Did anyone else see a big black cat near the Ozarks last spring?

Never been to the Ozarks but big black cats are turning up everywhere and nobody in authority wants to admit it. We've had "panthers" spotted on the moors outside Sheffield for years and the official line is always the same - escaped exotic pet, misidentified dog, drunk witness. Gets old fast.

What did it look like up close, did it move like a domestic cat or more fluid and low to the ground? That gait is usually the giveaway. I've spent enough time in fields at stupid o'clock with recording equipment to know most people can tell the difference between a big animal and a small one, funnily enough.

Post any photos or even rough sketches, someone on here will know what they're looking at.

@shifty_seeker same story over here in Merseyside mate, there've been sightings out toward the Lancashire borders going back decades and the powers that be just trot out the same line every time - "escaped exotic pet" or "misidentification."

What gets me is the consistency of the descriptions across completely unrelated witnesses who've never spoken to each other. You'd think that would count for something.

Cornwall's got the same problem. Black cats spotted on Bodmin Moor going back decades and the official line is always the same tired nonsense about "misidentified domestic cats" which is genuinely insulting to anyone whos actually stood in that landscape and thought about the scale of what people are describing.

The pattern across all these locations is what gets me. Ozarks, Sheffield moors, Merseyside, down here - these aren't isolated cranks making things up. Something is out there and the authorities have clearly decided that admitting it would cause more problems than just stonewalling everyone who reports it.