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In March 2009, Dorian Tunell and his eight-year-old son, Evan, were enjoying a pleasant bicycle ride in the woods near Tallman Mountain State Park in Rockland County, New York, when they sighted two very large black cats.

Tunell told his son to run to the road where the rock line was. Later, Evan said that he was so frightened of the two beasts that it was as if he were paralyzed.

Fortunately for the Tunells, the large black cats did not chase after them. Dorian Tunell said that the animals had bodies four or five feet long and had tails about three feet in length. Both of the cats stood about three feet tall.

Dorian Tunnel tells a frightening story of two huge black cats that chased after him and his son (art by Bill Oliver).

In Tunell’s opinion, the cats looked like jaguars, but with shiny black hair instead of spots. Later, father and son directed park rangers to the spot where they had seen the big cats. The rangers located what appeared to be large paw prints and the remains of a deer. The fact that the black panthers had just fed may have saved Dorian and Evan Tunell from being their dinner.

According to the park rangers, not long before the Tunell sighting, a woman had called to report seeing two big black cats running along the Palisades Parkway.