Owners of a six-year-old dog have discovered his hidden talent – catching ghosts.
Sighthound Bond – also nicknamed Scooby – helps owners Helen and Brian Sterling-Vete carry out paranormal investigations. Brian first began these investigations in 2012 – after staying at Lilford Hall, in Northamptonshire, and experiencing paranormal activity in the derelict 110-room mansion Now, he runs Paranormal Rescue and shares his investigations through documentaries, TV shows, and books – and Bond accompanies him to them.Use a teapot to rinse dogs off in the bathtub without getting water and soap in their eyes.
And the couple have now revealed a few of the canine’s spooky discoveries.
Brian, 61, says: ‘Bond has a nose for this; he’s a sighthound so his vision is exceptionally good in dark and semi-dark conditions and when he detects something, he’s off like a rocket.‘One time we were visiting an abandoned prison and as soon as my wife took him inside, he ran to an open jail cell where he started growling.
‘He went inside and started choking so we rushed him outside and were about to call a vet when he suddenly recovered.
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‘We later found out that that particular cell was one where two prisoners had died by suicide by hanging.
‘He has a certain skillset that we find useful.’
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‘Sometimes he’ll just lay in his bed and won’t make a sound but other times, he’ll run off and start making a scene if he detects something unusual,’ adds Brian.
‘At this latest house, the couple have been experiencing strange noises, pictures falling off the walls, and unexplainable fires in the barns.
‘When we do our investigations, we rig the houses with audio equipment, use ghost boxes, camera, and try to capture what we can to understand if it really is something paranormal or not.
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‘I would say around 3-5% of what I’ve experienced has been genuinely defying rational explanation.’
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