Comments on: Beasts of Bladenboro & Bolivia Revisited

By: Unit086

Unit086 — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:26:59 +0000

I used to live in North Carolina and about three years ago some friends and I went out into the swamp like we always did and while we were out we had some stray dogs following us then we found a pile of what we thought were racoon bodies that had been ripped to shreds then we noticed that the dogs had dissapeared We started our way back to my friends house when all of the sudden we all noticed that we were being followed We kept turning around and looking behind us and seeing glimpses of what looked like a large black dog After a while we made it to the edge of the woods and turned around to see the creature standing on all fours about three feet in height jet black fur a small head and a much larger front than back it then proceeded to smell and circle a makeshift lean to we had built that mourning Afraid we ran inside and did not leave the house for the rest of the day The next day we went out and the lean to was completly destroyed.

By: Wildman of Lagoon

Wildman of Lagoon — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:53:00 +0000

Wasn’t sure how else to post, but the Beastfest is coming up in Bladenboro this eekend. I wrote an exhaustive piece on the opriginal beast episodes when I was still at the Bladen Journal. Lorne was kind enough to post it here sometime ago.
I was pleasantly surprised the other day to find a list by a local man who has compiled firsthand sighting reports of the beast and/or beasts in the Bladenboro area through the years. I’ll try to get permission so it can be posted here.

By: santee-delta

santee-delta — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:05:26 +0000

John Lutz of EPR has told me he has recieved that cell phone pic of the cougar twice in the last few years from seperate individuals claiming to know the photographer. I believe him. Blood will hydrate a mammal longer than water, and the recent major drought conditions could be a key factor in this.

By: slh0451

slh0451 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:26:03 +0000

Im from raeford nc,and have some land in bladenboro that my family uses for hunting.i can agree with the cat theory for two reasons,the first being i have actually seen a large feline track on our land,and two a local farmer that we get our grain from and that also farms our land ,just had one of his 2 black labs killed in september of last year and the other was mauled really bad.so in my opinion it is possible that there is a cat still around.

By: djm749

djm749 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:05:48 +0000

A local man last year near Bolivia took a picture of a mountain lion on his cell phone. Also Deer hunters here in the swamps of South Carolina have been reporting siteings of large cats for years. Even the DNR has looked into it.

By: joegottago

joegottago — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:24:12 +0000

I live in this area of NC and because of my work I travel the roads in Bladen & Brunswick Co. alot. I believe that the attacks which occurred in Bolivia are that of a cougar establishing his territorial rights. (yes, we do have large cats in the area, contrary to popular belief. These I have seen for myself, but that’s another story.) Then the media compares these attacks to the “Beast of Bladenboro” due to the timing of the Beast Fest event in Bladenboro last fall.

Bolivia beast = mad cat
Beast of Bladenboro = unsolved even after 50 years…REAL STUFF!!!

By: DWA

DWA — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:45:16 +0000

Artist: I feel your pain.

This is why crypto never gets any traction with the scientific community: crypto is Just the Rest of Us, with limited attention spans, kids, real jobs, no funding to search, etc. Nothing about these killings merited any more attention that this? That’s what happens, when science isn’t on the case. People move on to the Next Big Thing. Been going on with the sasquatch for half a century.

We’ll never know what’s behind any sequence of events like this, anywhere, no matter the evidence that’s left behind – until mainstream science latches on, and never lets go, no matter what.

Every cryptid needs its Jane Goodall, its George Schaller.

And every one of those needs focus.

Which in the sciences, is spelled M-O-N-E-Y.

‘Til then, we’ll keep having annual Sas Blowouts, BeastFests, and other synonyms for “bake sale.”

By: Sordes

Sordes — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:37:11 +0000

BTW, the picture above is inspired by a painting of the great fantasy artist Frank Frazetta, it was some kind of mars-lion or so. But I don´t remember the title of the painting.

By: jwf

jwf — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:14:44 +0000

My hometown in NC is 12 miles from Bladenboro and I remember growing up with many exciting stories circulating about the folks in Bladenboro chasing a big two-footed smelly red-eyed beast through the swamps outside of town.

One swamp was even name Barefoot Swamp, denoting the large humanoid footprints often found in the muck.

My impression as a child was that folks were talking about Bigfoot or the lesser known Lizard Man that popped up in SC just across the border in the late 70’s or early 80’s.

Big cats, both Cougar and the unusual big black cats have been seen by many all over NC since I was a child. In my opinion the Eastern Cougar never left our eastern states and the Eastern Bigfoot, even more popular, is a mainstay.

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:32:25 +0000

Unlike many MQ episodes, this one defintiely was not boring. It (surprisingly) held my interest throughout.

Geniune mystery. I agree with the explanation that it could be a cougar, although I, like Artist, have my questions. The obvious one is—why were the dogs and goats just desanguinated, not eaten?

And that paw does not look like a cougar paw, I agree with Camperwoman.