Animal Ghosts

sm of a black bull, that, on certain nights in the year,

phantom cattle seen, gliding along, one behind the other, with silent, noiseless tread. Though I have never had the opportunity of experimenting with cows t

ch is believed to haunt many churches. Sometimes it is a pig, sometimes a horse, the haunting spectre bein

ath of some child; and if this apparition was seen by the grave-digger the death would take place immediately. Mr. Dyer also tells us that the Danish kirk-grim was thought to hide itself in the tower of a church in preference to any other place, and that it was thought to p

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house near Philadelphia, U.S.A., that was haunted by a variety

ich had the reputation of being haunted, although the son had not b

'such a queer thing in the cellar; it was like a goat,

or two other cases of premises being haunted by what, undoubtedly, were the phantasms

Pigs of the

aunting by a herd of pigs. The chief authority on the subject was a f

e Moat Grange, which was situated in a very lonely

t, stood near the meeting point of the four roads, which was the si

man and partly animal, seemingly proceeding from a neighbouring spinney, and on going to a long front window overlooking the cross-road

. was about to strike a light on the tinder-box, when the most diabolical white

, began to pray, whereupon the face at the window vanished, and the herd of pigs, ceasing

eputation of being haunted, the ghosts being supposed to be the earth-bound spirits of the executed criminals. Whether this was so or not must, of course, be a matter of conjecture-the herd of h

ccidentally been run over and killed. It was occasionally heard grunting, and had the unpleasant knack of

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d appear to be less earth-bound, and, in all probability, only temp

A Scottish moor long bore the reputation for being haunted by a phantom flo

of Christmas, 1880. Here is a case that may be regarded as typical of hauntings by sheep, presum

Flock of Shee

s. Crowe, in her Night Side of Nature, "a drover lo

s were passing the spot in a post-carriage. One of these was a clergyman, and none of them had ever heard of the phenomenon said to be attached to the place. They had been discussing the prospects of the minister, who was on his way to a vicarage, to which he had just been appointed, when they saw a large flock of sheep, which stretched quite across the road, and was accompanied by a shepherd and a long-haired black dog. As to meet cattle on that road was nothing uncommon, and indeed they had met several droves in the course of one day, no remark was made at the moment, till sudd

miles off, J. drew up his reins and stopped his horses, turning at the same time to the clergyman to say that he wanted to enquire the price of the sheep, as he intended going next day to the fair himself. Whilst the minister was asking him what sheep he meant, J. got down and found himself in the mi

that sheep, like horses, cats, dogs and all other kinds of animals,

e or less sensitive to superphysical influences, and possess the psychic faculty of scenting the

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