This time, while it’s not a puported Bigfoot photo (or, rather, a guy in a rainsuit), there are interesting parallels in this article that caused me to want to post it for you.
photo by Ryan Ritta
Apparently, this guy’s trail camera caught five shots of a mountain lion in Oklahoma. Okay… fair enough. If I don’t look surprised, it’s because I’m not. *grin* When we were down south filming Mysterious Encounters, people were almost as excited to talk about their mountain lion sightings as they were bigfoot sightings, because neither creature tends to be “officially” recognized down there. And, apparently, that’s pretty much still the case:
The mountain lion photographs were taken between 5 and 6 a.m. on Dec. 22 and 23. State wildlife officials say it’s one of the rare instances of a confirmed sighting of a mountain lion in Oklahoma.
“We know we’ve got them, but we don’t know where they are at or how many,” said Alan Peoples, chief of the wildlife division for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. “It’s kind of hard to monitor something so secretive and so rare as a mountain lion.”
Huh. Hard to monitor something secretive and rare…
The subject of mountain lions in Oklahoma is a hotly debated topic. The Wildlife Department receives two or three reports of mountain lion sightings every month, but rarely can they be confirmed, Peoples said.
They receive sightings… but “rarely can they be confirmed…” And this is a KNOWN animal that’s so “hotly debated”.
The article also mentioned bigfoot, amusingly enough:
The law requires the carcass to be brought to the Wildlife Department, but no one has checked in a dead cougar yet. Peoples said he thinks if mountain lions were common in Oklahoma, a hunter would have shot one by now.
Meanwhile, Ritter’s trail camera photos are the talk of Atoka. After capturing a rare photo of a mountain lion in southeastern Oklahoma, could the legendary Bigfoot be next?
Wait for it…
Wait…
Wait…
“I don’t think so,” Ritter said. “I am a realist.”
In comedy, timing is everything.
;)
