Interesting timing on this thread. There are records going back decades of large felid sightings across the Ozarks corridor and most get dismissed as misidentification of bobcats, which frankly insults the intelligence of anyone who's spent genuine time outdoors. A bobcat is not five feet at the shoulder.
What strikes me about these black cat reports specifically is the melanistic colouration. Confirmed melanistic mountain lions essentially don't exist in verified zoological records for North America, yet the reports keep coming. Either we have a genuine cryptid population, or something stranger is happening with the sightings themselves - meaning the perceptual and psychic dimensions of these encounters that mainstream researchers won't touch.
I've looked into similar cases in the UK, the so-called Alien Big Cats, for about thirty years now. The pattern of sightings near liminal spaces like trail systems, woodland edges, river corridors - it mirrors what I've documented here in Shropshire almost exactly.
Would genuinely like to know more specifics. What time of day, weather conditions, and critically - how did you feel immediately before and after the sighting?
