American Cryptids: Cat People

                                 -----Last post for January ....

                                                          Cryptids: Cat People..


Have you ever seen the movie Cat People, it's about a woman that can turn into a panther, pure fiction right?

But what if i told you there have been several sightings of WereCat's or at the very least bipedal Cat like creatures...

Have you ever heard of the cat man?

Sightings of strange cat like creatures have been reported for decades, less so then Bigfoot or the dogman but enough to show that people are in fact seeing something beyond just a large cat or misidentifying a random bear.

Everyone knows what a Werewolf is we see them in everything from classic horror movie's and literature to modern movies and paranormal drama's.

It seems history is full of odd creatures, so very different then us, but still so similar,
Werewolfs, Lizardman, Mothman, Owl Man, Kanima, (Not the Teen Wolf reptilian version)
The real legend speaks of a creature of vengeance that is very similar to a jaguar this version is a
type of werecat or at least a humanoid cat .


Although Dogman sightings seem to be far more prevalent, there have been several accounts of Cat-Man or cat like humanoid cryptid's ranging from panther's to Tigers and Lions and they seem to be far more territorial and violent then there canine counterparts.

Mt Tamalpais Catman of 1964

Two  campers in Mt Tamalpais in Marin county California clams   to have been harassed by at last two cat like entity's during the night somewhere  just outside there camp site heading in the darkness they could hear these creatures making a strange chattering sound as the seemingly communicating with one another.

One of the creatures remand in the darkness well the other ventured closer to the camp site.

One witness  description stated " It's head was close to it's body and below the shoulders it was very muscular No ears could be seen."

The witnesses did not see a tail and guessed the weight of the creature at around 200 lbs or so, and was bipedal.

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1968 Tiger creature

In 1968 Connecticut bus driver  traveling down Valley Street in New Haven claimed to see what he describes as a Tiger walking on two leg's crossing the street, police were unable to locate the creature.




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Chicago Cat Man...

One night in 1969 a Chicago man driving down a dark road in Niels Michigan claimed to have seen a strange cat like creature standing on two feet on the side of the road. He slowed down to get a better look then suddenly the creature rushed his car and began attacking it, punching his windshield with it's large clawed fists breaking the glass in at  least four places as he quickly drove away. The witness calmed  the cat like creature made a strange sqealling sound that he found very disturbing.




Mike Busby Encounter ..

On Friday April 10th 1970 was on his way to Olive Branch Illinois heading down route 3, but at about a mile outside of Olive Branch near a dark road by the Shawnee National forest his car stalled, Busby pulled over and get out to see what was wrong. Suddenly he heard  movement on his left side, turning to the direction he was startaled to find two large greenish glowing eye's looking back at him, he was suddenly charged by what he describes as a six foot tall jet black panther on two leg's. The creature struck him in the face with it's massive paws knocking him to the ground at with point it climbed on top of his chest and continued beating him.Busby sustained injurious to his chest, abdomen and upper left arm. He managed to grab the top and bottom of its jaws preventing it from going for his throat, it had yellow fangs and it's hair as short and wiry like steelwool he said.

Suddenly  the headlight's of an oncoming diesel truck light up the creature and he could see it had dark black fur and a long tail, once the light's and hit it the strange cat was seemingly frightened away
Busby-"With heavy foot falls it loped off the highway running on two leg's."

The TV Show "Monsters and Mysteries in America" did a reenactment of this account on an episode titled "Demon Panthers" that aired March 25th 2015.


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1980 Canada Cat-man

An eye witness near Toronto Ontario Canada  claimed to see a bipedal cat creature.

"Pete"--There were tree of us on a night shift on a gold rush run in a piolet plant,Ontario research foundation just west of  Toronto. We were coming in at midnight and up to the industrial door, --- the little peek window you have at eye level was this six foot-ish, black all black creature with it's face right up to the window. So it didn't see us approaching and i guess it heard the car or may bye the lights coughs it's peripheral vision, and it turned and looked at us and the eyes ere gold-ish, reflective and there was something about it's face that was like kind of cat-like and we were startled  it was obviously startled. and you know we're looking at each other you know approaching in the car for a couple of seconds in, and it just turned and bolted into the woods.

I want to look this fellow up to see what he remembers of the incident but i'm 100% serious and 100% sure we both saw the exact same thing. Only one other guy- he was in the plant at the time and i guess this creature was peeking in you know just seeing whats going on in there  but we both told him what we saw and we were just like i say very startled ourselves about it. But i know what i saw and the thing   is it wasn't...There was something about it that wasn't ape-like although it was all black fur, there was something about the head that was kind of like a cat-like creature and the way it ran...two leg's it was like a human figure but it... the speed of the thing when it tore off through the wood's was unbelievable..."
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Film maker Dee McCully mentions another Cat like creature being spotted near Black Sturgeon Lake buy Ontario Canada in his 2018 film Northern Lights a UFO Documentary...
"Off highway 1117 on Herken Ontario there is a road leading to the Black Sturgeon Lake, an 80 kilometer ride two men were hired by the forestry sector to build a dock on the lake shore, they had worked all week and were almost finished they would return monday, instead they worked until evening and had decided to finish satuday morning  rather then take the long trip back up after the weekend.

It was a good idea and they made camp then about two am the two men
awoke and without a word being uttered they began too break down the camp and loading the truck
in a more and more hurried pace.

It was then that the saw somethings they shone the flashlight, there in the tall jack pine was a tall creature staring them down, described as having both the features of a cat and a human.
the two leaped into the truck and floored it all the way back to the highway in startled silence."





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Ray Jones..................
In 1994 a recently retired Kansas man named Ray Jones moved to a new home in the country,
several acres with a garden and a few animals, Mister Jones was looking forward to his quiet new lifestyle and working on his his award winning Wood carvings, though only 4 years into his retirement Jones had a very strange and frightening encounter one nigh in June of 1998 well working late into the night on one of his carvings in his outbuilding that he had converted into his carving studio  Jones was suddenly disturbed when he heard his to pet crow's making a fus soon followed by the gases and other animals, gases in particular are very territorial  and very load when something come near there area, Jones assuming that a stray dog or fox was heading trowed his hen house but down his tools garbed a stick to chase away the pest and made his way outside with hi old dog Buster.

The night was relatively bright with a full moon hanging overhead, he could hear the chickens going crazy, and headed  over there confident that the stick he we carrying would be enough to scar away whatever was causing the disturbance.

In Jones own word's........

"Although it was almost completely dark in the hen house, I felt the hair stand up on the back of my
neck  when i saw something dark stand up and growl at me. I'm about five -eleven and it was as tall as i am.


Then it charged me, knocking me flat. placing it's pas on my chest and looking down at me.
 I nearly had a heart attack when i found myself staring into the open jaws and pointed fangs of a black panther."

At this point buster came in barking and nipping at the creature, Jones feared for Busters safety saying
Jone's account--"One swipe of it's claws could slice the old dog into hamburger"

Suddenly something seem'ed to startal the cat or it just decided mister Jones wasen't worth the effort anymore and it just claimed off of him, but to Jones amazement the panther stood up on it's to hind legs and walked off.

Jones--" It rolled off me and i swear that it stood upright on it's hind legs"

The panther creature took a look around the area for a moment then dropped down to all fours and bolted into the field eventually out of sight..

Mister Jones though terrified was at lest unharmed , he and his animals made it through this ordeal without injury. But Jones was still frightened and decided he needed to call the police and warn other's  in the community that a large cat was in the area..

Unfortunately the police  were of no help.

Jones--"At first they thought i had been drinking. Then they told me what i already knew, there were no black panthers in Kansas and that there hadn't been and cougars reported in the stat for decades. A deputy finally did drive out  to investigate the scene, but he just chuckled and said that sometimes in the dark a big old tomcat could seem mighty big and vicious and startle a fellow half to death."


But Jones knew what he had seen was not just some big old tomcat, it was a panther capable of walking on two legs a Cat-Man.

After Jones encounter there were no further sightings of the creature....

Jones- "I guess he just jumped back into whatever nightmare he had jumped out of"

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Bigfoot, Wendigo, skinwalkers Flying humanoids and Dogman  have been spotted by so many people at this point it's foolish to believe that all these sightings and eyewitness accounts are just misidentify known animals or out right hoax's...But at the end of the day it's up to you to decide for yourself whether or not you believe these creatures really exist...

However our world is  a strange one and it's getting stranger by the day, the world of cryptoziilogy
and the beings that it encompasses are apparently ever expanding.

With new sightings of strange and peculiar beasts every day, is it really beyond the realm of possibility to think  there could be a cat like humanoid stalking the forest as we speak.
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Werecats or Cat people in other entertainment and media... Anime and Movies..
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RWBY

                          Blake Belladonna by Zienu

Blake Comic Cover [@Artgerm

 

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                          Carole Lefevre from 1999 Big Wolf on Campus...

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Neko....

Werecats / Cat girl in Anime ..

The movies Cat People and the Curse of the cat people...
Werecats have also been featured in  several horror related books, anime's and games...

           

                                              

American Cryptids: The Bear Lake Monster

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                                                          The Bear Lake Monster

This monster is a cryptid that appears in local folk-lore near Bear Lake, on the Utah–Idaho border.

The myth originally started from Indian tales but was made popular by articles written in the 19th century by Joseph C. Rich, a Mormon colonizer in the area, who to report second-hand accounts of sightings of the creature. However, he later recanted the stories.





The bear lake monster  is often described as being at least 40 feet long and with short, but powerful legs. Though others say it is more snake like.

The beast was known to wait for its victims by the shores and then pull them in. It is also known to attack unlucky swimmers in the lake. It is reported as grayish greenish with the head of an alligator. A man, who appeared in Monsters and mysteries in America, claims to have seen this monster in 2007. 

In recent years the monster is mostly considered to be a tourist attraction.

Said to resemble a huge brown snake, nearly 90 feet long, though in other accounts it is said to resemble a large crocodile or aquatic dragon like creature..


A few "recent" sightings ...



Sighting of the Bear Lake Monster continued even after Rich admitted that he fabricated the original sightings as a hoax. A 1907 letter published in a Logan, Utah newspaper claimed that two men had seen the Bear Lake behemoth attack their camp and kill one of their horses, a four-year-old claimed to see it in 1937, and a Boy Scout leader spoke of seeing it in 1946.

The last reported sighting of the monster was in June 2002, when Bear Lake business owner Brian Hirschi claims to have seen the monster.

The monster has become a part of local folklore, partly due to sporadic sightings and partly in jest. For years a Bear Lake Monster Boat—a tourist boat shaped to look like a green lake monster—offered a 45-minute scenic cruise of Bear Lake with folklore storytelling.

Another self-parody that the locals have done is to fill a float in the Garden City, Utah Raspberry Days parade with local children and label it “The Real Bear Lake Monsters. On another occasion, during the 1996 Raspberry Days, a competition was organized in Garden City to have local school children name the leviathan. The judges decided on the name Isabella, which had been submitted by an eight-year-old girl.

The Bear Lake monster also appears in an episode of Animal Planet's Lost Tapes  drama series, in which it is depicted as similar to a crocodile or a mosasaur. Lost Tapes also states that in one legend  Pecos Bill  fought the monster for days until he finally defeated the creature. The show also included a group of girls who were staying over in tents beside the lake being attacked.

 Most recently the search for this creature was the subject of SyFy Channel's Haunted Highway Season 1, Episode 1 (2012) "Bear Lake Beast; Vergas Hairy Man." During which investigators found a cow bone in a submerged cave, springing questions of how the bone arrived there.

American Cryptids: Werewolf or Dogman?

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                                              one of my old blog's Dogman post
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You've probably heard of the Michigan Dogman but did you know  Pennsylvania also has dogman sightings  that date back to at least  the early 1960s,

By most accounts  the Dogman has an look's like it would wight roughly 400 - 500 pound  + and stands about  about seven feet tall (Some are even Taller)  on its hind legs, and three or four feet at the shoulder when on all fours.

It's described as very muscular with larg canine teeth and razor sharp claws Some reports portray it as entirely covered by hair, while others claim it to look more like  a man with a wolf's head.

 As early as 1794 French Michigan French fur traders  reports sightings of the creature they  described as loup garou,  French for werewolf.

The Algonquin legend also mention a dog like  creatures.

Dose a werewolf like being hunt the forest of north America?..

Here are a few sightings...

Werewolf Dogman Sightings

1 - Shapeshifting Werewolf of Texas

Mrs. Delburt Gregg of Greggton, Texas, told of her encounter with a shapeshifting creature in the 1960 issue of Fate. The other surveyed sightings below are of creature that looked like man-wolves but no one have seen one becoming another. Mrs. Gregg have not seen a man turned into a wolf but she has actually came closer then anyone else in telling a tale that sounds like a chapter from a werewolf novel than a real life experience.
Mrs. Gregg said that one night in 1958 when her husband was on a business trip, she moved her bed close to a screen window hoping to catch some cool breeze from a thunderstorm brewing on the south western horizon. She heard a scratching sound from the window shortly after she fell asleep. In a flash of a lightning, she saw a huge, shaggy, wolf-like creature clawing at the screen and staring at her with baleful, glowing, slitted eyes. She saw its bared white fangs.
The creature fled from the yard into a clump of bushes as she leaped from her bed to grab a flash light. Mrs. Gregg said "I watched for the animal to come out of the bushes, but after a short time, instead of a great shaggy wolf running out, the figure of an extremely tall man suddenly parted the thick foliage and walked hurriedly down the road, disappearing into the darkness."

 

 

2 - Wisconsin Werewolf Sighting

Mark Schackelman was driving east of highway 18 near Jefferson, in southeastern Wisconsin on an evening in 1936 when he saw a figure digging in an Indian mound. He saw a hair covered creature that is over six feet tall with both ape-like and dog-like features with pointed ears standing erect. Its hands have shriveled thumb and a forefinger on each and also three fully formed fingers.
Schackelman went back to the sighting the next evening hoping to see the creature again and he did. The creature was making "neo-human" sounds with a three syllable growling. Years later, his son who is a Kenosha newspaper editor, wrote that his "father's first thought was that it must be something satanic." (In southeastern Wisconsin, several decades later, equally enigmatic beast would figure in a host of reports as described below).

 

 

3 - Werewolf Creature in Ohio

Between July and October 1972, a number of residents of Ohio allegedly saw a werewolf-like creature. Some people reported encountering a six to eight-foot tall creature that a witness described as "human, with an oversized, wolf-like head, and an elongated nose." Another said it "had huge, hairy feet, fangs, and it ran from side to side, like a caveman in the movies."

 

4 - Werewolf Attack Reported in New Mexico

Four Gallup, New Mexico, youths allegedly encountered a "werewolf" along the side of a road near Whitewater one day in January 1970. One witness reported "It was about five feet seven, and I was surprised it could go so fast. At first I thought my friends were playing a joke on me, but when I found out they weren't, I was scared! We rolled up the windows real fast and lock the doors of the cars. I started driving faster, about 60, but it was hard because that highway had a lot of sharp turns. Someone finally got a gun out and shot it. I know it got hit and fell down, but there was no blood. I know it couldn't be a person because people cannot move that fast."

 

 

5 - Navaho Skin-Walker

Skin-walker is another name for a werewolf that the Navahos of the southwest. In 1936, in Yale Publications in Anthropology, anthropologist William Morgan recounted an interview with a Navaho identified only as Hahago. Hahago said of skin-walker "They go very fast.They can go to Albuquerque in an hour and a half" - a four-hour trip by automobile, according to Morgan.

 

6 - Red Eyed Werewolves of Pennsylvania

In the fall of 1973 western Pennsylvania played host to dozens of reports of strange apelike creatures, sometimes seen in association with UFOS, said to have (in one witness's words) "fire red eyes that glow in darkness." To be seven to eight feet tall, and gives off a strong unpleasant odor. "Another type of creature" investigator Stan Gordon noted, "was said to be between five and six feet tall. It was described as looking just like an extremely muscular man with a covering of thick dark hair. Again in these reports, the arms were very long and hung down past the knees. This creature appeared to have superior agility exceeding that of a deer. From footprints discovered, the stride of creatures varies between 52 and 57 inches. In these reports there was no indication of odors."

 

7 - Wisconsin Werewolf Attack

Lorianne Endrizzi had a similar encounter as above in the fall of 1989. She was driving on Bray Road, a half a mile away from the above encounter, where she thought it was a person kneeling in a hunched position at the edge of the road. She slowed down and to her surprise, the figure stared at her at no more then six feet across the passenger side of the car. The figure was covered with grayish brown hair, with big fangs and pointed ears. "His face was long and had a snout, like a wolf." She told reporter Scarlett Sankay. The figure's eyes glowed in the darkness and they were a yellowish-gold color. 'The arms were really a kind of strange; jointed like a man or woman would be," she said. "He was holding his hands with his palms upward. The arms were muscular 'like a man who had worked out a little bit." The back legs looked like they were behind him, like a person kneeling." The sighting lasted about 45 seconds and she had no idea what the creature could have been until she saw an illustration at the library of a werewolf.

  

8 - Werewolf Sighting

Around that same time as above in Elkhorn, near Delevan, a dairy farmer named Scott Bray saw a "strange looking dog" along his pasture on Bray Road. It was bigger and taller than a German shepherd, it had pointed ears and hairy tail, with long, scraggly grayish black hair. It is "built heavy in front - a real strong chest." In the soft soil nearby he found enormous footprints which is four to five inches in diameter.

More Werewolf and Monster info coming soon!!! ........

American Cryptid: The Lizardman

                                         ..... The Lizard Man  of  Scape Ore Swamp.....



South Carolina 's Lizardman of Scape Ore Swamp and his possible ancient ancestor....

The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp (also known as the Lizard Man of Lee County) is a reptilian humanoid cryptid which is said to inhabit areas of swampland in and around Lee County, South Carolina along with the sewers & abandoned subways in towns near the swamp...

The Lizard Man is usually described as being arond 7 feet tall, bipedal, and bulky, covered in dark hair with scaly lizard-like skin on its hands, feet and face. It is said to have three toes on each foot and three fingers on each hand.

The creature is incredible strong more than capable of ripping into a car. A few witnesses have reported seeing a tail, although in the majority of cases, a tail was not seen.



 

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The first reported sighting of the Lizardman was made by Christopher Davis in 1988...

Davis a 17 year old local, who said he encountered the creature while driving home from work at 2 AM on June 29, 1988.

According to his report, Davis stopped on a road bordering Scape Ore Swamp in order to change a tire which had blown out. When he was finishing up he reported having heard a thumping noise from behind him and having turned around to see the creature running towards him.


Davis said the creature tried to grab at the car and then jumped on its roof as he tried to escape, clinging on to it as Davis swerved from side to side in an effort to throw it off. After he returned home, Davis' side-view-mirror was found to be badly damaged, and scratch marks were found on the car's roof, though there was no other physical evidence of his encounter.

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"I looked back and saw something running across the field towards me. It was about 25 yards away and I saw red eyes glowing. I ran into the car and as I locked it, the thing grabbed the door handle. I could see him from the neck down – the three big fingers, long black nails and green rough skin. It was strong and angry. I looked in my mirror and saw a blur of green running. I could see his toes and then he jumped on the roof of my car. I thought I heard a grunt and then I could see his fingers through the front windshield, where they curled around on the roof. I sped up and swerved to shake the creature off."

Chris' father, prompted by a story that ran in the newspaper of a strange car mauling, brought his terrified son to the Lee County Sheriff's Office on July 16, 1988, at which time he told his story to Sheriff Liston Truesdale.
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Before Chris Davis came forward to report his encounter, the Lee County Sheriff's Office was called to the scene of a strange instance of vehicle damage. On the morning of July 14, 1988, deputies made their way to the residence, which was located in a small rural community known as Browntown on the outskirts of Bishopville, South Carolina. When they arrived, homeowners Tom and Mary Waye showed them the vehicle in question. Police found that the chrome molding had been torn away from the fenders, the sidewalls were scratched and dented, the hood ornament was broken, the antenna was bent, and even some wires from the motor had been ripped out. Upon closer inspection, it appeared that parts of the molding had actually been chewed, as if an animal had used its teeth to inflict the damage. To further support the animal theory, the Wayes pointed out clumps of reddish colored hair and muddy footprints that had been left all over the car. While Sheriff Truesdale was investigating the car, locals informed him there might yet be another, more bizarre possibility. “While we were there looking over this situation, we learned that people in the Browntown community had been seeing a strange creature about seven feet tall with red eyes,” Truesdale told us. “Some of them described it as green, but some of them as brown. They thought it might be responsible for what happened to the car.

In the months that followed the Davis sighting there were several more reports of a large lizard like creature, and of unusual scratches and bite marks found on cars parked close to the swamp. Most of these are said to have occurred within a 3 mile radius of the swamps of Bishopville.


At the time, local law enforcement officials reacted to reports of the Lizard Man with a mixture of concern and skepticism, stating that a sufficient number of sightings had been made by apparently reliable people for them to believe that something tangible was being seen, but also that it was more likely to be a bear than a Lizard Man.

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Two weeks after the Davis sighting, the sheriff's department made several plaster casts of what appeared to be three-toed footprints0 measuring some 14 inches in length – but decided against sending them on to the FBI for further analysis after biologists advised them that they were unclassifiable. According to South Carolina Marine Resources Department spokesperson Johnny Evans the tracks neither matched, nor could be mistaken for, the footprints of any recorded animal. Evans also dismissed the possibility that they could have been made by some form of mutated creature.



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The sightings attracted tourists interested in seeing the creature and hunters interested in tracking it, and nearby radio station WCOS offered a $1 million reward to anybody who could capture the creature alive. However, reports of the creature began to decline at the end of the summer with the last credible sighting of the year being reported in July

On August 5 Kenneth Orr, an airman stationed at Shaw Air Force Base, filed a report with the police saying that he had encountered the Lizard Man on highway 15, and that he had shot and wounded it. He presented several scales and a small quantity of blood as evidence. Orr recanted this account two days later when he was arraigned for unlawfully carrying a pistol, and the misdemeanor offense of filing a false police report. According to Orr, he had invented the sighting in order to keep stories about the Lizard Man in circulation.

On July 30, 1990, Bertha Blythers and her five children witnessed a strange creature near Scape Ore Swamp as they drove home from a restaurant in Bishopville. At approximately 10:30 p.m., they crossed over the interstate and were nearing the intersection of Hickory Hill Road when suddenly a large figure appeared out of nowhere and lunged toward the passenger side of the car. In a statement given to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, Bertha described the creature as being tall, wide, and having “two arms like a human.” She could only see it from the waist up, but there was no question that it was “big.” She was not able to make out any clear facial details in the short time it was in front of her, but she was quite sure the body was covered in brown hair. “I never seen anything like it before,” she told the police. “It wasn’t a deer or a bear. It was definitely not a person either.........................................................................





 

Whether or not the Lizardman is real and possibly still creeping around in the bottoms of South Carolina i can't say for sure?  But you never know whats watching you from just inside the forest...