Seeing Cryptids: The Problems

Seeing Animal Hoaxes: The Problems

BBC is fooled by a faked photo of a raccoon on an alligator's back. It is contained in an article featuring a real photo of a seal on a whale's back.

In June, a family walking in a forest in central Florida spotted this raccoon hitching a ride on the back of an alligator.

Mr Richard Jones told local television station WFTV that he "snapped a lucky picture right when the gator slipped into the water and before the raccoon jumped off and scurried away".
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Bigfoot not enough for Ole Cliffy.
http://cliffbarackman.com/black-panther-in-west-virgina/
I saw what I initially thought was a dark-colored German shepherd trotting towards the highway at the edge of our headlight beams off the right side of the road. As we drew closer, I saw that it wasn’t a dog at all, but a large cat. It had slightly rounded ears, a flatter face than a canine, a sleek body that was fairly low to the ground, and a long, flowing tail behind it. It wasn’t quite black, as I could see the tip of the tail and the tips of its ears were darker than the fur on the rest of the body. It was now well-illuminated, and it was clear that I was looking at a charcoal-colored mountain lion of some sort. The legs looked a bit shorter than other mountain lions I have seen, but that could have been due to the way it was trotting at the time . . . . If the States admitted that these cats (or regular cougars, for that matter) had a viable population in their on their land, they would be mandated to put together a management plan for them costing thousands and thousands of dollars. It’s easier to ignore them and let them manage themselves… like bigfoots.
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Okay, sure, that's it.
What I saw can probably best be described as a melanistic mountain lion . . .
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I'd say probably not.
 
Resume said:
Bigfoot not enough for Ole Cliffy.
http://cliffbarackman.com/black-panther-in-west-virgina/

Okay, sure, that's it.

I'd say probably not.
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It doesn't take special skills necessarily to talk out of your ass the way he regularly does, but it does take a special lack of conscience to defend it as real life in the face of overwhelming evidence that it isn't even close. The simple fact is character counts even when one pretends it doesn't. After his present gravy train is over he should be minus one reputation, but most Bigfooters aren't smart enough to know that. He did learn from one of the best con-men around, so who knows.
 
Yeah, cougars come in two different colors. Gray ones are not as common, but aren't unheard of, they don't come in black.
 
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Not according to the link I posted. They found tracks in 1997. They aren't supposed to be this far south either but they are. As a matter of fact I saw one in person and a pic from a game cam. I know they are here in SC. I don't see any reason why Cliff wouldn't see one in WV, albeit I'm surprised it was dark colored.
 
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I watched a tan big cat chase a deer and bring it down, it looked like a cougar to me. One of my co-worker's brought a game cam pic of a cougar to work. They aren't extinct here despite what the official word is on their status.

Cougars will have spots up until they are about a year old, what Cliff is describing sounds like a young gray cougar to me. It might have looked black at night. I don't have any reason to think he would be lying or would have misidentified what he says he saw.
 
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Jodie said:
I watched a tan big cat chase a deer and bring it down, it looked like a cougar to me. One of my co-worker's brought a game cam pic of a cougar to work. They aren't extinct here despite what the official word is on their status.

Cougars will have spots up until they are about a year old, what Cliff is describing sounds like a young gray cougar to me. It might have looked black at night. I don't have any reason to think he would be lying or would have misidentified what he says he saw.
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A game cam pic of a cougar in the east would probably make the news.

Also, anyone with such evidence should give it to officials and make it public, so that people are aware of the possibility of cougars on their hikes.

Cougars should not be difficult to capture on game cams.
 
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