Comments on: MonsterQuest: Mystery Cats

By: quill

quill — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:59:01 +0000

Carpenoctem666-

I was one of the artists that worked on this program, and at the time, Mothman was indeed being discussed, though not in great detail
Sorry for off-topicness.

By: leenie

leenie — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:28:44 +0000

Regarding(seeing big black cats) in upstate, NY: It was back in 70’s and I lived up on East Hill outside, Elmira. Was standing out in driveway saying good bye to relative, and we both saw 3 very big cats running out from barn across Rd. They seemed to be chasing, and playing with each other, and ran up and around the back side of the barn and into the woods. It was a tawney, and 2 black ones; all same size…BIG, They were bigger than the big red setter male dog I owned, and looked heavier than him. He weighed almost 80+lbs,and they looked as though they each would go 150, or more eazy! Had long tails. My neighbors were gone away on vacc, but Walked up there and saw the paw prints they left(5″ across in width) The gamewarden, and a biologist from Pitts(who happened to be investigating strange sounds, sights in VanEtten area,)@that time, talked with me about the cats and they said what I described was too big for a panther that might migrate up from south, and that also the panthers migrate back south in winter, and they found it odd the cats were romping around in daytime so close to buildings and people, and didn;t seem to be that afraid. Prior to that my daughter, riding her bike down the rd by our house, came screeming into the house saying she’d just drove past a big black cat just sitting by the rd side. She said it had green eyes, looked at her, and was big, black and didn’t seem afraid of her, and she looked back to see it walking off into the rd side weeds next to the creek! This was only a few yrds from our house in the afternoon! I nolonger took walks alone in the woods afternoons after seeing them! Other neighbors also saw the cats. The Drs wife that lived across st said the conservation dept wanted it kept low key so people wouldn’t be coming up there looking to hunt them! I told the biologist, and gamewarden exactly what my MIL had told me after I saw the cats. The Dr neighbor house was the farm house my mil had grown up in yrs ago, and she said back then early 1900’s there was an old couple in the north chemung area that had brought 2 lepard cubs back with them as pets from a trip over seas, and people said when the cats got too big they turned them loose as they couldn’t handle them. All long dead now the people, but I often wondered if the cats I saw were from those leopards? Though I moved to Va some yrs ago; my daughter still lives up there;ny in my house, and says the big cats are still roaming about that area. I figured, offspring wise, they surely have populated by now as it has been around 30 yrs since I saw those 3 tog.. They mate around every 2-3 yrs, and keep their off spring with the mother about that long before they chase them away to go on their own. Think they each need several sq mi territories so in 30 yrs that’s many miles, and lots of cats population spread out; so who is kidding who when they say the big black cats are rare, and big cats about non existant in Eastern US. I’m here to tell ya they are alive and very well? Leenie.

By: Carpenoctem666

Carpenoctem666 — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:40:23 +0000

I am really itchin’ for these guys to do a mothman episode

By: SharkFisher

SharkFisher — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:08:14 +0000

I know this is a late comment, but I also watched the show. It was the first episode monster quest that I was able to catch and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think that it brought the evidence to a new light and explored it very well. The one thing I did wonder as they were talking about the West Virginia video was how a 25 in. nose to butt cat could convince an expert that it had to be a young Jaguar or panther? 25 in. is not that large! Two days after viewing this episode I took it upon myself to measure my house cat and he measured 20 in. (not including his tail) and weighs 20 + pounds. I know we have a big house cat, but certainly it is not that uncommon for a cat to be bigger.

Also, I live in Washington state and in south-central Washington State I have had family members see what they considered to be black Cougars. The DNA defunct of this possibility is questionable to me. My extended family has long lived in the woods and understands the difference between a wet dark animal and just a dark animal.

Happy finding, Merry Christmas, & good luck to all.

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:05:59 +0000

I would reiterate pretty mucg what most of the people who saw the show said. All of the witnesses seemed genuine and there really was compelling “evidence.”

DARHOP—
What I find strange about the whole situation is how the lady who saw the carcass could have soemhow mistaken it for a dog. More research should have been done on correlating the witness’s stories.

I disagree with you on the “big house cat” theory, though. My “believing,” intuitive side tends to think it was a young cougar or leopard, like ALLIGATOR said. If it was a house cat, it sure must have been exposed to a lot of Gamma rays (heh-heh, joke.) for it to have grown that big.

My opinion.

I thought the gentleman who kept saying “Somebody is going to get killed” was a bit of unnecessary overkill.

By: Artist

Artist — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:10:06 +0000

“Good show”, as they say… well done.

This Series does a good job of demonstrating - and illustrating - the strange mis-steps that seem to be common in cryptid sighting reports - ignoring a carcass until it is almost gone, no photographs, tracking, scaling devices, descriptive details etc…

It’s no wonder the skeptics and debunkers have such a field day retrospectively dismissing what may be important events, for lack of critical continuity and credibility on the part of otherwise intelligent and sincere witnesses. Most people are so involved with day-to-day chores and boring routines that they fail to respond to anomalistic events until it is too late to bother.

More’s the pity; the event may never happen again!

There have been a lot of trail-cam installations depicted in these recent Quests, and we can only hope that their continued monitoring of these “hot-spots” will eventually reveal something totally convincing, and that we will see those shots here on Cryptomundo, if not on a History Channel Update!

I’ll keep watching.

By: DARHOP

DARHOP — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:56:57 +0000

I also watched the show last night. And I didn’t fall asleep. That’s amazing itself. Anyway, The comparing of size was kool how they did it. They determined the animal to be 24 inches from nose to rump.

24 inches is not that big. Though it did look a bit more muscular than the house cat in the other video. I’m still leaning towards very large house cat. Could be a Guinness record.

What I thought was weird is that nobody really checked the cat that looked tangled in the fence until weeks later. Then some the bones found at the spot turn out the be canine.

I did find all the witnesses to seem to be honest people. And the one guy was really concerned about people, especially children being attacked.

By: Alligator

Alligator — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:44:45 +0000

I watched the show, thought it was pretty well done. Good job of analyzing the evidence without disparaging the people making the sightings. I think most if not all the people interviewed were sincere in what they reported. I agreed with the experts’ explanation pretty much. However, the footage of the cat in West Virgina was very compelling. While I looked at the others I said to myself “that’s a big, black house cat” But that West Virginia cat - no way. It definitely had the more robust cougar look besides being blackish in color. Then when the animator did the size determination of the cat, that really made me take notice. It was either a young cougar or leopard or else it was the Guinness record for the worlds biggest domestic cat.

By: finny

finny — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:19:28 +0000

I forgot to mention that I feel very fortunate to have seen what I saw.

By: finny

finny — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:16:11 +0000

I travel the Gunflint Trail in Northeastern Minnesota several times a year.
About 12 years ago in the early morning hours 6:00 - 6:30 a.m. (winter). (I wrote this down in a notebook). I saw what I believed to be a black cougar walking in the ditch along the road. At the time I thought it was black. I realize now thanks to you guys that it was probably dark brown or dark gray. Maybe black. It was not tawny.

But there is no doubt in my mind that it was a cougar. When I drove by it I was no more than 15 feet away from it. It was at least 6 - 7 feet long including the tail. I pulled over and the cat let me have a great look at it before it strolled slowly into the woods. I watched the cat for a good 2 minutes. Again there is no doubt what this cat was.
This was no dog or large house cat. Not a Lynx and not a bobcat. I saw the tail very clearly. It was at least 2 feet long.

I have also seen a bobcat in the wild. It was winter and the cat was almost white. That was also on the Gunflint Trail up near the end of the road near Gunflint Lake.

I know my wildlife up there and there is nothing else that it could have been.

In this area of the Gunflint Trail I have seen a lot of deer and moose also. A great area for a cougar. There are also several wolf packs in this area.

Oh yeah… And I’m not crazy either. At least I don’t think so. LOL