Report Received From: The GCBRO Online Report Submission Form.
 

DATE:    Late 1980's
 

TIME:     Different Times
 

LOCATION:   Kentucky,  McCreary County
 

TERRAIN:    Wooded
 

OBSERVED:    This happened in the late 80's the first part was what happened to my brother and cousin and the next was what I heard and the last was what was witnessed by me and my family one evening.  To start my brother and cousin decided to camp out in our field on night it was early summer and the weather was just right for that.  Sometime during the night my brother heard something sniffing around the tent and he thought that it was our mule so he smacked at the tent and told her to go away and he didn't think much else about it until about a half an hour later or so when he heard the sniffing noise again and then across the field he heard the mule braying and carrying on like crazy at about the same time that the sniffing started up around the tent again.  Well he woke up my cousin and they waited until they heard the animal go away and the mule come closer to where they were at and they lit out back to the house which was about 100 or so yards away.  Well about 2 days after this happened I was awakened one morning by some kind of animal screaming (that is the best that I can describe it) at the back of the field near the woods.  It was a very lonely sound and very haunting.  I believe it may have been that night or maybe a few nights later that my family and I were sitting outside on the porch and it was just starting to get dark when our dogs started barking like crazy up the hill toward the road, well we all looked to see what they were barking at when we saw something leave the woods and start down the bank toward the road.  When it started across the road it lowered down a bit so that it was sort of slinking across the road like it was trying to make itself less noticeable.  It was solid black and was definitely not a dog.  We all believe that it was a black cougar/panther/ mountain lion or what ever you want to call it.  It was young because it was not much bigger than a medium sized dog we came to the conclusion that it must have lost it's mother.  At the time that this sighting happened there had been a lot of road construction going on and stuff because they were making that area near my dads' property a national park.
 

Activities of Witness:   First two witnesses were camping it was night time they did not see anything but something was outside their tent and it was not our mule.  I was sleeping and was awakened by the animal making noises I have never heard any thing like it before or since.  And when we saw the animal cross the road we were sitting on our front porch.
 

Description of Creature:  It was solid black about the size of a medium dog and when we watched it cross the road it lowered it body close to the ground and was slinking across the road like a house cat will do when they do not want to draw attention to themselves.  When I heard it it made a kind of screaming cry that was very lonely sounding.
 

Other Notes:    Sometime later neighbors around the road said they saw the same thing one night crossing the road or a near by field i can't remember which and I believe they said they also heard it.

Well this may not be part of this, but sometime before this we had our mule fenced in a smaller area down away from the house while we were fencing in the main field for her and one night we heard her outside and we thought that she had broken the fence and gotten out but when we went to check the fence was still intact and she never did try to jump the fence again once we put her in the main field.  Needless to say we did not put her back in the other area since we had no idea what had scared her so badly.
 
 
 

Additional Notes and or Follow up Comments:  Upon contact the witness had no additional information to add to this report.

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