There is truth a lot of times to cryptozoology. For instance, everyone who lives in a very rural area in the South knows that there are black panthers - and we don't give a shit what the egghead ecologists in the cities say. ...
Isn't cryptozoology more about non-existant(as defined by mainstream knowledge) animals rather than real ones?
Jaguars(jaguars can be black) do live in those parts afterall.