Mountain Lion Photo by Moose
Reports of Mountain Lion sightings in North Carolina are not all that unusual but totally unproven despite the reports. ( Union County Moore County )
The latest report is from Orange County North Carolina and more specifically the town of Chapel Hill.
Linda Janssen said she was having coffee with her nephew, a 22-year-old Army private visiting for Thanksgiving, when they looked out her kitchen window Friday morning. Janssen’s property backs up to Bolin Creek.
“It was big,” she said. “We were just so stunned.”
Janssen said they saw the animal, as big as her black Lab, in profile and face-on and saw it leap over a tree trunk. They watched the big cat for about a minute and a half.
“It wasn’t a bobcat; it didn’t have that shape,” Janssen said. “It was sleek, like [a Lincoln Mercury] car commercial.”
Bobcat Photo by Moose
These days between cell phone cameras, digital cameras, as well as game cameras if a mountain lion is prowling the state I’m sure we’ll have some proof. If a cat is loose in Chapel Hill its probably more likely an exotic pet that has escaped.
Story & Photos by Dan McLaughlin AKA Moose
