Anyone ever hear of this?

[TheMightyOscar]

i guess it can be called an "old wives tale"..sometime last year..there was a dog in an apartment above mine who was howling every night at 12 am..for 5 days..i visited my grandmother on..i guess..the third day..and mentioned it..she then went on to tell me that when a dog howls for five days, 3 people you know will die..at first i laughed and thought nothing of it..4 days later, 3 people i knew of passed away, they where freinds of my father, but they would visit sometimes..i didnt think of what my grandmother said at first..then it hit me and i had to call her..just freaked me out..

don't know why i wanted to share this..i was just watching my dog yelp in his sleep and for some reason i was reminded of that.

sounds crazy..i know

 

[Red Devil]

i never heard that one.. is it a ethnic belief ...say old italian belief ect.. wow very weird that it actually happened that way.

 

[Sarcosuchus]

Hmm, that's interesting. Out here at night, I believe at midnight or passed midnight, I can hear through my opened windows packs of street dogs howling all together from afar. They say when your dog howls at night, it has seen a ghost.

Once my brother was sleeping over at his friend's house. The neighbours were all dog owners, it started at midnight...a dog few houses away, howled. Then the dog next to that house howled, followed by another and the other...basically it appeared as if a being was coming to the way of my brother's friend's house and the dogs just howled as they saw the being one after another.

He did not have a dog, so the howlings ended there and continued passing his house by other dogs. At my cousin brother's house, the cousin, his dog and my nephew were once going for a walk at night. While on their way home, the cousin brother continued talking but the nephew stopped where there was a tree right next to them. The nephew stood there frozen, tears started flowing from his eyes...the cousin brother was shocked, called to the nephew..asked what was wrong..not only that, the dog stood frozen with eyes fixed at where the nephew was looking as well.

The cousin brother pulled the chain for the dog to move but he couldn't...then quickly the moment changed, the dog was willing to move and the cousin brother could move the nephew and assist him home quickly. That night everyone came to accompany the nephew...the nephew was just speechless...until fell asleep. The following day, the nephew spoke...while walking, the nephew said this black figure, huge, female, with long claws / fingernails...screaming and dashing towards the nephew out of nowhere, came right in his face and vanished into thin air. I believe there was more detail to the ghost..I forgot it was long ago.

 

[Crazy Taco]

thats crazy, never heard of that one.

 

[dacox]

Once my brother was sleeping over at his friend's house. The neighbours were all dog owners, it started at midnight...a dog few houses away, howled. Then the dog next to that house howled, followed by another and the other...basically it appeared as if a being was coming to the way of my brother's friend's house and the dogs just howled as they saw the being one after another.

My dogs howl when they hear other dogs howl, not when they see ghosts.

As far as the TS's post, imo, it's just a weird coincidence.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

When dogs howl it does sound really eerie, i am not suprised that dogs have sparked a lot of myths and legends, they are rather human-like animals.

I do believe in ghosts and stuff, but i also believe that the vast majority of paranormal/supernatural experiences can be explained logically and rationally.
However...
When i was a kid, we always had pet dogs in the family, having black labradors as pets became like a family tradition.
I remember two female black labradors in particular we had, one old and one young, called Muffet and Riasa. The freaky thing was, was that sometimes one of the dogs would just stare intently at a part of a room with its full attention and with its ears pricked, the dog would usually growl or yelp at this invisable threat it was so concentrated on. The dog was so concentrated in this invisable thing, that even if you waved you hand in front of the dogs eyes, its attention would not waver. Then whatever the threat/thing was, it would then quickly disapear and the dog would be completely back to normal again. It was very freaky- sometimes i think animals can see things we can't, i think maybe the dogs were seeing ghosts in the house and were trying to protect us from them?
The house i was brought up was definately haunted either way though regardless of the dog thing- another weird thing was that lots of different dogs we had would do this thing as some point or another, so i don't think it was just one crazy dog seeing stuff in its mind.
Hmm...

 

[davo]

I've never heard of that one either. Thanks for sharing, i like stuff like that.