November 2, 2008
Newsday’s Sophia Chang and Arielle Brechisci have a few things to say about a new Mystery Cat report in New York State:
The latest in Long Island animal antics takes the shape of a purported mountain lion roaming through the Bayview neighborhood in Southold, according to a complaint made to police last week.
Around 9 a.m. Oct. 17, [2008] a very large cat was spotted strolling across a lawn and into the woods near Waterview Drive, said John, a resident who declined to give his last name.
“I pulled up into my driveway and I could see it as plain as day, walking across my neighbor’s lawn,” he said. He reported the sighting to police.
He described the cat as 5 to 6 feet long, not including the tail, and resembling a mountain lion.
“We have to believe there’s something there,” said Southold Police Chief Carlisle Cochran Jr. on Friday [October 25, 2008].
“I don’t think it’s running stray in Bayview,” he said. “I have to believe this is someone’s pet who gets out once in a while.”
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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