Black Shuck and his Kin from across the Isles
Sitting Hound
Location: Chapel-en-le-Frith (Derbyshire) - Horderns Road area
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Nineteenth century?
Further Comments: A phantom dog was once a common sight here, as it sat on the corner of the road near a railway bridge waiting for an owner which never came.
Fiery Eyed Hound
Location: Chapmanslade (Wiltshire) - A36, Black Dog Woods
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: As the name of the location suggests, this wooded area is home to a black dog whose eyes glow as red as hot coals. To see him means death within the year. One story says the hound once belonged to a man killed in a duel; the dog tore out the throat of the surviving fighter.
Great Dane
Location: Cheriton Bishop (Devon) - Cheriton Cross, A30
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This dog leapt out in front of an incoming car - the driver thought he hit the creature but could not find any evidence of an accident when he stopped.
Grave Dog
Location: Chideock (Dorset) - Road from Morcombelake, & local graveyard
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: 1900s?
Further Comments: This creature followed a couple of witnesses as they walked home from a nearby village. The creature turned away near the graveyard, and they watched it disappear next to a gravestone. A phantom priest is also said to haunt the same area.
Barrow Dog
Location: Chilham (Kent) - Pilgrim's Way, opposite the Woolpack Inn
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: January 1947
Further Comments: A witness watched this large black creature bounding towards the barrow, where it promptly disappeared.
Wild Edric
Location: Church Stretton (Shropshire) - Hills around the town
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The large hound with eyes that glow red like hot coals is said to be a manifestation of Wild Edric, local hero and protector of Britain.
Mean Old Dog
Location: Clachtoll (Highland) - Main road through village
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This phantom hound is said to harass those using the road late at night. It can easily be recognised by its pair of horns.
Big Eyed Dog
Location: Clane (County Kildare) - Clongowes Wood College
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The phantom hound with glowing eyes which walked the corridors at night was said by students to be the manifestation of a hanged murderer. The building was also once witness to a Crisis Manifestation, when the ghost of a Marshall appeared to two sisters - they identified him as their brother, who, it was later discovered, was killed in action at the time of the visitation.
Earless Dog
Location: Clashmealcon (County Kerry) - Area around Brown's Castle
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghostly, earless dog that haunted this area was supposed to emerge from the castle's moat at night before wandering off to hunt rabbits.
Black Dog
Location: Clee Hill (Shropshire) - Kremlin Inn
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The outside of this public house is said to be haunted by a ghostly black dog. The inn took the name 'Kremlin' after people reported hearing Russian voices and music emerge from the jukebox during the Cold War.
Snapping Dog
Location: Clonakilty (County Cork) - Road east of town
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Three men travelling along this road found themselves followed by a hound which stayed a reasonable distance before vanishing at a roadside cross. When one man headed away from the other two, the hound appeared again, chasing and nipping at the man. After sharing their experience with a priest, the area was blessed and the dog never returned.
Tchen Bodu
Location: Clos du Valle (Guernsey) - General area
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This black hound, known locally as tchen Bodu, is seen as a death omen for either the witness or someone close to them.
Wide-Eyed Dog
Location: Coate (Wiltshire) - Roadside
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Circa 1938
Further Comments: A large dog with saucer sized eyes would sit on the roadside. No one would see it move (it would just vanish from view), although if stones were thrown at the creature, the eyes would grow even larger. It once appeared to one man who discovered the time of the sighting matched the time that his father died. The same area is also haunted by a phantom white donkey.
Barghest
Location: Cock Mill (North Yorkshire) - General area
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A hound-like creature with eyes as large as saucers was once said to lurk in this area, which was once considered a place of gambling and other morally dubious activities.
Black Dog
Location: Cold Knap (South Glamorgan) - Beach, between cave and mini golf course
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: February 1997, 23:00 (approximately) and September 2013 around midnight
Further Comments: This witness, who would often sit on the pebbles with their two dogs, watched another dog, black in colour, move silently across the beach some fifty metres away. The witness's curiosity was raised by the fact that despite the rocks and stones underfoot, the hound moved smoothly, and their own dogs remained oblivious to the strange canine. Sixteen years later the same witness reported their second paranormal event on the beach - a nebulous black cloud which formed around their feet. After tolerating the cloud for several minutes, the witness left the area.
Dog of Justice
Location: Collingbourne Kingston (Wiltshire) - Marlborough Road
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Eighteenth century
Further Comments: This shuck appeared to two men who had just committed a murder, chasing them back to the village from where they were trying to escape. The creature vanished once they were arrested.
Headless Hound
Location: Coltishall (Norfolk) - General area
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The black shuck which walks this area is instantly recognisable as the creature is missing a head.
Screaming
Location: Colwinston (South Glamorgan) - Pwyllywrach Manor
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: August, first Monday of the month (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Cries and screams can be heard from a man torn into small pieces by hell hounds. The echoes can be heard once a year.
Small Black Dog
Location: Combs (Derbyshire) - Road between Combs and Cockyard
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Early twentieth century?
Further Comments: Smaller than the average shuck, this phantom dog was reported to silently follow people down a hill before vanishing.
Pongay
Location: Coppull (Lancashire) - Darkland Bridge and surrounding area
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Part dog and part ghost, Pongay was once often blamed for accidents and mishaps in the area.
Escort
Location: Cottingham (Northamptonshire) - Old Corby Road area
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This shuck was regarded as the traveller's friend, walking alongside anyone traversing the road on their lonesome. It would vanish into thin air if touched.
Great Shaggy Beast
Location: Coventry (West Midlands) - Whitmore Park
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: 1949
Further Comments: Standing almost six foot tall, this black dog made itself known to a couple of water workers along Watery Lane (who wisely ran away). Prior to this, the creature had appeared in the middle of the eighteenth century and was said to denote a death in the witness's family.
Portent of Doom
Location: Cratloe (County Clare) - Woodland
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: To be followed or escorted by this black hound would result in misfortune soon after the encounter.
Human-faced Dog
Location: Creag an Ordain (Highland) - B869, between Stoer and Lochinver
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Early twentieth century
Further Comments: On closer examination, this shuck has the horrible face of a person, with little devil-like horns. If it barks more than two times, disaster will follow shortly.
Phantom Dog
Location: Cricklade (Wiltshire) - Abingdon Park Lane
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: 1940s
Further Comments: A Woman's Institute member encountered a ghost dog here, terrifying her.
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