General Discussion & Chat: Spooks and ghosts and weeping ladies...oh my! Pt 6, 0 by Terri1948

Terri1948 wrote:
Hi all!
It's been a while since I added to this thread, but I do check in from time to time to read all your very interesting experiences.
Hubby and I had a very strange thing happen last June. I'd like to share it with you all. I'll leave you to make up your own minds about it. Would be interested to read your thoughts on the matter.
We moved from the area this happened last September.
Where do I begin?
Ok, I'll start by saying that we'd had our beautiful and very loved little Cairn Terrier 'Gemma' put to sleep 4 days before. It was necessary, she was in pain and it was time to let her go. We were (and still are) heartbroken about it. We knew we would miss her dreadfully.
It was evening and we were watching TV and talking about Gemma. She was something of a TV addict and would often jump up and growl/bark at the screen if she saw a dog in a program or advert. We used to laugh so hard when she growled at puppet dogs. She recognised what they were, LOL
Just then I spotted a neighbour coming through our gate and hurrying to our door. Hubby answered the door and I could hear him talking to the neighbour and saw them go to the gate and look down the road. Then Hubby came indoors and called for me to go outside.
There in the distance we could see a little dog, just like our Gemma. It was running loose and seemed to be disorientated as it ran from one house to the next. Apparently this little dog had been standing at our gate, looking towards our front door and our neighbours had seen it from their upstairs window. They knew we never let Gemma out of our own Garden and they were worried that somehow she'd escaped from our garden and we weren't aware that she'd gone. They (obviously) didn't know that we'd had to have her put to sleep. Everyone in the neighbourhood knew Gemma and they all knew that nobody else in our area had a Cairn Terrier. They are a rare breed around here and we've only ever seen grey and black Cairns when we've been out in the surrounding areas. Gemma was a very pale wheaten, quite distinctive and quite the little character.
Getting back to the story...Our neighbour had watched the little dog come to our gate twice. It was then he decided to come and tell us that Gemma was running loose. You can imagine his reaction when hubby told him we no longer had Gemma.
We went back inside and we were both a little shaken by what we'd seen.
We decided to go and check it out for ourselves, even though we knew it wasn't our Gemma. For a wheaten Cairn to suddenly appear in our neighbourhood (after not having seen another Cairn Terrier within 15 miles of our home in the past 13 years) was just too strange. We knew that if it was a Cairn it would be disorientated and upset if it were lost. So off we went to look for it.
We checked out the area and couldn't see the little dog. Strangely enough we were the only people around except for a woman that we could see walking in the distance. We were hurrying, trying to catch the woman up to ask if she'd seen the dog. It seemed like the faster we hurried the faster she walked. Then I noticed that she seemed to be carrying something under her arm. I told hubby, 'She's carrying something and I think it's the dog'. Just then she passed under a street lamp (it was dusk and the lamps had just come on). We could see the dog's long coat blowing in the breeze as it was tucked under her arm.
Hubby said to not try to catch up with the woman. In his words, 'We'll never catch her, no matter how fast we run.'
We turned around and went back home.
We (personally) think it was Gemma's way of coming to say goodbye.
Or was it just another little dog who'd escaped and it's owner came looking for it??

The picture is of Gemma

Terri