On the evening of 13 March 2010, Shaun Histed-Todd was driving a bus along a Dartmoor road when he saw a most unusual creature run down the edge of the moor and stand at the roadside, where the bus’s headlights afforded him an excellent view of it for roughly half a minute before it ran back up onto the moors. (To protect the animal, Shaun has asked me not to make public the precise locat­ion.) Shaun contacted me a few days later, as he was unable to identify it, and provided me with a detailed description. It resembled a young fox and had a bushy white-tipped tail, but its coat was dark silvery-grey; it had noticeably large ears, white paws, and a black raccoon-like facial mask.