The Black Dog of Meriden, Connecticut is a small, ghostly dog who leaves no footprints and makes no sound, even when it appears to be barking or howling. According to legend, if you see the Black Dog once it means joy, twice it means sorrow, but if you see it a third time, it means death.
According to Meriden’s local legend, the Black Dog can be seen barking, but it makes no sound. Where it trods the ground it raises no dust, in snow it makes no footprints. Ghostlike, the dog appears as if out of nowhere, and takes its leave just as mysteriously, as it roams over a large area around the hills.
In the early 1900s, a geologist by the name of Pynchon was surveying a mountain in Meridan called West Peak. He saw the black dog was following him, keeping it’s distance, but still staying in view. When Pynchon turned to go home, the dog disappeared into the trees.
The second time he saw the dog was a few years later, while hiking in the same spot with friends. One of the friends he was climbing with said he had seen the same dog twice before. As they approached the peak, the dog was already ahead of them.
Pyncheon heard a terrible scream and turned in horror to see his friend had lost his footing and had fallen hundreds of feet to his death on the rocks below.
When Pynchon got back to Meriden, locals told him about the legend of the Black Dog but he refused to believe it. The locals told him never to go back to the mountain because if he saw the dog again, it would mean his death.
A few years went by, and Pynchon decided to climb the same mountain. He left his lodgings bright and early one morning and never returned. His dead body was later found at the bottom of a ravine. People say the night he died, he must have seen the Black Dog a third time and fallen to his death.
Over the years several lives have been lost on the Meriden mountain, including an experienced Alpine climber in 1972. Although all the fatalities are listed as accidental, the old timers know they were brought about by the Black Dog of Meriden. So if you are hiking the West Peak in Meridan, Connecticut… be careful!
I will never look at dogs the same way again…
I like dogs….. Well, not anymore.
OMG!
He must have fallen!
XD lol
there is a similar Nicaragua but it is about two dogs a white one and a black one. They are called Cadejos and they say if you see the black one it will attack you and kill you but if you see the white one it will defend you against the black one and the white one will win. It is supposed to represent how god always defeats evil as long as you have god in your side.
I hope it’s only in the Meriden
wow dis is soo fake ooohhh he got killed by the mountain dog get a life
this story came from the urban legend about the Hellhound. If you see it three times you die. These friends were Satanists and they were adding a girl to their cult. In the ritual they brought her to a cemetery blindfolded and the friends saw the Hellhound and they knew the story about it so they left the girl blindfolded and told her not to take it off. they then ditched her to go to their car and they saw the hound twice more. A semi truck came and killed them all except for the blindfolded girl.
i dont think i wanna c dat dog not once or twice but especially not three times. :0(
I am never going to that moutain!
I didn’t know that a dog can haunt a mountain.Good story though.
hopefully ill just see it 1 time
This is true! I read it in another book and this happens to people all the time… it’s really creepy.
we live in a weird world.