Paul Macdonald is a custom sword and knife-maker and historical fencing master.
He has always had a fascination with paranormal and metaphysical nature, a curiosity sustained by many personal experiences over the past 40 years.

In 2019, he founded the Scottish Big Cat Research Team and has run this as Director since, bringing his Military Intelligence background to the subject in conducting ground-breaking research, analysis and fieldwork.

He is currently writing a book which covers and aims to answer several different ancient Scottish archaeological mysteries.

Paul’s talk for 2026 is:

Big Cats in Scotland – Physical and Metaphysical Realities.

This ground-breaking presentation will be given here for the first time. It brings together 7 years of dedicated research and study of big cats living wild in Scotland along with genuine Scottish accounts of creatures of otherworldly origins.