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I've posted some stories in these threads before, but I just remembered this one. Not that amazing, but here goes.
>I was around 12
>Dad was a bit of a drunkard, mom gone
>Dad and his friends went out in the woods to drink and camp for a night, brought me along
>Literally 1km from our home, in the woods next to a river
>Small clearing, pine and spruce woods otherwise
>One of dad's friends had a small dog, so I played with it most of the evening
>Sun's down, getting darker
>Running around, having a jolly good time, when dog went towards the woods, barking
>I followed maybe 50-60 meters into the trees
>The dog was barking at a cat
>But the cat was all black and freaking huge
>I stood maybe 5 meters away from it, got so close because dark and dense woods
>The thing was sort of crouching down, like what cats do when they don't want to be seen
>Still it was approx half a metre at the shoulder
>Dog was right in the cat's face, barking, but it didn't seem to mind it that much, was now staring at me with big yellow eyes
>I was frozen, and the creature stood up and bolted, not straight away from the camp but like parallel to the campsite
>I could clearly see it would stand at nearly torso height to 12 y/o me
>Dog didn't go after it and I went back to dad and drunks to tell them about a panther that was probably watching us and all that happened
>They're pretty drunk and laugh it off as if I made it up
After that I went to those woods many many times and never saw a panther-looking creature again. Later I saw some videos about black panther sightings in UK and thought maybe it was a similar occurence, tho I haven't heard anyone reporting black panthers in my country ever. Estonia btw.
