Well, I am new to this forum but I have a lot to tell of some recent events one including 3 black dogs. I will probably post the other details surrounding or leading up to the sighting of the 3 black dogs at a later date, but I thought this would be interesting enough to the members. First I am located in southeastern USA about 40 miles from New Orleans.....I was living in a small country town in a remodeled home. The scary part is that the previous owners abandoned the home for 5 years prior to our moving in and they left behind everything including underwear and socks still in the dryer. I was told by the landlord that the owner was getting over a divorce remarried and moved on, but if you would have seen the items left behind you would begin to wonder. Gold watches, antique revolver, various indian artifacts and hundreds of books. Events lead up to our family fleeing the scene as well and the night of the sighting I had a crew of 3 men helping to throw away items from the home and pack personal items of my own. No one knew about the strange and terrifying occurences leading up to that night, but towards the end I was feeling inpatient and wanting to leave quickly basically I could sense that it was approaching and also getting late so I wanted to go soon, but still did not mention to anyone what had happened to make us move so quickly. Then one of the guys runs in and asked if we had large wild dogs or cyotes (black) in the woods near the home. Of course there were no such thing for the region and I asked why. He responded with "Well when I was bringing out the last bags of trash to the street, I saw 3 pairs of eyes starring at me........Then I looked again and saw very clearly 3 large black dogs just sitting across the street starring at the house and then starring at me. Not moving just sitting and starring". That is when I let them know what had been occurring and that is when we decided to call it a night and everything else was left behind. I would also like anyone to help me to know if once you move can the presence follow? We had a priest come and perform an enthronment of Christ mass in the old home and this was not enough to rid us of this...we moved and now some strange occurances in our new home are beginning. It could be paranoia but I don't want to take any chances.
This is a scary thought!

Hello N, welcome to the forum ~ it's a lovely place

Would you be willing to elaborate on your story? Tell us why you were forced to move out? Was the house near water?

On the subject of 'ghosts' following people, there is another thread on this very subject.

Hammy x x x

Well, there were a lot of events leading up to the black dogs sighting. I can start back when my husband and I began to work on getting the house 'livable'.....the house was abandoned for 5 years. Everything was left behind including personals, dishes, designer clothes. It really looked like a fleeing, not a remarry that lead the owner to move because he would have at least taken some of his belongings. I tried not to worry much because we were told that he was studying to become a pastor and thought at least there would be good energy left behind in the house. When we were cleaning out the rooms, though, he had hundreds of books....some good books and some that were kind of dark in nature. We also found numerous strange candles. I am a spiritual person and still felt that whatever this man had gotten involved with could not effect me or my family. We moved in and about 3 weeks later my brother-in-law spent the night at our home. 3 strange things, my 2 year old daughter began holding a conversation with someone across the house. She would laugh and giggle and then at times get frightened and run back into the room with us. My brother-in-law began yelling in the middle of the night and kept complaining that he felt like someone was watching him from across the room. I told everyone they were just getting spooked bc of what my daughter was doing earlier, said my prayers and fell a sleep. A few hours later, I woke up with some presence that I could feel over my daughter who was sleeping in the bed with me that night and a cold chill moving up my arm. I screamed so now everyone was scared. Well, I had my prayers, holy water and looked into having a priest bless the home but never followed-through. About a month or so later beginning on palm sunday, my daughter jumped up on our sofa and began to point in the kitchen and talking to Katie and laughing and smiling. Well, my husband and I lookad at each other and knew that tonight may be kind of scary but laughed it off and went to bed. That night I woke up screaming with something pulling my leg and trying to drag me out of my bed. I grabbed what felt like the head and faught. It was solid and strong and like nothing I could ever fully explain in words. My first thought was "Oh my God I am dreaming, I am grabbing my daughter and hurting her" as soon as I let go....my husband started screaming. I reached for my daughter and she was sound asleep and not even close to where the presence was. I turned on the light and my husband was struggling with the air and almost to the stairs before it released him. I had a feeling over my body that is undescribable except paralyzed, shivering, goose bumps over my entire body and numb. Both our arms where sore like we had been held down and all my prayers, crosses and holy water it would not leave the home until daylight came. All night we could hear movment downstairs and the feeling would hit me again in waves and all I could say to my husband is it is back, oh no, please god no. After I put my rosary on and made a border around the bed with holy water, it seemed not to be able to come into the bed, but it made itself known. The next day, I began to contact the church.....during holy week priest are very busy so it was hard to have him come right away and at first I did not let him know the extent just that my home needed to be blessed. The next night, it came again never in the area that was surrounded, but it was surely back. Always around 3:00 am and it began with picking up the downstairs phone and dailing which could be heard through the phone by our bed. It would pick up and hang up and make almost a chirping noise inside the phone. Electrical appliances were breaking left and right and our car started breaking down also and it was only 2 months old. The third night, I was saying specific prayers from the Pieta and a few minutes into prayer, the downstairs stereo turned on full blast and that feeling came over me again. My husband never felt this feeling until our last week in the home but it is very distinct.....not like a cold chill or a sudden fright....it consumed your entire body. It got so bad that I was able to get the priest on a night call to come and bless the home, that didn't help much so he scheduled an enthronment of christ mass for the home the next monday. After the mass, everything started going back to normal...our appliances were working again, no more phone, no more feeling of discomfort...we were free...or so we thought. A month or so ago, before we fleed the home, we began to start being suffocated and waking up choking. My husband began lashing out at me and our workers at the home began feeling discomfort. The home was not our own anymore, again, I was scared for no reason and one of the nights when I woke up choking I felt that feeling again...this time my husband felt it also and he finally said that feeling is unlike anything describable. My daughter's friend was over during that week, same age and her father had passed away a few months prior. She keep pointing upstairs saying daddy, daddy.....a man is upstairs by the cats (the cats in out home were upstairs we had a loft style upper bedroom that can be seen from the first floor). The night before our scheduled move, we had workers up all night with my husband and I and they witnessed as we did strange events but it would take almost a full book to include every piece to this story so I will try to wrap it up. My husband began lashing out at me very specifically in those last weeks. Attacking my faith, my character and saying things that did not make any sense. That last night it was almost as though something else was coming out through him in his anger and others saw it. His own sister stated "Your eyes became bloodshot red and I was waiting for horns to grow out of your head.......his whole facial expressions were not his own anymore they were distorted and horifying." He has not been angry or this way at all since our move. The night of the dogs....this was sighted from someone who had not even heard what was happening and that we what was so disturbing to me. I was there again at night collecting our last belongings with hired help and then he came inside saying what he had seen. The last words said about the house when we looked from our cars is that "The whole second floor lit up all of a sudden and with the upstairs scylights it looked as though the house had eyes of its own and was stairing at us" I have some pictures that were taken that night (proof of the condition of the home when vacating for the landlord) one is pretty scary because there is movement and an image in the window, but that is up for debate and can me posted if requested. All I know is that I am traumatized and have hopes that it can in no way follow us. So any words of wisdom on how to keep it away from my family would be appreciated.