanced as it is now), and the existence of the ghost cat is almost forgotten. But in the 1980s, the experience of an outdoor enthusiast called Chris Coffey put people in the shadow of fear.
Grose Vale was a small mountain village at the foot of the Blue Mountain, where Chris, who was camping nearby, had no idea what he was going through. While he was burning the barbecue, he suddenly saw a dark shadow staring at him behind the bushes across the river.
The light was too dark to see exactly, but he was sure it was a cat. In his common sense, Australia's mainland does not exist large cats, but he clearly saw this animal like a lion like a leopard as well as a cat! The body is black, the eyes are cold!
He had a strong hunch that the animal was approaching himself, so he hurriedly threw all the meat into the river and began to pack up for evacuation. On his way out of the forest, he once again saw the big cat staring at himself in the distance, this time more clearly: it must have been the ghost cat that had been missing for many years!
His eyes were full of murderous air!
In 2000, the gutted shadow kille
With the development of the media, there are more and more revelations about the encounter of the Phantom Cat. Among them, this case in 2000, let people see the true appearance of the ghost cat in the picture for the first time.
One day, Ron Johns, a small farmer in Penrith, a western suburb of Sydney, found a sheep missing from his ranch. So he went all over the village to inquire about the whereabouts of the sheep.
Soon, a bricklayer in the village told him that he seemed to see a sheep wading over there not far away. Ron got to know the general position and made it. When he found the sheep, he saw a sickening scene: the sheep was already a corpse, had a broken stomach, and the internal organs were torn.
Ron, who has been a farmer for so many years, has never seen such a scene. He had no idea what beast would be such a psychopath. But what made him even more confused was that it was just the beginning, and then his family, and other farmers in the same village, would disappear from each other.
It's as cruel as it is, opening the stomach, taking away the insides.
Helpless, Ron decided to install a set of monitoring equipment, to find out exactly. However, for a long time after the monitoring installation, everything was unusually calm. It was not until more than a month later that he suddenly heard a terrible cry from the barn at night, and when he heard it, he saw that there was only a half-body left of the mighty cow.
He rushed out to pull out the surveillance and saw such an animal flash through the video. The speed is as fast as only a frame or two of the picture, not attention at all can not see.
This is a leopard!
How could Australia have leopards?
In 2001, the ghost couldn't be found.
In 2000, in addition to several small towns in Sydney's Blue Mountain, Ron, there were reports of "ghost cats" slaughtering animals. This convinced everyone that the Phantom cat is not just a rumor. As a result, in 2001, the new state government organized a large number of experts, began a rather large-scale "search mountain" operation.
In order not to create panic, the search was carried out secretly, and the search was made public many years later in the "Information Discover" project. Government had wanted to catch the Phantom Cat and put an end to the panic rumors. But oddly, after a few days of carpet-like mountain search, not even a footprint was found!
As a result, the legend still haunts local residents like nightmares.
Death gaze of, Colo River in 2002
The 2001 search failed to find the "Phantom Cat," which, a year later, appeared in Colo River.. A pair of tourists, Williams and Wendy, drove past the fire station in the western town of Sydney when they found a black cat in a bushes by the side of the road.
Wendy hurriedly pulled out his camera to record the video, and the black cat suddenly jumped up and disappeared into the bushes.
Wendy said in a palpable interview that she felt that "only demons can make such cold eyes." But curiosity prompted the couple to get out of the car to find out, they did not find the black cat just now, but found the black cat squatting stump in the video, two meters in diameter! In other words, the cat just saw, at least 2 meters long! What kind of cat, 2 meters long?!
Large-scale livestock deaths in 2003
Rumors of the "ghost cat" killing reached its peak in 2003! in 2003, Hawkesbury Council released information to the media documenting the deaths of livestock belonging to its subordinates and hibernating farmers' homes during the year: Grose Vale,Grose Wold,Londonderry,Yarramundi, The wide range of Bowen Mountain,Kurrajong,East Kurrajong,Colo,Agnes Banks,Windsor Downs,Ebenezer, and Macdonald Valley, is chilling! The deaths of livestock in these places are bizarre and tragic, similar to what happened to the Ron family in 2000!
At that time, the Phantom Cat became the biggest fear in Sydney farmer's heart!
Is there more than one ghost cat in Sydney?
In 2004, fear spread again
Black cats are more or less associated with death or ominous signs in eastern and western legends. So in 2003, many people regarded the Blue Mountain as an unknown place. However, no one thought that one day in 2004, the phantom cat suddenly appeared in the state of Victoria!
Phillip, a 9-year-old boy in Daylesford, Victoria, told his parents that he was suddenly attacked by a shadow on his farm at home! He described the animal as a cat-like, but a dog-like figure, and then jumped on him and fled quickly.
This thing, let Sydney Blue Mountain Phantom's fear spread again
In the days that followed, phantom cats occasionally appeared in the sight of humans: in 2008, when the Sydney family went to Wisemans Ferry on holiday, 11-year-old Brianna Lloyd and 12-year-old Burgundie Cartan sneaked into the woods to "explore" despite their parents' warnings. At the edge of the forest park, she bumped into a big black cat, who was jumping from a tree and falling right in front of two little girls. But strangely, instead of attacking the two little girls in front of her, he quickly climbed into the bushes.
In 2009, a video of a ghost cat was filmed at a resident's home in Sydney, and the next day a chicken in a neighbor's backyard was found dead.
In 2011, Macarthur resident Lorrin Maile also said his aunt's dog was attacked by a black cat one night and nearly lost his life! She said she could hear a bleak voice like "there was a female being killed" all night long, probably a wraith cat growling!
In 2013, two lumberjacks discovered a mysterious footprint in a mountain in Garland Valley, new state. Local zoologists confirm that no animal living there can leave such footprints.
By 2013, no fewer than 600 residents of the new state had seen ghost cats. From Blue Mountains to Macarthur, to Hawkesbury,Penrith, even on the central coast of Tumbi Umbi!
Combined with the recent Steven video, it's almost 100% certain that there is a black ghost like a cat and a leopard on the outskirts of Sydney. It comes and goes without a trace, but is cruel to man and to animal means.
The phantom cat once again plunged people into fear.
But for many researchers and explorers, what is more powerful than fear is curiosity about the creature. There are no large cats in mainland, Australia. So what is this big black cat?
How did it appear in Sydney?
Whether it is a surviving ghost of more than 100 years, or has begun to quietly reproduce nightmares.
Because no one can find its trace, so all this is very painful for the Australian zoologists!
Opinions about the ghost cat's origins and origins vary, but one of the most believed to date relates to an abandoned zoo on the outskirts of Sydney.
There is a ghost town-like complex in Notre Dame, Sydney, which was once a thriving zoo, but has been abandoned for many years, with weeds and rust.
In the 1980s, a millionaire, Emmanuel Margolin, opened an animal carnival city, at its heyday, with more than 80 species of rare birds and beasts from all over the world. Many of Sydney's parents like to bring their children here to see these rare animals, but behind the zoo's operations, it is far from the kind of laughter it presents to the audience. Millionaire Emmanuel brought these animals from all over the world, in fact, to satisfy his freak's cruel taste. He not only condoned, but also enjoyed the bloody events in which his employees were torn up by beasts.
No one dared to come to the zoo when all these tragic and inhuman scandals were revealed. And Emmanuel has become the devil in everyone's eyes.
The zoo closed and animals were sent to other zoos in Australia. But some people suspect that in the process of the zoo's demobilization, some of the beasts have been released to the mountains! Many people suspect that the ghost cat of Sydney's Blue Hills is actually the Panther who ran out of this zoo!
But there was also a rebuke because the zoo didn't seem to have a panther, and rumors of ghost cats had been raging since the 1920s, well before the zoo opened!
It is also assumed that the size and shape of this black cat is much like a prehistoric Australian animal, a bag lion. The bag lion was a savage predator on Australia's mainland, in line with the ferocious nature of the phantom cat. However, the bag lion was extinct 30, 000 years ago. If this phantom cat is really a bag lion, it is also a thousand years bag lion essence.
So, to this day, the true identity of the ghost cat, is still a mystery. And this evil, easy to kill the creature, still hovering near Sydney, become the heart of the lingering shadow.
No one knows where it comes from, where it will appear, except that the ghost cat is now, and there must be blood and light