Black Panther Sighting

[Asbestos]

10 pages in and I’m willing to throw out a wild guess…

Puma Concolor = Panther? A panther is a Puma?

 

[IMDB]

So he didn't see a panther, he seen a Jaguar.

 

[Kevin1]

Panther, puma, mountain lion, nittany lion, painter are all synonyms for puma concolor and there are no black ones. Never. Jaguar? Yes. Jaguarundi? Yes. Leopard? Yes. Puma concolor? No. There has never been a black puma concolor. End of story. JFC.

How can you be so adamantly positive ? We don’t even know what type of cat this was. Show us the proof that is impossible for a cat to have “black hair”.

 

[InTune]

There are absolutely big black cats.

Side note: I live off the beaten path in flowery branch. I thought I saw a bear one morning and told my neighbor about it. He said we had black deer and maybe that’s what I saw.

Sho nuff, we have a small herd of melanistic deer that appear black-ish. Ironically, they come out after all the other deer and don’t really accomplish much.

Knew this near sighted woman that grabbed a broom to chase a black calf out of her garden. Just happened to be a bear.

 

[KSouth]

I’m pretty sure a black jaguar is known as a black panther for those that watch documentaries. That’s what I’ve always known them to be called. And they have been sightings as far north as Rome over to chatsworth. They’re known mnt lions around as well. So I’m pretty sure he’s means a black jag known as to us in laymen’s terms as a “black panther”

 

[Dundee]

Wouldn’t surprise me something being loose. Reminded me of the tiger in Atlanta, couldn’t remember when so googled it. Was 2017, but then 2 got away at Pine Mountain in 2023. So there’s been 3 tigers wandering around in Georgia in the last ten years. Meh.

 

[rascal_2025]

Wouldn’t surprise me something being loose. Reminded me of the tiger in Atlanta, couldn’t remember when so googled it. Was 2017, but then 2 got away at Pine Mountain in 2023. So there’s been 3 tigers wandering around in Georgia in the last ten years. Meh.

I wish someone had told me this before i moved to GA 😂

 

[teearr]

Great video KSouth , thanks for posting.

 

[Kathy john]

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.

I saw one about five years ago in the back of my yard

 

[Edog537]

Again, I have seen panthers in Jenkins County. They were not black. They were not bobcats.