PhillyVoice Staff There is a road in south central Pa that actually has a Bigfoot crossing sign posted. For those of you "Doubting Thomases", there absolutely are mountain lions living in the wilds of PA... whether the PGC wants to admit it or not. They've been extinct in the eastern part of North America … "In November 2015, the YouTube outdoor show Leatherwood Outdoors captured what looked like a black mountain lion during a Clarion County archery hunt for deer. Are there COUGARS or MOUNTAIN LIONS IN POTTER COUNTY NOW? However, the automatic focus of their camera equipment never caught a really sharp image of the animal and the participants seemed more excited about shooting a doe than having captured some potentially ground-breaking video.And, 3 years before that, in 2012, a driver reported seeing a "black panther" with "a real long body, real long tail, shiny black, rippling muscles" that crossed Route 61 near Locust Gap in Northumberland County and hopped up onto roadside guardrail" in the middle of a sunny day at close range.Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission.Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Bigfoot, mystery mountain lions, UFOs all 'out there' in Pennsylvania, according to some: Monsters of Pennsylvania "Who knows, could be a mutant. (They say there are no big cats in Pa. but reports are constantly made.) Source/Pixabay.com by The Dodge family in Clarks Summit, Lackawanna County, captured an image of a big cat strolling behind the fence enclosing their yard and pool. Click on the title for the whole story. Man corrals humongous fish from Schuylkill River in Montgomery County What you wouldn't expect to find here anymore is a mountain lion. They've been extinct in the eastern part of North America for more than a century. A few years ago, there was one photographed, documented and tracked in the Chester County area near White Clay Creek which is a suburban area very close to Philadelphia. They shared the unusual sight with "It's probably a bobcat, but looks like a mountain lion," Nick Dodge told the station. by After spotting what neighbors said was a mountain lion in his field around 5:30 p.m., Fisher retrieved his rifle and fired a shot, wounding the animal, which … She described it as "about 2-3 feet tall, long body with long tail. The coloration and the shape of the head lean toward mountain lion  but they have a tail that’s almost as long as their body, and this animal clearly is lacking a tail," Taylor said. Black panthers - cats, not superheroes - have been reported repeatedly for decades in Pennsylvania, although even more rarely than have mountain lions.Many of those making the reports generally assume they have encountered some black phase of a mountain lion, but some ascribe to a theory that the black cats are some different, unknown species.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently declared extinct the eastern cougar, one of 11 subspecies of mountain lions native to North America, but reports of black panthers generally are viewed as closer to reports of Bigfoot than to out-of-place cougars.However, like reports of mountain lions in Pennsylvania, no reports of black panthers have been confirmed in Pennsylvania.In addition, no black mountain lions have ever been recorded anywhere, even in the American West where cougars are known to occur.The spots are difficult to discern on a melanistic leopard in India's Nagarhole National Park.The few black panthers that have been confirmed have been melanistic jaguars in Central or South American or melanistic leopards in Africa or Asia. And a slow stride of a gait when it walks. If you have a story about a big cat in Potter County, PA you want to share, email it to shurfine40@gmail.com for publication. by "Pennsylvania and New Jersey residents have periodically Officials with the Pennsylvania Game Commission told WHNT the cat in Clarks Summit could be a bobcat, though they tend to be more active at night. from from Just sits to watch for a while, then goes into the woods. But an image captured by one family's security camera last weekend certainly shows what looks to be a mountain lion. A resident of Sweet Valley in Luzerne County reported that her family has seen a black mountain lion 4 times since August 2017. However, like reports of mountain lions in Pennsylvania, no reports of black panthers have been confirmed in Pennsylvania. In addition, no black mountain lions have ever … "Also, pretty sure there is color variation in a bobcat’s fur color, so what I’m thinking is a good-sized, tawny colored bobcat." by Haven't seen anything like this before, so it's new. Pa. is loaded with wildlife, bear, deer, mountain lions, coyotes, etc., etc.

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