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Before anyone could move in,
house was given a major facelift. Gone was excessive number of trees that had created a haunted mansion look. Gone was nasty looking wood exterior that gave way to aluminum siding. The inside was gutted and replaced with lighter colors and modern appliances. By time new family moved in during mid 1960s, it was like an entirely different house. However, some of sorrow from previous family may have been left behind.
The new family consisted of a couple, a boy and girl under ten, and a cute Yorkshire Terrier they called nappy (short for Napoleon). These people were just opposite of previous occupants. They were friendly, took care of their property and got along well with all neighbors. I knew children and played with them when they came by my end of block, but rarely visited their house. Most of what happened next I got from my other friends and people closer to family then I was.
A couple of my friends were regularly invited to sleepovers at house. During sleepovers, Nappy would normally roam house and eventually settle into his little doggie bed in one corner of living room. However, on more then a few occasions friendly little dog exhibited some very unfriendly and odd behavior.
Nappy would bound up stairs to a finished attic with two bedrooms. This is where children slept in bedrooms separated by a small hallway. Once there, he would inexplicably start to growl at room to right where boy slept. This was also room were older brother from previous family had once slept and where he had been found dead of a drug overdose.
Their dog’s odd behavior was first noticed by children a few weeks after new family moved in. Some of my friends who had slept over in boy’s room told me that boy and his parents were really freaked out by whole thing. The girl had seen it, but since it wasn’t directed at her room, tended to ignore incidents.
It seems that Nappy got along fine with children and showed no animosity towards sleepover guests either. That meant that his nighttime growling behavior was being directed towards an unknown source. I suppose that any number of simple explanations could be used to explain whole thing away, but dog’s growling wasn’t consistent. He didn’t do it every night and as often as not slept quietly without growling when friends of boy stayed overnight.
About a year after they moved in, family moved out. This seemed strange considering investment they had made in property, but I doubt reason for their move had anything to do with their dog‘s odd behavior. There were some strange stories from my friends who spent more time at house then I did. On a few of sleepovers they said that boy’s room always seemed very cold, despite a brand new oil burner having been installed in house before family moved in.
Like so many other events involving paranormal, odd animal behavior is often categorized as explainable even if we do not know cause. Because dogs cannot talk, we do not know exactly what they are reacting to. Can dogs see dead people? I guess we’ll have to wait until we’re dead to find out answer to that question! Read more amazing stories about dogs at http://advice.azpuppies.com
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A native New Yorker now living in Arizona, Bill Knell is a forty-something guy with a wealth of knowledge and experience. He's written hundreds of articles offer advice on a wide variety of subjects. A popular Speaker, Bill Knell presents seminars on a number of topics that entertain, train and teach. A popular radio and television show Guest, you've heard Bill on thousands of top-rated shows in all formats and seen him on local, national and international television programs.
