First Cryptid Sighting of 2012?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 7th, 2012
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There was a sighting of a Mystery Cat crossing an intersection going into the mountains of Maui, Hawaii, at 9:11 am local time on January 6, 2011. That may have been the first sighting of 2011.
What was the first cryptozoological sighting of 2012?
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A hunter trapped a live male mountain lion in SE Missouri last week. This was about 30 miles from the Mississippi, near the Mark Twain National Forest. At one point, with the very angry cat in a humane trap in the back of his pickup truck, he drove to the nearest town and showed him off, before the cat was picked up by the conservation people to be tagged and released. They said he was one of about 30 seen in the past year or so in SE MO, including the one seen in Chesterfield last year, a western suburb of St. Louis.
Not exactly a cryptid, except to the by-the-books folk who insist they are extinct in this area.
We have been having exceptionally nice weather for January, so perhaps there will be more people outside and also more cryptids to be seen?