Milwaukees Beast: The Mysterious Mountain Lion Terrifying Wisconsin - Daily Beast
When retired dental technician Bill Nolen and his wife, Annie, saw the strange animal prowling just yards from their home on Milwaukee’s North Side on Monday morning, they immediately thought it was a mountain lion. Nolen told The Daily Beast that they called for their daughter, Cynthia, in an upstairs bedroom, to take a picture of it on her phone. An unidentified representative from Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) told the Nolens he agreed. “The DNR guy confirmed it was a lion,” Nolen said. After a second, separate sighting Tuesday, the grainy mystery of the Nolens’ video meant that by Wednesday, “the Milwaukee lion” had become a pop-cultural phenomenon, covered on the national news, and with the Internet buzzing in part-fear and... For its part, the Milwaukee County Zoo said all its lions are present and and accounted for, so whatever is on the prowl could be a mountain lion on the lam. Nolen said the animal he and his family saw was 2½ to 3 feet high. Local zookeepers, on seeing the video, also thought it was a young mountain lion, he said. “We called 911, and they put it on the back burner,” Nolen said. Nolen’s home is both near Lake Michigan and on the Milwaukee River. “Whatever it is, it’s way out of its habitat,” Nolen said. Source: www.thedailybeast.com
