There have been at least 2 confirmed wild cougar/mountain lion/panther/puma sightings in Louisiana over the last 5 years. One was seen by two LDWF biologists and the other was the one in Allen Parish. The biologists found some scat and had it analyzed and found it to be of wild origin, I have this publication somewhere, it was published in Southwestern Naturalist journal I believe. The one killed in a tree near Shreveport is mounted in the LDWF headquarters in Baton Rouge. You can see it as soon as you walk in the building. This is NOT a wild one, it was of captive origin.
There is ZERO evidence of black mountain lions in Louisiana.
As far as the sounds of a woman screaming in the woods, listen to the sound a barn owl makes and it will raise your hair on the back of your neck a little
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