Comments on: Twisted Tales of Mystery Cat Photo

By: xsiojoshxiex

xsiojoshxiex — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:48:27 +0000

Do people actually expect people to believe that?

By: brittney m

brittney m — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:18:33 +0000

I’m not really sure what this mystery could be, real or fake, it’s some kind of cat.

By: fallofrain

fallofrain — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:26:14 +0000

Heh…as the perpetrator of the third photo, I drew a different conclusion than CrimsonFox. As I degraded the image to try to match the Maine photo, my cat became shaggier, and even spotted. Mine was shot in shade, so colors are not as obvious. I remember it to be slightly redder. The Maine cat appears to be in sunlight. My cat was alert…almost posing. The Maine cat seems to be caught in an awkward position…taking an over-the-shoulder look before running off.

All that aside, the features of the Maine cat have little resemblance to a lynx. The ears aren’t lynx-like. Also notice the white Moustache on both the Maine cat and my photo. The lynx generally has a long, white muttonchopped beard under its chin, which the Maine cat doesn’t.

Sorry. It all still boils down to people seeing what they want to see…including me. Life is a giant Rorschach test. I’ve had experience observing mountain lions in the wild. That doesn’t mean I can’t be wrong. I feel that the photo and the cat are genuine. Imagine my embarrassment if they’re not.

By: CrimsonFox79

CrimsonFox79 — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:15:49 +0000

Hehe the photoshopped tiger picture actually looks more real than the ‘mystery cat’ original
Hopefully after seeing that 3rd pic with the cougars pasted in, people will stop saying that the cat looks like a cougar/puma/mountain lion b/c it obviously looks nothing like one- especially when having 2 standing there next to it to show how different they look.

I agree that the ‘mystery cat’ looks kinda lynxish. Bobcats are very small (not much bigger than my housecats) so I would toss that theory away.

Though, IMHO, the mystery cat photo looks extremely fake. And I am personally surprised that so many people think it looks authentic. I havce seen much better looking shots of cryptids get the “OMG its fake” explosion from everyone. So it’s odd that such an unclear, pixely, pasted-looking picture is getting so much attention as looking real :-/
Maybe it is real, who knows. But IMO it is one of the fakes.

Were any other photos of this cat taken? Perhaps it they took multiple photos of it, it’d be easier to tell. Maybe one of it turning its head or walking away, etc.

By: twblack

twblack — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:26:05 +0000

Thanks for the Pic’s Loren. I do think the first one is the real deal. Just not sure what it is.

By: John A. Lutz

John A. Lutz — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:25:02 +0000

Forgot to mention in my previous post of former Maine Inland Fisheries & Wildlife official Paul Reynolds claim of a verified cougar incident in Cape Elizabeth in March 1996. A woman reported seeing a mountain lion. When game wardens combed the area, they found fur stuck 12 feet up in a large tree.

A laboratory performed DNA tests on the fur, which was confirmed to be from a mountain lion. The preceeding is just another example of Mark Latti comments being full of holes.

Paul Reynolds went on to say, “based on everything I’ve seen, there is NO doubt that cougars are widespread in MAINE”.

Now what was the comment made by the current mouthpiece of Maine’s Dept. of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife?

If wildlife officials want to comment on other Maine cougars over the last 75 years, we have the data to make them eat their words.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:02:30 +0000

I am not well versed in all of this photoshop trickery, but the mystery photo looks legitimate to me.

By: Maine Crypto

Maine Crypto — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:04:02 +0000

Having looked at the photo many times, based on my personal sightings of big cats in Maine, I would say that this was a lynx or bob cat…..

By: ddh1969

ddh1969 — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:35:58 +0000

oh yeah...

Happy 4th Everyone!

Lions I have seen...and cougars too! just not in the wild...or anything...

By: ddh1969

ddh1969 — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:33:05 +0000

Wow! That 3rd picture is amazing! Mystery felines galore! I must go there now!

This is starting to remind of one those Photoshop contest sites where people manipulate the images in whatever way they can imagine. It’s getting so easy nowadays my mom can fake a photo and she can hardly update an Excel spreadsheet. I am totally ‘no-kill’ when it comes to mystery animals but there is almost no option anymore BUT to somehow provide a carcass to prove anything. What kind of a world do we live in where we need to kill something in order to ’save’ it?