Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Forest People in Tennessee

#676
#676
f77f00 said:
You should prove that and in the process, many people and agencies dead wrong! I have seen nothing more than a bobcat, but I know several people that claim to have seen panthers. Almost to a person they claim they were black, and this is not something that occurs with any significant frequency in mountain lions.

State that you saw panther and the various wildlife agencies immediately dismiss it. Say you saw a black one and they will laugh out loud.

People are absolutely seeing something that is not easily mistaken for a freaking bobcat.
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Scott has seen one on 3 separate occasions - and will fight anyone who would say he didn't see one. He is serious about what he saw.
 
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Fullfillmer said:
I work with someone who has seen a black panther here. I believe it was a discussion point recently and there were multiple panther sightings.

I am not a hunter - I would have to ask around with regard to the mountain lions. I think there are big cats in East Tennessee - there is actually a Cherokee Death Cat - that the Mountain Monster hunters pursued one episode.
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I am honestly curious what this is.
 
#679
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Fullfillmer said:
It's a closed gathering - as you can imagine. When they were in town previously and they hosted at one of the auction houses in town they had over 2000 attend. They really just try to limit the town hall meetings to eyewitnesses and their immediate family. It is actually being held in an area town this go round.
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Then its hardly a "townhall" is it?
 
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f77f00 said:
You should prove that and in the process, many people and agencies dead wrong! I have seen nothing more than a bobcat, but I know several people that claim to have seen panthers. Almost to a person they claim they were black, and this is not something that occurs with any significant frequency in mountain lions.

State that you saw panther and the various wildlife agencies immediately dismiss it. Say you saw a black one and they will laugh out loud.

People are absolutely seeing something that is not easily mistaken for a freaking bobcat.
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They're gonna have to laugh at me because I saw one right here in E. Tennessee. And, I'm not weird or crazy. Well, not crazy, anyway.
 
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I am convinced we have a large black cat roaming our hills. I understand that a melanistic puma would be a one in a million cat, but there are too many people who have seen large black cats around here that have no reason to make it up and would not be confused by a bobcat.

Maybe the jaguar made it up from Central and South America? Maybe we have a color morph mountain lion after all?
 
#683
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f77f00 said:
I am convinced we have a large black cat roaming our hills. I understand that a melanistic puma would be a one in a million cat, but there are too many people who have seen large black cats around here that have no reason to make it up and would not be confused by a bobcat.

Maybe the jaguar made it up from Central and South America? Maybe we have a color morph mountain lion after all?
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Are you in E. TN by any chance? Just curious where else these might be spotted.
 
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f77f00 said:
I am convinced we have a large black cat roaming our hills. I understand that a melanistic puma would be a one in a million cat, but there are too many people who have seen large black cats around here that have no reason to make it up and would not be confused by a bobcat.

Maybe the jaguar made it up from Central and South America? Maybe we have a color morph mountain lion after all?
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Maybe it's a black domesticated cat
 
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Slydell said:
Are you in E. TN by any chance? Just curious where else these might be spotted.
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Well I have not seen one personally, but my father did. He grew up here at the foothills of the Smoky Mountains and he would never mistake what he saw for a bobcat. I live in Maryville myself, but spend a lot of time in the mountains.

Personally I know of two sightings near Chilhowee mountain, strangely enough near Panther Creek. Another one from someone I believe 100% was in North Georgia near Blue Ridge.
 
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govols/cc said:
Maybe it's a black domesticated cat
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The whole size thing rules that out immediately. My ex-gf had the biggest cat I have ever seen, a monster of a Maine Coon cat that was about 22 pounds. That is not even big enough to be mistaken for a bobcat.
 
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f77f00 said:
Well I have not seen one personally, but my father did. He grew up here at the foothills of the Smoky Mountains and he would never mistake what he saw for a bobcat. I live in Maryville myself, but spend a lot of time in the mountains.

Personally I know of two sightings near Chilhowee mountain, strangely enough near Panther Creek. Another one from someone I believe 100% was in North Georgia near Blue Ridge.
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Thanks. The one I saw was in Loudon, TN a number of years ago.
 
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f77f00 said:
Well I have not seen one personally, but my father did. He grew up here at the foothills of the Smoky Mountains and he would never mistake what he saw for a bobcat. I live in Maryville myself, but spend a lot of time in the mountains.

Personally I know of two sightings near Chilhowee mountain, strangely enough near Panther Creek. Another one from someone I believe 100% was in North Georgia near Blue Ridge.
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When I was a kid my grandpa said every snake we saw at the lake, creek, pond, or any body of water was a water moccasin. As a kid I didn't know any better. As I got older & was able to learn things on my own I found that while it was possible it was extremely unlikely since we didn't live in their habitable areas. There are people who say this wherever you go. Maybe ignorance is better than skepticism......lol na
 
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f77f00 said:
Fullfillmer, I am curious if you ever see evidence of mountain lions when you are traipsing about East TN?
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This is not a great pic I just snapped it of my dad's phones but it's from a trail cam in Butler, TN not to far from where I live. Guy whose cam took it hunts with us I don't think he would be lying about it.
 

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creekerballer said:
This is not a great pic I just snapped it of my dad's phones but it's from a trail cam in Butler, TN not to far from where I live. Guy whose cam took it hunts with us I don't think he would be lying about it.
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I'm no expert but that's no Squatch.
 
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govols/cc said:
When I was a kid my grandpa said every snake we saw at the lake, creek, pond, or any body of water was a water moccasin. As a kid I didn't know any better. As I got older & was able to learn things on my own I found that while it was possible it was extremely unlikely since we didn't live in their habitable areas. There are people who say this wherever you go. Maybe ignorance is better than skepticism......lol na
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Go swimming in the mountains around tourists and this story repeats over and over though usually they at least go for Copperhead. It is almost always a Northern Water Snake though. At least we actually do have Copperheads in East TN so things are improving!

The large black cat thing though is interesting to me. We did for a fact have mountain lions (or pumas, painter, panther, whatever you want to call it) in this region. That is beyond dispute. What is in question, is what in the world are people seeing now that they invariably describe as some kind of panther? The tawny colored ones are interesting enough, and have been killed in Georgia no less, but the black one is such a mystery.

Chalk it up to domesticated cats or people greatly exaggerating bobcat sightings, but too many people have seen the things for all of them to be wrong in my opinion.
 
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f77f00 said:
Go swimming in the mountains around tourists and this story repeats over and over though usually they at least go for Copperhead. It is almost always a Northern Water Snake though. At least we actually do have Copperheads in East TN so things are improving!

The large black cat thing though is interesting to me. We did for a fact have mountain lions (or pumas, painter, panther, whatever you want to call it) in this region. That is beyond dispute. What is in question, is what in the world are people seeing now that they invariably describe as some kind of panther? The tawny colored ones are interesting enough, and have been killed in Georgia no less, but the black one is such a mystery.

Chalk it up to domesticated cats or people greatly exaggerating bobcat sightings, but too many people have seen the things for all of them to be wrong in my opinion.
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The one I saw in Loudon couldn't have been any sort of domesticated cat unless those cats grow to around a hundred pounds. And, it was as black as night. It was stalking my doberman around the outside perimeter of the house. And, the doberman was scared. He was whimpering when we got him inside.
 
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