Spookie Halloween Story

The names of the individuals have been changed to protect the innocent.

After Joe's morning hike in Hanging Hills he sat down to have a cup of coffee at a bed and breakfast with Linda the owner.  "My hike was really nice.  There was a cute little Black Dog that followed me all the way up the mountain and all the way down, he was a great companion," said Joe. However, Linda seemed visibly upset, and replied "that's not a good thing Joe." "There is a saying in these parts that if a person meets the Black Dog once, it is a joyous event; if he meets him twice, it will be for sorrow; and the third time the person will die!"  Joe laughed and told Linda she was just being way too superstitious.  "That is what our friend Terry said when he saw the Black Dog twice. The second time he saw the dog with his hiking buddy his friend slipped and fell to his death. Later Terry decided to climb the same mountain by himself, he died that day. Everyone believes he saw the Black Dog before he fell,ﾔ stated Linda without smiling.

When Joe's friend Pete came the next day they both were joking about the Black Dog myth!  Halfway up the mountain they both saw the Black Dog, that is when Joe lost his footing and tumbled down the mountain out of control.  Joe finally stopped his fast decent by grapping onto some small saplings but he still crashed into many sharp rocks.  Joe felt severe pain in his leg.  A rescue team got him down the mountain and took him to the local hospital where the diagnosis was a broken leg in two places. Pete met Joe at the hospital where he told Joe, "that was a very weird fall do you think it had anything to do with the Black Dog?" " I don't know but I don't want to find out." "Next time we go hiking let's go to Colorado", stated Joe and Pete agreed.