For my entire life, I have had an affinity for folklore and ghost stories. There’s something special about the tales that make you wonder—the ones told around campfires with a flashlight barely illuminating the storyteller’s face. Bigfoot sightings, alien encounters, the wampus cat. You know the ones. The best of them, though, are the stories that seem like they just might be true. The Sightings That Started It All Most black panther sightings in Alabama start the same way.