More thoughts later, but I just had to post this story about a weird creature found dead in Maine.

Look at that picture. Creepy, huh? I wish the photo was larger, but it's so rodent in appearance, but was 40-50 pounds at best guess.

This reminds me of a story I worked briefly in southern Indiana before I moved to Canada. A horse was attacked and brought down by something, and although the state's wildlife people said the gouges in the horse's rump had been made by a nearby fence, blood trailed from the middle of the pasture to near the barn.

Residents reported a large, panther-like creature, black and fast as hell. I wish I'd been able to do more on that.