The Mystery of The "Black Dog" of The Bridgewater Triangle
In the spring of 1976, the town of Abington went into lockdown mode when a huge throat-eating, “bullet-proof” dog mysteriously appeared in s rural residential area surrounded by ove 100 acres of dense swamp.
Fear rippled through the south shore of Boston after word got out the killer dog had ripped the throats out of two ponies. The dog had intelligently chasing the animals–who had been tethered to trees–around and around until the they were tied helpless, unable to escape the teeth of the horrid beast.
When locals read the news that the beast had evaded two different bullets fired by two seperate town officials, all out panic ensued. This event was documented in the chapter on the Bridgewater Triangle in Loren Coleman’s “Mysterious America” and has gone down in the Bridgewater Triangle legend books as the “The Black Dog of Abington.”
A Gruesome Discovery: Two Ponies Throats Ripped Out By Dog Reportedly As “Large as the Dead Ponies”
The Dog Is Tracked Down By Police, Within Target Range, Cop Shoots But Misses
Over the next few day, the Abington Police Department would be deluged with over 1,000 phone call from concerned citizens and witnesses who reported they had seen the large dog. Abington school children would be escorted to their buses by police armed with rifles.
“Kane became an instant expert on the dog. He was called to look at every dog that might fit the description. In one week, he said, he went to Weymouth three times, Brockton twice and Whitman once. None of the dogs was the one.”
In Conclusion: My Two Cents
The dog was first seen on one end of Summer Street, and last seen on the other. And within one day. It is hard to believe that two separate town officials could miss such a large and reportedly slow moving target. How those bullets didn’t touch the beast and where it disappeared to are the two biggest mysteries of this very true legend.
Efforts have been made to speak to Frank Curran, but the closest I have come was a quick Q and A with a close family member, who could only confirm that it did in fact happen. And that he remembered Curran telling him that the dog was covered in blood when he saw him on the tracks. That detail was not reported in newspapers. Frank Curran doesn’t speak of the incident. Only one shot fired by him was reported in the newspapers. Only one shot. This doesn’t make a lot of sense.
What does make sense is that Curran shot at the animal many times and all bullets inexplicably missed. And that dog possibly disappeared in front of his eyes. That would certainly keep someone from ever wanting to talk about it again. I know it would be for me. And I also know that if there was a killer dog on the loose in my town and I was a cop…and I had tracked it to some railroad tracks, I wouldn’t have shot at it just once. Especially if the target didn’t even run; Curran reported it walked away slowly down the tracks. If this is true, then why didn’t he chase it? Call other officers to cover the train tracks (a straight line)? Try shooting at it again? There is more to this story than we will I ever know, I suspect. Mysterious indeed. And certainly deserving of legendary status.
In Conclusion: My Two Cents
The dog was first seen on one end of Summer Street, and last seen on the other. And within one day. It is hard to believe that two separate town officials could miss such a large and reportedly slow moving target. How those bullets didn’t touch the beast and where it disappeared to are the two biggest mysteries of this very true legend.
Efforts have been made to speak to Frank Curran, but the closest I have come was a quick Q and A with a close family member, who could only confirm that it did in fact happen. And that he remembered Curran telling him that the dog was covered in blood when he saw him on the tracks. That detail was not reported in newspapers. Frank Curran doesn’t speak of the incident. Only one shot fired by him was reported in the newspapers. Only one shot. This doesn’t make a lot of sense.
What does make sense is that Curran shot at the animal many times and all bullets inexplicably missed. And that dog possibly disappeared in front of his eyes. That would certainly keep someone from ever wanting to talk about it again. I know it would be for me. And I also know that if there was a killer dog on the loose in my town and I was a cop…and I had tracked it to some railroad tracks, I wouldn’t have shot at it just once. Especially if the target didn’t even run; Curran reported it walked away slowly down the tracks. If this is true, then why didn’t he chase it? Call other officers to cover the train tracks (a straight line)? Try shooting at it again? There is more to this story than we will I ever know, I suspect. Mysterious indeed. And certainly deserving of legendary status.
Source: http://www.thebridgewatertriangle.com/2014/05/the-mystery-of-black-dog-of-bridgewater.html
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