I write this story in hope of gaining some answers into a couple of strange occurrences that have happened to me in the last couple of weeks. I’m currently living in Australia, and although I do believe in the paranormal I have never in my 26 years experienced anything of that nature until recently.
I like to keep myself fit so I often go jogging whenever I can, unfortunately because of the heat I can only do so in the evenings when it cools down. One evening I was running my usual route which is around a block of streets which form a kind of a huge rectangular track. I always noticed that at one of these corners there is a small dirt road that veers off and leads to a dead end about 100 – 150 m up. About half way up this track is an old stone bridge that crosses over the track. It’s been mostly demolished now and what is left basically looks like a huge arch. Why they have left that one part standing I don’t know.
However this particular evening I decided to run down this dirt track and as I got closer to the bridge I started to hear a low growling noise like a dog. I couldn’t quite tell where it was coming from just it was up ahead somewhere. I stopped running and stood there trying to look for the source of the sound, but it had stopped. I started jogging again in the same direction and the growling returned. I stopped again. I still couldn’t see anything up ahead but the day light was fading fast and I decided just to turn back.
Two days later I was out jogging again. This time I had my ipod and head phones, it was late evening but still not to dark. I headed up this old track again singing along to whatever track was playing on my ipod and as I passed under the arch of the old bridge I had this strange feeling I had just entered somewhere I didn’t belong, that’s the only way I can explain this feeling. I kept going another 50 meters or so to the dead end then turned around and started heading back all the while having this very uncomfortable feeling.
As I passed back under the bridge again I saw out the corner of my eye sudden movement. I turned my head and saw a big black dog running at me. It was only a few meters away at this point. It gave me such a fright I just closed my eyes and just braced myself for impact but then nothing happened. I opened my eyes and spun around, ripped out my earphones, adrenaline pumping, but the dog wasn’t there. At this point I just took off at full place until I got back onto the street.
I haven’t ventured that way since but have been very curious about that area since, not enough to go back down there though even during the day. What are anyone’s thoughts on this?
Written by M.P.T., Copyright 2010 TrueGhostTales.com
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Well, I believe that you need to stay away from the area for a while. It might have just been an old sprite that just hasnt left or i cold be an omen, but that is less likely. I would do some research on the bridge and see what you can come up with. I’m sure there’s a reasonable explaination for all of this, so just look into it.
In Hope,
Rebeakh
Yeah, that’s a little scary. Well… Very scary. actually. I really don’t know what to tell you. If you believe it’s just a ghost and not alive, maybe go back in the day and see what happens. I don’t want you to get hurt, but since you said it disappeared I don’t think it will be able to physically attack you.
Please don’t come back and tell me that you have 30 stitches in your leg, though….
Hi, I just read your story..thanks for sharing it…I agree that you could do some research about that area and the bridge..such as ‘when’ was it buildt? Who owned the property?Did anything paranormal happen there ?Where there any deaths that happened or was that place and ground concerated for something spefic..and was the dog a real dog or a spirit dog there to guard that place…interesting ! If you get any more infro. about it please share it with us on this site.Blessed Be!!!p.s. It sound’ ‘s like you were picking up on something;since you said it feldt strange..like you did not belong there.Always pay attention to what you pick up on or a feeling you have about something.
black dogs appear quite often as a motif in the long history of european culture of hauntings – usually associated with a particular place or location – some are seen as actually quite benign, guiding or aiding frightened travellers ( dissappearing mysteriously after the crisis has passed ) while others are viewed negatively with a frightening or ‘ satanic ‘ aspect ( because they’re black ) but that is felt to be a latter interpretation since the advent of christianity ( black wasn’t a ” bad ” colour by association in pre-christian religions ) for example the Ancient Egyptians thought red was more of an an ” evil ” colour. But animals who lived in specific locations are also known haunt and been seen in the same places – if there was something intrinsically ‘ bad’ about the location – the black dog could be viewed as protective in trying to encourage you to stay away from a particular location and thereby protect you!
You were obviously oblivious to the warnings because you couldn’t hear it so it had no alternative to appear and be more ‘ in your face’ to make you go away. Alternatively, perhaps the dog frequented the area in life?
Also, if you’re new to Australia and depending where you are living as well – tasmanian devils growl like a dog ( Tasmiania only ) and while we are known for our dingos
( depending where you are ) closer to urban centres they have interbred with domestic dogs and these hybrids have a more ‘ dog like ‘ behaviour and have been known to attack people ( pure bred wild dingos are generally less confrotational than their domestic dog relatives depeninding on how the people in the area treat them – do not feed the dingos! ) – possums will growl if you unknowingly approach their nest and believe it or not ( again depending on location ) if you are near a watercourse crocodiles have a growl as well. I know it sounds funny by lyre birds can also mimic ANYTHING….. in fact they once located a lost traveller because they found a lyre bird who was calling a perfect ” help ” – which indicated to the searchers the lost guy had to be close by and still alive, as lyre birds mimic exactly what they hear locally. ( I’ve heard one who does perfect road traffic?! ) So there is also a possible generic explanation as well.
I believe the dog was the gaurdian of the Bridge.
Perhaps at one time he belonged to the Bridge Keeper.
After he departed this plane, his energy stayed to continue his work.
I don’t think you should be in fear; only awe.
well you should go to a history building or historian something . just get some info on the bridge . some animals that get killed can be ghosts just like people .
There are hundreds of pubs in England called ” The black Dog ” because this type of apparition is so common, and usually one also finds an accompanying local black dog ghost story where ever there is a ” The Black Dog ” pub.
well if you are curious go in the day time and bring someone withbut dont tell them what your plains are.But thats just me.bring a camera and take a hole bunch of pictures and go from there.or just leave it alone.the longer you wait and you think about it the more you want to go back.the story wasnt to bad thanks
Look up Black shuck. It’s popular in England. When i was a kid we had a black ghost dog that would walk through walls. It was the size of a wolf, my sister said it was a wolf. The story goes, that there was a guy that used to live in the house, who’s picture was in the attic. The basement door knob would rattle like someone was trying to break out of the basement. This was thought to be the man who had lived there before. The dog was supposedly Guarding the family and keeping the man in the basement.
Hi my name is Shane i live in NewZealand southisland.When i was a young boy about the age of 3 or 4 i used to get attacked in my sleep. i used to hear a sound of a flying insect in my room. I would pull the covers over my head a cold like felling runn through my body i felt like something went under my bed a few bumbs and i felt myself get out of bed i would screem for my mum but noyhing came out then i was attacked i felt soft like fur before i fell to the ground.Nights passed and it got worse scratching out side my bedroom the dog landing on me in my sleep i used to sleep by my older sister cos i was so afraid i rember touching my bedroom walls right beside my bed and getting bitten on my hand.my last attack is when we moved to the northisand i was asleep on the sofa with my mum when the dog ran through the front door and landed right on top of me it was the most scarry cos i was now about 7yrs of age i havent been the same since dogs bark and growl some come neir and some back right off i am now 29yrs of age and need answers can someone help me and i have a real good eye sight at night
i think if i were you i would never get dogs again.that would scare me to crap.do some back round check on the place,even though u dont live there anymore.never hurt to try.what did your family say when u told them?i dont really know what else to say,but good luck and let us know.u should of wrote it to let everyone read it.so u can get more anwsers on it.thanks
hi there i am from newzealand and i have experience some thing similar i was sitting on my door step in rotorua a country town having a ciggrette and coffee and i felt real weird i felt something was in the aly way which was right next door to my house i throught nothink of it next minuter this dog looking beast with a tail a face like a beasted dog features and red eyes like a beast and a mouth of a monster come running so fast towards me i walk backwards into my front door instead of turning my back it felt like it jumped into my chest i shut my eyes as it got closer and i felt like my heart was going to have an attack it dissapeared as in jumped into my chest i walked backwards into my door and went inside my mothers flat mate said are you ok i said no somethink tryed kill me it felt like somethink outside he laughed so did everyone else so i never told anyone.they would think i am crazyee
a mysterious balck dog..that is called a hellhound..u need to research on it youll find it very interesting but dont go back there alone dont go back at all they say if you see the hellhound 3 times bad luck or death occur
Last night I saw what I believe to be a ghost dog. It was medium size, looked like a fox, & it was black. I’m staying at a friend’s place at the moment, & between us we have 15 dogs, 7 Boxers & 8 Cavaliers, my initial reaction was that it was one of our dogs, & I nearly yelled at it to “get back inside”, but I quickly realised it was “something else”, i.e., not of the world as we know it. It seemed to come from inside the house, onto the verandah where I was having a fag, it passed within a metre of me, went down the front steps, into the front garden & just melted into thin air. It was moving really really fast, & had no bouncing motion as dogs do when they run, though it’s legs moved as if it was running. I guess it travelled 50 metres before it melted, & the whole incident lasted no longer than 3 seconds.
I didn’t feel either evil or good intent from this “dog”, I found it interesting at the time, but it has been playing on my mind today, because I’ve been wondering at the significance of this event.
what did this,dog look like was it big did it have hair?
about this bridge the dog could have been guarding something that was why it was growling at you probably something happened a very long time ago it must of been
very scary
well, same kinda thing happened to me.
me and my friends miles was in my backyard playing with my dogs and i was on one half while miles and one dog Roxy was getting a ball then i was on the other side of the yard, the other dog chipper was staring at the fence for a reason frightened then all of the sudden this massive black dog that was over half as tall as me runs through the fence and straight at me and it ran to the right of me and passed me so i turned around and it was gone i was so freaked out and so was my dog chipper. so i asked miles if he saw it but he didn’t because he was paying attention to Roxy and the really weird part about that was that is the dog made no sound at all.
so i did some research luckily for you and it means good luck sometimes (i dont think that that much in your case) or that your gonna die soon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_dog_(ghost)