I think a pred who preyed on fire lookouts would be so neat.
Like I already think the concept of living in a fire tower for a couple months out of the year is terrifying, the creepypastas that revolve around that are some of my favorite to listen to, but then having a cryptid slinking up out of the woods to make a meal out of you and it adds a whole nother layer.
It'd take its time of course, the first couple of encounters you have with it are just glimpses of something large moving through the trees, or the reflective glow of eyes caught in the beam of your flashlight at night, things that you'd be able to play off as just some of the local wild life.
And you'd be right, just not in the way you expect, it is the local wildlife, but it was no Bambi or Baloo.
Eventually the beast would get bolder, you'd hear it rummaging underneath your tower at night. Maybe you'd start finding evidence of the other meals it had while it played with you- tufts of fur from deer, the occasional bloody smear on a tree, or even scraps of clothing that look suspiciously similar in color to the descriptions of attire that the campers recently gone missing in the area had worn.
Then you wake up one night with the door forced open, no one's there, but the intentions are clear. It can get in (and had), It could come and take you whenever it wanted, and there's nothing you can do about it.
