The Paranormal Database

Black Dog

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

Searcher

Location: Princetown (Devon) - Road between town and Plymouth
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: This hound was once the pet of a traveller murdered in the area, and now continues to look for its owner. One man who reached out and tried to stroke the hound was struck by lightning.

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: Twice 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.

Manchester's hell hound.

Dark Hound

Location: Radcliffe (Greater Manchester) - 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 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 reported here has glowing red eyes. It has walked past 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 result in either the witness becoming insane within two months or dying within a year.

Woman with Child

Location: Redbrook (Gwent) - Swan Pool
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Heralded by the sounds of a baby crying, a phantom woman holding a baby is said to slowly emerge from this pond. Soon after, a large black dog, which may or may not be headless, circles the pool before heading to a nearby ruined kiln.

A ghostly black dog along the roadside.

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.

Hound

Location: Redhouse Hill (County Limerick) - General area
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This location may have once been home to a ghostly hound.

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.

Burning dog.

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, to scare a local man into respecting the Sabbath.

Skriker

Location: River Hodder (Lancashire) - Bridge 'near' Chipping
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A man who encountered Skriker, the fiery-eyed black dog of doom, standing on the bridge expected his own life to shortly end; unfortunately, it was his eldest son and his wife who died within a few weeks of the incident.

Pack of Hounds

Location: River Tamar (Devon) - Riverbank
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Sunday mornings (reoccurring)
Further Comments: This vicious pack of dogs belonged to a rogue priest, who allowed the hounds to freely hunt and kill whatever they found. Another legend says the Devil did not dare cross this river into Cornwall, as he feared the Cornish would turn him into a pie. Finally, a myth states that the river was a nymph named Tamara who was turned into a spring by her father, angered by her flirting with a couple of local giants.

Lightning Dog

Location: Roborough (Devon) - Roborough Down
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: December evening, possibly nineteenth century (if not, earlier)
Further Comments: Walking home one night, a man encountered a large black dog. He tried to pat the creature, but his hand passed straight through the dog's head. The dog then yawned, and after smelling the sulphur-like breath, the witness fled, pursued by the dog. After a while, the man was thrown to the ground by a blinding flash, where he was found unconscious the next day. A legend says the phantom hound belonged to a murder victim, and now it tries to kill every man it encounters.

Rats protecting hidden treasure.

Large Hound

Location: Rock of Dunamase (County Laois) - General area
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This area is reputedly haunted by a huge black hound which protects treasure buried somewhere under the structure. Another version of the legend says a swarm of rats and not a dog protects the treasure.

The Hunt

Location: Rockingham (Northamptonshire) - Forest in the area
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A wild hunt, complete with hell hounds, was once believed to be at home in this woodland.

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.

Padfeet

Location: Saddleworth (Greater London) - Gorge, was known as Hell Mouth
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A gorge or hillside chasm was home to the neighbourhood's demonic hounds.

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 place 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.

An old woodcut of a deer standing in a wooded area.

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.