Verified they're around certain areas of SC they have been spotted on several occasions by several people, i live in SC and have seen one myself, less than 10 yrs. ago, and i once lived in Tampa,Fl. and have seen 2 there one on the side of the road dead, and one in a homeless camp that a friend of mine once lived in 2003 before they bulldoze it down, a very scary situation if you encounter one of these big cats!
@@buckleymordecai9605 I was living in Tampa,Fl. down by Ebor city with a buddy of mine, but worked on the opposite end of the city the Northern part going up toward North Nebraska ave. where it stopped and it merge with a hwy going into Eastside part of Tampa where the bus transfer center was, but instead of merging there was a road that went straight ahead bout 3 qtrs.a mile up and there was some projects on the left side of that hwy. but right behind the projects was a large wooded area, and i worked with a buddy of mine who would go there from time to time sheeit there were alot of people camping out in those woods and he showed me where his spot was and his friends campsites were and to get entrance to this place you had to cross a large canal ditch that had some water in it, and big Panther tracks was everywhere.
@@buckleymordecai9605 Yeah those people in those campsites were cooking as if they were in a reg. kitchen man they was barbequeing chicken wings, drum sticks, cooking 12-16 oz. ribeyes, and T-bone steaks, fish, shrimps pots of food like beans, rice, etc man it was unbelivable, and there would be 2 to 3 families there eating and drinking some sodas, some beer, and water, and just talking and listening to the radio keeping an ear in case of the next hurricane, and they would half ass throw the cold uneatin food away from their campsites so i think that's what brought the panthers there, this was back in the mid-late summer of 2003.
I know I saw a large black cat crossing the road in 3 leaps in southeast GA.... The lanes were 9 ft across (I went back and measured them).....It stretched across my lane and was at least 6 ft to 7 ft nose to tail....So I had diffinative scale (the lane) to judge size. It cleared 2 9ft lanes (18ft) and 2 2ft shoulders (4 ft) and a grassy shoulder area that measured 27 ft wide....for a total of 49 ft that this black cat cleared in 3 jumps as it crossed my lane... It was no house cat....Jagurundi, maybe but not a kitty! They are in the states....
We had one that I witnessed twice. The first time in early 90’s, the dark cat walked under the tree I had put my tree stand in. Two weeks later, she ( apprx 3 ft body and equally long dark tail, with what seemed like teat bag swaying, as mother felines have) crossed a logging rd, about 20 yrds in front of me. Wateree River swamp, near Eastover. I do not imagine things or confuse house cats with possibly a 45-50lb animal. I’m not saying it didn’t escape or was let go in the swamp, but I saw her, and thats that. No cell phone cam in about 92, but I did carry a big VHS recorder in truck after second sighting, only to never see it again. Others in my hunt club also witnessed the cat. We had bears come through a few years ago, probably due to lack of rain or food in upstate, and bears are common 80 miles from here, nearer the beach
One of my father's friends told us years ago that he was hunting in southern Ohio where a bit more South of where we lived that sitting in his tree stand before sunrise he heard something up the hill stirring the leaves. Scoped it out and he said it was a big black panther. Never seeing one before he said felt fear all over. Thought it might be some kinda spirit of the woods or something I remember him saying "Indian spirit" in a half joking manner. He was kinda a drunk but wasn't really the type to indulge in random stories. Stopped by right after it happened and he was definitely scared. Told my dad to watch us kids and the dogs and stuff. My dad took him at his word and kept us on a whole lot shorter leash for a while. Told me that even if dude was blowing smoke up our ass it's better safe than sorry. Started letting me take out my single shot 410 without supervision though. Got a funny bit of nostalgia out of this video and memories from a couple decades ago now.
Same. My stepdad use to tell me stories about Mountain Lions in Eureka and Potosi, MO. He said you could hear them in the hills at night in Potosi. This was back in the 70s.
@@Materbater753 Yeah it gets the point across five enough though. I was just relaying how fella spoke it. Idk anything about big cats. Highly HIGHLY doubt this guy did either. Just a big ass black cat in Southern Appalachia terrifying life long woodsfolk. Vernacular be damned.
Obviously you have never seen a panther or have enough common sense to compare its size to its surroundings. You must be one of those fuck stains that calls in sightings whenever you see house cats.
My grandpa ( born in 1923) told me all of my childhood about seeing a black panther in upstate sc , back before light pollution was a thing. They’d see it at dusk , or hear it cry at night. To the point that folks wouldn’t go outside at night without a lantern and a gun. He swore he’d seen it , or one , 20-30 times at least. Solid. Black. Yet they’ll tell us they didn’t come north past Florida. I tend to believe the old folks. Why would they lie ? This was pre internet, before they knew it was a contested thing. They were just telling what they saw
I seen a black panther on my way to work one morning early it was around day break, it was actually on the state line of NC and SC (little River) and in the same area on a separate morning I seen a bear cross the road… so the area I was in has some wildlife
I was a young boy on Sumer break long time ago a I seen a black panther in West Virginia so this is old ppl really are just now starting to know this I’m really surprised because my grandpa used to tell me stories about them along time ago but then I seen one for myself and I thought that they were just a very rare occurrence
I saw one in Texas right across the road from my farm as I was driving home with the family. Beautiful animal - darker than the night. It was no more than 10 yards away when we first spotted it and when I shone my flood light - everything around it was lit up except for the big cat. It crawled under the barbed wire fence and followed the deer trail up the small hill where it stopped and looked at us. Unfortunately, the Texas wildlife folks dismissed the sighting as a case of mistaken identity but that cat was far larger than a bobcat, had a different silhouette, and a very long tail. We still talk about it 20 years later...
Exactly, a house cat would've struggled with that climb, or simply it would've ran back into the brush, that cat jumped that fence with ease and gotten over very quickly, adolescent one here.
I mean, this is a question of scale, house cats when they've living feral are really just little panthers, they are just as muscular and athletic. Also, shouldn't we prove that there are regular panthers in SC before jumping to black ones which aren't even really a thing?
Those who don't believe will never believe. But I tell you, why would this guy be so excited about a house cat? Look carefully at his outstretched body on the upper half of the fence. This animal is well over 4 feet in that position. As someone else stated, most likely an adolescent. Is it a black panther? I don't know. Perhaps a large bobcat. But I'm quite sure it's not a house cat.
I agree with you but definitely not a bobcat, i've seen many a bobcat and they have short tails, you can clearly see this one has a long one like it's cousins big cats and a head like them, adolescent one here.
there used to be a black panther that roamed my county when i was younger. it’s been spotted multiple times, people have taken pictures, etc. some people think it’s a domesticated zoo animal that got loose
Military post fences can be as tall as 12 feet or higher, with specially gauged wire and features such as anti-climb and anti-cut designs. They are in a tank or Striker... look at the fence before the turn now Google an Abrams or Striker. Last duty station was in Alaska with turn style animal gates for moose to roam. The fences on all posts are tall...taller than an Alaskan bull moose. Old video but searching vids to prove big cat in the Carolinas to an AF vet.
I google perimeter fences on post also....minimum height is 7ft and can be substantially higher than 12 ft. It is not a house cat but it is not a large cat either...Jagurundi maybe?
Checkout "Abbeville Panther" documentarys, theres more articles like "face to face" with a black panther up in the SC mountain areas, many more reported on the news ch.4 Columbia/Spartanburg area. i seen one 5 yrs ago and i live on the coast.
We not only had a sighting here in NE Florida (Nocatee area), but the DWC (wildlife control) set a trap and caught the cat. At first the DWC did not believe the homeowner. But he insisted so they played along. They xported the cat to a larger jungle area more in the FL interior.
I live in Anderson SC and I've seen a huge cougar in the field behind my house. It was well over a hundred pounds, maybe 150 pounds. I've seen deer in the same spot, and this cougar was much bigger than a deer.
@@duckmcdonald2492 Did you guys catch it yet or its still roaming? Mane i know yal shaking in your boots, i live on the coast and the one i seen was about 65-75 lbs. and that was huge to me, daayum just imagine just starring at an 150lbs.big black wildcat i'd had to go and grab me a rifle or something.
looks like a Africa wild cat/Savannah or Asian leopard cat! You can see from the shape of its head, neck, and limb proportions that it is one of the smaller Wildcats! No way is it a domestic puddy cat!
* Compare the size of this animal to the width of the road or to the height of the fence it climbed. That sure is no mountain lion, etc. I've seen some very big house cats, and it's said that feral cats can grow larger than the normal house cat.
That doesn't look like a black panther (jaguar or leopard to me). But it does look a lot like a jaguarundi/eyra cat, which is a wild big black cat. We do have it here in Brazil just as we have black jaguars. Here we call it "gato mourisco". Google it and let me know what you think.
Preguiçoso Bem-Sucedido My school teacher one time told us about how her husband was driving to his ranch in Texas and a black puma crossed the road in front of him. He knew what a black panther/jaguar or cougar were, but he swears it was a mountain lion but black. He looked up all cat species even a jaguarundi and he swears that it was an almost black puma/mountain lion! Idk if its true but theres so much out there that perhaps animals are slowly evolving and adapting to the ever so changing landscape ... who knows! But the cat in this video definitely resembles a jaguarundi for sure!
I have seen what I believe to be the same animal while turkey hunting in Chester, SC...the one I saw was black & had a baby with it too - the last part I thought was meaningful (since likely not simply an escaped exotic)
I also saw a black panther it crossed about 50ft in front of me this happened on Pilgrim rd in Chester, SC this really freaked me out good to know someone else has seen one My sighting was in 1989
Yeah I just moved here to South Carolina 2 yrs now in Florence. And I work at waste management and heard customers tell me they saw cougars and black panthers down here no lie . 2 of them said they seen them in cheraw and Chester
I don’t know what part of SC this video was filmed, but I live here and have seen one. It came very close to my car as I passed it on the side of the road one night a few years back. Very huge & very much so a black panther. It was in a rural area, but homes were on the road. I called DNR to see if they would warn folks in the area to be cautious but of course they never respond smh
Right Sis, i have too in SC they just want to deny them if you come into contact with one you'll never forget, it will make your ears pitch and the hairs on your body stand up!
My wife is sure we walked by one in northeast Kentucky, by the Ohio River. I think it was a bobcat. She is from the area and she swears it was bigger and darker. I found dozens of deer kills that were not coyote. Who knows?
I’m from Orangeburg county and saw one crossing kennerly road broad day light thing was halfway across the road and it’s tail still hadn’t left the side still don’t understand what species of cat it is
Looks a little big to be a house cat, I think it's a female black panther. I'm obviously no expert on cats but i've owned probably 8 cats and that is much bigger than any of them.
A friend of mine grew up in the country in Wayne Co WV, and saw a panther at least twice. I believe her 100%. She is lucky she wasn't attacked. That would be so scary to come across one, especially when you are not in a car or a house.
I grew up in Eastover SC and have heard many stories of people seeing a black panther around the Wateree and Congaree river, or on big hunting’s plots. Personally through game cameras I have seen a baby black bear in Sumter SC and in Hopkins SC a smaller cat like thing 70 to 100 pounds max not a bobcat . One morning in a deer stand I could hear a couple hundred coyotes all howling at ounce
I had a really large black panther at my stable a year ago in broad daylight. No picture. Horses are out each day when my husband is there with a gun. I do not go to the stable without having my husband with me or driving to the stable. Just a few months ago both of us saw a large mountain lion (tan) at the other end of the stable. We live in McKean County, PA which is north central PA. Scary. A few years earlier we had a female mountain lion raise her cub under the deck of a rarely used family home next to us. She screamed nightly. I saw her and her cub. Again, during the day. I used to ride here. Not anymore.
Yup I moved to ky right years back in eastern. Where I got use to hearing packs of coyotes. Then one night behind my fence in the giant trees I guess I heard a 4 year old scream and I sat bolt upright. Then I said to myself who would let out a four year old in the middle of the night? Instantly I realized it was a panther. And so a few days later it had traveled somewhere off and cops shot it.
That's a mountain lion for sure but its' color isn't necessarily black. The video is from night vision and even the trees and road show up as black. Either way, that's one heck of a big cat.
That looked way too small based on the width of the road. A real panther would have covered a lot of that width. They are in the Southern states though.
My uncle's favorite story was about a giant mountain cat around here. Now I know he was telling the truth. That thing is a beast! Climbing a 20ft was like nothing. Plus it had a military helicopter after it's ass. How bad ass is that?!?!?!
Last fall we had a cougar stroll through our back yard. We live IN town. But, are surrounded by mountains. The scarey part is i live less than 2 blocks from an elementary school and 4 blocks from the high school.
@@Stunkos pls shut about Melanistic cougars they exist but this is clearly a juvenile Leopard Note cougars and mountain lions are larger than leopards pls don't talk to me
@@Sprigatito687 Yeah "clearly" a leapard, which have only had 8 confirmed wild sightings in the US since 1996. Also no evidence it was melanistic either since you apparently don't know how thermal imaging works.
It's a big house cat and here's why:To estimate the size of this cat you need to know what size fence you're looking at in the video. What I found is the standard is 8ft. (7ft of mesh plus 1 vertical foot of outrigger. The outriggers are 45 degrees and 18 inches in length).Freezing the video @ 27sec while the cats nose was level with top bar of mesh fence you can estimate that nose to hips (not counting tail) appears to be LESS THAN a third the height of the 7 foot mesh portion of the fence. That suggests that this cat not counting tail is approximately 22-24 inches. While standing on a 18 inch outrigger, shoulder to hip appear about 18 inches.The average length of a house cat without tail is 18 inches. The average tail length is 12 inches.Given the slinder build and short tail as a percentage of body length what we just watched was a large tom cat going over the fence IMO!!!!!!I went and found the government standard for fence height. I copy pasted below: all security and perimeter fencing must have a minimum fence fabric height of 7 feet (2.13m), excluding the top guard. Fence height including outriggers must be a minimum of 8 feet (2.44m). install outriggers (support arms) at 45-degree angles in a single arm (towards the threat side) or “Y”/”V” configuration, constructed of a single or double outrigger consisting of 18-inch (457 mm) arm(s), The outriggers must provide a minimum of an additional 12 inches (305 mm) to the fence height.
I gave you a thumbs up because I think you may be right. That animal moved at the start of the video much more like a house cat than like a big cat. You may be right on the dimensions. I had a friend that had a black Maine coon cat that weighed about 25 pounds or so. The first time I saw it, it was sitting next to his driveway and I thought it was a black 30 gallon trash bag about 2/3 full waiting to get picked up on garbage day, until it moved - that’s how big it was, about double the size of an average house cat. I am pretty sure that it could have been about the size of the cat shown in this video. When I was younger, I had a neighbor who lived on the outskirts of our neighborhood bordering a state forest for whom I cut the grass and she had another very large black house cat. I’m not sure if that one was a Maine coon or not, but every time I’d roll my lawnmower up to her house, I’d find half a dozen “presents” on her front porch her cat had brought home for her including full-grown rabbits and lots of squirrels. I think a fair number of the reported black panther sightings in the South may be remnant populations of the dark phase of jaguarundi, as some of the black Panther photos show what appears to be a fairly short-legged animal with a very long body and tail and a somewhat small head, all of which are characteristics of a jaguarundi.
@@cicibradley2809 First thing Cici, look at a wall where you live. Floor to ceiling is almost certainly 8ft. Notice how big that distance really is. 8ft is a proper size fence for detering climbers. I know you want there to be black panthers but Mountain lions (Cougar) are never black...they don't exist. Melanistic jaguars occur at in about 4% of the population. A decade ago there was an est. 100 still alive in mountains of NW Mexico. One young male was seen in the mountains around Tucson where he resided for a couple of years. His name is El Jefe but has not been seen since 2015. He was a standard spotted Jaguar. It was assumed El Jefe returned to Mexico. No black panthers in the South Eastern United States. townline.org/scores-outdoors-reported-sightings-of-mountain-lions-on-the-upswing-in-maine/ Look at the picture of this Lion. Note the length of its tail relative to the body. Then go look at the video above. The tom cats tail is much to short to be a Lion. If you were to lay down beside a mountain lion, even some of the tallest people wouldn’t come close to meeting their 8-foot length. Just their tail alone can be 3 feet. Even if that fence where 16ft tall (its not) then a lion from nose to tail would cover half the height of such a large fence. It was just a big Tom cat on the prowl.
I know when I lived there we had the regular brown ones.. so I don't doubt there are black ones to... This is atleast a 10ft fence.. but it's probably 12-15ft Hell right up the road where we lived, a panther(brown) was hit and killed by a vehicle. It weighed 300 something lbs almost 400.. me and my dad(gust passed away last week) saw one that was around 500 something lbs.. it was crazy
Thier are no black mountain lions. It certainly wasn't a leopard. Looked like a house cat. Besides thier extinct on the east coast expect for a small group in Florida.
Amazes me how ignorant people are. There is no such animal known as a panther or black panther. Jaguars which are native to the Americas can be melanistic which means they will be black, but it is extremely rare as the percentage is like 10%. I find it amusing that there are all these sightings of "black" panthers across the US yet none of spotted Jaguars which would be more probable to witness. But even then, these elusive animals have been no longer in the US with the exception of 2 or 3 that have been spotted in southern Arizona in the last 20 years or so. There are researchers who have devoted their entire life to the research of Jaguars in the Pantanal in South America which has the highest concentration of Jaguars, and some have only seen them once or twice yet in the US everyone and their grandmother have seen one.
house cats don’t stretch in such a manner, i guarantee you that’s not a house cat. whether it’s a black panther or not idk but it certainly isn’t a regular house cat
@@db2631 A house cat would take much longer to straddle a fence like this: A. this is on a millitary base and on a training range, and and most of those ranges are a couple of miles away deep in the woods on any millitary full size base, so no ordinary house cat will not be out there like that. B. this cat has the same body characteristics of a large wild cat eg. leopard, puma, cougar obviously its an adolescent some kind of wild cat look at its body frame structure and muscular limbs at the end of the straddle down to the ground, any body with common sense can see this. C.a regular house cat would simply not put himself in harms way and it would've ran back into the thick brush as impose to running out in front of a large millitary tank/vehicle
That's a domestic cat. That appears to be about an eight foot fence at best with the cat only appearing to extend about 3 feet in length from it's outstretched front paws to it's back legs. When it's standing at the top of the fence on the bent inward portion it's standing on a segment of fence that's usually only about 2 to 2 and a half feet in length. Roughly equal to the size of a large bombay cat.
Wyatt S did it ever occur to you that it could have been an adolescent...I live in sc and have seen 1..and only 1..don't care to ever see one again..at least not while hunting like my one and only sighting.
Why wouldn’t he look left when he arrived to Where the panther was. Iol “undisclosed location” like y’all cool and can’t tell where this happened. Fake, video game, fake screen. If it was real they would of filmed left and watched it run off
The safety functions of the military vehicle and the context of the situation that night led to us not investigating further. After the sighting we continued moving and cut the final video to what was worth showing. The distance from the animal was also considerable. The post says where it happened. No service member would post a specific training area online. Also, flir and night vision is a degraded picture and may look like something from a video game. Any veteran familiar with military vehicles can see the hud display, hear the vehicle, and know that this video is authentic. The guy who spotted the animal is cooler than you will ever be...I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul.
@@bmb1506 Right and also that's common knowledge that Millitary keep all unexplained events and weird phenomenon secret to themselves until they fully investigate and are able to release such to the public, also to say they will protect and nondisclosure any witness name, identity, location etc. especially a soilder whomever are related to such an event or situation, clearly he's not a veteran /millitary, if he was he should know not to say the ridiculous things he said.
A house cat would have broken it's legs leaping to the ground from that high of a fence. This big panther specimen made it look unusually easy....like he's done it before! This animal is too muscular to be a domestic cat as well!
I’ve seen a black panther on my property in North Florida, so it’s definitely possible.
Verified they're around certain areas of SC they have been spotted on several occasions by several people, i live in SC and have seen one myself, less than 10 yrs. ago, and i once lived in Tampa,Fl. and have seen 2 there one on the side of the road dead, and one in a homeless camp that a friend of mine once lived in 2003 before they bulldoze it down, a very scary situation if you encounter one of these big cats!
Where exactly in n FL? I lived in Aucilla Shores, between Monticello and Greenville for years.
@@buckleymordecai9605 I was living in Tampa,Fl. down by Ebor city with a buddy of mine, but worked on the opposite end of the city the Northern part going up toward North Nebraska ave. where it stopped and it merge with a hwy going into Eastside part of Tampa where the bus transfer center was, but instead of merging there was a road that went straight ahead bout 3 qtrs.a mile up and there was some projects on the left side of that hwy. but right behind the projects was a large wooded area, and i worked with a buddy of mine who would go there from time to time sheeit there were alot of people camping out in those woods and he showed me where his spot was and his friends campsites were and to get entrance to this place you had to cross a large canal ditch that had some water in it, and big Panther tracks was everywhere.
@@mykejohnson582 Good grief!
@@buckleymordecai9605 Yeah those people in those campsites were cooking as if they were in a reg. kitchen man they was barbequeing chicken wings, drum sticks, cooking 12-16 oz. ribeyes, and T-bone steaks, fish, shrimps pots of food like beans, rice, etc man it was unbelivable, and there would be 2 to 3 families there eating and drinking some sodas, some beer, and water, and just talking and listening to the radio keeping an ear in case of the next hurricane, and they would half ass throw the cold uneatin food away from their campsites so i think that's what brought the panthers there, this was back in the mid-late summer of 2003.
I know I saw a large black cat crossing the road in 3 leaps in southeast GA....
The lanes were 9 ft across (I went back and measured them).....It stretched across my lane and was at least 6 ft to 7 ft nose to tail....So I had diffinative scale (the lane) to judge size. It cleared 2 9ft lanes (18ft) and 2 2ft shoulders (4 ft) and a grassy shoulder area that measured 27 ft wide....for a total of 49 ft that this black cat cleared in 3 jumps as it crossed my lane...
It was no house cat....Jagurundi, maybe but not a kitty!
They are in the states....
Don't let the night vision fool you. That panther was definately pink.
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We had one that I witnessed twice. The first time in early 90’s, the dark cat walked under the tree I had put my tree stand in. Two weeks later, she ( apprx 3 ft body and equally long dark tail, with what seemed like teat bag swaying, as mother felines have) crossed a logging rd, about 20 yrds in front of me. Wateree River swamp, near Eastover. I do not imagine things or confuse house cats with possibly a 45-50lb animal. I’m not saying it didn’t escape or was let go in the swamp, but I saw her, and thats that. No cell phone cam in about 92, but I did carry a big VHS recorder in truck after second sighting, only to never see it again. Others in my hunt club also witnessed the cat. We had bears come through a few years ago, probably due to lack of rain or food in upstate, and bears are common 80 miles from here, nearer the beach
So you were blessed to have saw an amazing rare creature in your land bothering no one and your first thought was to kill it next time? Shame on you.
One of my father's friends told us years ago that he was hunting in southern Ohio where a bit more South of where we lived that sitting in his tree stand before sunrise he heard something up the hill stirring the leaves. Scoped it out and he said it was a big black panther. Never seeing one before he said felt fear all over. Thought it might be some kinda spirit of the woods or something I remember him saying "Indian spirit" in a half joking manner.
He was kinda a drunk but wasn't really the type to indulge in random stories. Stopped by right after it happened and he was definitely scared. Told my dad to watch us kids and the dogs and stuff. My dad took him at his word and kept us on a whole lot shorter leash for a while. Told me that even if dude was blowing smoke up our ass it's better safe than sorry. Started letting me take out my single shot 410 without supervision though.
Got a funny bit of nostalgia out of this video and memories from a couple decades ago now.
Same. My stepdad use to tell me stories about Mountain Lions in Eureka and Potosi, MO. He said you could hear them in the hills at night in Potosi. This was back in the 70s.
Black panthers are not real thare black jaguars
@@Materbater753 Yeah it gets the point across five enough though. I was just relaying how fella spoke it. Idk anything about big cats. Highly HIGHLY doubt this guy did either. Just a big ass black cat in Southern Appalachia terrifying life long woodsfolk. Vernacular be damned.
If you've ever seen a black panther you don't forget it or what it looks like. Black panther!
Could have been a jaguar.
Me and my younger brother saw one in ash nc a few years back on my grandmothers land.
Obviously you have never seen a panther or have enough common sense to compare its size to its surroundings. You must be one of those fuck stains that calls in sightings whenever you see house cats.
Joe Serrano Another dumbass!
@@qualqui a nb jaguar in south Carolina I don't think so😂
My grandpa ( born in 1923) told me all of my childhood about seeing a black panther in upstate sc , back before light pollution was a thing. They’d see it at dusk , or hear it cry at night. To the point that folks wouldn’t go outside at night without a lantern and a gun. He swore he’d seen it , or one , 20-30 times at least. Solid. Black. Yet they’ll tell us they didn’t come north past Florida. I tend to believe the old folks. Why would they lie ? This was pre internet, before they knew it was a contested thing. They were just telling what they saw
I seen a black panther on my way to work one morning early it was around day break, it was actually on the state line of NC and SC (little River) and in the same area on a separate morning I seen a bear cross the road… so the area I was in has some wildlife
I was a young boy on Sumer break long time ago a I seen a black panther in West Virginia so this is old ppl really are just now starting to know this I’m really surprised because my grandpa used to tell me stories about them along time ago but then I seen one for myself and I thought that they were just a very rare occurrence
I saw one in Texas right across the road from my farm as I was driving home with the family. Beautiful animal - darker than the night. It was no more than 10 yards away when we first spotted it and when I shone my flood light - everything around it was lit up except for the big cat. It crawled under the barbed wire fence and followed the deer trail up the small hill where it stopped and looked at us. Unfortunately, the Texas wildlife folks dismissed the sighting as a case of mistaken identity but that cat was far larger than a bobcat, had a different silhouette, and a very long tail. We still talk about it 20 years later...
Yes it's real, took place in SC at an undisclosed training area :)
I’m guessing Fort Jackson.
That was a frickin house cat
That is not a domestic cat. Has to be a black panther. The way it climbed that fence.....well, that was one powerful animal.
Right.. house cats can’t jump fences, another moron
Exactly, a house cat would've struggled with that climb, or simply it would've ran back into the brush, that cat jumped that fence with ease and gotten over very quickly, adolescent one here.
I mean, this is a question of scale, house cats when they've living feral are really just little panthers, they are just as muscular and athletic. Also, shouldn't we prove that there are regular panthers in SC before jumping to black ones which aren't even really a thing?
Honestly, it's hard to say in this video because it's a thermal imaging, it could have been a mountain lion
Not a black panther a jagur
I live in the south Carolina mountains, although these guys are EXTREMELY rare, they are scary.
Not panther jagur
Phyllis sent me here, Yep looked like a panther to me .Would't want that as a neighbor.
It's beautiful
LOL, just a little kitty.
Those who don't believe will never believe. But I tell you, why would this guy be so excited about a house cat? Look carefully at his outstretched body on the upper half of the fence. This animal is well over 4 feet in that position. As someone else stated, most likely an adolescent. Is it a black panther? I don't know. Perhaps a large bobcat. But I'm quite sure it's not a house cat.
Not a Bobcat. This thing has a long tail.
So true! An obvious detail I overlooked.
I agree with you but definitely not a bobcat, i've seen many a bobcat and they have short tails, you can clearly see this one has a long one like it's cousins big cats and a head like them, adolescent one here.
Forrest handled seeing a black panther with much less drama than that
there used to be a black panther that roamed my county when i was younger. it’s been spotted multiple times, people have taken pictures, etc. some people think it’s a domesticated zoo animal that got loose
Military post fences can be as tall as 12 feet or higher, with specially gauged wire and features such as anti-climb and anti-cut designs. They are in a tank or Striker... look at the fence before the turn now Google an Abrams or Striker. Last duty station was in Alaska with turn style animal gates for moose to roam. The fences on all posts are tall...taller than an Alaskan bull moose. Old video but searching vids to prove big cat in the Carolinas to an AF vet.
I google perimeter fences on post also....minimum height is 7ft and can be substantially higher than 12 ft.
It is not a house cat but it is not a large cat either...Jagurundi maybe?
Checkout "Abbeville Panther" documentarys, theres more articles like "face to face" with a black panther up in the SC mountain areas, many more reported on the news ch.4 Columbia/Spartanburg area. i seen one 5 yrs ago and i live on the coast.
The experts say there are no black panthers. They say they are black jaguars.
We not only had a sighting here in NE Florida (Nocatee area), but the DWC (wildlife control) set a trap and caught the cat.
At first the DWC did not believe the homeowner. But he insisted so they played along. They xported the cat to a larger jungle area more in the FL interior.
I like how scdnr always says there are no big cats here then two pages later says, btw, you cant shoot big cats
I live in Anderson SC and I've seen a huge cougar in the field behind my house. It was well over a hundred pounds, maybe 150 pounds. I've seen deer in the same spot, and this cougar was much bigger than a deer.
@@duckmcdonald2492 they don't live here tho
@@robeveridge8329 They can say that, but I know what I saw. My wife and my neighbor, a sheriff's deputy with animal control, also saw it.
@@robeveridge8329 So they claim but everyone else knows better.
@@duckmcdonald2492 Did you guys catch it yet or its still roaming? Mane i know yal shaking in your boots, i live on the coast and the one i seen was about 65-75 lbs. and that was huge to me, daayum just imagine just starring at an 150lbs.big black wildcat i'd had to go and grab me a rifle or something.
I’m here because of Phyllis Stokes Storytime Video July 17, 2019
Tell Phyllis to walk through some back woods in SC at night and see what happens she'll encounter more than a black panther!
I’m here cause I was sent to say nobody fuckin cares
@@senpaiswigg2414 Suuuwrrrrraaaaaaahhh!
looks like a Africa wild cat/Savannah or Asian leopard cat! You can see from the shape of its head, neck, and limb proportions that it is one of the smaller Wildcats! No way is it a domestic puddy cat!
Possibly but that’s a stretch it’s probably a wild mountain lion maybe not fully grown
He's yelling holy sh#t and everyone else is saying what, what. That's how I feel every day - what'd I miss?
* Compare the size of this animal to the width of the road or to the height of the fence it climbed. That sure is no mountain lion, etc. I've seen some very big house cats, and it's said that feral cats can grow larger than the normal house cat.
I saw one in south Louisiana a few years back
That doesn't look like a black panther (jaguar or leopard to me). But it does look a lot like a jaguarundi/eyra cat, which is a wild big black cat. We do have it here in Brazil just as we have black jaguars. Here we call it "gato mourisco". Google it and let me know what you think.
Preguiçoso Bem-Sucedido
Exactly what I thought. Too big for a house cat but too large to be a panther, perhaps jaguarundi???
@@TrollBot. yea i think so. That or some other wild cat species that we don't know about
Preguiçoso Bem-Sucedido
My school teacher one time told us about how her husband was driving to his ranch in Texas and a black puma crossed the road in front of him. He knew what a black panther/jaguar or cougar were, but he swears it was a mountain lion but black. He looked up all cat species even a jaguarundi and he swears that it was an almost black puma/mountain lion! Idk if its true but theres so much out there that perhaps animals are slowly evolving and adapting to the ever so changing landscape ... who knows! But the cat in this video definitely resembles a jaguarundi for sure!
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I have seen what I believe to be the same animal while turkey hunting in Chester, SC...the one I saw was black & had a baby with it too - the last part I thought was meaningful (since likely not simply an escaped exotic)
I also saw a black panther it crossed about 50ft in front of me this happened on Pilgrim rd in Chester, SC this
really freaked me out good to know someone else has seen one My sighting was in 1989
@@ed6447 I had one in 2015.
Yeah I just moved here to South Carolina 2 yrs now in Florence. And I work at waste management and heard customers tell me they saw cougars and black panthers down here no lie . 2 of them said they seen them in cheraw and Chester
I don’t know what part of SC this video was filmed, but I live here and have seen one. It came very close to my car as I passed it on the side of the road one night a few years back. Very huge & very much so a black panther. It was in a rural area, but homes were on the road. I called DNR to see if they would warn folks in the area to be cautious but of course they never respond smh
Dragon Queen Here because last night I saw one in Georgia. I think they are rare, but definitely around.
Right Sis, i have too in SC they just want to deny them if you come into contact with one you'll never forget, it will make your ears pitch and the hairs on your body stand up!
Science denies they exist but I believe they are real
What part of SC did your sighting happened?, as your sighting sounds very similar to my sighting back in 2015/16.
@@mykejohnson582 upstate near Greenville
Me and a friend of mine saw one at night beside the road . We had left work at midnight near Grover NC
that would be a very small mountain lion
Awesome
Yep, Mountain Lion.... They're all over here in North Carolina as well, big time.
Nope no black mountain lions. No breeding population on the east coast expect Florida. Black house cat. It was tiny
@@elkmanmike The animal isn't necessarily black despite what the title claims. That's just an effect of the thermals.
that's a panther man no tabby
Man that sure looked like a house cat until it got up on the fence
My wife is sure we walked by one in northeast Kentucky, by the Ohio River. I think it was a bobcat. She is from the area and she swears it was bigger and darker. I found dozens of deer kills that were not coyote. Who knows?
OMGosh!!! That is sooo scary. I don't think I could have stayed there after that encounter. You're very brave!
How so dang they're riding in a Abrams tank they could've blown that cat to timbukto easily how much more safer can they be?
I’m from Orangeburg county and saw one crossing kennerly road broad day light thing was halfway across the road and it’s tail still hadn’t left the side still don’t understand what species of cat it is
It was a house cat. Come on, man!!!
Looks a little big to be a house cat, I think it's a female black panther. I'm obviously no expert on cats but i've owned probably 8 cats and that is much bigger than any of them.
A friend of mine grew up in the country in Wayne Co WV, and saw a panther at least twice. I believe her 100%. She is lucky she wasn't attacked. That would be so scary to come across one, especially when you are not in a car or a house.
I’ve been in close contact but they didn’t seem bothered. They are the least likely to attack you, the black panther.
You mean jagur
So how exactly can you tell its black? I suppose all the trees just happen to be black as well.
That's savannah River site
SCDNR categorically denies large cat existence in SC. I've seen several crossing a field while sitting in a tree stand at dusk.
Linville Gorge has a few at times---4am back trail to Tablerock a LOW MOAN to keep me away. iT WORKED
I grew up in Eastover SC and have heard many stories of people seeing a black panther around the Wateree and Congaree river, or on big hunting’s plots. Personally through game cameras I have seen a baby black bear in Sumter SC and in Hopkins SC a smaller cat like thing 70 to 100 pounds max not a bobcat . One morning in a deer stand I could hear a couple hundred coyotes all howling at ounce
Nor black panther black jagur
I had a really large black panther at my stable a year ago in broad daylight. No picture. Horses are out each day when my husband is there with a gun. I do not go to the stable without having my husband with me or driving to the stable. Just a few months ago both of us saw a large mountain lion (tan) at the other end of the stable. We live in McKean County, PA which is north central PA. Scary. A few years earlier we had a female mountain lion raise her cub under the deck of a rarely used family home next to us. She screamed nightly. I saw her and her cub. Again, during the day. I used to ride here. Not anymore.
That’s awesome beautiful animals but can be dangerous
Ha ha, I live in SC and I’ve seen one, too!
just a large house cat
Yup I moved to ky right years back in eastern. Where I got use to hearing packs of coyotes. Then one night behind my fence in the giant trees I guess I heard a 4 year old scream and I sat bolt upright. Then I said to myself who would let out a four year old in the middle of the night? Instantly I realized it was a panther. And so a few days later it had traveled somewhere off and cops shot it.
That's cool.
Ft. Jackson / Leesville area ?
A jaguarua most likely
Ulmer, SC. 🐈⬛️🐈⬛️
I’d say that’s the military base down on the Savannah river
That's a mountain lion for sure but its' color isn't necessarily black. The video is from night vision and even the trees and road show up as black. Either way, that's one heck of a big cat.
That looked way too small based on the width of the road. A real panther would have covered a lot of that width.
They are in the Southern states though.
Just watched. Phyllis Stokes said it was a big cat. I agree. I live in SC. Never saw anything like this. I believe it to be a panther.
Do you have a link to her video?
Waiting on the non-believers to chime in. Normally it only takes you guys about 30 seconds. Waiting!
My uncle's favorite story was about a giant mountain cat around here. Now I know he was telling the truth. That thing is a beast! Climbing a 20ft was like nothing. Plus it had a military helicopter after it's ass. How bad ass is that?!?!?!
My dumbass woulda got out looking for it. Here kitty kitty .
i see purple now
How do we know it was a Black Panther it was on a green screen it could have been The Pink Panther 🐆 Striking Again 😂👍👌✌️🫡🇺🇸
At night, with night vision goggles (NVGs) ain't no telling what you will see. Trust me when I tell you this👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
What’s the vehicle recording? Is it like a truck or a drone or something?
Striker or M1 Abrams. Looks a little cold for SC
Last fall we had a cougar stroll through our back yard. We live IN town. But, are surrounded by mountains.
The scarey part is i live less than 2 blocks from an elementary school and 4 blocks from the high school.
Bobcat.
There just leopards and jaguars
This most likely isn't a jaguar, and it most definitely isn't a leopard. Probably a cougar.
@@Stunkos pls shut about Melanistic cougars they exist but this is clearly a juvenile Leopard Note cougars and mountain lions are larger than leopards pls don't talk to me
@@Sprigatito687 Yeah "clearly" a leapard, which have only had 8 confirmed wild sightings in the US since 1996. Also no evidence it was melanistic either since you apparently don't know how thermal imaging works.
Fox ate our cat Oct 2019. Heck of a way to go. This panther probably does the same thing.
House cat!
Too all the people who say that them big black cats don’t exist in the USA I’ll show em this
Looked like a panther to me. Not that tall but long and lean. Yikes!
It's a big house cat and here's why:To estimate the size of this cat you need to know what size fence you're looking at in the video. What I found is the standard is 8ft. (7ft of mesh plus 1 vertical foot of outrigger. The outriggers are 45 degrees and 18 inches in length).Freezing the video @ 27sec while the cats nose was level with top bar of mesh fence you can estimate that nose to hips (not counting tail) appears to be LESS THAN a third the height of the 7 foot mesh portion of the fence. That suggests that this cat not counting tail is approximately 22-24 inches. While standing on a 18 inch outrigger, shoulder to hip appear about 18 inches.The average length of a house cat without tail is 18 inches. The average tail length is 12 inches.Given the slinder build and short tail as a percentage of body length what we just watched was a large tom cat going over the fence IMO!!!!!!I went and found the government standard for fence height. I copy pasted below: all security and perimeter fencing must have a minimum
fence fabric height of 7 feet (2.13m), excluding the top guard. Fence height including
outriggers must be a minimum of 8 feet (2.44m). install outriggers (support arms) at 45-degree angles in a single arm
(towards the threat side) or “Y”/”V” configuration, constructed of a single or double
outrigger consisting of 18-inch (457 mm) arm(s), The outriggers must provide a minimum of an additional 12 inches (305 mm) to the
fence height.
Gordon Willoughby Surely secret military training facilities have fences higher than 8 total feet. My (adult) neice and my great neice (8) saw one.
panther.
@@cicibradley2809 Wats up Bradley
I gave you a thumbs up because I think you may be right. That animal moved at the start of the video much more like a house cat than like a big cat. You may be right on the dimensions.
I had a friend that had a black Maine coon cat that weighed about 25 pounds or so. The first time I saw it, it was sitting next to his driveway and I thought it was a black 30 gallon trash bag about 2/3 full waiting to get picked up on garbage day, until it moved - that’s how big it was, about double the size of an average house cat. I am pretty sure that it could have been about the size of the cat shown in this video. When I was younger, I had a neighbor who lived on the outskirts of our neighborhood bordering a state forest for whom I cut the grass and she had another very large black house cat. I’m not sure if that one was a Maine coon or not, but every time I’d roll my lawnmower up to her house, I’d find half a dozen “presents” on her front porch her cat had brought home for her including full-grown rabbits and lots of squirrels.
I think a fair number of the reported black panther sightings in the South may be remnant populations of the dark phase of jaguarundi, as some of the black Panther photos show what appears to be a fairly short-legged animal with a very long body and tail and a somewhat small head, all of which are characteristics of a jaguarundi.
@@cicibradley2809 First thing Cici, look at a wall where you live. Floor to ceiling is almost certainly 8ft. Notice how big that distance really is. 8ft is a proper size fence for detering climbers.
I know you want there to be black panthers but Mountain lions (Cougar) are never black...they don't exist. Melanistic jaguars occur at in about 4% of the population. A decade ago there was an est. 100 still alive in mountains of NW Mexico. One young male was seen in the mountains around Tucson where he resided for a couple of years. His name is El Jefe but has not been seen since 2015. He was a standard spotted Jaguar. It was assumed El Jefe returned to Mexico. No black panthers in the South Eastern United States.
townline.org/scores-outdoors-reported-sightings-of-mountain-lions-on-the-upswing-in-maine/
Look at the picture of this Lion. Note the length of its tail relative to the body. Then go look at the video above. The tom cats tail is much to short to be a Lion. If you were to lay down beside a mountain lion, even some of the tallest people wouldn’t come close to meeting their 8-foot length. Just their tail alone can be 3 feet. Even if that fence where 16ft tall (its not) then a lion from nose to tail would cover half the height of such a large fence.
It was just a big Tom cat on the prowl.
I know when I lived there we had the regular brown ones.. so I don't doubt there are black ones to... This is atleast a 10ft fence.. but it's probably 12-15ft
Hell right up the road where we lived, a panther(brown) was hit and killed by a vehicle. It weighed 300 something lbs almost 400.. me and my dad(gust passed away last week) saw one that was around 500 something lbs.. it was crazy
Noway they don't have them on the east coast ....lmao they been here for a long time
Didn’t look that big to me .. probaly on ft Jackson probaly a regular ol cat
IS THIS REAL????
2024 and YT algorithim is doing weird shit again.
Mexican jaguar.
so, only the black one's
venture past The Everglades ? smmfh
On the search for one in south Louisiana. Dozens of eyewitnesses within 20 miles of each other gotta be something.
bobcat
House cat
what do u expect, cats are elite ( both big & small?
Just a big cat🙄
where was it at
Daniel Rose South Carolina it in the title
Thier are no black mountain lions. It certainly wasn't a leopard. Looked like a house cat. Besides thier extinct on the east coast expect for a small group in Florida.
The animal wasn't necessarily black despite the title that's just an effect of thermals. It's almost certainly a mountain lion based on the profile.
Amazes me how ignorant people are. There is no such animal known as a panther or black panther. Jaguars which are native to the Americas can be melanistic which means they will be black, but it is extremely rare as the percentage is like 10%. I find it amusing that there are all these sightings of "black" panthers across the US yet none of spotted Jaguars which would be more probable to witness. But even then, these elusive animals have been no longer in the US with the exception of 2 or 3 that have been spotted in southern Arizona in the last 20 years or so. There are researchers who have devoted their entire life to the research of Jaguars in the Pantanal in South America which has the highest concentration of Jaguars, and some have only seen them once or twice yet in the US everyone and their grandmother have seen one.
How do they get the 10% number?
@@perpetuallymediocre3453 It's a scientific fact through studies that have been done for decades.
@@armandorodriguez5120 right. What studies? I’m asking how the studies were done?
@@perpetuallymediocre3453 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5381760/
It's actually 11%
It's a housecat. It is only like a foot long.
house cats don’t stretch in such a manner, i guarantee you that’s not a house cat. whether it’s a black panther or not idk but it certainly isn’t a regular house cat
Definitely a housecat. The barb wire part is only a foot and half long.
Thats no freaking house cat with a head that big, or a tail that long are you crazy or something?
@@db2631 A house cat would take much longer to straddle a fence like this:
A. this is on a millitary base and on a training range, and and most of those ranges are a couple of miles away deep in the woods on any millitary full size base, so no ordinary house cat will not be out there like that.
B. this cat has the same body characteristics of a large wild cat eg. leopard, puma, cougar obviously its an adolescent some kind of wild cat look at its body frame structure and muscular limbs at the end of the straddle down to the ground, any body with common sense can see this.
C.a regular house cat would simply not put himself in harms way and it would've ran back into the thick brush as impose to running out in front of a large millitary tank/vehicle
@@mykejohnson582 right, and I'm sure you saw bigfoot in the shadows of this video too.
very cool, obviously it's not black. that's just because of the camera. Looks like a juvenile mountain lion
That was incredible video of a domestic house cat scaling a fence.
That's a domestic cat. That appears to be about an eight foot fence at best with the cat only appearing to extend about 3 feet in length from it's outstretched front paws to it's back legs. When it's standing at the top of the fence on the bent inward portion it's standing on a segment of fence that's usually only about 2 to 2 and a half feet in length. Roughly equal to the size of a large bombay cat.
I bet you're fun at parties
lol!
Very good analysis. A Mountain Lion would have reached more than half way up when outstretched like that.
Wyatt S did it ever occur to you that it could have been an adolescent...I live in sc and have seen 1..and only 1..don't care to ever see one again..at least not while hunting like my one and only sighting.
+oakley2001 LOL!
Why wouldn’t he look left when he arrived to
Where the panther was. Iol “undisclosed location” like y’all cool and can’t tell where this happened. Fake, video game, fake screen. If it was real they would of filmed left and watched it run off
The safety functions of the military vehicle and the context of the situation that night led to us not investigating further. After the sighting we continued moving and cut the final video to what was worth showing. The distance from the animal was also considerable. The post says where it happened. No service member would post a specific training area online. Also, flir and night vision is a degraded picture and may look like something from a video game. Any veteran familiar with military vehicles can see the hud display, hear the vehicle, and know that this video is authentic. The guy who spotted the animal is cooler than you will ever be...I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul.
@@bmb1506 Right and also that's common knowledge that Millitary keep all unexplained events and weird phenomenon secret to themselves until they fully investigate and are able to release such to the public, also to say they will protect and nondisclosure any witness name, identity, location etc. especially a soilder whomever are related to such an event or situation, clearly he's not a veteran /millitary, if he was he should know not to say the ridiculous things he said.
Panthers?? C'mon, it's a putty tat!
Looked pretty fuckin' small here.
Too small for a panther,looked like a housecat
Clearly a house cat
Yeah about 10 pounds est.
A house cat would have broken it's legs leaping to the ground from that high of a fence. This big panther specimen made it look unusually easy....like he's done it before! This animal is too muscular to be a domestic cat as well!