Some people used say there is no way that mountain lions or wolves are in Indiana and I was one of those people for years. Then one day out walking my Grandfathers farm with my Gramps he elbows me and nods toward the other side of the valley. I looked up and could not believe what I saw. Yes it was a mountain lion. I still thought this was just a fluke thing maybe someone had raised it and released it. At any rate even after seeing it I doubted that there were any others in the area or state. Well years later I read a statement from the DNR and I'll share the link.

http://www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/files...nformation.pdf

Now that statement was released around 2010. Now when you hear about a sighting its not that big of a deal.
They are making a comeback and it is illegal to hunt them here so they will make a comeback as the apex preditors.