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...

           

                                              

The Yeti...

The Abominable Snowman --Yeti...

The search to find the Yeti can be traced back to the time of Alexander the Great, who in 326 BC set out to conquer the Indus Valley.

Having heard stories of the Yeti he demanded to see one for himself, but local people told him they were unable to present one because the creatures could not survive at that low an altitude.

In the 1950s the Nepali government cashed in on the increasingly popular Yeti myth by issuing Yeti-hunting licenses priced at £400 per Yeti. To date no-one has succeeded in capturing a specimen dead, or alive.



Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary in Bhutan is a national park officially dedicated to preserving the Yeti.



The name ‘Abominable Snowman’ was coined in 1921 by journalist Henry Newman who mis-translated the Tibetan label Metoh-Kangmi, “dirty men in the snow”.



Mystery primates are reported from every continent except Antarctica. They include the Sasquatch of North America, the Yowie in Australia, the Yeren of China, the Hibagon in Japan, the Orang Pendek in Sumatra, the Almasty of Russia, the Ferles Mor in Scotland, and the Mapinguari of Brazil.



It is suggested that the Yeti myth originated in Tibet, and reached Nepal via the Sherpa, descendants of families who emigrated from the Khams region of Tibet across the Himalayan range in the middle of the sixteenth century.



Possible explanations for the unusually large footprints found over the years include the effect of evaporation and melting snow, the ‘overstepping’ phenomenon in which the longer tracks of an animal’s hind feet overlap and obscure the tracks of the shorter forefeet, and even the prints left by nomadic mountain men wearing roughly-woven snow sandals.



The first scientist to investigate the Yeti was German Professor Ernst Schaefer. Allegedly, he was employed by the head of the SS Heinrich Himmler to search for the Yeti in 1938 in the hope that it would turn out to be the progenitor of the Aryan race. Schaefer reached the conclusion that the Yeti was in fact the Tibetan bear.



The Yeti is big business in Nepal. Visitors can stay at the luxurious Yak and Yeti hotel in Kathmandu and even travel with Yeti airlines.



The Himalaya mountain range is both remote and vast with a length of about 2,400 km and a width of 200-400 km. The range includes Mount Everest, the highest peak on earth, standing at 29,028 feet high. The Yeti is said to roam between the treeline and permanent snow at 14,000 to 20,000 feet.



The annual Mani Rimdu Festival is celebrated in Nepal during the full moon of October/November. During the festival, monks wear masks to portray divine beings and perform ritual dances. Traditionally, one of the dancers will take on the role of the Yeti.



Sherpa tradition holds that the Yeti will only show itself to those who believe in it.



In 1969, the Board of County Commissioners of Skamania County, Oregon, introduced a bill stating that any person found to have slain a Bigfoot creature would be punishable by law by a fine of up to ten thousand dollars or imprisoned for up to five years. The board did not, however, claim that such a creature definitely existed.



Bigfoot sightings have been reported in every US state except Hawaii.



The most famous Bigfoot sighting is the creature filmed by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin in the Bluff Creek region of northern California. Despite much investigation since the footage was captured in 1967, it is still uncertain whether this was the product of a hoax or a genuine sighting.



Before 1847 the gorilla was unnamed and known only through rumor. Believed to be a myth in the west and a supernatural being by African tribespeople, it was only when a missionary in West Africa was shown a gorilla skull that the animal was accepted as real.