| A shape changing demon dog is one of the most fearsome English appparitions. Legends of threatening and protective black dogs are common in the English countryside, and have been studied by folklore students for many years.
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Moddey Dhoo of Peel Castle
"About this time a big black dog with rough curly hair was seen, sometimes in one room, next time in a different room. He did not belong to anyone there and apparently no one knew anything about him." |
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"Spectre Dogs"
"Neither Brand or Sir Walter Scott mentions spectre-dogs as a peculiar class of apparitions, yet they seem to occupy a distinct branch of English mythology" |
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Headless Dog of Manchester Sighing (2002)
"I commented to my partner that it was a large dog which he then noticed. It disappeared into the 'archway' and we both observed it's front flank and the rest of the body apart from the head" |
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New Black Dog Sightings
With its beginnings in our early history, its astounding that the sighting continue to up to modern day. The phenomenon continues.. |
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The Bargest of the Troller's Gill
“A dreadful thing from the cliff did spring; its wild bark thrilled around: And a fiendish glow flashed forth I trow, From the eyes of the Spectral Hound.” The classic Yorkshire folklore tale about a Barguest who attacks its “caller”. |
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The Grassington Barguest
“I heard something come past me...brush, brush, brush, and the sound of chain For you see when I stood still it stopped and then I thought.....this must be a Barguest.” |
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Appearance of a Barguest
“I now gazed around me, three pictures of Merlin, Nostradamus, and Michael Scott, a cauldron and a sack” This legend deals with the Barguest as a messenger of an impending death. |
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