The area is urban and heavily populated; however, like Tarrant County to the west, it is a veritable hotbed of black panther sightings. My grandfather told of being chased out of the logging woods in the early 1900s by a large black cat he called a Panther. Cougar and bobcat sightings have become much more common in the area as well. Imagine looking out in your corn field and seeing this...a black bear. My wife was looking out the window when she saw it first and called me over to see. This isn't a theory, hypothesis or hallucination, but a verifiable, undeniable fact. Well, I know that many people would take pride in bagging a Cougar or a Black Panther but I would much rather bag one on film. That was until I started telling some friends what I had seen, and they started telling me stories about panthers. Most of the city sits in Collin County with a portion lying in Denton County. Awesome!! A big black panther was … Since I was a small child tales of black panthers have circulated in rural East Texas. No, science hasn't discovered a new cat species or a population of melanistic (black) cougars to explain alleged "black panther" sightings. Cougars confirmed in Tennessee. This video shot by a Tennessee Wildlife Resources agent near Paris Tennessee. At one point, the pens representing black panthers outnumbered all of the other pens combined. Dr. Donald Linzey, a biology professor at Wytheville Community College in Virginia who also teaches at Virginia Tech, has been following up on cougar sightings in the region for several decades. Awesome!! Awesome!! Are US 'Black Panthers' Actually Jaguarundi? I realize that many folks fear them but I also know that if un provoked in 99% of the cases they will move away rather than charge a human. I was home with my son cleaning the house, and when I went to raise up the window blinds, I seen a deer coming out of the woods and not far behind it was a black panther, yes a black panther. I am from Manchester,TN and back in 2009 possibly 2010, we were living in a duplex, and across the road from the woods. This Black Panther was seen at Roan Mountain in Tennessee. However, “black panthers” are not native to the region, because black cougars have never been shown to exist—only black jaguars and leopards. And now after talking to them and seeing this web site, there is no doubt in my mind that it was a black panther. There have been four sightings in the state since September, according to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. That's strange for an animal that supposedly doesn't exist -- and makes one wonder what strange black felines might be wandering the Mid-South landscape. EPRN’s own map shows the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia to be dotted with sightings, including a few cubs and several black panthers.