Hellhound Stalking Cannock Chase?

[ALien]

Forget Bigfoot, panthers and UFOs...there’s something even more chilling on Cannock Chase.

It’s time for the fabled Hellhound – a portent of doom – to take a bow-wow.

Reports have been received on paranormal websites of the demonic dog roaming our area.

The hound, also known as the ‘ghost dog of Brereton,’ has been seen on numerous occasions stalking the roads leading into Brereton.

The apparition has been described as large, black, muscular, with sharp pointed ears and strangly glowing eyes. British folklore indicates that the black dog forewarns death.

The most prominent sightings happened in the 1970s, and early 1980s. Whilst driving through the Chase in 1972, Nigel Lea described seeing a ball of light crash into the ground.

He slowed down to take a closer look and was confronted by ‘the biggest bloody dog I have ever seen.’

Within a month one of Mr Leas close friends died in a terrible industrial accident, which Mr Lea believed may be connected to the dog appirition.

In the January, 1985, there was another report of the hell hound stalking Coal Pit Lane, Brereton. Mrs Sylvia Everett, of Cannock Wood Road, described a strange misty figure moving across the road as she and her husband drove on a warm and clear summer night. Although they could not explain the incident, Mrs Everett believed that it may have been connected to the to the dog-lore of Brereton.

Traditionally, demonic dogs are associated with grave yards, bridges, water, crossroads and places connected with violence and death.

Approaching Brereton on the Rugeley Road you come to an ideal crossroad, where the Rugeley Road, Colliery Road, Stile Cop road, and Startley Lane meet. The area is also associated with the former Lea Hall and Brereton Collieries – hazardous places where workers at times met with terrible accidents.

Could there be a connection between these sights and the spectral hound?

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[Terminator]

The disparate stories only have tenuous links pulling them together.

If it's described as a dog and looks like a dog.....I'm tending towards it being a dog.

[SuperJesus]

ive seen big dogs, none of which are from hell

[kidflash2008]

It could be a rabid Rottweiler they are seeing at night. Either way, I would not stick around to find out what kind of dog it is.

[kissbang]

Before passing and still of this world, living in Northern Europe, my father used to tell us countless stories pertaining to the folklore that entailed the sightings of a dog like beast. All of the sightings took place on very old stone arch bridges (dating back to the Roman conquest). If you had the miss fortune and the need to cross a bridge especially at night, there was a good chance of encountering such a beast, that very much resembled the one described above. The only differance being, the pitch black dogs where devoid of nostrills due to the lack of oxygen and the overwhelming presence of sulfur in hell where they apparently resided.

Unfortunately the stories passed with my ancestors.

[Constantine]

Sounds awesome.