What lived in our forests?...

[fshndoug]

The only black panther I ever saw in Mo had a clenched fist and a  afro.Back in the 60's by the way.

[laker67]

8 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

A band of gypsy's allowed 3 to escape cages in Audrain county sometime in the '50s.   They were reportedly shot a week or two later, and their full body mounts were at the museum in Mexico when I was a kid.  Looked like a Mama, Daddy, and a cub.   They might still be there. 

You are talking about the bears being shot, aren't you?

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8 hours ago, fshndoug said:

The only black panther I ever saw in Mo had a clenched fist and a  afro.Back in the 60's by the way.

Easy!   It’s 2021.  😂

[BilletHead]

9 hours ago, fshndoug said:

The only black panther I ever saw in Mo had a clenched fist and a  afro.Back in the 60's by the way.

             Plenty of Cougars out there too if your looking Douglas,

   

[fshndoug]

I will keep my eyes open Billethead.

[fshndoug]

sorry Snagged

 

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55 minutes ago, fshndoug said:

sorry Snagged

 

Just lookin out for ya in the modern "everybody gets offended" age...  Not me of course😁

[Gavin]

Don't forget about the Momo. It is supposedly large, 7' tall, hairy, and black with a large, pumpkin-shaped head, and hair covering the eyes, which resembles a shag carpet, and it emits a terrible odor. First reported in 1917, near Louisiana, Missouri, with later sightings up and down the Mississippi River, and west on the Missouri documenting travel along the water ways. Curious tracks were found near St. Louis in 1918 and submitted to Lawrence Curtis, director of the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden. He deemed the tracks to be that of an unknown primate species.

[BilletHead]

21 minutes ago, Gavin said:

Don't forget about the Momo. It is supposedly large, 7' tall, hairy, and black with a large, pumpkin-shaped head, and hair covering the eyes, which resembles a shag carpet, and it emits a terrible odor. First reported in 1917, near Louisiana, Missouri, with later sightings up and down the Mississippi River, and west on the Missouri documenting travel along the water ways. Curious tracks were found near St. Louis in 1918 and submitted to Lawrence Curtis, director of the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden. He deemed the tracks to be that of an unknown primate species.

           I think I have seen three of those guys in rural towns in South West Missouri.  The women folk are pretty scary too. 

[Flysmallie]

1 hour ago, Gavin said:

Don't forget about the Momo. 

Or the Blue Man of the Ozarks,

“In the early spring of 1865, Blue Sol Collins was hunting on the divide between North Fork and Spring creek. A light snow had fallen the night before. The woodland seemed to be covered by a myriad of tracks — turkey tracks, deer tracks, rabbit, fox and coon tracks — big and little tracks — but most conspicuous were the tracks that resembled somewhat those of a bear.

“Blue Sol was a hunter without fear, and believing the bigger the game the better the hunt, he followed the long broad tracks with the claw-like impression in soft snow. After following the trail for several hours over the North Fork, Indian and Spring Creek hills, Sol suddenly came upon the object of his search on the north slope of upper Twin mountain. Sol looked, jumped out of the path of several descending boulders and ran.

He had seen an object unmistakably human, though strongly resembling a vicious animal, hurling huge boulders at him down the steep hillside.”