sasquatch bigfoot

[Zacherof]

 
this thread is awesome!

[nrshida]

Ok so far you have my encounters. You have flench who had two 150lb dogs ripped up with guts hanging in the trees at a level of 6'. Flench does not think it was Bigfoot but cant find a explanation for what killed his dogs. So if ya have a story and have been reading the thread please step forward with it. People will always doubt what they don't see or experience for themselves.

No iPhone pictures or no bullet-riddled bodies, no Sasqquatch! 

[Slash27]

This about covers it.
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from: http://xkcd.com/1235/

Recorded UFO sightings have gone up.

[Flench]

And I have seen a BIG Black cat with a long tail . Shot two clip's of ammo from off the road at him so you guy's say what you want about the cat . It was no house cat it was bigger than a dog . I think about it ever time i'm walking to my deer stand's at 4 in the morning .

EDIT:surfinn, I think that cat is what killed my dog's . It was the next year after I shot at it . Never seen it again . That was like in 89 . Father said he seen it again a few year's later run across the road and dad never told a lie .

[jimson]

If these black panthers are as large as reported, they could be melanistic jaguars. A few years ago we had a confirmed (normal colored) jaguar here in Arizona. They certainly aren't common but it's possible a few could wind up in other parts of the country. There is only one species of big cat common in N America and as far as I know there are no melanistic mountain Lions.

Jaguars were once found across the Americas as far north as California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas in the United States (7). In recent years they have been seen and photographed in southern Arizona (6) but otherwise survive only in Central and South America, ranging from Mexico to north Argentina (2). Their population is small and highly fragmented in Mexico. The highest population densities of up to one per 15 square kilometres are found in the lowland rainforests of the Amazon Basin. Although this refuge is of sufficient size to conserve the species for the foreseeable future, jaguar populations are considered to be declining in most other habitats

It's hard to say. Everyone says that before the Mexican gray wolf restocking program that they were extinct in the wild, but I've heard many different unconnected people here say that they have seen them, probably being chased by bigfoot.

[surfinn]

I haven't looked it up but I thought there was a species of large cat called the Florida panther. When I was younger in the 70s and late 80s large black cats were fairly common. It was common knowledge that they existed among the locals. Everyone I knew that was a hunter had either seen one or herd it yelling. One of their hunting tactics was to stick their head at the opening of a rabbit hole and to scream into the hole tying to get the rabbits to bolt. The sound was like a high pitched woman screaming. I was totally shocked when I found out in the early 2000s that it was not a recognized animal and was considered a cryptid. MS is a great place for something like that most of the state is woodlands.

Oh and flench I know you think it was that cat but after listening to your account of how the dogs were riped into different pieces and parts of dog in the tree, that description does not fit with a large cat attack. African Lions couldn't do that in a short period of time. I did look up the way both mountain Lions and Jaguars kill. Jags go for the skull and crush it Mountain lions go for the throat. What ever tore your dogs up was incredibly strong. Then again I'm assuming you got to the spot where it happened fairly quickly.

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I haven't looked it up but I thought there was a species of large cat called the Florida panther. When I was younger in the 70s and late 80s large black cats were fairly common. It was common knowledge that they existed among the locals. Everyone I knew that was a hunter had either seen one or herd it yelling. One of their hunting tactics was to stick their head at the opening of a rabbit hole and to scream into the hole tying to get the rabbits to bolt. The sound was like a high pitched woman screaming. I was totally shocked when I found out in the early 2000s that it was not a recognized animal and was considered a cryptid. MS is a great place for something like that most of the state is woodlands.

Oh and flench I know you think it was that cat but after listening to your account of how the dogs were riped into different pieces and parts of dog in the tree, that description does not fit with a large cat attack. African Lions couldn't do that in a short period of time. I did look up the way both mountain Lions and Jaguars kill. Jags go for the skull and crush it Mountain lions go for the throat. What ever tore your dogs up was incredibly strong. Then again I'm assuming you got to the spot where it happened fairly quickly.

A "Florida Panther" is a Cougar...or Mountain Lion...or Puma.....or catamount.....<-------all the same animal.(they are not black)

if you see a "Black Panther" it is a Jaguar...unless of course you are in Africa then it will be a Leopard.

[surfinn]

I asked my dad about this ink when it came up earlyer in the thread. He had Polaroid pictures of the one that was killed in Lyman MS until hurricane Katrina wiped out the house. It weighed in at 130 lbs which would be small for a jag I think. When I asked him about how the neighborhood dogs were killed their throats were riped out and they were disemboweled. Sounds more like a mountain lion to me. Or a totally differant sub species.

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I asked my dad about this ink when it came up earlyer in the thread. He had Polaroid pictures of the one that was killed in Lyman MS until hurricane Katrina wiped out the house. It weighed in at 130 lbs which would be small for a jag I think. When I asked him about how the neighborhood dogs were killed their throats were riped out and they were disemboweled. Sounds more like a mountain lion to me. Or a totally differant sub species.

ive never heard of or seen a black Mountain Lion.....I guess it could happen....but it would be extremely rare......(so rare it never happens :-)

130 lbs is small for a jag(depends on age)....but I would put money it was a Jag and Not a Mountain lion...and that itself is rare enough....Jags that far N.

[surfinn]

Arizona is north of us. Lots of rivers and wet lands in MS lots of game to hunt. Perfect habitat for a large cat. And like I said above they were common enough that everyone knew of them. My mother saw one. It was black and about the size of a large dog but longer. I saw the tracks of that one and according to the tracks it did exactly what she said it did.

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Arizona is north of us. Lots of rivers and wet lands in MS lots of game to hunt. Perfect habitat for a large cat. And like I said above they were common enough that everyone knew of them. My mother saw one. It was black and about the size of a large dog but longer. I saw the tracks of that one and according to the tracks it did exactly what she said it did.

ya it is perfect.... but we hunted them out a long time ago.


I would be surprised if it was Mountain lions....But anything is possible. 

[jimson]

If Jaguars have been confirmed recently in AZ, and they certainly have been, I don't see how they can be so sure that years ago they could never have been in the southeast, coming up through Texas.

[surfinn]

Jimson have you seen one your self sir? Just curious.

[Curval]

While in Florida I heard some rustling around in my garden and saw two yellow beady eyes looking at me from behind the pool.  Almost jumped out of my skin.

It was a racoon.  A fairly big one. When he hightailed it out of the bushes he sounded like an elephant, bushes rustling, branches cracking.  The mind can play all sorts of tricks on you when you are scared.

Damn racoons love my pool.  They bring food and wash it in the water before eating, then they take a big dump.  I kept the kid's BB gun out there in the hope I could catch one squeezing one out.

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While in Florida I heard some rustling around in my garden and saw two yellow beady eyes looking at me from behind the pool.  Almost jumped out of my skin.

It was a racoon.  A fairly big one. When he hightailed it out of the bushes he sounded like an elephant, bushes rustling, branches cracking.  The mind can play all sorts of tricks on you when you are scared.

Damn racoons love my pool.  They bring food and wash it in the water before eating, then they take a big dump.  I kept the kid's BB gun out there in the hope I could catch one squeezing one out.

 

reminds me of a night a few years ago....its late like 3 am....I live on top of a mountain here in NH...I step on on the wrap around deck and all I see is eyes...lots of eyes....all around one set was at my eye level ....all glowing......I quickly step back inside all my hairs are raised....

like 9 raccoons all on my deck...one was on top of the railing.....thats why his eyes were at my eye level....