The Weiser Field Guide to Cryptozoology by Deena West Budd

Author:Deena West Budd
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781609250836
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

One story from August 4, 1577, in Bungay, Suffolk, tells of a black dog appearing in a church one morning during a raging storm. Those who were touched by the creature died shortly thereafter. There is the image of a large black dog on the church weather vane to this day.

At another church only a few miles away, in Blythburgh, during the same violent storm, a black dog appeared, killing three people and leaving a burn mark, now called “the devil's fingerprints,” on the church door.

In 1881, there was a sighting recorded about a magician who decided to see a Barghest for himself in Troller's Gill, Appletreewick. He called the beast to him, thinking that he was protected by the magic circle he had drawn around himself. He wasn't, and the black dog killed him. In 1890, in Norfolk, a boy claimed a large black dog chased him into the North Sea, from which he had to be rescued.

Only a few decades ago, in 1972, Nigel Lea, a traveler driving across the Channock Chase in England, saw a bright light fall from the sky. From the light emerged a huge, black dog with yellow eyes. After staring at the traveler for a few seconds, he disappeared into the trees.

By the 1980s, there had been enough sightings of the beast to earn it the name “Ghost Dog of Brereton.” It was always described as large and black. Occasionally, it would just vanish into thin air.

In the year 1934, Ivan Vinnel was a young boy, living in nearby Burntwood. On their way home one evening, Ivan and a friend saw an unearthly “tall, dark man” with a black dog. They seemed to appear and disappear out of nowhere.

Years ago, in Bouley Bay, Trinity, an immense black dog with huge eyes was said to walk the cliffs, dragging a chain. At Hadleigh Castle in Essex, a black dog has been sighted several times since the 1970s.

In the folktales of the Missouri Ozarks, there is a story about an evil man who was lying in his bed, dying. Out of a cloudless sky, a bolt of lightning shot down and set the man's house on fire. Neighbors were unable to budge the man from his bed, nor were they able to move the bed itself. Just before the roof fell in, the neighbors escaped, as did a huge black dog from underneath the dying man's bed. An alternative version states that some locals killed the “witch” and his familiar, a black dog, with silver bullets and then burned them in a fire. No bones were ever found of either the man or the dog. There are sightings of a black dog in this area during traumatic events. Some hunters claimed the canine they saw was 8 feet long, headless, and that a thrown axe passed right through the creature.

The Cu Sith (“fairy dog”) in Irish folklore is a large black dog with glowing eyes. As with many other black dog appearances, the Cu Sith is considered a portent of death and carries the human soul to his or her earned afterlife.

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