The Blue Mountains Panther Sightings Haunting NSW No One Can Explain

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The Blue Mountains Panther Sightings Haunting NSW No One Can Explain

In the autumn of 2003, a teenager was standing on his own driveway in Kenthurst, on Sydney's northwestern fringe, when something came out of the dark and attacked him. His arm was torn open badly enough to make national headlines. He was certain it wasn't a dog.

We're pretty much tracing the story of the Blue Mountains panther, four separate NSW government inquiries launched since 1999, a university wildlife scientist's report naming a leopard as the most likely explanation for the physical evidence collected, over 560 sightings logged by police, pilots, and Rural Fire Service personnel, and the paw prints found in Kenthurst as recently as 2025. More than a century in, the state still hasn't ruled it out.

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