Black Panther Sighting

[47thGARBB]

Know it exactly where it is.

I could point out the exact spot if I went back. It was a big dip in the road just after a pasture heading north. It crossed the road right to left. It looked like it might have been trailing a creek or something in that depression in the ground.

 

[Meathook69]

I believe ya! I saw one about 25 years ago bout an hour from Charleston at my grandmothers house it was in the Francis Marion swamp in shulerville SC I’ll never forget it til the day I die

 

[Edog537]

I don`t believe any so-called government experts on cats any more than I believed the CDC during covid. I do believe what I saw in Screven county about 10 years ago. Nuff said.

We jumped them with deer dogs occasionally in Jenkins County. They always crossed Hwy 25 and went back in to Magnolia Springs State Park. You see all kinds of things come out of the woods when deer dogs hit the ground. Hell we even had a herd of feral goats in Jenkins County that would get ran by our dogs.

 

[Kahrnut]

we even had a herd of feral goats in Jenkins County that would get ran by our dogs.

 

[wildbill1973z28]

Call me insane, but I swear on the great oracles of ODT that I saw a black panther this morning while hunting.

It was a rather uneventful morning today besides a few neat snakes and turtles on the trails. I backed out of my spot and hit the main paved road, when this thing ran across the road about 50 yards ahead of me.

It was about 3 feet tall at the shoulder, somewhere between the size of a german shepherd and a yearling doe. Extremely muscular, huge head with pointed ears, and a long tail, about 16-20". Its coat was a very dark mottled black/brown with an extremely silky/satin sheen to it.

It was moving quick, not a full out sprint, but definitely a run. It ran exactly like a big cat out of a nature documentary would run, with that sort of pouncing leap with each step. Nothing at all like a dog, bear, pig, or deer.

Like every good cryptid story, no pictures or videos because I was driving and it happened in an instant. I know I know.

This was in southeast Georgia, south of Statesboro. I have always heard about the urban legend of black panthers in Georgia and Florida but never gave it much thought. I know the DNR has denied their existence in the past. I am now a full believer. Again, call me crazy, but I know what I got sonny.

Did it look like this?

 

[Asbestos]

On my back porch this morning…

 

[greg vess]

Call me insane, but I swear on the great oracles of ODT that I saw a black panther this morning while hunting.

It was a rather uneventful morning today besides a few neat snakes and turtles on the trails. I backed out of my spot and hit the main paved road, when this thing ran across the road about 50 yards ahead of me.

It was about 3 feet tall at the shoulder, somewhere between the size of a german shepherd and a yearling doe. Extremely muscular, huge head with pointed ears, and a long tail, about 16-20". Its coat was a very dark mottled black/brown with an extremely silky/satin sheen to it.

It was moving quick, not a full out sprint, but definitely a run. It ran exactly like a big cat out of a nature documentary would run, with that sort of pouncing leap with each step. Nothing at all like a dog, bear, pig, or deer.

Like every good cryptid story, no pictures or videos because I was driving and it happened in an instant. I know I know.

This was in southeast Georgia, south of Statesboro. I have always heard about the urban legend of black panthers in Georgia and Florida but never gave it much thought. I know the DNR has denied their existence in the past. I am now a full believer. Again, call me crazy, but I know what I got sonny.

They have a town up here in Virginia called Panthers Gap. They are making a comeback. A black panther although rare are not unheard of. I have a few friends up here that have seen them way back in the woods. They are protected now but were eradicated 80 to 90 years ago. Isn't it amazing that people move into a place and damn near decimate a species almost to extinction in an area and think nothing of it. It kind of pisses me off a bit. A beautiful natural resource that is to be enjoyed and admired is done away with just for the sake of saying " I killed a few. ".

Elk are making a comeback as well. After the reintroduction of them in 1972 they have flourished. Even have a lottery to hunt them. You know I sign up for that yearly.

 

[Edog537]

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[greg vess]

Did it look like this?

Beautiful!!!!

 

[greg vess]

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Is this a self portrait? Wrong place to lost one!