Headless Dog

Location: Preston (Lancashire) - General area
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: It is said that the town was once haunted by a headless black hound, appearing when danger threatened the town.

Black Dog Bounding

Location: Prickwillow (Cambridgeshire) - Riverbank area
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: 1930s, late 1970s, 1996
Further Comments: The sight of a large ghostly black dog running in this area, heading towards Ely, is said to have quite common.

Black Dog

Location: Princethorpe (Warwickshire) - Road known as Banbury Gap, between Princethorpe and Marton
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Midnight
Further Comments: This black shuck was said only to appear at midnight.

Rattling Hound

Location: Puncknowle (Dorset) - Road between village and Swyre, and area near the Old Rectory
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This large demonic dog is reputed to jump around, rattling a chain behind it.

King John's Hounds

Location: Purse Caundle (Dorset) - Purse Caundle Manor
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Varies: 20 June or 23 June and 31 December (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Once a year, this pack of devil dogs is let loose in the neighbourhood. Sounds of ghostly plainchant have been heard coming from the manor house.

Chained Dog

Location: Quemerford (Wiltshire) - Pound's Mill (no longer present), Marlborough Road, and fields in the area
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Pre First World War
Further Comments: One witness at Pound's Mill spotted a black dog with a chain hanging around its neck. The hound vanished through a closed door. The same creature is also thought to haunt other areas in the hamlet.

Dark Hound

Location: Radcliffe (Lancashire) - Radcliffe Tower
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A hound of hell was once said to lurk around the tower after dark. Some say it was the reincarnation of a murdered girl, who was fed to her unsuspecting family by her stepmother.

Searching Dog

Location: Ramsbury (Wiltshire) - Area between village and Axford
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Late nineteenth century
Further Comments: This phantom hound is said to be looking for its master who was killed while cutting down a tree. The hound's presence is denoted by the dragging of its chain.

Red Eyed Dog

Location: Ramsey (Isle of Man) - Area around Milntown
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: 1927 and 1931
Further Comments: The large black dog here has glowing red eyes. It has walked passed two witnesses without interfering with them, suggesting a benign entity.

Haunt of Black Dog

Location: Reach (Cambridgeshire) - The Devil's Ditch: defensive earthwork that ends close to Reach, crosses Newmarket Health, via A11 and A14
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: One of the areas that the Black Shuck is said to run along, to see this creature will either drive the witness mad within two months, or indicate their death within a year.

Incorporeal Hound

Location: Redcross (County Wicklow) - Country lane in the area
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: 1952
Further Comments: A woman walking home tried to pat a black dog which appeared and padded along beside her. Her hand passed straight through the creature, and it vanished a few moments later.

Dog under Horses' Hooves

Location: Reydon (Suffolk) - Road near Reydon Hall
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Shuck 1900s, and coach mid 1800s?
Further Comments: A couple in a trap encountered the Shuck, and it ran under their horses. The driver tried to hit the black dog with his whip, but it passed straight through the creature. The same area is also haunted by a phantom coach, being driven at breakneck speed.

Combusting Dog

Location: Risca (Gwent) - Exact location not known
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A shuck which lurked here transformed itself into a raging fire, the size of a field.

Pack of Hounds

Location: River Tamar (Devon) - River banks
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Sunday mornings (reoccurring)
Further Comments: This vicious pack of dogs belongs to a rogue priest, who will let them free to hunt.

Large Hound

Location: Rock of Dunamase (County Laois) - General area
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This area is said to be haunted by a huge black hound which protects treasure buried somewhere under the structure.

Bright White Dog

Location: Rufford (Lancashire) - A59 near Solom
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: August 1999, 22:00h
Further Comments: The witness to this entity crashed his car after swerving to avoid the partially transparent dog which ran out into the road.

Large Wolfhound

Location: Salthouse (Norfolk) - Beach between Salthouse & Cley
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Seventeenth Century onwards, last confirmed sighting early twentieth century
Further Comments: Belonging to a drowned skipper, the dog failed to save his master's life, and now runs along the beach. His glowing eyes and black coat firmly places him in the shuck category. The creature was last seen by a man cycling in the area - he reported spotting a large shaggy dog which passed through a solid gate.

Trotting Dog

Location: Sandwick (Orkney) - Road between Sandwick and Birsay
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: Only appearing at night, a strange hound would trot alongside anyone walking between the two areas.

Black Hounds

Location: Savernake Forest (Wiltshire) - General area
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The forest is reported to be home of several black dogs which bring ill fortune to any witnesses. There are also stories of a ghostly white deer which darts between the trees, a headless woman riding on horseback, and a coach and horses which leaves the forest and heads towards a nearby farm.

Protective Shuck

Location: Scunthorpe (Lincolnshire) - Road between Scunthorpe and Crosby
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: 1900s
Further Comments: This guardian dog appeared by the side of a woman, preventing a gang of labourers from attacking her. It vanished as she reached home.

Black Dog

Location: Seatown (Dorset) - Old graveyard, where the A35 intersects the road leading away from village
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A large black hound is said to haunt this churchyard, and has been seen vanishing into a large headstone.

Black Dog

Location: Sedbergh (Yorkshire) - General area
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This dog is the harbinger of death, and anyone who spots the creature will either lose their own life or that of someone close to them.

Shaggy Dog

Location: Selborne (Hampshire) - Area near brook
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This shuck comes across as quite harmless, and seems to appreciate the company of living animals.

Grey Dog

Location: Selkirk (Borders) - B7009 between town and Langholm
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This phantom dog, slightly larger than a collie and in dire need of a groom, walks silently along this road at dawn and dusk.

Suicide Shuck

Location: Selworthy (Somerset) - Road leading to Tivington
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This shuck is thought to contain the soul of a local man who committed suicide.