Monmouth County police are reporting a sighting of a large Mystery Mountain Lion or some kind of Phantom Panther around Dutch Lane, along the Colts Neck-Marlboro border, New Jersey, on May 1.
Conservation officials studied a large paw print and took scat back for analysis. The State Division of Fish and Wildlife confirmed the paw print did come from a large cat, but they were not clear if the print belonged to a mountain lion.
Besides reports from local ABC News and the Ashbury Park Press, Cryptomundo tipster Drew Vics says the local NY-NJ station 1010 WINS is reporting the cryptid is black or melanistic.
#1 writes: “Nothing cryptid about it, fellas, sorry.”
We don’t make up what is and is not “cryptid.”
Officially, mountain lions (a/k/a pumas/cougars) do not exist in New Jersey.
If an animal is officially not verified by a governmental body or zoological organization as existing, then, of course, it is still cryptid.