Have you ever wondered whether that feeling of being watched is just paranoia? Well, for one man who happened to be walking past one of his own trail cameras, it was not paranoia. A mountain lion was stalking him, and the trail cam caught the whole creepy scene on video.
Scott Haugen was out just after dark a couple of weeks ago when he walked past a trail camera, which clocked his presence there at 7:19 PM. Three minutes later, at 7:22 PM, guess who follows behind Haugen? It’s a curious cougar, and Haugen didn’t know it was there until he reviewed the trail-cam footage.
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“When you have a feeling you’re being followed . . . and you’re right,” wrote Haugen in his Instagram post sharing the footage. “Note the time code.”
In a comment reply asking about his location, Haugen suggests this happened in Washington State.
Watch a mountain lion stalking a man on a trail cam here:
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