Other feline creature reports map

Reports of unusual cat-like animals that are not described as big cats or phantom panthers. This is a small catch-all bucket, filed from the animal's own description in the source.

We map claims, not creatures. A case is what some source says someone saw or heard, with the link to that source. It is not proof that anything was there, and a retelling counts once, not as a second sighting.

See Other Feline on the map All 30 cases

By the numbers

30 cases on the map, 11 of them first-hand (the witness telling it). A case may stand on several documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations.

Best-documented cases

Ranked by independent sources first, then documents, then first-hand accounts. This says how well a claim is documented, not whether it is true.

1. 

   Other Feline · Parco degli Acquedotti, Lazio

   Parco degli Acquedotti, Lazio1 independent source

   The narrator reports seeing a tall, bipedal, feline-looking animal with grey fur and black spots in a dried brook in Rome.

2. 

   Other Feline · Buckhart, Illinois · 1977

   Buckhart, Illinois1 independent source

   Witness reports that a companion heard a strange vocalization while parked in timber near Buckhart in 1977, which the narrator initially speculated might be a Lynx cat.

3. 

   Other Feline · Summit County, Colorado · 2013

   Summit County, Colorado1 independent source

   Witness and brother heard a scream echoing down the canyon at dusk near Webster Pass.

4. 

   Other Feline · Washington

   Washington1 independent source

   Witness reports seeing a large, black, feline-like creature with a lemur tail that bounded away at incredible speed after looking at them.

5. 

   Other Feline · 2026

   location unknown1 independent source

   The narrator reports encountering a dark black cat with glowing eyes that stared at them menacingly and then jumped on them during a walk.

6. 

   Other Feline

   location unknown1 independent source

   Witnesses report seeing a featureless black silhouette of a cat pounce on their pet before running away.

Further reading

• On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
  The founding work of cryptozoology.
  Borrow on Internet Archive
• Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
  Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
  Borrow on Internet Archive
• Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
  Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
  Borrow on Internet Archive
• In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
  Borrow on Internet Archive

Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.