Cougars? Coyotes? Cryptid? Something’s Haunting New England

Whatever beast stalks eastern Massachusetts, it remains in superposition with mainstream media. State officials are adamant the large beast is a coyote or a dog despite the evidence. Biologists across the country, on the other paw, insist mountain lions have returned to the Bay State after a 156 year hiatus.

Many witnesses maintain they saw was a mountain lion. Take Adrienne Altstatt who saw the lion last October but didn’t tell anyone lest they label her a crazy cat lady.¹

While these bureaucrats play see-no-evil, hear-no-evil, they’re forgetting in 2011, a cougar ended up as roadkill in Milford, CT after prowling 1600 miles / 2600 km from South Dakota². The plot thickens as another mountain lion being spotted³ near Middlefield, CT, a two hour drive away. Are they the same beast? Next-of-kin to the 2011 cougar? On the gripping hand, we might have a mountain lion in our universe and the universe next door has a coyote with a thyroid problem.

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MORE GREAT STORIES FROM WEEK IN WEIRD:

1. http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/03/21/winchester-police-warn-residents-about-mountain-lion-sightings/B1H9Xmmd8iUSYRODd99dlN/story.html ↩

2. www.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/nyregion/wild-cougar-traveled-east-1500-miles-tests-find.html ↩

3. http://articles.courant.com/2014-03-11/community/hc-durham-mountain-lion-20140311_1_mountain-lion-sighting-reported-bo-ottmann-cougar ↩