Secrets from the Archive: E1 - The Mystery Cat of Connecticut
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- In this series, we explore the archives of the late Gary Mangiacopra, one of the most prolific collectors of strange stories in the world.
Disclaimer: This video was made with the assistance of A.I. technology.
0:00:00 - Title Sequence
0:00:49 - Exhibit 1: Box 1, Folder 33
0:01:41 - The Legend Begins: First Cluster - 1939
0:13:51 - Return of the Glawackus: Second Cluster - 1954-1959
0:18:20 - The Year of Glawackus Glory - 1959
0:26:56 - State Official Scoffers vs. Concerned Citizens
0:32:21 - The Granby Panther, Memory Lingers: Third Sightings Cluster: 1960-1967
0:42:03 - Possible Identification of Connecticut’s Mysterious Felines
You can visit the free digital Gary Mangiacopra Archive here:
garymangiacopraarchive.com/ - Розваги
A mountain lion was killed by a car in Milford, CT in 2011. They traced it's origin to South Dakota. Those cats like to wander. Officials tend to dismiss sightings as bobcats. But they couldn't really do that when there was a body. A rare treat for this channel to go south of the border.
Yes, ridiculous since Bobcats are kitty-cat-sized
@@hanginlaundry360 It's just become their go-to response. Like how every UFO is a balloon. The roadkill cat in 2011 made them cry themselves to sleep no doubt.
I ran over one about 5 years ago here in Mississippi, the poor critter. We are told we don't have bobcats, too. Well, I can say with confidence we have 1 fewer.
The Appalachian and Ozarks were once the natural range of jaguars and possibly mountain lions. They said they were wiped out by angry farmers. My Mom's boyfriend has a sister who saw a black Jaguar in the mountains of West Virginia recently.
It has always rubbed me the wrong way how quickly "officials" write off people's encounters with large wild cats. It's pretty hard to mistaken a cat
if they were motivated by learning & truth they'd been scientists
they're job is to maintain the societal status quo, order, stability, safety or the illusion of it so there's more incentive to self censor anything that doesn't fit preconceptions/what they're used to.
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I think you are retarded
@john-ic5pz My thing is they're basically calling someone a liar publicly which is defamation
They say there are no big cats in New Hampshire. My in-laws live in
the White Mountains and have captured Cats on their trail cams
5X in 4 years. One had 3 kittens
and one was very dark brown or black.
Fish and Game dismiss them as 'transient' cats.
@mrskenscott9643 Oh yeah, because they know those cats are just passing through seeing as they stopped and asked them
The known historic range for Jaguars includes parts of Texas and Louisiana and there is historical evidence and accounts to suggest they once ranged east of the Mississippi River across the South/Southeast to the Carolinas. Native tribes across the Southern U.S. have words for Jaguar in their languages (the word Jaguar comes from a native word) and artifacts from the region depicting Jaguars have been found along with clothing made from their skins. Early naturalists and other prominent figures from the 1700s mention the “American Tigre” as they often called it and go on to describe what could only likely be a Jaguar. They go on to say these “American tigers” were distinct from the known mountain lion (Puma concolor) of which was commonplace. Also mountain lions can’t be melanistic however jaguars can. I could go on and on but I’ll spare everyone. Just thought I’d share a possible explanation. Love the channel!
In the winter of 05, my wife and I saw a Black Panther in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky . While delivering newspapers on a snowy night. So it was very easily spotted against a white background. At about 50yrds, it ran up a cleared hillside. Breathtaking site.
We've had sightings of the Eastern Mountain Lion here in Pennsylvania for decades. People said those people were crazy or mistaken. Well, we just had a VERIFIED sighting a few months ago. They are around. And definitely NOT extinct.
1966 ish, I was very young swinging on my swing in the back yard, Watertown, CT. I heard a mountain lion 'roar' and I jumped off that swing and ran about an acre of land to the house in a nano second. I knew what they sounded like from various tv shows: Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom etc. My childhood home was near the Appalachian trail way outside of town. I do know that construction on a damn in the Black Rock State Park began around the time I heard that cat Watertown is next to Thomaston Ct. The year and area are right.
A mountain lion was killed on I95 in New Haven, CT. Genetic testing said it came from Iowa. Supposedly, traveled 1000 miles to the Northeast. Catamounts have been seen by locals in NH and VT. But the fish and wild game officials refuse to acknowledge their existence. I was at a Home Depot in NH last week and overheard locals talking about sightings of these cats. If someone sees one of them, officials will tell them they didn’t see what they saw. Because hundreds of acres will have to be confiscated from homeowners, to create a preservation for them.
They release them without attention or even acknowledging them. Liars now, liars then too.
So you're saying that it's a good thing that they arent officially acknowledged.
1000miles? Amtrak or Greyhound?? Gtfoh
@@igorslocksyou’re not far off. They’re known to follow train lines since they’re basically a wildlife road. If they don’t get hit they can make it far
This is wonderful! I'm delighted to hear excerpts from the Mangiacopra archives! This is about as cool as speculative journalism gets! I love the black panther mystery, and I love forgotten news reports! Thank you so much for putting this together! --N
When I was a kid, I thought they killed puma's to make there shoes. I was furious with whoever wore them.
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I live in a wild area of western Maine. Twice I been at close as 50 feet to a real live mountain lion or lions. A friend also witnessed one of these sittings with me. Mountain Lions exist here in New England. They always have. Stories if attacks exist.
🔥Noice! New series based on your new archives. Can't wait to see what comes out of these!!
Way to go! This is a great use of this archive which you went to such lengths to preserve... Thanks for sharing it with us! (It is highly appreciated, the dedication is both impressive and beneficial to thw entire community and the world in general- knowlage should not be discarded, and I'm glad this hasn't been!)
Cheers!
Thank you very much! I'm glad you think so.
@@HammersonPetersyou do awesome work. We all appreciate you!
Awesome to see a video from you. Can't wait to watch all of it. Just wanted to say thanks.
I’ve have seen pictures of black panthers in Kentucky also, recently
New series! GET HYPE! This is about to be LIT!!!
If I had to guess, they are melanistic pumas, jaguars, or some type of hybrid, with a thin population and probably different behavior to the parent species. This would be a feline equivalent to coydogs and coywolves. Even in Pennsylvania, where the game commission is adamant that we don't have mountain lions, forest rangers and game wardens still see them. We went on lockdown at a large campground around 2001 when a state official happened to see a sizable mountain lion within sight of some tents. A more fun and exotic theory is that these cats are like sasquatch, Nessie, and other cryptids that shouldn't be that hard to find - they may be interdimensional, crossing over once in a while. This would explain the inconsistent features and elusiveness, plus the odd features that sound more raccoon or weasel-like. I wouldn't be surprised to see confirmed sightings of wolves, jaguars, and even grizzly bears out of place in the eastern US.
Lived in SE Oklahoma for awhile in Bigfoot country and the natives- Okie & Indian - both believe you see Bigfoot the black panthers are not far behind.
Aww, yeah! A new Hammerson Peters video. You seem to know just when I need something to cheer me up, my friend. Thank you so much. 😊
I am sooo glad you made your trip and are back at it!!
TOP NOTCH ! ANYTHING FROM GARY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
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Here we go!!! Thanks for all your hard work.
We cross paths with our share of mountain lions here in British Columbia regularly. Amazing animals to see in the wild. It's the mothers with cubs you want to give a wide birth.
This is really indepth and fascinating. The number of reports in such a small area as Connecticut is astounding. Really well researched and presented. I enjoy the narrator, her voice is quite pleasant. Thanks for all you do.
Really cool videos and photos to go with the story. Beautiful country.
Now THIS is the kind of content that I am on UA-cam for!
Thank you so much.👍
I saw a mountain lion walking down the breakdown lane near Foxwoods Casino in 2008.
I’ve lived In Norwich ct my hole life and from Plainfield to to Preston to Hartford there has been sightings, I’ve found 100% bear tracks and my grandfather was the first president of the New England trappers association, he said without a doubt there are cougars around, not all the time but they pass through and you might get a younger one making a home range in the area, you hardly ever find deer carcasses so it’s not surprising you wouldn’t find the only ones body after it crawled off into a hole to die and got eaten by bugs and small critters like it was never there to begin with….. also i go for walks In the woods after it snows by my house and i find the tracks of 10 to 15 coyotes all chasing the deer around , the only thing you ever see is footprints and sometimes a pool of blood were the animal finally went down, you won’t even find the deer, just blood and TONS of tracks, my friends who sleep out in the woods ( homeless) say at night you will turn on a light to go piss and you will have 15 pairs of eyes 1 to 2 ft off the ground just watching you, the deer will eat out of your hands around here because they know we are not the threat, but those coyotes ugh they freak me out, sneaky guys never see the, unless you just quietly sit down wind in a place people wouldn’t Normally be from whatever way they are coming from
@@imurgodsgod my friend's mother lived on Laurel Hill and had one black bear in her backyard. Picture of it in the Norwich bulletin. This was over 10 years ago but there out there. The mountain lion I saw was huge.
@@Everett-eh4nn it does not surprise me, I saw the bear prints in Baltic, CT I went to St.Joseph’s catholic school up there …I’ve also heard of mountain lions being seen there as well, I grew up next to Mohegan sun, on the other side of trading cove, there are also beaver and river otter right next to Mohegan sun, I’ve seen mink at the marina, found muskrat dens up by Indian leap, it’s amazing how many animals live around us and are so sneaky… sometimes I go out for a smoke and I’ll get half way through look down or to my left and there is a possum, raccoon, cat, deer or some critter looking at me, because I just happened to walk outside in the dark the second they were 10 ft from my back door and they just freeze and wait for you to notice them or go back inside
Rest in Peace my late friend Gary Mangiacopra......such a kind giving sole to all up and coming cryptozoologist
We owe a lot to him for preserving this material. And thank God for Hammerson Peters to rescue the collection.
@shelleyrollins4782 I never knew that part of story......Gary used to send me fragments if different cases in drips and drabs
I had a mountain lion growl at me here in the Oregon coast woods while picking mushrooms. The timing on this Video is a crazy coincidence
I live in East central Indiana, about 1 hour from the ohio border. I live in the river valleys of the missinewa river, white river, wabash river. In between the missinewa and wabash is nothing but farmland and forest except for some small towns here and there. My uncle and I have both had sightings of a large black cat. The cat i seen was chasing a white tail deer through some rather deep snow and it took the deer down. As it was closing the distance with the deer the deer was cutting some sharp angles and when the cat would match the turns of the deer the cats huge tail stuck straight out behind it. Like it was using that huge tail as balance
Your a legend Hammerson. Do a great job.
Yay!! You seem to have a trained focus upon all things that I find fascinating .... this has been working out really well for me, ..... in all seriousness, Thank You Mr Hammertime =]
Eagerly waiting for E2
Approximately 20 yrs ago, my husband & his friend were fishing a natural pond in a small john boat, on the NW GA/SE TN state line and spotted what they initially thought was a large black dog, slowly prowling the far bank. They very quickly realized it was actually a black panther, with a long, low-held tail. It made their hair stand on-end, and they quietly paddled back to the bank, loaded the boat and GTFO.
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Let’s gooooo. Loved the last episode and no difference in watching this one. Hope you’ve been well brother
I live in central Alabama and have seen a large black cat while hunting about 20 years ago.
Well done, sir! I enjoyed this one thoroughly! My wife saw a black panther in WV when she was a little girl about 40 years ago. They're definitely out there.
still subscribed, great stories
Thank you for the things you do, so glad to see you presenting again and what a grand service you are doing by sharing his wonderful collection with all of those lucky enough to know of you. Thank you for being you
Mountain lions make very weird noises, especially when in heat! And melinistic individuals do occur.
You spelled Melanistic wrong. It would have been better if you had just wrote Black Cats instead of "melinistic individuals". Trying to appear more Educated to everyone backfired when you spelled it wrong. Better luck next time.
Man just now getting to watch .
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I really don't think mountain lion sightings in these states are that big of a surprise, as it is confirmed they travel hundreds of miles. The real mystery is the black cat sightings throughout the country. Could there be that many black leopards or jaguars here?
I live in north central CT and every few years or so a mountain lion in spotted in the area. Ive seen large tracks in the fields as well.
Pumas are known to have melanistic pumas born occasionally. If there was a tiny population of pumas, inbreeding could have caused a black one being born.
What a great series idea! Thanks for uploading :D
Great upload, always good work to enjoy here!
Where's my smooth mountain man voice?
I'm sure this will be great, but let it be known that I come here for your narration. That's what makes it for me. Nothing wrong with this narration, but your cadence and style of delivery is very easy to listen to and is what I love most about your channel.
Same for the channels Scary Interesting, Bob Gymlan and Mr Ballen, I might add.
In any case, thank you for your all of your effort Hammerson Peters
Same here, Hammerson or no one.
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i see 2 large black cats while turkey hunting they walked past me at 20 yards i was in shock couldnt belive what i was seeing , this was in PA
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You sound diffirent. :3
Only a little bit 😂 lol
Definitely WAAAY sexier in the old episodes....😶
Hahahaha now I'm just thinking of our boy hammerson putting on a voice and I just started the video, you jerk hahahaha 😂
My then girlfriend (now wife) claims to have seen a black panther in 2006 while driving to visit me in rural Ohio. She didn't tell anyone about it for years fearing ridicule. Oddly enough, during that same summer if 2006, a friend shared that his neighbor had claimed to have seen one roughly 1/2 from my wife's sighting. She calls it the strangest event of her life...I believe her but I cannot for the life of me figure out how it didnt end up shot or on somebody's trail cam.
How fascinating
Hot damn!!where ya been 😂😂??!! I know, been working on ur project?,getting that collection moved to ur place,hope it's going good and u can preserve all ya can!!😁✌️🍻🤟
My grandmother told me stories of the black panthers. It was great
I am so clad you are still going. Got scared that you said you needed money ang got stuck. I like to lishen to your stories to fall asleep. Like horror stories documantries. This ladys voice is amazing. Keep her on.
Good to have you back dude 😁 hope you're doing well
"Small bear or large raccoon" with short stature, longer tail, short face with powerful jaws, and a dark coat with other colors in it? Fam, that's a wolverine. 😂
Would anyone be surprised if the department of fish and wildlife released animals that were once native? No, they do it without announcing it. Not back then but i know it's done today.
Up here in south eastern Ontario we once had mountain lions until he killed them all. In the last few decades they've started to reintroduce them.
Interesting video. It would be amazing if it is cougars reestablishing themselves in the area. But interestingly, I had read a Reddit post about possible accounts in the past of jaguars in the US.
Cool .but we miss your voice sir
It's not impossible that a black jaguar could have wandered all the way to Connecticut from Central America. There is a wandering Jaguar in Arizona right now
Yes, I recently read that somewhere a few months ago. I was just telling my daughter this just before I saw your comment!
My cousin used to have this old pig hunting dog ,it had a unique way of holding smaller pigs . It would jump on their backs and clamp down on the back of the neck....so that point of the argument could be dismissed basically by a large dog with a unique hunting stile
In the 3rd cluster of sightings those 2 poor Harlequin Great Danes- let Igor tell you, anything ballsy enough to take on a 150 lbGreat Dane is most definitely a panther. Great Danes are bred to go hunt wild boars. Anyone who knows anything about those boars knows how vicious they are especially as they get old. They get to where they don't want anything -anything- coming into their territory. Personally u couldn't pay me enough to go charge into the woods/bush to take on a wild boar. And this panther eagerly took on 2, 2!?!? 150 lb Danes? That's a dangerous animal for sure🐕
Caught a puma in my front yard on 12/22/22 on my camera on my deer feeder in my yard .
In southern Louisiana 20 miles north of New Orleans.
Un heard of but it was there and huge looked like a jacked kangaroo it was a big male at least 100 pounds .
Huge cat .
large cats are still sighted around New England. even when there are pictures, wildlife officials say it's not a lion.
Ready? At 35 yards, with a witness, He was a 75 lb cat, not a puma, fully muscled adult. His ears are much more like a Lynx WithOut the thuufs on top, and really does resemble a huge house cat, thus the reason why so many officials constantly insult the intelligent of witnesses, no matter how much of an Outside person they were.
Ozark Plateau Arkansas 2011
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AWESOME!!
Love it, but I miss the original narrators voice.
I was told that mountain lions can be black if they live within swamps, I remember seeing a lot of swamps when I rode through Connecticut by bike. So it's plausible that there was a small population of mountain lions.
Pumas have ranges that are several hundred miles, they can cover several states. NY state has sightings of regular color puma. When this becomes public, our forest rangers tell us they are passing through. They are not considered established until cubs are seen. Puma was native to New York state. To the point we have a range of mountains called Catskill. (kill a dutch word for creek) NY state has plenty of deer, as the population is out of control so a good food source for a passing cat. . I have seen black squirrels, albino deer and squirrels, so why not a black puma? Let's not even get started on the wolves people claim to see. Eastern coyotes are large because of their mixed heritage with close to extinct Eastern wolf. They are large but no way as large as a wolf so are probably what people are seeing.
The Americans had black panthers as mascots on the ships in WW2 when they were stationed in Australia my pop apparently saw some be released into the bush, would be not too surprised to find out some made their way back home and were released or escaped when the sailors came back. Anecdotal evidence for sure but I've heard the same story from multiple sources besides my pop in Australia about our black cats.
In the 1970s it was a thing where you could buy a tiger or lion cub at a pet store in a mall. It was a fad for awhile, a very stupid, cruel fad. Some of these cats, when they grew up were just let out to fend for themselves.
Panthers, leopards, etc.. that could be where some of these sightings originated. People can be so dumb.
Your refering to the UK.
There has been a lot of witness accounts of large black cats from New England all the way down to the Carolinas. That one is known as The Bladensburg Beast. So I think there was at one time a population of a unknown large cat on The East Coast .
New hammerson video LLLLEEEEETTTTSSSSSS GOOOOOOOOOOOO
I once won an award for naming 5 different names for a Mountain Lion in summer camp. You missed one, Hammerson, "painter."
He didn't "miss one". the object of this video wasn't to win a contest at your summer camp
One was spotted in Hollis NH in the late 1990s
When I was eleven in 1977
I believe I seen a black panther in Saint Charles Kentucky
I saw a huge black mountain lion with glowing green eyes on Cape Cod. No question about what it was. It slowly crossed in front of me not more than 15 feet away. This happened in a town right next to Mashpee home of the wampanog indians. Their chief diety is called Maushop. Its a large black panther type creature with green eyes. A place called Mashoup Farms is only about 2 miles away.
Keeper of Granbys dogs?
I am unaware of such an office anywhere in Connecticut.
😢 waiting for Hammerson's voice to return as narrator.
It seems to me that amongst all the sensationalism of the cougar sightings people were misidentifying Dogmen in all the excitement and lumping them into the whole fiasco of elusive creatures that are rarely seen. Like at around 22:30 when she's talking about how the people saw something with a bushy tail that resembled a large fox. Then goes on to describe an obnoxiously loud roar that trails off into a scream. Later on she describes the carcass of something they couldn't identify which was actually a juvenile Dogman. Newborns actually do resemble a monkey up until a certain age and throughout adolescence begin to take on their dog-like characteristics. I'm now really interested to know what became of the man who "found" it because if he was lying and actually was the one who killed it, his days would have definitely been numbered along with some of the people close to him.
Wonderful I just found my new favorite UA-cam Channel, FRESH, liked, subscribed and notified!
Lynx/house cats breed are found here and there. Like our Norman, our king of the jungle.
I finished my comment Before I heard that sombody would rather dragg the Thunder Bird into this story before they will admit to seeing a hugh Black Cat
For thousands of Seconds I have tuned in to hear Hammerson,and only him,no one else :(
Very disappointed in the change of VA on this.
I’m not going to freak out about this change of narrator. I accepted it as a real person & was ok with it thinking that it would only be for one or two episodes. The voice is fairly pleasant.
Of course I find Hammerson’s voice much more engaging. His voice is part of the whole experience.
When I read the comments and discovered that more of these episodes would be with the female voice & that it was AI I was disappointed but the stories are too wonderful to miss & the female voice is not unpleasant just wish it was genuine, not “plastic “.
i am inclined to believe that the creatures must have been huge water salamander or newts. I am from Quebec and have seen huge salamanders in small ponds, they are amphibians like frogs and can hibernate all winter. They are dark smoth skined animals and are native to canada they can grow very big in larger bodies of water
Ive seen one in Litchfield county.
Fairly good AI tech. Had me fooled as a legit speaker until i read your description lol. Still prefer your narration though but its understandable to use AI, the tech can really help. It does for me.
theres reports of panthers in victoria/new south wales in Australia for a long time
possibly from escaped private pets or a circus?
but l dont know how the reproduce if they are a random animal
there was a large black cat filmed in sydney maybe two years ago
you can hear local birds yelling at it as it slowly walked without a care in the world
One more comment from my peanut gallery of one, just for the hell of it: It's a shame that people aren't a little more sensible when they report and speculate on the existence of unusual animals. It baffles me that people could possibly attempt to conflate a clearly feline animal with a pterodactyl, of all things! No wonder there is such derision from the skeptics. Sadly, I think that such foolishness also damages the potential of serious study ever emerging and being directed toward that separate, and fascinating cryptid itself: the modern-day pterosaur! It does seem that there may be a surviving remnant of those airborne marvels as well, but good luck finding a scientist willing to investigate the subject when people are claiming them to be some type of winged puma!
Cryptozoology is plagued by unfortunate coincidences it seems! What daft luck that the person in this story who showed the most initiative in seeking the truth about the panthers had to be born with the unfortunate name of "Groper"! How can anybody take a person with such dreadful nomenclature seriously?! Might as well name somebody "Mr. Fondler", or "Mr. Sex-pest"! Such is the sad luck of the cryptozoologist.
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I met a 200lb cat in calgary and we had eye to eye contact for a few.seconds until it turned and ran I save a canada goose
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Body of a dog , mind of a cat
Cougars and black panther are regularly seen in Louisiana and Mississippi.
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This story was too enigmatic for me.
This Narrator sounds familiar. Is this the beautifully talented *Kelsey Crowe*?
Lol, UA-cam changes a man.. excellent brother, there will be jokes about the narrator, don't sweat it.
I grew up in Oregon and when we were young my friend said he saw a black panther