Two hunting buddies were a few hours late getting to our hunting camp. When they showed up it was with a big tale about seeing a black panther on their way to camp. These were reputable guys that I had known for at least fifteen years, not prone to big fish of big buck stories, etc..
After listening to their story for a while the camp consensus was it could have been an unusually large feral tom cat that looked bigger through binoculars. Of course they were not accepting that, and they obviously had a few beers, and a frayed wire was hanging out the door which had been connected to a missing radar detector. I don't know for sure!
