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Black Shuck is one of many ghostly black dogs recorded across the British Isles.

Sometimes recorded as an omen of death, sometimes a more companionable animal, it is classified as a cryptid, and there are varying accounts of the animal's appearance.

Writing in 1877, Walter Rye stated that Shuck was " the most curious of our local apparitions, as they are no doubt varieties of the same animal.