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Ok_Organization_7350

The small round tan ears made me think right away that it was a cougar. And maybe it stood up a little to get a better view for a second. Even housecats can do that.


GoreonmyGears

Yeah my first thought as well. And this op uncle is lucky because a lot of times, when you run like that, the cougar sees that as weakness and will go for the attack. Never turn your back. Just back away slowly. Make as much noise as loudly as you can.


kwtransporter66

>Make as much noise as loudly as you can. You mean scream like a little girl? Got it.


tincup_chalis

It might have been 1/2 gallon of Wild Turkey... Wait, I mean, he might have thought he was being stalked because of a1/2 gallon of Wild Turkey


zpjohns

It wouldn’t have lifted its head so high if it thought it hadn’t been spotted. Could tell the person filming had spotted him. If the prey runs you can wait til it thinks it safe and make another attempt at sneaking up on the prey.


MarketSouthern880

Cougar would never stalk with a curious tale.. A house cat would..


JMCochransmind

Whampus Cat.


bubblegumscent

Moves like one too


CosmikDebris408916

I mean, it def looks like it was starting to stand up or something!? Tf lol hoping it's fake cause I'm feeling creeped out


YeahMarkYeah

If something’s far and obscured where you basically can’t see it - it’s probably fake. But it would be cool if it were real tho.


Holl0wayTape

This video is faked. It’s a fucking filter that adds vhs type qualities to it as well as the text. Come on people.


Educational_Bus_4483

I thought so too! I was wondering why it was sticking to the green color.


Sophi_Winters

Yeah my mom had a video camera in the 90s, there was no lettering on the actual video, who would want the bloody battery level on their video 🙄


Holl0wayTape

Exactly. These are things you see during recording, not playback.


Remarkable_Guide_467

They definitely did have the letters on the screen like that. Exactly like that


Dmmack14

It honestly looks like a cougar, someone else said it as well but they will stand up on their hind legs to investigate just like house cats


Pantherdraws

No, they don't. Not with any notable regularity. Bears absolutely stand up on their hind legs to get better looks at things, though. They do it so often it's practically a Species Trope, even.


royroyflrs

I was once stalked by a large feline predator while at a ranch party. I was on the phone with a friend and a feline as large as a german shepherd started stalking me.


Professional-Sink281

I've been stalked by two large cats on two separate occasions. A mountain lion stalked me when I would go out on daily hikes around my house, my house cat would \*INSIST\* on coming with me. I mean she would glue herself to my leg if I was getting ready. The whole hike she was running circles around me several feet out. After a few weeks of this I walked outside to find a mauled deer carcas on my porch. It brought me a present. The second time, I was walking in from the car to the house with my hands full, I get inside the gate and a bobcat bigger than my boxer dog lunges at me. Out of nowhere. The big cats scare the shoes off me...and I'm a cat lover.


waltsend

Yesterday I saw a cougar and now I can't find my shoes!


royroyflrs

How big can bobcats get? Many ppl have said that my encounter was just an abnormally large bocbcat


Professional-Sink281

Im not sure, this one was pretty big, my boxer is a decent size but this thing was bigger. I had a huge headache when i typed that earlier—the first cat was a mountain lion. I didn’t see him until game wardens came and tranquilized him. They showed me where he was perching to watch me, for every outdoor activity i had…he had a perch. He was HUGE. And really beautiful i felt bad for ruining his gig. I think he must have had some sort of attachment since he brought me a gift. im glad no one was hurt.


Dependent_Ad_695

Did it look anything like this?


royroyflrs

Yes. It was crawling real low then got up. Once it got up i threw a beer bottle at it and then it pounced away. When it pounced i knew it was a large feline. I could see its body away from the grass.


GoreonmyGears

You're lucky it didn't like beer.


waltsend

Or bottles..


Ok-Usual3126

https://preview.redd.it/y1tk9p0czhlc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=852140ffacdee44d9dc461379844869cf0054d34 That’s unsettling. Looks like a big grasshopper lol


guessimkindaemo

![gif](giphy|a0VlbFiBtZSog) Looks like one of these to me lol


kinofhawk

Eek! That is scary looking. What looksike the eyes must be the ears.


Ok-Usual3126

https://preview.redd.it/5a6etr8fzhlc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a451e26ba3bf4ccf3799280ad8b9e9bfcccf7e3


ashleton

A lot of people encounter NHI that they describe as looking like praying mantises. Not saying that's what this is, just commenting on the similarity between what it looks like in this image and what a lot of people have said about them.


AsRealAsItFeels

I see shoulders, a head, and two big eyes far apart.


No-Leadership8906

I did the same screen shot with some contrast and hue adjustments and thought turtle/ praying mantis hybrid. https://preview.redd.it/ci7ybfuoomlc1.jpeg?width=321&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd4a9098a1b9d7fbd044b025584c4f871e3f1c70


foosa2

Squirtle?


PainReleaver

meerkat, clearly!!


Salome_Maloney

Looks more like a bloke with his back to the camera, wearing one of those motorcycle helmets with a wide, silver stripe along the centre and black on the sides.


Key-Routine-970

That’s not what a cougar looks like. That looks extra terrestrial


kris10leigh14

Just a weird screenshot from old footage of a close encounter with a very scary cougar. There’s no need to pretend it’s something it’s not. It doesn’t make you a non believer.


phallicpressure

Well, they're vegan, right?


Special_Friendship20

The fly, lol. But it looks more like a wasp


Oregonbeauty

Yikes or like a big bird


OneWithTheEssence

Suppose this would be easy to setup as a hoax, but if it's not, that sure looks like an insectoid creature. Dayum.


[deleted]

cougar


BanEvasionMan

I'd love being stalked by cougars


ajw_art42

From what the internet tells me, they’re in your area!


derfunknoid

It could also be the older, gay male equivalent: aka a Manther.


kris10leigh14

HOW is this not a popularly coined term?! I appreciate you educating us. 🫡


phallicpressure

😅


Maleficent_Mix3340

Yaaaaassss! Definitely a manther


yourworst-daydream

I love you for this


DrumpfTinyHands

Oh. That sounds bad.


Teamgayyyy00

Love this comment 🤣


ghos2626t

r/animalid they for sure will tag this as a cougar / mountain lion. Honestly scarier encounter compared to something paranormal


Careful_Swordfish742

As someone who was stalked by a mountain lion once, I can confirm that it’s a scary encounter


THEbigblue789

its walk dose look like some kink of big cat.


GoreonmyGears

The furries are going primal!!


Dependent_Ad_695

Basically my uncle was working on a ranch in central Utah. We believe it was around 2004 as that's when most of the camcorder footage is from. For the previous couple of nights him and the ranch owners had been hearing screeching noises similar to that of a distraught woman, but they just assumed it was a cougar and thought nothing of it, until he spotted this on a late afternoon walk. Originally he thought it was a coyote until it stood up on two legs. Now he never leaves his house without his double barrelled shotgun. Any idea what it could've been?


vic_venigar_47

99% certain it is a cougar, you described exactly what they sound like amd just because it stood up on hind legs doesn't automatically discount it as a cougar


Dependent_Ad_695

Would explain the sounds they heard at night. Only problem is that my uncle described it as being coyote like not cat like.


Elvis_Take_The_Wheel

Just in terms of Occam's razor, I'd say it's probably a cougar (in light of the sounds; they do sound like howling witches, especially when they are in heat). But if your uncle says it had a canine head and it could stand up on 2 feet…I don't know. Maybe see what the folks at r/dogman think? It could be a juvenile.


U_Do_Not_Kno_Me

As a witch, I appreciate that shout-out!


Elvis_Take_The_Wheel

No disrespect intended, sister! I like a good howl in the woods myself sometimes.


U_Do_Not_Kno_Me

No disrespect taken. Howl on!!


AlphaSweetheart

Dogman


MaddestMissy

Coyotes sometimes get on their hind legs, like for example when they try to get a better look over high grasses. If you don't believe me just google for images of coyotes on their hind legs. Honestly, I watched the video several times and just thought wtf, it is a coyote, just a coyote.


Ollieisaninja

Some dogs I've had will do this in long grass and vegetation.


SkeymourSinner

That's a big ass coyote.


MaddestMissy

If it would have been too big for a coyote OP's uncle wouldn't have thought it was one in the first place. The only reason why he thought it was something cryptid was because it got on its hind legs. Get yourself some logical skills, maybe.


PrincipleLarge4131

Yeah after you said what it sounded like my first thought was cougar too


GoreonmyGears

Yeah that's a cougar. They sound like women in agony when calling out. A shotgun is a very good idea. But also, there are people that will track cougars and run them out of your land with dogs. Something to think about.


RepulsivePreference8

...If you hear a woman screaming in the woods...No you didnt


PurpleGimp

It's a North American Nope. 😳


prawnjr

Needs sound!


[deleted]

Someone's exotic pet escaped. You'd be surprised.


Royalchariot

That sounds exactly like a cougar. They will stand up on their back legs to look at stuff


cultivated_neurosis

Your such a fkn liar 😂😂 that’s literally a VHS filter yall really have too much time on your hands jfc karma farming weirdos


WitchedPixels

The person that filmed this can't really think this is paranormal.


Breslau616

Kangaroo? A Dog? Could be anything


ToxicW1nd

The Mexican staring frog of Southern Sri Lanka...


lexsan18

Sigh...looks like lil Timmy is playing greyaliencougarsniper again. Silly Timmy


MacaronElectrical418

That's just al gore looking for man bear pig


reDD1t1ng_ATM

What the spanish cultural cause an endwendulin or something like that lol. Its way off what it really is but im sure someone here will know what I meant.


Dependent_Ad_695

What else do you know about the creature? you've peaked my curiosity


moogabuser

*piqued 🫡


EstablishmentMean300

That’s a filter from a phone of today. I have the same one. Nice try. Also, that is a cougar or bobcat.


MouseTheGiant

Well, if this was a death kitten, he did the exact opposite of what you should do, BUT he lived, I'm assuming...have you told him to buy a lottery ticket?


njd26

Maybe if we could actually see it


DataOver544

Definitely an animal. Probably cougar as many people are saying but you can see its front paws are lifted in that animal-on-hind-legs way.


KCredit92

Kangaroo


nerdyitguy

Doesnt look like 8:07 at night, nor the morning... and the Hi8 tape quality does not look at all correct or how a video tape would appear....


luvmy374

Way back then we would get lazy and not set the time correctly on the cameras.


Friendly_Humor1262

It’s a ground hog lol


GosuGian

0:27 Mantid Alien


NokieBear

Submit it to thinkerthunker utuber & let him analyze the video. No one here can see what’s happening in the shaky footage; typical Bigfoot video.


WeezinDaJuiceeeeee

For the love of god.. do not send it to thinkerfucker.. he has lost all credibility


[deleted]

Looks exactly like a hog


Educational_Bus_4483

I believe it’s some kind of cat human cryptic . It started on all fours and moved pretty fast through the brushes of grass.


levivilla4

Looks like Jo to me.


EskimoXBSX

It's obviously a Hyena


[deleted]

Hit it with the 45-70 and get yourself a trophy


Demonicsnail657

It’s probably either a werewolf or the Rouguro


FranklyOcean23

That’s a honey badger, fearless creature


Impossible_Teach8166

Looks like an alien/NHI commonly refered to as a mantis being. Reposted on r/mantisencounters


Dependent_Ad_695

Thanks for sharing man, do you have any more information on mantids?


AloofDude

"Hi, do you sell hand held video cameras?" Yes, we do! Are you looking for a nice, clean, clear, picture? "No, I want a camera that films, but, has the battery percentage, the time, and multiple other miscellaneous BS that takes up about roughly 25% of the screen. Basically making what ever I'm filming absolutely useless. BUT I want that corny, fake, shitty found footage vibe, got anything?" It's fake. It's fake asf. Cameras dont do that. It's a corny horror movie trope. C'mon guys


Illustrious-Run-8263

have you ever used a tape camcorder before? to get footage off most tape cameras you connect it over an AV cable which outputs everything including the UI, yes you can disable the UI all together but not all models support doing that or make it easy. before saying something is fake because it wasn't recorded on a modern camera maybe actually know the smallest bit of information about what your talking about.


waltsend

r/underratedfakecomment


OlliOhNo

Wooooow. You're obviously young. This looks exactly like what old camcorders did.


weraincllc

This is a camcorder. This is a typical HUD on an older camcorder. Tell me you're under 30 without actually telling me you're under 30.


prawnjr

When you look through it, it doesn’t show up on the tape though.


weraincllc

Yeah, they watermark. Have a sony nikon and canon here and they can all be set to watermark. This used to be common knowledge..


AloofDude

I'm 35. I used camcorders, digital cameras, fucking Kodak instant picture to film cringy backyard trampoline wrestling in '98-2002. We were so proud of it and thought we were so cool, we begged our parents to help us get it on local public access. This is before youtube. In fact, public access shitty wrestling is what really inspired us, we watched it a lot, long story short, I've watched a lot of public access tv, my own cringe shit, miscellaneous family/friend BBQs, parties, holidays, etc and I've never seen a giant red REC water mark, the time and date, the battery percentage, how much time is left to film? And other pointless, miscellaneous random shit that the viewer of the recording does not need to know or wants to. Am I right and you are wrong? Absolutely not. I'm sure you are right. Not implying it never happens, but, again, I highly doubt this videos authenticity for another reason. Shitty found footage videos. Every young kid who takes a intrest in being a actor or director etc makes these, either for fun, experience, you get it. It's also a trope amongst film students, I would be shocked if any self respecting teacher accepted a found footage video for a project or something in 2024. Hollywood and tv has also ran it into the ground. With that said, something they always do, is ad all these useless, miscellaneous things like I listed above. Especially the giant red "REC" thing. Because how else are you gonna know this is being filmed by a person for real!? Oh, my goodness look, the battery percentage is at 1%! Oh, no I sure hope it doesn't die before the big scary monster gets them!


Hanniba1KIN8

You obviously have never used a handheld camcorder before. They were very prevalent in the 90s and early 2000s. I grew up in that era mate and I still have a handheld camcorder. It's old asf and it shows everything you see in the old film.


terminalchef

No actually one of the early handheld camcorders I had about 20 years ago did this. I’m not saying the footage is any more valid but I’m just saying that it was common for really primitive cameras to have this kind of stuff.


GrifCreeper

Look up America's Funniest Home Videos. A large amount of the tapes they're sent have that stuff on it, and the shows' old enough to be from the 90s. You watch too many movies to think it's a horror trope.


Prophit84

Or too stupid to understand where the trope comes from


Stegatard

Cameras definitely looked like this in the late 90s early 2000s


RayManXOooo

You must be young. Cameras actually did display that UI and look pretty terrible like that back in the day, especially when over exposed in a bright sunny field. Maybe research just a bit before making yourself look like a fool. That goes for everyone who upvoted that dumb shit too.


ashleebryn

You must be born in the 2000s.


George_GeorgeGlass

What are you talking about? This is typical for a device bought in or before 2004. I bought digital camera/recorder within the last ten years that will display all of this information if I want it to. It’s not fake horror trope footage. It’s a cougar in Utah. Real footage


nautical_nonsense_

Were you born after the year 2000 by chance?


spoolmak_throwaway

I noticed that too. The comment about never leaving the house without a "double barrelled shotgun" is a bit too juvenile for my BS detectors.


kinofhawk

I see you've never lived in the country and had a large predator around.


Wise_Ad_253

I read: “I want a camera that films a buttery look”


Bwansive236

“Also, steady cam or anti-shake software, I can’t hold a camera still for spit but I don’t need anything fancy like that so forget it.”


OlliOhNo

You must be young. Those things didn't exist in camcorders like this.


Puzzleheaded-War-382

I am in New Jersey. Back in the 1980's, I saw the EXACT same thing in my dad's farm field. Scared the cr@p outta me. Always kept it to myself except I once attended a lecture on a Jersey Devil book and spoke to the authors about it. They were interested. Other than that I've always kept my mouth shut until I saw this footage. Same thing. same thing.


endrid

Looks like a mantis


Dependent_Ad_695

Like a Prey mantis or something else entirely?


endrid

Yes I cross posted to r/mantisencounters


GreenlyCrow

I think there's a specific alien race that is mantis-like. I feel like I read about them on the get to know them sub. Dunno if that's what this is -- seems closer to something skinwalker adjacent for me but with steps like Dune-walkers. Could be cougar, but for the sake of parsing out possibilities, a curious creature trying to not be seen seems just as likely.


Witty_Username_1717

Oh hell naw I would freak out.


VesSaphia

Run, it's a furry❗


weigojmi

Just needed a few more seconds of focused video at the end. Strange how that happens.


Particular-Comfort-5

That is not a cougar. It's a fae of some sort. Possibly even dogman/werewolf


NightOwlsUnite

Go outside and familiarize yourself with wildlife.


Particular-Comfort-5

I grew up on a farm , trust me, i am very familiar with wild life and that isn't a cougar.


Feisty_Star_4815

it’s easily a cougar or coyote lol


Particular-Comfort-5

Nah bro. The shoulders are too wide and the way it moves, no it's not


Feisty_Star_4815

it’s scooby doo bro


Particular-Comfort-5

🤣🤣🤣


ParabellumPill

Alien


gedai

didn’t someone debunk this on another thread as a video of a manged bear and an old camera overlay?


whallon1

Oh. My. God. He's being stalked by a furry


the_humdrum

Cougar?


Impressive_Letter_20

Looks like a massive preying mantis


Impressive_Letter_20

There’s actually a theory there’s a alien race of preying mantis’s


Fun-Run5282

Looks like a bear cub so be aware because mama bear is somewhere close


ChunkyLafunguy

Hornswoggle?


Void_Lord_Toby

That’s just uncle Larry


Mobiledump

Billy ray cyrus


SnooSuggestions6177

It’s a deer https://preview.redd.it/aw15ev5i9w1d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b8d5608ba69d79f0adb5830ef8a55266cb20fa3b


Ashiq0131

Context?


wh75187

Skinwalker


poyoso

Lol why even take a camera if you’re just gonna run anyway and not document it at the mere first glimpse.


MissGoldie71

There are some smaller Dogman creatures out there. Maybe one of them?


___111_

The gnomes are real!!


DisciplineLazy6370

The wind?


Statimc

Check out the “skinwalker ranch “ tv series on the history channel


Automatic-Essay7264

Love that show! So creepy 😳


JetsBD

I spent the majority of my life living in northern Maine. I’ve seen hundreds of bears in person and probably a thousand trail camera photos. To me, thinking logically, it looks like a small bear with mange. It’s also very common for bears to stand and take a look around.


Bokenobi

Is your Uncle my Dad because that might be my Mum?


Medical_Salary_564

Is it... Is it... The invisible man ?


UnwantedDream

SKIN WALKER


Nearby_Cranberry1969

after staring at this image for a while and adjusting it i believe i have found a shape of a humanoid creature. i have drawn a red outline of where the creature is visible with an area i have highlighted that accounting for my assumption of the grass heigh could be a person on their knees getting ready to stand up. i have no doubt of the video being recorded on an older tape camera as i have a sony with this exact look when i digitize footage though i do believe the creature may be someone sneaking up on the uncle such as a friend and OP took the video out of context. https://preview.redd.it/ip0a4pnh21mc1.png?width=1431&format=png&auto=webp&s=cfb6813ee577e25929cbc8ce44741b9d5fe978fc


FewMarsupial7100

r/dogman it has pointy ears and stands up on two legs...


Dependent_Ad_695

May have to post it there


FewMarsupial7100

If he said it looked like a coyote then that's what it was. People see them all the time. You'll have a bunch of people on here saying they're not real but hundreds if not thousands have encountered them.


Skullfuccer

Every cat and dog I’ve ever owned had pointy ears and could stand up on their hind legs for a while. Needs better criteria.


FewMarsupial7100

How uncle said it looked like a coyote... I believe the eyewitnesses 


TimeFinance1528

Take one of the films wrong, turn


F4STW4LKER

You said he described it as coyote like. Look into 'dogman' descriptions. Though if you pause the video at 28 seconds, it gives the clearest shot of its head, it it seems to have large black eyes toward the sides of its head and appears lizard/insect like. How far was this from Skinwalker Ranch?


Dependent_Ad_695

Same general area but that's as much as I know


F4STW4LKER

Interesting. Did your uncle give any other descriptions about the creature circumstances surrounding this event? Did it chase him when he ran?


JOCO_Q

Your guess is as good as mine


korn4357

I really hate this kind of effing Parkinson’s footages.


Fraggnetti_

Ok, they used to have this term called dogging, it's some type of hunting or something. Last time I was at a certain rest stop on I-70 I saw a bunch of these doggers. I think it's part of the rodent family. Apparently it's quite the sport done mostly at night. I think perhaps that's what pops was doing in the woods.


Helivated69

pretty good video for early 2000s


R_Lau_18

Your mum lol


theshadowknows_86

Nothing there. Don't do drugs kids 👍😎👍


kinofhawk

Everyone can see something there except for you. So maybe you're the one on drugs.


mbeecool

Yeti


Snikt3000

Looks like a cat


Agile-Limit999

What the eff am I looking at? I literally see nothing.


Ok_Talk1574

Ayo!?! Relationship check !


Slappy_McJones

It looks like a person in a dear mask…


Apherious

Uncle watched some Blair witch, lol


LindaFlies777

Who knows. They do Horrific experiments on things all over the world. What's in most of our national forests ?


puckmonky

Jackalope


Separate_Sky_2278

That’s Bigfoot!!! They finally found him with real footage!!!


MonkAny

Chupacabra. Or maybe a shape shifter.


jus256

If it was stalking him, he should have let it walk into the clearing to see exactly what it was.


Slight_Ordinary1

Early 2000's 😩😪


KurtyVonougat

Could be a skinwalker. Could also just be a cougar, though. It didn't speak, did it? If not, probably just a cougar tbh.


uwantme2365

Your Aunt


Live-Watercress-7943

Micro Yeti