Strange Creatures and Animals

[floralheart]

I proceeded to say What the F was that... What the F was that... What the F was that... What the F was that... for about 3.2 miles down the road.

I am pretty sure this morning I saw my first werewolf. Let me explain.

I cannot say what this is, as I do not know and have no idea. It had zero human traits. In my first opinion it was a hybrid of a dog and a fox. It was about the size of a medium dog, but fell between medium dog and large dog. It moved more like a cat. It cleared over 60' of road straight in front of me with my high beams on in less than 1 second flat.


Before I could say 1 one thousand, or in my words as it was happening, What the F was that... it cleared the stretch of city road and disappeared into a dark city lot near some warehouses.

I want to ask the nearest yards if they had lost a dog sometime this week. I've worked in security dogs (cadaver, drug, etc.) and I've never seen anything like that before.

It was still in motion and as I sat there short of a stop light I considered putting it in reverse and hitting it with a blinding bright light I keep in my pocket. No urge to shoot it or hurt it. Pure shock, awe and curiosity.

I could swear it was a mountain lion in the middle of the city, in a place with no mountain lions or large cats. Only it was way faster, cleared more pavement and land and had the canter between fox and mountain lion.

Forgive me for not looking up old threads, I'm still in shock. Just wow. Ever see anything strange? Wow.

I only wonder, what the F was that?

 

[igrowone]

mountain lions are getting around more and more
perfectly possible, there was a mountain lion sighting in upstate ny by some hunters i know
it had a collar on its neck, that adds to the credibility imo
i know another mountain lion was killed by car in new england some where
it came from out west, was tracked somewhat by feces samples

 

[luposolitario]

I proceeded to say What the F was that... What the F was that... What the F was that... What the F was that... for about 3.2 miles down the road.

I am pretty sure this morning I saw my first werewolf. Let me explain.

I cannot say what this is, as I do not know and have no idea. It had zero human traits. In my first opinion it was a hybrid of a dog and a fox. It was about the size of a medium dog, but fell between medium dog and large dog. It moved more like a cat. It cleared over 60' of road straight in front of me with my high beams on in less than 1 second flat.


Before I could say 1 one thousand, or in my words as it was happening, What the F was that... it cleared the stretch of city road and disappeared into a dark city lot near some warehouses.

I want to ask the nearest yards if they had lost a dog sometime this week. I've worked in security dogs (cadaver, drug, etc.) and I've never seen anything like that before.

It was still in motion and as I sat there short of a stop light I considered putting it in reverse and hitting it with a blinding bright light I keep in my pocket. No urge to shoot it or hurt it. Pure shock, awe and curiosity.

I could swear it was a mountain lion in the middle of the city, in a place with no mountain lions or large cats. Only it was way faster, cleared more pavement and land and had the canter between fox and mountain lion.

Forgive me for not looking up old threads, I'm still in shock. Just wow. Ever see anything strange? Wow.

I only wonder, what the F was that?

curiosity are present of expired medicines deposits or furnaces in the vicinity of the sighting ???

 

[floralheart]

mountain lions are getting around more and more
perfectly possible, there was a mountain lion sighting in upstate ny by some hunters i know
it had a collar on its neck, that adds to the credibility imo
i know another mountain lion was killed by car in new england some where
it came from out west, was tracked somewhat by feces samples

If you want to be total 3D logical, realistic, I'd say it was a teenage near black mountain lion that a junk yard was using as a guard dog that got off of its leash. It was total mammal. No human characteristics, but I could swear it was a dog that was moving like a cat or a fox.

I'd estimate it at about 40 mph sideways across a road, right in the high beams. Not even the guy next to me saw it, as my jaw was totally all the way open, as I kept repeating what the F.... over and over again.

I'm glad I never went back. I saw it in a junked up lot on the other side of the road, and it appeared to be playing like a cat would, you know kind of standing up, but I don't want to give it any human traits, because that's not accurate. I'm glad I didn't back up, because at the speed it moved, it could have easily blown through the car windows in less than a second, before I could have pushed the pedal. The weird part was, it wasn't scary at the time, more just awe inspiring, mind blowing speed. It hit the road twice and both times it was hitting areas where there were shadows. This was right before 7 am. So wild.

 

[floralheart]

If anybody ever tried to shoot this thing in the dark, all I can say is that it would definitely get you before you could get it. It was that fast. You wouldn't even raise the gun to fire.

 

[igrowone]

interesting, a junk yard mountain lion, meaner than a junk yard dog?
the speed sounds like a mountain lion, they are fast!
and an escaped/released pet is possible, having a pet that can kill you gets old for some folks

 

[CosmicGiggle]

Are you in New England or upstate NY by any chance?

I saw something similar when I was a child - like a GIANT dog, but not quite. It was running for its life but nothing was giving chase.

My granny was there and she didn't know WTF it was.

About 5 yrs ago I read about the legend of the Direwolf, that's the only catagory it fits in.

 

[igrowone]

Are you in New England or upstate NY by any chance?

I saw something similar when I was a child - like a GIANT dog, but not quite. It was running for its life but nothing was giving chase.

My granny was there and she didn't know WTF it was.

About 5 yrs ago I read about the legend of the Direwolf, that's the only catagory it fits in.

upstate NY, i've haven't seen too much strange animal wise
though i did see some big ass bird in a tree once, eagle big at least
flew off as i approached, seen eagles but this didn't look like one, color wasn't right

 

[Green Squall]

Floral- Maybe it was a bobcat?


I felt the same way the first time I saw a turkey vulture. The wingspan was absolutely amazing.

 

[igrowone]

I felt the same way the first time I saw a turkey vulture. The wingspan was absolutely amazing.

seen many turkey vultures, up close and far away, small compared to the bird i saw
it was a gray color, which doesn't jibe well with anything
seen a lot of bald eagles, it wasn't that
my best guess would be a golden eagle, which are bigger than bald
but they're a dark brown(gold), just doesn't match well

 

[Betterhaff]

May have been a juvenile baldy, they don't get their white heads until they reach sexual maturity.

 

[igrowone]

May have been a juvenile baldy, they don't get their white heads until they reach sexual maturity.

i've seen juveniles, they have the dark heads
this was way too big for a juvenile, bigger than any bald eagle i've ever seen
seen maybe 50 or so bald's over my nature forays
it was in a tree about 100 yards away, i took a few steps towards it
it pivoted and flew straight away from me, it was wary, not sure if that means much

 

[Betterhaff]

Did you know that juveniles are actually bigger looking than adults because their feathers are longer and fluffier.

 

[igrowone]

Did you know that juveniles are actually bigger looking than adults because their feathers are longer and fluffier.

i did not, never know, possible i guess

 

[meadowman]

was it possibly a coyote floral? they r like lightning...the bird may have been a golden eagle ...

 

[WelderDan]

Did it look like this?

 

[Genghis Kush]

coyote



ive seen enormous vultures in the Himalayas - 10 ft wingspan.

 

[St. Phatty]

Before today I had never seen a live rooster.

I didn't realize what good fighters they are. It only weighs 10 pounds but I dare say it will protect the chickens from a 50 pound fox - or die trying. Which is all the time the chickens need to make it to safety.

I wonder how long before it lets me feed it hamburger like when I give treats to the other chickens.

 

[floralheart]

curiosity are present of expired medicines deposits or furnaces in the vicinity of the sighting ???

There is a LOT in the area. It happened immediately adjacent to a freeway entrance/exit ramp. I went back later today. It ran across the street right before a row of about 200' worth of abandoned stores and shops in a ghost town like row of a city.

I saw the field it ran towards, which has construction mounds of dirt around it and there is about a 1,000' run of empty field back behind an old fence, and it had a clear shot towards all of that.

I don't want to say it was dancing, but it did something similar to what a kitten would do, kind of half raised up and then I lost sight of it and just coasted in shock towards the stop light.

There is an auto lot there by the freeway and some kind of industrial yard with storage there, maybe some kind of salt storage yard. When it crossed the street it had an expanse of land to run on, as in over 500' and probably less than 1,000'.

For the record, I haven't smoked herbs in over 2 weeks and I don't drink alcohol or take medication, short of some allergy medicine I took earlier in the week, days ago for a bug bite.

 

[floralheart]

So, the city itself; the inner core of the city is really about 100 years older than I am. Although it's a major city, the outer city and its suburbs were really only built in the 1950's in the form of tract housing. So you have to figure for many 1,000's of years, if not millions of years this was all vacant land before it was aboriginal lad. For the last 200 or 500 years, picture most of the state as a forest. Because up until about 1947, it was. Farms on the fringe, then wilderness and woods even where the city is today.

So the house I'm writing in now was built in the 1930's right before WWII. The house is really not all that much older than me. Modern people feel we've been here forever; we haven't. So whatever that was, it has been here potentially for a very long time. We imagine we've been here forever and so is all that we see, but it wasn't. It just wasn't. I'm only really grateful that I didn't try to take it's picture or make face contact with it. I'm glad it didn't acknowledge that I saw it.

If you had a hand gun, and had it lowered in a safe position with the intention of shooting whatever it was, you'd never even get that gun raised in time to fire a shot before it would have you. Fasting thing I've seen, and I've driven on a country road at 35 mph beside a fox. Way faster.