Mountain biker captures heart-pounding video of encounter with wild predator: ‘Maybe it’s just curious’

Two mountain bikers in Orange County, California, recently lived through every hiker’s worst nightmare.

According to local station ABC7, the pair was riding in Whiting Ranch in early November when a young mountain lion stepped out of the brush and started trailing them.

What’s happening?

The footage is enough to make viewers jump right out of their skin. It shows the big cat stalking the cyclists as they slowly back away, holding their bikes up like shields.

This all went down in the same area where a rider was fatally attacked back in 2004, giving the video an even heavier, more ominous weight…

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