Salt & Pepper Aussie Panthers

From the reality of a new report of a white, perhaps even an albino, mystery panther in Australia, to a novel video comedy on the search for black or melanistic Aussie felines, let’s stay with panthers a bit longer today.

“I WASN’T drinking and definitely no funny smokes. I think it was this mystery ancient animal people talk about that was here.”

Rossville resident Jim Stone is not laughing off the mysterious creature he saw running through his property near the Bloomfield Valley on a Sunday afternoon last month.

And his son’s partner, JaJa Elliot, also was stunned when she saw it. His son, James, reported seeing something very much like the creature six months before.

Mr Stone said last Friday what he saw was like a white panther: “I swear blind it’s shape was like a panther, a long, lean animal.”

He and JaJa were watching TV when the white animal ran past the front door then around the house and back into dense rainforest.

It was the same scenario witnessed by his son last year of a swiftly moving creature near the family home.

For a brief moment, they mistook it for JaJa’s dog, only to realise Spanner was inside. Also strange was the way the pet did not react to the animal. “It looked like a white panther. We have been trying to figure out what it is,” he said.

“I know the feral dogs and dingoes in the area and it definitely wasn’t a dog. I even thought (briefly) it may have been a calf because of the size of it but there is none around here.”

Perplexed by the mysterious beast Mr Stone three days before found unusual imprints in the wet earth near his home, of an animal making three-toed prints. The resident of 25 years said it reminded him of stories about people seeing what might have been a black panther on Black Mountain and north of Cooktown.

His mystery follows other mysterious sightings of a creature near Myola that has left people wondering if it was a feral pig, dog or the mysterious North Queensland tiger. “Man and couple claim to see mysterious white panther at Rossville,” by Ross Irby, Cairns Post, June 6, 2007.

Thanks to Richard D. Hendricks for sharing this item.

Meanwhile, a new YouTube discovery is the following mystery cat comedy from Australia. Taking a nonfiction series of sightings of the “Lithgow Panther,” you’ll find funny cryptofictional cat expert Mandy Michelle Michaels trades her office in for adventure in search of this special member of the feline fauna.

Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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