Wampus Cat Sighting in Knoxville

Reader Jimmy sends me this account of the infamous Wampus Cat:

I was looking around the internet for any ghost sightings in the Clinton/Oak Ridge area and came across your site. I read about the Wampus cat of East Tennessee and it reminded me about something my girlfriend told me, which I'd like to relay to you.

During the school year, she lives in Strong Hall on the UT campus. One night while we were at her place, I was talking about how I was walking back to my dorm (Greve Hall) with a friend of mine. I was beside him, but very slightly ahead. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw what appeared to be a man in ablack cloak walk up to my friend and sort of lean into him, almost like he was going to put his hand on my friend's shoulder. Only when his hand fell on my friend's shoulder, he simply disappeared. I will admit that during this time I was a bit tired from studying for an exam, and my friend says he felt nothing, but that's neither here nor there.

After telling my girlfriend this story, she told me that during the first week of school she looked out her ground-floor window toward the corner of 16th and Cumberland, and saw what appeared to be a human-sized cat walking on its hind legs, with glowing eyes. I don't remember the details she gave me, as far ashow long it was there or how long she saw it. She's asleep right now else I'd ask her for more details, but I wanted to let you know about that before I went to sleep and forgot all about it.

It should be noted that my girlfriend came down from Minnesota for school, and I have no reason to believe she would try to trick me by reading about the Wampus cat and then trying to pretend she saw it. We're very close and I have no reason to believe she would lie to me.