Comments on: Black Panther Sightings In Monroe, Michigan

By: corrick

corrick — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 01:56:19 +0000

Just read Robert Tougias’ recent, “The Quest for the Eastern Cougar.” It even refers to Loren! It changed my mind about “American melanistic panthers.” While I might think almost 99% of reported large blacksightings are large feral black cats or dogs or as evidenced in Florida, melanistic bobcats, Tougias’ research leaves open the possibility of extremely rare melanistic cougars.

And I would think the hows, whys and huhs would be enough to fascinate anyone interested in “cryptozoology.”

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:42:02 +0000

Naus, have you not been here long?

Black panthers, melanistic mountain lions, and black cougars, whatever you want to call them, are not suppose to exist in the United States and Canada, but people keep on seeing them. Throughout the upper Midwest, it is well-known for its long history of cryptozoological Black Panthers.

There just are not suppose to be any “black panthers” – i.e. melanistic large felids – in North America. Yes, mountain lions exist probably throughout NA (they are still “cryptids” in the East), but black mountain lions are not verified zoologically. Black leopards and black jaguars are known, however, they do not naturally live in North America.

America’s Black Panthers are, therefore, a cryptid population with a well-established legacy, for example, that inhabits several pages of reports in my book, Mysterious America, via an entire chapter and an appendix.

By: naus

naus — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 04:01:17 +0000

I do not understand why black cats are even discussed in the crypto world, I mean it’s not a cryptid, so why talk about it?