Black Panter Taken in West Tennessee
What if it's True Podcast
Cameron Buckner
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
A West Tennessee man describes how the local general store served as a gathering place for farmers, where serious stories were sometimes told about mysterious dangers in the woods, including a black panther. One man, Mr. Don, shares a frightening account of seeing a large black animal attack a deer and hearing terrifying screams afterward. Later, the narrator and his friends hear the same kind of scream and see a fast-moving black creature near The Elbow, causing them to flee in fear. The next day, the boys are warned by the town’s men to stay away from the area for over a week while they “take care of” something. When they are finally allowed back, no one explains what happened, and the boys choose not to ask.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, how about a skunk ape story? |
| 0:11.9 | Here we go, here we go. |
| 0:14.0 | This man says I was driving north on Highway 259 toward Diana, Texas, when I saw a hairy creature squatting by one of the creeks, |
| 0:24.0 | five miles south of town. |
| 0:26.2 | I turned around and crossed over and I went back to investigate. |
| 0:30.5 | I exited the highway and took a ramp down to an area used by fishermen where I was surprised |
| 0:36.5 | to see an old Chevy pickup truck and a guy by the water |
| 0:39.9 | fishing for brim. I apologized for interrupting his fishing time and was about to leave when |
| 0:46.9 | behind him in the woods I saw a large hairy creature that I had seen from the road. It was covered |
| 0:52.9 | in brownish red fur, |
| 0:55.0 | and it was raising a rock over its head to throw it at the fisherman. |
| 0:59.5 | I yelled, |
| 1:00.5 | Hey, man, watch out! |
| 1:02.6 | The man grabbed his bucket of fish and ran for his truck |
| 1:06.2 | just as the rock landed in the creek with a big splash. |
| 1:10.1 | The creature had a dumbfounded look on its face |
| 1:13.5 | like an actor in Harry and the Henderson's, and then it ran off in the thicket. The fisherman |
| 1:20.2 | turned to me and he asked, what was that thing? I said, man, I don't know, but I was thinking it was a |
| 1:26.4 | skunk ape. I haven't seen this guy fishing in the creeds since then, nor, I don't know, but I was thinking it was a skunk ape. |
| 1:32.0 | I haven't seen this guy fishing in the Crete since then, nor have I seen the creature, |
| 1:35.5 | but I have smelled a pungent odor in my barn. |
| 1:39.9 | It's the same smell I noticed that night on that creek bank. |
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