by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes mystery.Others are legends that have been passed down over hundreds of years.Are you brave enough?
Here are some of the UK's spookiest canine tales – from harbingers of doom to werewolves.ShapeshiftersAround 1400, a monk at Byland Abbey in Yorkshire jotted down a series of ghost stories told by local people.
In one tale, a tailor encountered a spirit in the shape of a crow that turned into a dog. The frightened tailor prayed for protection, and the dog started talking.He had once been a man, the dog said, but had been excommunicated for a terrible crime.
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