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Maybe I'm just a naive first-time dog owner, or just maybe I'm onto something. Zoey loves to sit on the couch, look out the front window and bark at everything that moves. We consider this her "normal" behavior, although we're not exactly crazy about it.
Now the weird part.......at night (never during the day), she sometimes just stops what she's doing and runs to a side or back window and starts barking at the darkness. It's not the same bark as when she's in the front window (which is a long rapid succession of barks with jerky body movementsand wagging tail), but rather a woof-pause-woof-pause while standing perfectly still and a droopy tail. You get the idea. It's distinctly different. She even throws in a growl or 2, which she never does for any other reason. Nothing is there ! I've gone outside with flashlights numerous times and found nothing.
Ok, so ghosts is a stretch, but do any of your dogs do the same thing ? Have you figured it out yet ? It really spooks my wife so I figured I'd ask you guys for any insight. Maybe all dogs do this, but being a first time owner I wouldn't know. Thanks. |
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Ghosties and goolies, and long legged beasties and things that go bump in the night.......?
She is tuning into something, maybe a raccoon or other nocturnal creature she can't actually see? Or she is afraid of the dark? Some dogs are. Her inability to see may also make her somewhat shy about barking. When my guys get in this mood, I flip on the outside lights, let them look around and tell them they are good dogs. Afterwards they are content and settle right down.
As for ghosts, I placed a beautiful sheepdog in one home. It was working out great for 4 months, but the dog began acting strange.......he's freeze and stiffen up and start to growl. Nothing could be seen inside or outside. I jokingly said maybe the dog sees ghosts and the lady said, "My friends have hinted at that too. Maybe there is something here." It got so bad that when the lady went to wake the dog by touching he leash out at her, the last time nearly taking her thumb off. |
| reading this gave me chills, especially when I remember the house I moved from. My dogs acted weird there (and I saw our "lumberjack" ghost I named Jake). My dogs, long gone OES and Bagel would get funny sometimes about the upstairs of our house. They would be fine one minute, the next just start barking up the stairs. Do dogs see ghosts? I would have to say yes, I think they can. People only see what they want to see, I think our four legged best friends see more then we do, I just wish they could talk to tell us about it or at least what it is they want sometimes...lol. |
My dogs have always had similar behaviors. I believe they tune in to a different frequency than we do. Like SheepieBoss, I let them out to see what it is they're barking at...sometimes it's a nocturnal animal (possum, coon, etc. - we do live in a very rural area), sometimes a neighbor's cat or dog, and sometimes it's nothing I can see at all. But, generally, once they've been out to see for themselves, they quiet down and go to sleep.  |
| I see dead people |
I'm not saying that my town's employees are stupid, but....
From the town newspaper:
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"A small two-seater plane crashed into [Ron's Town's] cemetery yesterday; so far 2 survivors have been taken to an area hospital. The body count stands at 265, and is expected to rise as the digging continues." |
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Couldn't stop laughing ROn!!!!!!!!! As an RN i have often been accused of having a perverse sense of humor (Black humor a hazard of the job) , I found THAT HYSTERICAL!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
*shakes head at Ron*  |
| Maybe we ought to suspend this thread until next October 31! UUUUUUUHHHHH |
| Oooooooooo ghost stories at oes.org, book it! LOL |
Danita had a close encounter a few months ago with something in the house. She was painting in her studio and then she went downstairs to get a glass of water. When she returned and was about to cross the door back to the studio, Lennon faced her and growled real bad, got in attack position and was looking right behind Danita's shoulder. She says she felt cold shivers and when she could gather the courage to turn around, Lennon stopped growling and went about his business again....
I wasn't home to see what happened, but I lived in a haunted house all my childhood and even tough I'm a very skeptical person, I can say that if there is such thing as ghosts, I'm pretty sure dogs can see feel them. Every time "Oscar" (Mom had to name the ghost!) was about his business, our dogs were very scared and hid until he left. It's pretty scary! |
| Ok, I am going out on a limb here, but I do believe that dogs/animals are very in tune with the spirit realm. Jake lives in a home that believes in more than just the eyes and yes, Jake has shown that he and his brothers and sisters "see" before we do. Jake has also shown me other incredible "gifts" that he possesses spiritually. I listen to my pups and if they feel tense or uneasy, there is always a reason; maybe I just can't see it yet. |
Hi - I was trawling the web looking for stuff like this and found your post. My dog has just started staring round the room - looking at things that are not there. She will focus on the ceiling or on a corner and watch something, following it round the room.
Thsi behaviour really spooked me the other night and again the following evening. She also behaved similarly whilst out on her usual walk - stopping dead in her tracks, putting her tail between her legs and would not go on.
She wont go over the field now.
Anyone else heard of this. I thought I would be able to find loads of stuff on the net but stories are really scarce.
Please contact me if you have anything on this.
Thanks
David |
| Maybe that's why Sheba kept growling at the wall. Maybe I have ghosts--though I don't think a 66 year old house is old enough to have ghost--but who knows maybe the post master who lived next door ofted the school teacher who lived here after he discovered she was seeing someone else and was about to bust up their secret love affair..... |
Deo- love your sense of humor!
I really enjoy a good mystery and/or ghost story!  |
When I was growing up we had Jake our GS he would be in his own little world the suddenly jump up and run to out entertainment center and growl (the deepest nasty thing I have ever heard) and then a few minutes later our music boxes (which were on the shelf) would turn on.....wierd!  He also would do then same thing in the dining room, the was nothing to turn on but he would do the same reaction.
I am a skeptic......but, I know Jake knew more than me...at least in that area!! |
I totally think animals are more "in tune"...that's why Murphy knows when Gucci is going to have a seizure.
It just makes life more interesting...trying to figure out what they are "in tune" with! |
| After both of my parents died, we inherited their home. After some remodeling and redecorating, we moved in. My Dad died before we got Truman but my Mom knew him and Truman was quite fond of "Grandma". My Mom always used the same perfume and occasionally I would think I could smell that scent. A few months ago, I walked into the living room and Truman was standing there wagging his rump and looking up as though he was seeing something. The scent of my mother's perfume permeated the room! ?????????!!!!!!! |
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| I belive animals are more sensitive to the spiritual realm and are able to sense what we are unable to pick up on.With that being said I think it's pretty few and far between that it actualy happens. Sasha gets all weird and spooked at times, like just lastnight she was laying around growling and low barking at nothing. I love ghost stories and read everything I can get my hands on and there's always stories about family pets picking up on 'energies'.It's so cool to hear everyones stories!! |
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Yep, up and down my back.
I think animals have a sense about things like this. I think they see ghost just a human do. |
Baaaaahhhhh Humbug for me spoiling all the ghostly talk. Trust me, I used to believe in that but also know there could be another explaination. That is - dogs have hearing sense far superior to humans and may be able to hear a little mouse creeping in the atic unheard by our ears.
Check this out!
http://www.seefido.com/html/the_sense_of_hearing_of_dogs.htm
Make sure you scroll down to the bottom of the page to read the entire article.
>>Me who slept with the lights on until I was in my 20's.
Marianne and the boys |
| Bah Marianne--the ghost stories are much more dramatic |
| I am a dyed in the wool skeptic when it comes to this kind of stuff. I just can't explain the scent of my Mom's perfume in the room. I mean, maybe Truman was just looking up at the ceiling or something, but I still wonder why I would smell her perfume. I wasn't expecting anything, I just walked through the living room. Believe me, I've thought about this and can't come up with an explanation..... |
| As a person who has experienced many "spriritual" feelings throughout my lifetime, I do think that animals pick up on "ghosts" more quickly than most of us. I do not claim to be a "medium" or "psyhcic" but have had enough episodes of my own to be a believer. This does does not mean that I think all of those who advertise to be able to see "ghosts" or "tell the future" are authentic, I do believe there are those that can. |
| Actually, although I'm skeptical, I do believe that enough people have experienced something. I have no clue what it is, but I've known people, who are quite rational and honest who have recounted experiences that just couldn't seem to be explained. I've always wanted to experience something like that first hand. I supposed that accounts for my attraction to older houses and historic areas. If there is something to it it would make sense that animals would be able to sense it, after all they sense many things that we don't pick up on--like illnesses in people, and earthquakes. |
I'm from the Carl Sagan school of tought. I'm extremely exceptic, but I've seen and heard enough from reliable friends and family to believe there are things that just don't seem to have a logical explanation, so all I can say is I don't know.
I used to live on a haunted house when I was a kid, we even had a name for the ghost! We used to walk on a long hall that divided some rooms, and you suddenly felt like you bumped into someone. You had to ask Oscar to get out of the way to get trough. Sometimes the doors unlocked and sounded like someone went outside, until my mom asked Oscar to please lock the door when he left. After that, the door unlocked, opened and locked again by itself. We went trough maids like crazy, all of them wanted to leave until their first encounter We were so used to things and my mom told us that there are things that just can't be explained by current knowledge that we dealed with it just as a normal everyday thing, we were never afraid. Our dogs liked to run in the hall where we bumped into oscar a lot and followed something towards the door, but that was it. They never growled or barked at Oscar.
I've never returned to that house to see if the new owners had the same experience. I would really love to know what really was going on on that house when I was a kid!! |
| Cool story, Saul! I would've LOVED living in a haunted house when I was a kid! |
| when i was little say 9 or 10 yrs old i used to always see this dark man who used to always watch me in the middle of the night because i would feel something watching me and my dog who slept outside my bedroom would be awake and growling i used to be so scared and id tel ppl all the time but they never believed me. just a couple of weeks ago we bought our own sheepie and he doesnt bark much unless hes happy and 2 days after we got him he would sit tensed with his back to us and stare ate something out the glass doors it really freaked me out.. very spooky |
| Callie has done this several times herself... she will all of the sudden jump up and run to the back door and start growling and barking. It really freaks me out because I am always scared of stuff like that. My husband used to take her out when she would do this, but there was never anything there. So we decided that it is either an animal or something in the yard (we have a wooded area behind our house) like some people on here have suggested, or I think sometimes she just catches a reflection of herself or one of us moving in the glass and it spooks her. |
I don't think this is a ghost encounter, but there's SOMEthing odd going on. There's a house in our neighborhood that Otto absolutely will NOT walk by. We don't take this block terribly often on our daily walks, but everytime we do, he will come to a DEAD stop on the sidewalk just as we reach the edge of the property. The first time it happened, I though he was just being stubborn and tried to cajole and then (I hate to admit) force him to come along. Well, he is a very powerful animal and if he doesn't want to move, he ain't gonna do it short of having pain inflicted on him (which I won't do). So I just chalked it up to a weird quirk and walked him out into the street until we got past the house and then back onto the sidewalk. This is a perfectly normal-looking house. Quite tidy, in fact, with pretty landscaping and a nice picket fence. Two doors down is a really skeevy-looking house, all overgrown and weedy with a junky old VW van in the driveway, but Otto has no problem with that one. It's really weird. We've tried walking by at different times of day and different times of the year, but nothing seems to change the reaction. Maybe THAT's where Jimmy Hoffa is??
Quincey, on the other hand, is completely oblivious, happily galumphing by the house without a moment's hesitation! |
My dog that I have had since I was 8 years old (now 22) recently passed away last month. Ever since then my other dog has been acting really funny. She will yelp suddenly and run to me or my boyfriend and just start shaking. She has done this while sitting on one of our friends laps, while walking around the living room, one time she did it twice within a 10 minute period when we were trying to get her leash on her to go out. Every time this has a occured it has been in the living room. She also walks around the house with her head down looking sad/scared. She wont lay on the couch very much anymore and lays in her bed or kennel a lot. This is strange for her because she used to be a very happy go lucky dog. We took her to the vet and they couldn't find a thing wrong with her. I think that she might be seeing the ghost of my other dog or something else. I've told my boyfriend this but he thinks that is a silly idea. What do you think?  |
I don't know w hat I t hink about ghosts and who or what species can see them. However, I do know that dogs miss companions that go away, so it would make some sense for your dog to be sad and miss her friend, which would explain why she lays in her kennel or bed a lot. It's good you took her to be checked out by the vet.
My suggestion is that your dog probably could use some extra love and care, just as you probably could, having lost your childhood companion. Also, dogs are very good at picking up on feelings and moods of people around them--so if you are feeling sad, which would be very natural, your dog may sense that and feel a little more anxious.
None of this explains her acting scared or yelping suddenly. I know my first OES hated to go on long walks or even barely out of the yard if most of the family was away for the day. It was like he felt his job was to stay home and wait for everybody he loved to come back. Once they did, everything was right with his world again..... |
| Of course they do! |
| well my dog will go into my brothers room sisters room mom and dads room but once she enters mine the cowers? any1 got any ideas i mean she will run into my closet or into the back room but once she enters my room pof shes different? |
| My boyfriend phoned me tonight saying the dog had been acting strange today. Shesaw something in the garden (He couldnt seea anything). She was outside and started scratching at the doog to get in franticly. Once in she lay on his feet while he was in the kitchen and wouldnt move, as if she was afraid. Not normal for my dog to do that. Ive just moved into my new house and have felt uneasy before due to her actions. Strange! My boyfrend works nights so i was really greatful for his call telling me tis story -not x |
| I vote yes. Staring at a dresser for minutes at a time. Creepy...... |
Charlie can "see" Ellie, who died 6 months ago and Ellie is trying to get Charlie away from "her" foodbowl, we know that, cause always (most of the time) when Charlie tries to eat - she jumps backwards with a shock in her face and looks at us with a "who was that?" face! Then she slowly wants to go back to the foodbowl but very vary and slowly as "does it happen again Mum?"
She often sniffles in the air while walking through the house, very strange! and also the same in the garden and growls too! 
I'm sure dogs can see ghosts!!! |
The reflection of a dog and people moving in the house in a window at night is enough to baffle even the smartest of dogs. Shadows are sometimes equally as perplexing.
My OES Annabella barks incessantly at the slider at night. She is clearly barking at her own reflection.
As for staring at the wall? Surely you have mice or some other little critter that only the sharp ears of a dog can pick up on.
Boo. |
my puppy does the same thing, my father just died recently and we got him cremated, i put his ashes in my bedroom just the other day, and ever since then he has been petrified of a certain part of my room, and its not his normal bark, but him like screeching, like someone is there thats not suppose to be, im sure he will get use to my dads energy being around, but i really freaked me oout, since he has never acted like this before, my father was very loving and gentle, so i know he isnt a threat, but if anyone else has had this kind of freaky experience please let me know!, i feel like im going out of my mind!
thank you!
Alicia Murray
R.I.P David Murray
10/25/1961-11/23/07 |
| Maybe you could introduce or re-introduce your dad's urn and your puppy in another place, or temporarily put dad in another place? |
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I am sorry about the loss of your dad. He and I are the same age - and he died the day after my birthday.
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| you really have to wonder, one of my cats will stare and look around as if watching something, it gives my daughter the creeps... I remember saying don't worry it's just your uncle Dean.... next thing I k new I had to kids in my bed. |
I keep getting complaints that my Staffy is barking all day. I have seen what he does. He stands facing the corner of our yard and barks the wonderful staffy bark and crys and screams until he is exhausted. Sometimes lasting up to 4 hours a day. We had a tree in the yard and he used to tear branches out of the tree and then place them in the corner and back up as if giving the branch to someone. Very very weird. Now I need help to find if anyone else has had this problem and if they have been offered any solutions besides bringing a spirit cleanser in??
My female Staffy just sleeps through it. |
i belive in ghosts because in mexico there was a person who had a dog and when that person woked up in the morning he went and gaved a kissed to hiz dog and then hiz eyes touched the dogz burger eye so then couple of hours passed and then he started seeing ghosts and he went to the temple and confessed and the person who confesses he said im sorry but you see the ghosts and dead people because thats what dogs see
TRUE STORIES BECAUSE MY FAMILY TOLD ME |
My labrador Tyson was always very fond of my pupa. Sadly my pupa passed away in november, and ever since then our dog is getting up in the middle of night, waggin his tail, and sitting giving paws, in the middle of the living room, also he acts very happy and wagging his tail when we are watching tv. However my rotweillier cheeko who is just 7 month, never got a chance to meet my pupa, is acting oddly, and i was sitting in my room, my hifi turned itself of, and cheeko came in growling and his hair was all raised, however tyson came in happy to see whoever was there. Also cheeko was acting strange, and was acting like he was getting pulled up, and was sniffing in to the air, when me and my dad where watching tv, then he fell to the floor, and wouldnt move. Once again tyson came wagging his tail into the room, and acted as if he was getting petted.
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| A dog I had for sixteen years used to do this all the time, he would seem really spooked. Then about five years ago my sister started seeing strange things in my the house, he had obviously been seeing things for years. Poor thing, my dad used to think he was demented and used to put him out of the house. Maybe we should listen to our dogs a bit more!! |
| So I have two dogs now, one Australian Shepard and the other wacky Border Colly mix. I used to have three pets but have since passed ( two dogs that died two days apart and my kitty cat back in April of '08 ) but me and my parents buried our dogs under this little patch of flowers in our front yard. But here's the catch. Occasionally my Aussie, Ocean, (we got her about a year after my other dogs passed) well I shouldn't say occasionally but about every other day, will bark right at where the rest of my pets supposedly rest in peace. She will growl and do it for 5 minutes straight. Before I didn't think she barked at that I thought it was at moving trees because I live in a very windy climate but I plan to wait when she starts barking and put a leash on her and have her lead me to whatever specifically she was barking at and have a camera so hopefully I'll catch a ghost (saying my parents don't believe in ghosts as I am a slight skeptic but I think I might catch something to prove me different). |
We have two sheepdogs. A few nights ago, my younger gal, Emma suddenly started barking in a very panicky fashion (I'd never heard anything like it). It was sometime between 3 and 4 am. At the time, I just chalked it up to a nightmare she was having. She came upstairs, lay down next to us, and finally went back to sleep with my arm on her.
Then, this morning at 3:30, Neville started barking (he never barks at night unless he's got an upset stomach and needs to go outside) so I get up to take him out. He didn't seem as eager to go outside as he normally would have, but whatever. We walk to the end of the street, he pees, but doesn't poop like I thought he needed to. The next moment, he's stock still, staring further down the street and growling. Then he let's out a howl (which I've never heard him do) and started barking intensely at something that try as I might I could not see. Then he turned around and raced back to the house at nearly full speed like he was trying to get away from something.
If it was just a racoon or something that he was barking at, he would have no reason to be scared of it and run away. I think my street must be haunted. My wife is trying to reassure herself by saying, it's just the full-moon, but that doesn't explain anything. |
| Welcome to the community. That's an eerie story! |
| I have to say I believe our Cooper also sees ghosts. He sometimes goes to a window, the steps, even a corner where there is a door going to the basement. He goes from calm to protect mode in an instant. It is weird, I agree. You could say he's just hearing somethng, but I wish so much that he could. Cooper was born deaf. Our 2 year old son has also begun saying he's scared of "the man" I have no idea. |
My gordon setter Bailey, has always been a quasi (sp?) mellow dog. She has her moments but she's usually pretty calm. Every once in a while she will just start running around the house, upstairs and downstairs, but she will stick to the perimeter and then will stare at a random spot on our wall near one of our big picture windows. I can't say for sure but I think whatever she "chases/searches for" may have revealed itself to me.
Last night, Oct. 2, I wasn't sleeping well anyways, and at around 3am, I just woke up, I was instantly awake. So when I rolled over to check the actual time, and when I rolled over I swear i saw the form of a small boy. I've never seen anything like that before!! I screamed and flew out of bed to turn on the light, of course, nothing was there. So I turned the light back off, and here's the really weird part, my bed was freezing cold. Not even the area where I had been laying was warm. I don't know what to make of this experience. "Totally weird" is all I can say. |
I have to say all you saying "I grew up in a haunted house" need to know there is no such thing as a haunted house. Did I get your attention? Haunted is another of those words we use because we don't know what else to call it when we seem to be sharing space with other beings from other times and places, especially if we can't see them. It's a word we will keep on using because it helps us to have a common frame of reference. Haunting is an omnipresent phenomena, an illusion we find in our perception of time as linear; therefore, the word is redundant. We always share our space with someone or something else that is just as real as we are, even if they can't be seen.
All houses are "haunted."
All places are "haunted."
Many inanimate objects are "haunted."
You haunt a few places and objects yourself, and you always will.
What we term haunted, especially when dealing with specific places or inanimate objects, is no more than awareness of the collection of residual energies that remains long after the events that caused them are over as we view it in linear time.
In most circumstances these residual energies would dissipate over time when there was no fresh energy being fed to them on a regular basis. Other times the spirit being chooses to move into other realms, but some like to hang around the edges of the earth plane, and some appear stuck here, confused and unable to go anywhere else.
You may be sharing living space with elemental beings, house faeries, thoughtforms, astral beings, ancestor spirits, guardian spirits, and perhaps a classic ghost or two. In other words, you have a very full house.
As to the subject of dogs seeing ghosts, I live with my mother-in-law currently and we just recently got a new puppy. He has been calm and sweet the past few days but as soon as the sun sets and night approaches, he whines, gets anxious and many times before he has stared up at the ceiling whining and barking as if afraid of whatever was there.
Before we got this puppy, my mother-in-law and I have sensed negativity in this house, and we know it is not energy. We have seen things out of the corner of our eyes, heard loud bangs like the roof was going to cave in when we were between sleep and consciousness (common known fact you are closer to the spirit realm when you are drifting into subconsciousness and when you are subconscious). Before I moved in with my MIL, I never heard bangs before I drifted off that woke me up and brought be back each time I was drifting off (making sleep hard to manage). I've heard a lot of things while drifting off before I moved in. That includes what my friend told me was how she would describe what it sounds like when a spirit talks (like someone talking through a large plastic tube/pipe right into your ear).
I plan to exorcise the negative entity (whatever it may be) one of these days soon. I feel bad for our puppy and I want to get rid of whatever it is soon.
As for if you believe this account or not, that is up to you. The above comments before my accounted story are personal beliefs and experiences. Whether you believe it or not is entirely your call. |
| Let me just put it out there. I am sitting on the bed at 8 am in the morning and I have a dog who is growling at the closet. He only does this late at night and in the early morning. He can see things. I am sure of it. My boyfriends dog is scared to stay in this bedroom. We recently let his brother adopt him because it got to the point we had to give him prozak and anti-stress medications because he was completly on edge. Trust your little furry friend, he is trying to protect you and tell you something. They can't talk to this is their way of communicating something to you. |
