Can Dogs See Ghosts? - Real Ghost Stories
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Can Dogs See Ghosts?
When I was younger and lived with my parents our dog would occasionally display some pretty odd behaviour, even for her. She would at times become strangely disturbed by things unseen to us, she would start barking and growling and take on an offensive attack style posture whilst apparently staring at something that just wasn’t visible to us. She would focus on an area like the ceiling or a corner of the room or occasionally she would stand at the bottom of the stairs barking upwards barking like crazy, or run around following something, stalking something, of which without her we would have remained oblivious.
I know from speaking to others that this sort of behaviour was not particular to our own personal dog, and is a fairly common occurrence witnessed by K9 owning individuals, so are all these dogs just having a funny five minutes, or can dogs see ghosts?
All dogs bark, most dogs will bark at anything of interest or anything that moves, but it is usually aimed at something, so when your dog starts barking and growling towards ‘nothing’ then it’s hard not to feel that chill run up your spine and those goose bumps appear. But can dogs really see ghosts? I personally have never seen a ghost, although I have spoken to many people who claim to have seen ghosts it is hard to fully believe in something you have never seen yourself. But if anything I’ve ever witnessed has come close to convincing me that ghosts exist, it is this strange behaviour displayed by dogs when they seem to see or sense something that I just can not. It has been noted by many witnesses to such behaviour including myself that when dogs seem to see these ‘ghosts’ or whatever it is they see their behaviour becomes aggressive / defensive, it does not appear to be the same kind of barking a dog might do if, for example a car drove by the window or the door bell rang, but a similar sort of behaviour to what you might expect a dog to perform if their owner were under attack.
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Do dogs see ghosts? Or are they just hearing something we can’t. After all dogs can hear far better than humans and are capable of hearing frequencies way beyond our listening abilities. Dogs are known to bark at noises they consider familiar or threatening, and just because we can’t hear them doesn’t mean that they aren’t there, and it also doesn’t mean that they’re ghosts, a dog can distinguish the sound of its owners car from cars of the same brand and model from a fair distance away.
But of course this doesn’t mean that dogs don’t see ghosts either, some people report that their dogs barking at unseen entities acts more as a warning and is often accompanied by additional unusual or paranormal phenomenon, such as things moving or shaking of their own accord or even to those who are tuned in and able to see such things the appearance of the ghosts themselves.
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Hey Amanda,
Yeah I guess that makes sense, animals in general, rather than just dogs, it's certainly an odd thing to watch when your dog starts doing this, very different to the way they react in any other situation. I guess as adults we just put up barriers against seeing ghosts, etc. I'm not sure if I'd like to see anything or not, I guess it would change your perspective on life permanently, possibly for the better, but I'm a coward when it comes to ghosts, and I'd probably never sleep again. :/
I looked up this site because my 5 year old dog has been acting funny for awhile. She seems to see something in the master bedroom. An older dog we had, now deceased, used to always be staring and growling at something unseen to people.
When our new puppy (now 6 months old) started growling at something in the room - that I can't see, I became more concerned. Now that the older dog will not come into the room to sleep at night (as she has since she was 6 weeks old) and when she is in the room, she hides under an ottoman, I am convinced something is up. She is a herding breed and pretty fearless so this is not normal behavior.
I recall the first time the new puppy saw the ghost (Whatever). He (a blk. lab) was laying at the foot of the bed. It was late and the house was quiet. I was in bed reading. Everyone else in the house was in bed. All of a sudden the puppy sat up and growled (his first growl ever) and stared at something directly in front of him, at the foot of the bed. I looked right where the dog was looking and said: "Be gone!" Just then the puppy swung his body around and faced directly beside me at the side of the bed. Whatever he had seen had moved up directly beside me. It must have moved very quickly because the dog practically swiveled to keep his site on whatever it was! I thought maybe the ghost was checking to see if I could really see it too.
We have been joking about the ghost for sometime, but today the puppy growled for about 5 minutes in the early morning. I don't know much about ghosts, but now that the dogs are afraid to go into the MBR, I am beginning to wonder if they see something that would also scare me. It seems to be stepping up its visits.
Of course - what am I going to do? Anyway, that is why I looked up this site to see if there is any record about dogs seeing ghosts.
Hi LF, firstly thank you for posting such an interesting account of this kind of activity, I believe that dogs barking at these unseen 'ghosts' is actually more common than I'd previously imagined.
Whilst there may well be a more logical scientific explanation than ghosts, having had similar experiences to that you describe, it is difficult to think of one. The behaviour dogs exhibit in these instances can be very odd, as you have seen, and it definitly gives me the chills.
Whilst this page is new, having checked the poll above, 5 out of 5 people who have taken the poll believe that dogs can see ghosts, and I think I'm Inclined to agree (it will be interesting to see if those stats change as more people visit).
It sounds like you're experiencing a really good example of this dog/ghost thing, and I hope that it isn't too frightening for you. Unfortunately in answer to your question 'What am I going to do?' I can offer very little real advice, as I like you am just interested in this phenomenon and am no ghost expert.
I did write a page recently on 'smudging' (link below) which is an old Native American ritual of using Sage to rid a home, etc. of evil spirits, but then I guess not all spirits/ghosts are evil. But should things get worse or take a sinister turn you could possibly give it a try.
Once again try not to be too scared, as it may not be ghosts (am I just trying to convince my self there), but I'd certainly appreciate it if you ever stop back this way again of any updates should anything else occur. Thanks again for your visit and for your story, Take care.
Smudging:
Its all not real, on bigggg deal someone went into there garage and turned light on and maybe was looking round garden and that made a shadowwww ooooooooooooo mmmmmmmmmmmm ggggggggggg u believe biggg wooooop!
OK well thanks for that Charlotte, I'm not entirely sure what it is that you said there or why exactly it is you're spending your time searching the web for information on 'dogs seeing ghosts' just to add 'big woooop' to the conversation, but non-believers are welcome here too, in fact that's the whole point of it, I wanted to find out what others thought about this phenomenon.
You could have taken the 'do dogs see gjosts?' poll above though and given us our first 'no' because at the moment it's 6-0 to dogs DO see ghosts. (not that this will count as actual scientific evidence proving that they do) :)
hi, was just curious to find out if dogs do see ghosts. My dog has that thought constantly going through my mind. He will be perfectly calm then out of the blue he will start barking at a wall or even the air. Just this morning he was sitting on bed with me when suddenly he jumps down and starts barking and growling at the wall. when he finaly gets back on my bed he wont come near the head board and sit with me he keeps standing there and growling at the wall behind my headboard. can dogs see ghosts?
Personally i belive it all , as i belive in ghosts and like listening to storys! but sometimes they scare me.In the year 07 as i lost my sister my dog also acted strangely, he would sit in the living room as we would be watching telly and sit and sare, and follow his head like a fly was flying around the room .. but it was all still. Every now and again we hear barks from him, and they are high pitched barks, and my do NEVER barks, and its not another dog, as my dog isnt really interested in dogs either.. Do you think my dog is seeing my sister or am i beeing sill ? Thank you x
Hey Coal and Mhairi, thanks for sharing your stories they were very very interesting, and Mhairi sorry to hear of your loss. It sounds like you're both experiencing the same kind of behavior from your dogs as I did with mine, it's pretty odd right?
But in answer to your questions 'does my dog see ghosts?' I just don't know, sorry. I'm swayed towards yes, or at least towards the fact that they see something we don't (be it ghosts or something else).
Have either of you ever tried taking any pictures of where the dog is looking, strange things do turn up in pictures some times, and the fact that your dogs are focused on a particular area gives you a pretty good idea of where to aim your camera, I guess the chances are slim on this idea but you never know.
Hmmm, I don't really have any more advice on this, as I'm no paranormal expert, just an interested witness to it like yourselves, if I do find out any more about this I'll let you all know, and I'm sure in time others will come along and share their experiences and advice.
Thanks again for visiting and take good care. :)
Thank you Very much that was help full :) i will try et a 'snap shot' of what he's looking at next time . Thanks again :) x x
@Mhairi - My Pleasure, let me know if you get any interesting pics, take care. =)
Oh my goodness, took the most scariest picture roday, my dog sat staring at something, with nothing there but big dots of light have appeard on the screen ? what could they be ? orbs? but the scary thin is it wasnt there, well it was ojnly there on camera??? x x
Hey Mhairi, WOW! are you sure you're not pulling my leg, lol, if not that sounds excellent, it certainly does sound like orbs. Scary stuff, but very interesting too, I didn't really expect it to work, but I guess it does make sense, after all that's where the dogs are looking. Maybe you could upload your photo to something like 'photobucket' and post a link to it so that I/we can have a peek.
Good work Mhairi, you may be on your way to solving the question 'can dogs see ghosts?' once and for all, take good care, x.
I think this is very true that dogs or animals CAN see ghosts or the supernatural.
i was think if eneny one could help me my dads dog allways sleeps with him down the bottom of his bed and last night she sleped with me and evevytime she weant to go into the room she would runn away and shack she has neaver sleeped with me b4 am i over racting ???
Yes, dogs see "something", cats too. And little kids. My kids had friends over, teh next day, the oldest girl sadi to her mom..."I was playing with these strange balls of light at thier house. They came to me early in the morning." oh yeah, also, did I already tell you about my husband seeing his gaurdian angel? I think I did, so I wont reapeat it all now just in case..But its a good story, and shows that not everything is scary. Theres good stuff too, but dogs will bark cuz they dont know who it is.
Hey DM, yeah I remember you telling me the story of the guardian angel, although even that sounds a little scary, even if angels are technically good. I'm in agreement about dogs (cats, etc. and little kids) seeing something, but what it is I'm not sure, strange balls of light? was that at your house? Sounds like you've had a lot of creepy experiences, I'm not sure if I envy you or not. :D
Yes, my house. dont envy me. its scary....well, I guess its kinda cool. I dont think the stuff in my house can hurt me...since I was littel wierd stuff happens to me. Yesterday, I lost my keys. I never loose my keys. I finally found them in my bed. Under the blankets?
Ok speaking as a paranormal investigator I have been told by psychics and read several times that the reason that people cananot see ghosts is because we are blocking it from our mind. A good friend of mine who is a medium tells me there are ways to open up the senses to better see or communicate with spirits and believe me it does work, I saw my dead grandfather not too long ago. This block comes when we are about 6 or 7 years old so yes, babies and toddlers can see ghosts too. If you are around young children try and watch their behaviors, I have seen my 2 year old neice often waving to the same spot of the kitchen often and offering her cookie to who I believe is a dead relative coming to visit. As far as animals, they are also without this block. I have heard stories of all kinds of animals acting strangely when in the presence of an entity. Some growl or bark like you have stated, some will be facinated with a room or an object, some look as if being petted and some will even do tricks for no one. Dogs have become very helpful in the paranormal world and many ghost hunters will bring them along on investigations for this ability and their ability to sence emf changes which is a whole other subject. Hope this helps.
my dog has been acting very oddly lately. She has always been the silent type. she never barked or growled at strangers or other animals. for years I was convinced she was a mute. she has always been a very friendly and social dog. lately she has become very reserved and sits in her basket and cries, she seems really depressed. however lately she has taken to growling at nothing. I woke up last night to the sound of her barking (which she never does)and again tonight as I was in the kitchen she ran into the other room and started growling for no obvious reason. At night I keep here locked into a big pen in the garden. When I put here in there tonight she started to cry.
Now I'm not saying that she is or isn't seeing a spirit, not yet anyway. but random growling and barking at nothing seems to be more common than I realised. So maybe she can see things I can't
I have two Golden Retrievers, now 12. The male is very close at all times to me. I, my children have had many experiences with many paranormal happenings throughout our life. I even moved to a new home over 6 years ago, but many paranormal events have happened. The first time I really ralized it was I was going in for a sleep study and wanted to see if I did snore. Well this voice activated tape I heard showed me indeed I did, but many other voices and noises were on it. My Male Golden knows when there is something he sees not right. It usually is him staring down the stairs or the hallway, and he growls very lowly. He never uses this growl or does not growl. I am a very strong believer that yes at least he does see. If experiences keep on happening, I will indeed need help resolving these interferences in my home. It seems to draw energy from me and will wake me up by directly talking in my ear. One voice on the tape did sound in the background, yelling get out, but it seemed it was trying to order not me or the family out this male was ordering the unknown out. The voice was indeed familiar someone that has passed in the year 2000. In our case I do feel that it is certain individuals that are sensitives and they follow. So I know some dogs do see ghosts. When late at night I hear that growl and him staring I then am stern and tell this is my home do not bother any of us in her leave. He then will calm down again, my dog and go to his bed and sleep. Have I seen them at times. But I have evidence on tape which indeed was not on for that purpose that voices are there not any of ours. I will come to this site again and tell more for non believers. Even non believers have heard basically to get out of the way when they stood at top of the stairs.
Dogs probadly do see ghost and warn people because a dog protects it's owner. I personally have had a ghost experience in a haunted house and do believe they exsit.This happened when I was five. My family actually had to move out of the house.But I hope and believe there are good ghosts and angels.
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Great HUB!
Hey again Mhairi, what do I think of what?
p.s. Big thanks to the rest of you guys and girls for sharing your thoughts and experiences, I've very much enjoyed reading them.
Just the other day I went to visit my sister out on her property. They have the main house which she and her husband and kids live in and then there is the cottage down the way a little bit, where my mum is living.
They have lived there now for about 4 - 5 years. My sister has a dog who is a year old now. And he as well as the other pets have free reign to go and see my mum when ever they like.
So the other day I go out there for a visit, and my sister tells me that there appears to be something upsetting the dog. On the way to mums cottage there is a shed where bits and pieces etc are kept and he starts to act very strange as soon as he gets there. He will not enter the shed, even when My sister went in there and made out she was in some kind of distress, you could see he wanted to, but whatever was there was way too scary for him.
We got him to pass the shed, but he had to pass as far away as he could get. Then we get to mums and he stops dead in his tracks and wont enter my mums house either. We tried everything we could to entice him inside, but he still wouldn't come. He is a typically jealous dog, so when my sister makes a fuss of the other pets he always trys to nudge them out of the way. So she decided to play with one of the other dogs, picked him up gave him cuddles etc.
But No Way... he did not budge.
This has never happened before. I don't know what he can see, and to some extent I think I am glad I can't see what he can see. I don't know if it is a spirit that he is seeing, but whatever it is it is freaking him out!
I personally believe in spirits and I think that is what he is seeing. But of course to all the skeptics I have no proof.
Hi All, I am sitting on the fence a little on this one as I believe that most of these occurences could be explained by dogs listening, concentrating (staring into space rather than at something) and responding to noises outside the range of our hearing. However notice i said 'most'.......
Truly interesting hub!
I'm sure they do, of course it may not always be an actual spirit as bwpotman makes a good point about them listening.
Cats see them too, my friends house always had strange goings on and a cold spot on the landing and one day her cat looked just above us between our shoulders and hissed! Needless to say we looked back and moved quick!
Our horse used to always spook at an old gate when out riding, he normally only spooked if something moved or was different but it was just a field. We later found out that the tree past that gate was known as the old hanging tree so perhaps he could see a convict of old!
I've had plenty of run ins with the other side, you can sense them just as you can living people. We can all recognise that buzzing, bad angry energy in a room if someone is angry and we can sense it from spirits too. We no doubt can sense the good ones too, have you ever had that great happy feeling of warmth for no apparent reason and felt like smiling?
My mum tells me that when I was about 4 she caught me chatting away at night to an old lady whom I said was 'keeping the skeleton man away!' I was adamant that she was real and set her a place at the table that morning for breakfast, when I described her & her mannerisms to my nan she matched the description of my late great grandmother whom I had never met!
i strongly believe in ghosts and that animals and young infants can see such things but my point is if someone strongly believes in the "unbelivable" why cant we see them too?
While staying at a hotel in Santa Fe Springs my red Dachshund started acting scared as soon as it got dark. She's never acted this way before. As the night went on she wouldn't get up on the bed but stayed under a chair and stared at a spot in the corner. When I tried to pick her up and comfort her, I discovered her whole body was tight. Her eyes were really wide like she was afraid to close them. She didn't sleep all night, my husband and I awoke often to find her in the same spot. Her gaze would shift from the corner to over the bed. Once it got light out, she was fine. She hasn't acted that way since in the next two hotels we've stayed at. All we can figure is that she was seeing a ghost. Of course after the fact, I should have snapped pictures, but my concern was that she was sick. Not that there were ghosts in the room.
This is fascinating! I wonder if there is any scientific way to test this?
Animals have a much wider array of sensing..from hearing to smell, while their sight often differs (and I imagine could be better suited in some cases for observing the paranormal) it's very plausible that dogs are quite often more readily able to understand when something is just plain wrong around them.
It's not too uncommon to find a dog used as a credible witness in a ghost story, and of course..Cerberus does guard Hades, no?
I still live with my parents, and back in the beginning of July my family got a puppy, he is a bichon tzu, he is 5 months now. I spend alot of time with him, and he follows me around everywhere I go, I guess I am his favorite. Anyway...sometimes he sleeps with my in my bedroom, he'll usually sleep on the top of my pillow or the end of my bed. it was around 2 in the morning the other night, was having problems going to sleep...i was about to doze off and all of the sudden he sprung up, i turned on the light and he was staring and growling at something at the end of my bed. there is space around both sides of my bed to move around, and his head would follow the "ghost" around my bed, going from one end to the other. i tried to get him to calm down and after a few minutes whatever was in my room disappeared (i guess) and then he stopped. i was kind of terrified at the idea that something could possibly be walking around my bed, watching me at night. i am afraid when my dog isn't with me at night, he is actually a very good guard dog, i feel safe around him, even though he is so tiny! i have had many weird experiences, as well as the rest of my family, in my house, so ive gotten used to the paranormal, but the other night it just freaked me out a little...
Very good article.
I love my sister and see alot of good in her. The other day she came over to my house and my dogs went crazy. They were barking and growling. They never do that. The cable guy was in the house for hours and not bark, the pool guy comes over and no bark. My son's friends my brothers and no bark. Not only were the dogs barking non stop my 1 year old son was screaming and crying and would not look at her. I finally had to send him in the room with my husband. Everytime he would come out of the room and see her, he would start crying in horror and run back in the room!! Am I making something out of nothing??
Other night my husband and I were BBQing and my dog started acting strange. He was looking around the ceiling like there was a fly flying around, but nothing was there. Then he would put his tail between his legs and his whole body was shaking. my husband and I thought it was because of the smoke from the BBQ.
A couple weeks later I took him to Petco to get some toys. He has always loves to go to Petco. We usually go every couple weeks. But while we were there he started acting really strange. He froze in his tracks and started shaking, he would not move. I had to pick him up to get him out of the store. Once we got into the car he was fine again.
Then again last night he did it again. My husband was in the room sleeping and I was in the living room watching TV. All of a sudden my dog started looking up at the ceiling again. His whole body started shaking. I tried to comfort him but he couldnt stop looking around the ceiling. Finally he calmed down and we went to bed. After being in the room for 5 minutes he started doing it again. I even started getting scared so I woke up my husband to show him what was going on. We have no idea what he is seeing or if he has something wrong with him. I'm wondering if he is seeing ghost or if I should take him to the vet.
Jodiee, i know why that we can't see them too. thats obvious all people who have a good healhy and who believe in god. ofc we did not rather to see death ghost body around your house. lol
I think they can, because they have a 6th sense in them, because of this, they can forsee Earthquakes, Storms or floods, and it is 100% true. Spirits do exist and dogs can see them. Thats true.
I do believe that animals do see "spirits" and I also believe that if we were more intune with our surrondings like young children and animals that we could also see them.
I have a mastiff named Toby he was 2 years old when we moved into a new house. The garage area had been remade into a third bedroom and this is where I was going to be sleeping. It was our first night and I was about to go to sleep it was probably around 11:45 and I heared Toby whining and scratching at my door. This was very weird because he always slept with my parents and he had never been one to whine. I got up and opened the door he lunged onto my bed and was whimpering. Now I have never seen a english mastiif hunch down and whimper like that. I got into bed and had him lay next to me and just held him. We stayed like that for about five minutes with him shaking and nudging me constantly. Suddenly Toby jumped to his feet and started growling at wall. I tried to calm him down but he jumped off my bed and stalked across the room growling the entire way. When he reached the wall he kind of snapped at the air and then moved his head to the corner closest to the wall almost like he was stalking something. He moved to stand infront of the corner and started barking thats when I got up and grabbed his collar. I got him out of them room and I ended up sleeping on the couch last night. The next morning I asked my mom way toby had been running the house and she said that he wouldnt go into the room and had decided to lay next to my bedroom door.
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Amanda Severn says:
6 months ago
Animals have never been told that ghosts aren't 'real' so if they see one, they will of course, react. I've heard similar stories of animals reacting strangely in certain situations, and I also believe that small children are more sensitive than older people, and can sense things that aren't obvious to the adults in the room.