{"id":13,"date":"2005-06-16T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-16T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leapfrog.nl\/?p=13"},"modified":"2026-01-05T16:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:19:07","slug":"dutch-alien-big-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/16\/dutch-alien-big-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Alien Big Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is so cool. For a few days now, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nu.nl\/news.jsp?n=541941&amp;c=10&amp;rss\" title=\"article at Nu.nl in Dutch\">police in The Netherlands are hunting down an alleged puma on the Hooge Veluwe<\/a>, a large natural reserve.<\/p>\n<p>To me, being a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fortean\">Fortean<\/a>, this is a treat. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alien_big_cat\">Alien Big Cats<\/a> is a phenomenon well recorded in Fortean literature where multiple people start seeing a large felid in or around a specific location. Sometimes the animal is never found; sometimes it turns out to be a dog, cat or other domestic animal. And sometimes it turns out to <em>really be<\/em> a wild cat.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it turns out to be, I&#8217;m enjoying seeing this strange phenomena play out in the Dutch media, who have no clue, and seeing where the mass hysteria will take us.<\/p>\n<p>(Also check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forteantimes.com\/articles\/167_bigcats2002.shtml\">British <acronym title=\"Alien Big Cats\">ABC<\/acronym> roundup<\/a> at the excellent Fortean Times.)<\/p>\n<p>Technorati: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/abc\" rel=\"tag\"><acronym title=\"Alien Big Cats\">ABC<\/acronym><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/alienbigcats\" rel=\"tag\">alienbigcats<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/forteana\" rel=\"tag\">forteana<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/cryptozoology\" rel=\"tag\">cryptozoology<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is so cool. For a few days now, police in The Netherlands are hunting down an alleged puma on the Hooge Veluwe, a large natural reserve. To me, being a Fortean, this is a treat. Alien Big Cats is a phenomenon well recorded in Fortean literature where multiple people start seeing a large felid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/16\/dutch-alien-big-cat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dutch Alien Big Cat<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[625],"tags":[35,38,36,37],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-abc","tag-cryptozoology","tag-forteana","tag-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4192,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/4192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}