Incident near a horse corral in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, 10 miles north of Hazard. witnessed in Perry County, Kentucky

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I was young about 12 or 13 and I had gone to spend a few weeks with my uncle and cousins, they lived in a secluded area. Only our family lived in this holler and the houses were fairly spread apart. Well my uncle worked night shift in a mine down the road so that left me and me cousins and aunt at home nights alone. It was a clear hot night about 11:30 PM my cousin and his mom and me were the only ones up and we were watching TV Just about 30 ft from the back door there was a corral with my cousins pony in it. We were watching TV when all of a sudden the pony went absolutely crazy so bad we all jumped up to see what was going on. Just by the way it was carrying on we thought it was a bobcat in there with it (which isn't unusual to find around there). Me and my cousin both grabbed frog gigs and thought we would just go out and it would run off, feeling real confident we went out and when we rounded the porch and could see we both just about messed our pants. It wasn't a bobcat. ...