August 2, 2009
Illinois is having some fun with some panther observations, which began two weeks ago and then again as recently as last Tuesday.
We’ve had a couple sightings of a cat or a large animal that appeared to be a cat anyway.
The conservation people in the Department of Natural Resources are not confirming what we’ve seen so far nor are we confirming it.
The thing that bothers me about it is the people reporting it are very credible. These are people you have to put some credence in what they are seeing.
We combed that area the other day and looked at ground that did not have vegetation and we did not see tracks of any kind.
~ Jay Young, Chief of Police, Henry, Illinois.
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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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