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I'm walking along a ridge over what looks like an old railway track. There is a rough gravel path surrounded by tall trees and thick, thorny looking bushes on either side of the path.

After a short while, I see a route down onto the track. Some crude steps have been cut into the bank leading down to it, but even with this, it's still a vertical drop down there. There are two blue ropes pinned into the earth either side of the drop, presumably put there to act as a hand hold on your way up and down.

I decide to go down and walk along the path. It's a bit scary scrabbling down the vertical drop, but I make it onto the path and carry on walking.

Suddenly something catches my eye in the bushes. A large, black form can be seen lurking in the undergrowth just up ahead of me, on the right. I stop and stare at it for a moment and it begins to move. I see the shape of a shoulder blade rise and fall in the slick, black form and my brain registers what is making that movement - a cat. A very, very large cat.

Somewhat alarmed, I turn and head back down the path to the steps cut into the side that I came down. I look back, but the black form has vanished, so I pause looking to see where it has gone.

Suddenly, about fifty metres or so down the path, two large black cats burst out of the hedgerow on the left and bounce around each other in the middle of the path. There is no doubt about it, they're big! Very big! My brain squeaks and tells me they're panthers and that leaving would be a good idea.

I begin to scramble back up the slope, to get away from these things just in case they decide to take an interest in me. My heart is racing with excitement and my brain is telling me that I've just seen an 'Alien Big Cat'.