It appears these weird two-legged cats are back. I've heard about these things from one old timer who said they either descended from a cat long ago that got run over on the RR tracks down below. Strangely, another old guy who said they were the spawn of some heavy witchcraft rituals that went on down there during the late 1800s through Depression era times before the township clamped down. One thing they both said (I met them both several years ago, two separate times before there was a trail network @ Sals) that was similar is that they were pretty much nocturnal, bred in the fall, come out around now through spring, and are really really menacing.
Nocturnal makes sense -- I swear I've heard and seen them scurry across the trail on moonlit rides. They seem to shy away from headlamps. They wail an eerie, creepy tone and stalk to kill prey. They get pretty freaking big too, as I've heard they come off the mountain and eat house cats around Salibury and drag them back. They've somehow adapted to two-legged ambulation by growing larger than normal cats, and have larger teeth and a vicious killing temperment.
As these enhanced night game-cam photos show, they are definitely back, so be careful out there.
