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Chapel Hill
A Chapel Hill woman says she looked outside a window of her house last week and saw a mountain lion.
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 to a creek that flows into waters feeding Jordan Lake.
“It was big,” she said. “We were just so stunned.”
Janssen said they saw the animal, as big as her 75-pound 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.
Eastern cougars once ranged from eastern Canada to South Carolina. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service placed the subspecies on the list of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife in 1973.
