Mountain Lion Sightings

Legends & Lore
Mountain Lion Sightings

Some selected stories of mountain lion sightings, collected by John Harrigan, farmer and writer in Colebrook, New Hampshire:

Some time in the early 1980’s, longtime Colebrook farmer Harold Davis was sitting on Norma Wentzell’s porch in East Colebrook, drinking iced tea after finishing haying her field across the road. He and Norma saw a large, tawny mountain lion come out of the woods and begin mousing. They watched it catch, toss and eat mice (and probably voles) for about 10 minutes before it walked across the field and into the woods.

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In the mid-1990’s, former Colebrook selectman and longtime business owner Herc Lemieux and two friends were haying a field just below Danny Beloin’s farm on Stevens Hill when a mountain lion bounded across the hayfield right in front of them, less than 100 yards away. The three stopped their work to watch it go.

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In the late 1980’s, Lancaster resident Dick McGinnis and a car-pooling co-worker were on their way to Littleton at around 8:00 in the morning, Just southwest of Whitefield on Rt. 116, where the road curves up a hill close to the Ammonoosuc River a couple of miles north of Littleton, he and his passenger saw a cougar bound into the road from the river side and into the woods on the other side. It was close enough that Dick had to slow down to avoid hitting it.

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In 1978, the town of Stark’s librarian, an elderly lady of unassailable repute, was on her way to town when an adult cougar and two cubs emerged from the bushes along Rt. 110. She nearly hit them. When she got to the library, she went straight to the reference books to confirm what she was sure she’d seen. She had not one whit of doubt that they were cougars.


Ed's Note: Our thanks to John Harrigan for sharing these with us. Do you have a story of a sighting? email us.


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