The reason I put very little stock in these internet stories relates back to the earlier threads about black panthers. Now when anyone starts a thread about black panthers it is almost universally started as a joke. But there used to be people who were dead serious about seeing them. They would relate the EXACT same kind of stories we see now about mt lions. "I seen one back in 1984." "Walked past me at less than 40 yards and I watched him for a good 5 minutes." Of course the problem was these people were not only claiming to see an animal that did not exist in Alabama but an animal that doesn't exist PERIOD. There are no black panthers. Never have been. You could literally change everywhere they said "black panther" in their story to "unicorn", "minotaur", or "griffin" and their story would still be just as plausible. But that didn't stop them from claiming it. And then of course there are the ones who claim to have seen bigfoot which is also utterly ridiculous and undoubtedly utter bullchit. But still they claim it. So sorry I don't believe these stories without proof. Proof that despite all the claimed encounters never seems to materialize. As Carl Sagan was fond of saying, "incredible claims require incredible evidence." Internet claims are not evidence at all much less incredible evidence.
