Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-06-22
Very Scarce, According to Physic Re-
search Records.
A Few STRIKING CASES, HOWEVER
Phantasm of Dying Dog Visits
Mistress at a Distance.
SOME OTHER BRUTE sPoOKS

| Written for The Evening Star.
| Animal ghosts are very rare. During the
present revival of the 'Do-animals have
| souls?" problem the alleged fact that the
shades of departed beasts do not return to
earth has been offered by few partisans
on the negative side of the question.
| The Society for PsychicaI Research has
succeeded in finding but two or three phan-
1 tasms in forms lower than that of man.
| This is the most striking case:
81 was at Mentone, having left at home
| with the gardener very favorite black and
| tan terrier, Judy" reports Mrs Bagot of
| The Palace, Hampton Court, England. II
was sitting at the table d'hote with my
| daughter and husband and suddenly saw
| Judy run across the room, and l suddenly
| exclaimed, Why. there is Judy"
| There was no dog in the room or hotel
| But distinctly saw her, and when / went
upstairs told my other daughter, Mrs. Wode-
| house, what l had seen. The next letter
/ from home told me that Judy had gone out
/ in the morning well and had apparently
| picked up some poison, as she was taken
i'll and died in half an hour. She was al
| most human dog, so wonderfully intelli-
gent and devoted to me-
The diary of Mrs Wodehouse, the daugh-
| ter of Mrs Bagot, whom she mentions was
resurrected by the psychic researchers. 1t
| reads:
Easter eve. Mentone. Drove with A
and picked anemones. Lovely, bright day.
| But my head ached too much to enjoy it.
Went to bed after tea and read Hettners
Renaissance" Mama saw Judy'S ghost
| at table d'hote,
March %. Wednesday. Monte Carlo.
Mama and A. came over for the day. Judy
dead, poor old dear
The only animal spooks, of which there
is any apparently definite record in psy-
chic literature are those of dogs. To those
who really believe in ''materializations of
the dead this fact may be significant 1t
| has been said that If the soul is to be
sought in any bestial body it must be
looked for. first. in the dog which, of all
animals, lives nearest to man.
SpOok of Dog in Distress.
Here is the ghost of living dog Phan-
tasms of living men in distress are COM
| mon. Last night Megatherium, a small
Indian dog, was sleeping in my daughters
room.' reports Mrs Beauchamp of Hunt
| Lodge, Twyford, England. Il awoke, hear
ing him run round my bed room. L know
his step so well. My husband awoke too.
l said, listen He said, 1t is Meg We
| lighted a candle, looked well. there was
nothing and the door was shut Then |
had a feeling that something was wrong
with the dog. 1t came into my head that
| he had died at this minute, and l looked at
my watch to see the time, and then /
| thought l must go up and see about him.
1t was so cold and 1t seemed so silly and
| while l was thinking fell asleep. 1t must
have been some little time afterward when
some one knocked at the door, and it was
my daughter in agony.
:" oh, mamma, Meg is DYING she cried
| We flew upstairs. He was lying on his
side like dead-hiS legs stretched straight
out like dead things. Then We found he
! had nearly strangled himself-got the
strap of his coat somehow from under his
stomach and round his neck. He soon re-
vived and recovered when we got it off 1
| shall always in the future go and see If I
have such distinct feeling about any one
There was no other dog in the house that
night and | could not possibly have heard
Meg from the room where he was on an
other floor and at another end of our large
rambling house.
Andrew Lang, in all of his ghost hunting
appears to have found but one animal
spook. The circumstances were these: A
lieutenant of one of the British gunboats
was visiting a friend in the country
Around smoking room fire sat several
men and a fox terrier. The heavy. sham
bling footsteps of an old dog and the jim
Cling of his collar We're heard coming nm
stairs. Here's old Peter" said the lieu
tenant ''Old Peters dead" said the host
The same sounds We're heard to enter the
room through the closed door. The invisi-
bic dog shook itself upon the hearth rug
Jingled its collar vigorously and lay down
before the fire, as had been odd Peters
custom The fox terrier bristled. grow!ed
and followed the sounds of the specter
across the carpet.
Dogs Can See Ghosts.
That dogs see ghosts may be indicated
also by this case reported to the Society for
PSychical Research: Ayecroft Hall is cele-
brated in England a haunted house. In
it abides the gaunt phantasm of a woman,
sometimes white, sometimes black. 1t dis
appears through doors and performs other
surprising feats.
The appearance of this ghost has been
followed by death in either my husbands
alS tsfsNe,
Mrs. Dauntesey, who dwells in this weird
abode. Il had a favorite fox terrier. who
used to sleep in my dressing room. She al
ways went up with me, and as a rule made
herself comfortable at once But onca or
twice she showed a perfect horror of the
room, and looked fixedly in one corner of
it. trembling violently all the time. On
these occasions L always took her away to
another room, where she settled down at
once"
A terrible dog spook is frequently seen
throughout England 1t is large, shaggy
and black. with long ears and tail. 1t is
looked upon as a bad spirit haunting scenes
of evil deeds or future calamities Its steps
sound like those of person Walking in
heavy shoes through miry, sloppy road.
1t utters an indescribable screech If fol-
lowed, it retreats, facing it's pursuer, and
either sinks into the ground suddely dis
solves itself into a mist. Weapons pass
through it, as if it were a shadow 1t fire.
Quently appears in Lancashire, Norfolk
and Cambrdgeshre. 1t is often seen in a
dreary lane in the parish of Overstrand.
Spots where it appears are often found
scorched and smelling of birthstone.
The Welsh peasants are deathly afraid of
the Gwallgi or dog of darkness" which
haunts their country roads. This terrible
specter has the form of a mastiff, and
blazing red eyes.
Dog Haunts This Castle.
Peel Castle, Isle of Man, is haunted by a
shaggy spaniel, known as the ''mauthe
doog" In olden times it's favorite haunt
was the guard room of the castle, where