Woman spots black cat 'the size of a lion' off A5 near Oswestry
A Shropshire woman was driving back from an open gardens event at the weekend when she says she spotted a big black cat "the size of a lion".
Ruth Johannson, who lives near Chirk, was travelling on the A5 near the turn-off to the entrance gateway to Aston Hall, in Oswestry, at 7.15pm on Sunday, when she made the shocking discovery.
She claims the cat was crouching down in the grounds of Aston Hall with something in its paws and that it was only 10 to 15 metres away from the A5.
It comes after angler Chris Abbot from Wombourne made a similar discovery last month, after he was woken up in the middle of the night by his fishing alarm going off.
Chris said a large black cat the "size of a Labrador" broke cover and dashed straight past him when he stepped outside his tent to reset his fishing rods.
Now, in the second sighting in the last month, Ruth says the beast was "unmistakably a panther" and reminded her of the folklore stories you'd hear about Shropshire –but this one was real.
