Camper films 'big cat' feeding on dead sheep in the Peak District

This is the moment a teenage camper filmed a 'big cat' apparently feeding on a dead sheep in the Peak District. Josh Williams was with his friend Ben Burns after a night of wild camping when they spotted the animal near Jacob's Ladder on Monday.

Josh, 17, captured the moment on his phone as the pals were walking from Mermaid's Pool on Kinder Scout towards Edale. They said the creature sounded as if it was feasting on the carcass of another animal, possibly a dead sheep, in a nearby field, but concerned for their safety, were reluctant to get any closer.

Josh said: "We were both confused when we first saw it. We stood staring at it and questioning what it could be for around five minutes before I decided to start recording so that I could zoom in and get a better look. We tried attracting its attention so that it would turn and face us, so that we could get a better understanding of what we were looking at.

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"We honestly had no idea what it could be if not a big cat. It was in a field of sheep with no different animals around, and it appeared to have a long black tail, so it definitely wasn't a sheep. We didn't hear much noise coming from the wild cat, just the occasional crunch, which made me think it was feeding on something like a dead animal – most likely a sheep.

"We could instantly tell it was something different the moment we laid eyes on it – we both saw it at the same time and gave each other a confused look. I could tell we were both thinking the same thing as the day before, we were actually discussing the possibility of us running into a wild cat whilst on our trip.

"The animals around it were seemingly unbothered,