Comments on: Illinois Man Hunts Black Panthers

By: planettom

planettom — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:23:32 +0000

My uncle who lives near Beardstown, IL just sent me information that a possible black panther was recently sighted. I told him that I read cryptomundo and would love to hear more. This is what he wrote me:

“Will check out the cryptomundo site sometime. As far as articles, their was one about the same time of the cat siting here about three years ago. They mentioned a few dead farm animals and a horse in a barn that got clawed. Dont know of any recent articles. Only have heard of the sightings and one caught on a trail camera a few weeks back. The … Read Moreclose sighting here was 2 minutes down our road maybe one third of a mile, when two repairmen came here to work on our oven 3 years ago. The guy that bought Jeremys house, next door, is the guy who just told me tonight that he and a friend that was turkey hunting this week both saw the black panther near Littleton, Il., that is maybe 15 miles from my front door. His friend made a plaster cast of a footprint from that cat, about the size of a large dogs foot. He , my neighbor also thought they recently saw a smaller panther, so maybe more than one. So this is very believable to me.”

By: snakepunk

snakepunk — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:26:16 +0000

I can’t believe anyone, including my father-in-law, seriously thinks the Illinois DNR secretly releases mountain lions in Illinois. Where is the farm that breeds them for release? And why would they release them anyway? ”To control the deer population”…yeah, because the 1000s of rednecks running around here shooting anything that moves can’t do that. And since I’m the only guy in southern Illinois that doesn’t enjoy killing things for fun, why hasn’t anyone shot one?

It’s always ”a guy I work with said he has a relative who knows someone who seen one”’. Not even a photo.

Personally I think there’s a correlation between the the number of ”black panthers” and black labs (plus keystone light) in southern Illinois…and general boredom.

By: HOOSIERHUNTER

HOOSIERHUNTER — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:45:28 +0000

Illinois and Indiana both have a long history of Black Panther sightings (which of course Loren is well aware of and has commented on in many of his books). Being also interested in paranormal research I’m glad to see Mr. Hendrian did a very good job with the interview as newspapers usually try to make people in these fields look like nuts. Good luck to Mr. Hendrian!

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:32:47 +0000

Great post, Loren!!!
I also believe there are Black Panthers in Illinois.
Good luck to Mr. Handrian in all of his endeavors!!!

By: fossilhunter

fossilhunter — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:06:57 +0000

Hello All!
This summer I worked with a guy who has a clubhouse near Iuka, Illinoios. He said he has seen a black panther near there. He also has seen lots of bobcats, including finding their den.
There are also some who swear that the Illinois Department of Natural Resources has released pumas into the Shawnee National Forest. But between the cats showing up in Chicago, and armadillos now seen north up to the St. Louis area, I don’t think the DNR had anything to do with it!