By Kevin Rideout Sr.
PAMLICO COUNTY – I know for a fact they live around here. I have lived in Craven County for 38 years and I am a very avid fisherman. In 1984, while fishing was back in Cahougee Creek, a friend and I were bass fishing. While trolling in the boat, we came around a sharp bend and about 60 years in front of us there was solid black cat swimming across the creek.
I knew it was a panther right off the bat by its head size – at least the size of a soccer ball. That was the first time. read more…
By Mona Lang
AURORA — I wish to pass along to readers of The County Compass what has been my experience with regard to the possibility of black panthers in our area.
Although I’ve never told anyone about my belief that black panthers live here, I’m pretty confident in my opinion that they do. Maybe they have no ‘panther’ DNA in them at all, but they surely are a variety of cat unto themselves.
When I first moved here in 1992 – when our environment was much less traversed by humans than it is now – I occasionally saw a solid black, very large cat near the road when I would be driving home very late at ni…
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