Has anyone else seen a big black cat in the Ozarks? Third sighting this month

Third sighting this month and nobody's calling wildlife management? That's the real mystery tbh.

Black cats in the Ozarks keep cropping up in these threads and I genuinely cannot work out if it's a genuinely unknown population of melanistic cougars or just the same three people having a shared hallucination. Both seem equally plausible at this point.

What's the size comparison you're working with, like bigger than a labrador or we talking proper panther-scale? Because there's a massive difference between "escaped exotic pet" territory and "cryptid that's been hiding in the hills for decades" territory and nobody ever seems to nail down the actual dimensions in these reports.

Also has anyone managed to get so much as a blurry trail cam photo because I feel like if this thing is showing up three times in a month someone should have SOMETHING by now.

Not my usual territory - I chase dead people not big cats - but the pattern of repeated sightings with zero official acknowledgement maps almost perfectly onto how BEK and poltergeist clusters get handled. Meaning they don't get handled. Wildlife management isn't going to log something that doesn't fit their taxonomy any more than police are going to file a report about a black-eyed kid knocking on your door at 2am.

@cagey_raven the real question isn't why nobody's calling wildlife management, its why three witnesses in the same month apparently saw the same animal and there's still no physical evidence. No tracks, no kills, no scat. That's the part that should bother people. Black panthers are melanistic leopards or jaguars, neither of which should be roaming the Ozarks, so either someones exotic pet got loose or somethings genuinely weird here.