Case file · Cryptid
Ozark Howler
A bear-sized black cat with horns and a terrible howl, said to haunt the Ozark backcountry of Arkansas and Missouri.
1998 CE · 36.10, -93.20 · status: hoax
The account
It is often presented as old hill-country folklore, but its spread came through the internet and cryptozoology books in the late 1990s.
The sceptical view
Researchers traced the story to a hoax circulated around 1998; no traditional source mentions it.