I think the most common paranormal story is the head scratcher. Those stories that confound logic. Here is one sent by Timothy O’Leary, who writes to us from St. Paul, Minnesota. He has titled his story, The Scratching Ghost Dog. 

I believe there could be a spirit animal in my house, or at least one that visits. I am not sure what it all means but I have had three experiences that give me pause. After you have heard these stories I would very much like to have someone debunk them. It would make me feel better.

Experience 1 – I was home alone with my son, who was almost one at the time. He was asleep upstairs and I had the baby monitor on. I heard a faint dog bark coming from the monitor. Worried it was next-door neighbor’s dog and that it would wake my son, I went up to check on him. He was asleep and the window was closed. I looked outside and didn’t see or hear a dog. I went back downstairs and a few minutes later I heard a dog bark so loud it sounded like it was directly into the monitor. I ran upstairs again to check on my son, but found nothing. This time I decided to stay to see if I could hear anything. I stood in the bathroom doorway, which is at a right angle to my son’s room. The bedroom door was propped open by a long toy snake. That toy slowly started to slide away from the door. I watched in disbelief. Suddenly the door slammed shut and my son started crying. Terrified, I burst through the door, grabbed my son, and ran downstairs. 

Later, feeling a bit better, and perhaps a little silly I decided to go to bed. I took my son with me to sleep in our room. I walked to the bottom of the stairs and my two cats were around my feet waiting to be fed. They started walking up the stairs with me a couple of steps ahead. About halfway up the stairs they stopped, hissed and bolted back downstairs. It scared me enough to stop me going up. When my wife got home I told her about it. She said that she had heard a dog earlier that morning.

Experience 2 – One night around 2am my wife heard scratching on the door. We keep it closed to stop the cats from coming in at night. At first she ignored it, but it got so persistent that she got up, switched on the hall light, opened the door, and looked down the stairs. She noticed the dining room light was on and could see a small dark shadow moving around in front of the front  door. Thinking it was one of the cats she walked downstairs expecting to see our black cat, but she wasn’t there. My wife walked room to room looking for the cats. When she got to the kitchen she found both cats asleep in their bed. Scared, she turned all the lights on and went back to bed. The scratching stopped.

Experience 3 – It was my son’s birthday party a couple of years ago and my brother was sitting in my living room. When he turned to pick up his drink, he saw a small black dog walk into my kitchen. He knows we have a black cat, but said this was bigger and it intrigued him enough to get up and have a look. He walked into the kitchen and nothing was there. He knew nothing about the previous events that had occurred.

We’ve heard scratching at the bedroom door many times only to see nothing when opening it. My son is six years old now and has said that a small black dog has sat on the end of his bed at night. It couldn’t be either cat because they aren’t allowed upstairs at night and we ensure they are downstairs before we go to bed.  So, what do you think? Is this a common thing? I should also mention that we’ve never owned a dog. I did have one growing up as a child but he was huge and not a spec of black on him. – Timothy O’Leary

Well Tim, I have no idea about that, but I can answer one of your questions. No this is not a common thing! – Ron

This Week’s Podcast:

On the podcast this week we feature a suspenseful story titled Night Train. After Germany invades Czechoslovakia, the German and the British intelligence services try to capture Czech scientist Dr. Axel Bomasch, the inventor of a new type of armor-plating. This episode first aired on Academy Theater on November, 13, 1946.

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