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re: Urban legends from your youth

Posted on 4/2/17 at 10:40 am to
Posted by Cocotheape
Member since Aug 2015
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Posted on 4/2/17 at 10:40 am to
This still happens but people claim to see, or usually it is their uncle or something who saw, a Mountain Lion (around 50% of the time its a "black panther", more humorous). Usually crossing a road at dusk. In Alabama.

These stories are 100% false but if you listened to the populous you would think Alabama had a population density of mountain lions that is completely unseen anywhere else in the world. Not only that, but also some of these cats are black which is genetically impossible.

Rednecks love lying about seeing stuff when they are hunting though so it comes with the territory
Posted by Carnac
Redemption, Alabama
Member since Dec 2010
123 posts
Posted on 4/2/17 at 11:32 am to
I saw a mountain lion in Choctaw county Alabama while bow hunting in a small grass patch. The patch was located on a friends land just outside of Bladon Springs on the Blue Dirt Road. Like you, my friends didn't believe me. I carried them to the patch the next day and we found the tracks in a sand bed where he walked out of the patch.
Posted by Hangit
The Green Swamp
Member since Aug 2014
39233 posts
Posted on 4/2/17 at 3:49 pm to
quote:

This still happens but people claim to see, or usually it is their uncle or something who saw, a Mountain Lion (around 50% of the time its a "black panther", more humorous). Usually crossing a road at dusk. In Alabama.


Are mountain lion in Alabama?

In Alabama, no mountain lion/vehicle collisions have been confirmed for at least 60 years and there is no self-sustaining population of mountain lions currently known in Alabama. Resident populations appear to have been extirpated from Alabama in the mid-1800s.
Posted by AbuTheMonkey
Chicago, IL
Member since May 2014
8020 posts
Posted on 4/2/17 at 4:55 pm to
quote:

This still happens but people claim to see, or usually it is their uncle or something who saw, a Mountain Lion (around 50% of the time its a "black panther", more humorous). Usually crossing a road at dusk. In Alabama.

These stories are 100% false but if you listened to the populous you would think Alabama had a population density of mountain lions that is completely unseen anywhere else in the world. Not only that, but also some of these cats are black which is genetically impossible.

Rednecks love lying about seeing stuff when they are hunting though so it comes with the territory


There have been legit spottings in Kentucky and Tennessee, so it's not too far-fetched to think they're ranging into Alabama these days as well. I am skeptical of most sightings, but there are some that are likely legit.
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