Finding Bigfoot Producer Reportedly Catches Rare Glimpse of Elusive Black Panther In Michigan
The Finding Bigfoot crew is currently is Michigan filming an episode for season 3 of Finding Bigfoot. They have been investigating an area near Houghton Lake, and there's word from Matt Moneymaker on Twitter that they've found something else just as elusive as Bigfoot.
According to Moneymaker, one of their producers saw a black panther near the lake last night. The producer said the legs were "shorter than puma legs". Moneymaker noted that recently, there have been sightings of a black panther in Michigan and apparently they are as "elusive" as Bigfoots are.
He also explained that no one has yet to get a good photograph of a black panther in the United States. "No bodies found, but lots and lots of good witnesses," said Moneymaker.
When a Twitter follower mentioned to him about a black panther living in an old bay in the woods behind his house, Matt asked him to try and photograph the creature. "You would be the first. It would be a historical photo(s). No photos yet because they are nocturnal like Bigfoots," Matt replied.
[via twitter.com]
to be fair this is more believable than an undiscovered ape in north america
ReplyDeleteHope I'm not sounding too condescending but it sounds like Sasquai are not apes and it's highly plausible that they aren't. Either way, Gorillas easily hide from people in the jungles of Africa. It takes experts to find them. In fact, around the 1840's, gorillas were dismissed as legend, until 1901 when low-land gorillas were first truly 'discovered.'
DeleteVery cool. I do want to see someone get a pic of one of these cats I know there's some jaguars in AZ and that's pretty weird. I really would not like to run into one in a hike in the desert. I'd actually rather run into a BF.
ReplyDeletebreeding population of these or just one off pets released into the wild?
DeleteThe jaguars in Arizona are a naturally occuring population that ranges up through Mexico across the border into the southernmost regions of the US from Arizona and eastward over into Texas. This is all part of their historical range, but in modern times they are very rare.
DeleteIn 2010, we had a black panther stalking the subdivision where I live in suburban Charlotte. The cat was seen by several people, including one when the cat was on his front porch. I was the last one to see it a week before Christmas. I still have photos of its tracks. Judging from its short legs I suspect it was a Jaguar.
ReplyDeleteHey there. I'm a writer for a group of newspapers in SC. Can you email me the pics of the tracks? -- William Buchheit
DeleteI should have added that black panthers have been sighted around the Carolinas for years. And no, it wasn't an escapee from the Carolina Panthers training camp.
ReplyDeleteI knew someone who claimed to see one in SC north of Clemson.
DeleteHad three in the area of our land in Madison, MS. Heard them on occassion, found prints rarely (but did), and many residents in the area talked to one another about seeing them near the back gravel roads around the land at night. If you call the Game and Fish dept., "they don't live in our state" is the only answer you are given.
ReplyDeletehearing them and finding prints should not make you jump to the conclusion its a panther, much like in bigfooting where 100% of the time when its not a hoax then its a misidentification
DeleteI saw one around Cathedral Ledge, New Hampshire about 10 years ago.
ReplyDeleteI saw Black Panthers on TV. They were offering a reward for info leading to the arrest of the guy that shot Trayvon Martin (the young man who was in a gated community, where he didn't live,with a bag of tools. Hmmmm?).
ReplyDeleteYou mean the kid that screamed like a gutshot chimp? Might be a good call blasting tape.
DeleteYes, there are times to censor this blog. I'm shocked the ignorant comment above remained here 12 minutes, let alone almost 12 hours. To Anon 4:36, just to keep the record straight -- Trayvon was visiting his father, who DOES live in that gated community.
Delete"We don't have any in our state"....I heard that about pumas in Georgia when I hiked the Appalichian Trail in 06'. Prblem was, I kept finding and photographing tracks...yea right fish and game...har,har..
ReplyDeleteThere is a guy that has some captive cougars in N. Georgia that says he hears some roaming free responding to his cats calls occasionally.
DeleteHey Samuel. Last summer many people were seeing a large black panther in the NE suburbs of Dayton Ohio. The local news was giving a daily update of the sightings and it was big news. Patrols were used to try and find it. Of course the Ohio DNR kept saying not only does this animal not exist in Ohio, it does not exist at all.
DeleteChuck
Interesting. But I'm not surprised. We even have them in Britain. (Alien Big Cats). Tim, U.K.
ReplyDeleteBigfoots are diurnal... and short.
ReplyDeleteBlack panthers and Bigfoot in Houghton lake!!!...What bullshit!
ReplyDeleteThe black cat mentioned is more then likely a Jaguar or Leopard (or hybrid of one or the other). In this location it would most likely be an escaped exotic.
ReplyDeleteAs any Leopard or Jag in that area would head for warmer territory if wild. They would be migrating from the south, so there would be no reason for them to be there in the Winter/Spring? They certainly wouldn't spend their winter in such a cold climate...
Not sure why you would imply that the Jag has sorter legs then a Cougar, they really don't at least not that you could visible see... They are a larger cat in general. They can have much larger paws and have a much larger head and jaw; that has evolved due to their different hunting techniques.
If you are seeing something with shorter legs that is Black then that screams Leopard or even Pumapard (Leopard, Cougar hybrid).
If a hybrid it's probably the result of a exotic that was released at a young age, that somehow began associating with the local wild pumas (Cougars) both of which grew to tolerate and then even like each other.
It is possible according to the world renowned expert on the subject Dr Bhagavan Antle (Jungle Island, T.I.G.E.R.S and Hercules:
http://www.bhagavanantle.com/ ); it would be possible.
Here's the Pumapard~~~notice the short legs :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumapard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar
Just to clarify technically a "black panther" IS a leopard.
DeleteJust to clarify a black panther IS NOT just a leopard. Leopards come in black. It's not rare for them. Because it is not rare, however most big black cats you see in movies are leopards and this is where that misinformation started
DeleteWhat they are talking about here is black is a true PANTHER that is black. A Panther is in the cougar family (Subspecies) but much smaller, stubbier and lighter because they live in swamps.
http://www.nwf.org/Wildlife/Wildlife-Library/Mammals/Florida-Panther.aspx
This is why he noted that the legs were much shorter than a cougar. Short stubby legs is what mainly separates a panther from a cougar.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Are_leopards_and_panthers_the_same_animal
The panther in the article is the Florida panther states the color as tawny..
DeleteIf you followed the dna references over the years. it is a black leopard..But more likely(in this region) a black cougar
ReplyDeleteI saw 2 mountian lions in North east Pennsylvania
ReplyDelete1 in 1985 and 1 in 2003, both sighting were in the day
and crossing roads in front of my vehicle.
1st onr was about 50yds away, crossed a 3 lane road in 3 bounds and ran up a near vertical 25 ft high bank like it was nothing, most amazing form of agility and speed i ever seen in my life.2nd one was a young one, just losing it's spots,
it was only 20 feet in front of me, I had to slam on the brakes to stop from hitting it.I know of other people that have been seeing them in the area also.
Actually if you go to my Facebook page and look at my pictures I have a trail cam pic from a couple of years ago of a large black cat....I am a researcher and am part of The Southern Panther Search. A project with Chester Moore and Terry Werner. So moneymaker yet again is not quite right or wrong....check out our sight..southernpanthersearch.com......
ReplyDeleteThank you
Jeff Stewart
pretty cool site Jeff.
DeleteJust so we're clear, Jaguar (expected habitat - South/Central America) and Leopard (expected habitat - Africa/Asia) are of the Panther genus. Cougars are of the Puma genus. Hybridization aside (however unlikely), this would likely be a Jaguar a LONG way from home. Jaguar sightings have become increasingly common, north of the Mexican border... and I'll bet they aren't any easier to glimpse than a Cougar!
ReplyDeleteIf this story set off a wave of corroborating reports, this could be really cool! Especially, some witnesses talk about spots!
David from the PAC/NW
I saw one in 1989 in Palm Harbor,Fl. There were 4 of us that saw it and when we were questioned by our parents separately we all gave the same description of the cat. Big black cat 3' tall, long body short legs and a very long tail. We were in the woods going to an old abandoned house and as we where walking to the front of the house from an angle we saw it exit the back of the house and head into the woods.
ReplyDeleteThe TWRA denies they exist in Tennessee, yet they have a full time employee assigned to take and track sighting reports?!?!?!
ReplyDeleteWe smart people know that black panthers are not in America. We highly intelligent people know that everyone who claims to have seen one is silly. And yes, Bigfoot isn't real, nor any other critter that you can think of that highly intellictual people such as myself has not yet documented. Basically, we smart people have the final say so and authority on everything everywhere. I don't care if you are staring down a black panther right now, or you are eyeball to eyeball with what you think in you feable mind is a sasquatch. It isn't real. You know why? Because smart people just like me say so. Thats why. Signed-Smart person who is smarter than you.
ReplyDeleteMy grandfather back in the late 70s was interviewed by a well known hunting magazine over his sighting of a black panther in western Kentucky near where my family lives. ironically the area near where he saw it to this day ( and on the map ) is called "The Panther Creek Bottoms" in southeastern Daviess County Kentucky. He said the black panther was chasing a coon and he saw it in the morning but in plain sight with good lighting.
ReplyDeleteI live in southern Michigan, near the Indiana border. About 12-15 years ago my parents saw a cougar cross the road in front of them on their way home from church. There have been several more sightings of since then in my area. The Michigan DNR's line is, "Cougars don't exist in Michigan", even though they know damn well they do. They just don't want to have to deal with it. Sounds like there are some other states whose fish and game departments have the same policy.
ReplyDeleteLook on Youtube. Lots of videos of black panthers in North America running wild.
ReplyDeleteI'm from south eastern michigan. About 15-20 years ago there werelots of black panther sightings in the metro Detroit area. My mother even saw one early one morning. Most of the sightings were within an hour of Detroit. Just spent three days up in northern Michigan close to Houghton lake and mio where the finding Bigfoot crew is. Honestly if Sasquatch do come up here I feel like they would migrate south I to Indiana and Illinois as there's not many trees alive for cover or anything alive for food at this time of year.
ReplyDeleteI live in north central IN and have two comments -
ReplyDeleteFirst, yes, plenty of black panthers sightings in southern MI going back decades and decades. I've spoken to numerous witnesses over the years and have no doubt that they've seen what they say they've seen. And not one animal, not two - a breeding population of either all black animals or a cougar population with a fairly commmon recurrence of black coloration. (Yes, I know "scientists" say there is no such thing but I'm going to allow that JUST THIS ONCE they might be wrong.) Second, almost all of the Bigfoot sightings in this area (which aren't numerous but are fairly consistent) are in the spring and fall, when they are most likely migrating to/from MI to points south. Conversely, the sightings in southern IN (and Ohio to our east) are much more evenly distributed throughout the calendar year.
So..does it eat people food or bigfoot food?
ReplyDeleteI saw a very large black cat, with about a 4 ft long tail, pass in front of my car in spring of 2011. I was in Coloma, MI.(Berrien county, southwest corner of Michigan). I have also seen a bobcat (at noon on a bright sunny day) just down the same road (which is down the same river).
ReplyDeleteLarge cats seem to be ALL over Michigan. I am in the most southwest corner in Michigan!! If you want a picture just get in a kayak and float down all the rivers... You will see one eventually because they are following the waterways!