Mrs Bolton
was an accomplished business woman in her working life but had also admitted
she felt she could possibly have some psychic intuition. When she and her
husband moved into the property, they were told that it was haunted by a little
old woman but neither had seen nor heard her but what they both had heard was
the padding of a dog paws. They would hear the dog above them when they were
downstairs.
It was only
Mrs Bolton that had seen the ghost dog and she saw it for the first time on an
early April morning when she was making herself breakfast before going to work.
She glanced out of the window, into the garden and was surprised to see a
rather large grey dog in there. It had its nose to the ground and seemed to be
following a scent. She wondered how the dog had got in as there were very large
walls to the garden and all gates were locked. Her own dog, who would usually
bark if someone entered the garden, was still in his basket and was shivering
with all his hackles raised. As she was in a rush to catch her train, she reluctantly
left the house but with thoughts of the dog she had seen.
At
lunchtime, she visited a museum in the area she was working as she really wanted
to find out what breed the dog in her garden was. She looked at many photos of
different breeds but to no avail. She then came across an old print of the
exact likeness! The dog in the print was a now almost extinct breed; it was a
German Boarhound.
It was a few weeks later when Mrs Bolton saw the
dog again. She managed to get a better look at the dog this time and noted it
was rather like an Irish Wolfhound but a larger build and blunted nose. She got
very confused when the dog was by one of the walls, as she could see the walls
through the dog. She then ran to the window to view it more closely, but it had
just disappeared! Again, her own dog was sitting in his basket, shivering and
hackles raised. Both of the Boltons felt their own dog’s reaction added more
validity to the sightings.
