AUSTRALIAN SIGHTINGS: Beware the black cat crossing your path!

The shocking moment a couple spotted a PANTHER lurking just metres away on their rural Australian property

Sightings of the black feline have been reported for decades

Reports of other recent spottings are flooding into the quiet town 

By CANDACE SUTTON and HEATHER MCNAB FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

PUBLISHED: 11:43, 3 October 2014 | UPDATED: 14:46, 3 October 2014

When Geoff and Ruth Gulson sat down to lunch and glanced out over their bushland property in the NSW Southern Tablelands town of Goulburn on Sunday, they thought there was a large dog tied up to a tree.

But then the animal began to move around and the couple immediately knew it was too big for a dog.

The Gulson's couldn't believe their eyes: the lithe, black animal began to move in a feline, stalking manner.

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