Extinct wheel dogs

 One of the most saddest dog breeds ever was the turnspit dog. It was a working dog, bred to keep cooking meat turning over the fire. Wooden wheels were placed in kitchens and fixed with a chain, designed for these small dogs to run around inside. These dogs were made to run around the wheel for several hours or the duration it took to roast large joints of meat. It was okay for people to relax from doing the turning themselves but painful for the dogs. 

These dogs were often trapped inside wheels for so long, in smoke filled kitchens, hot and near open fires, exhausted and unable to drink during these shifts as they were covered in blisters. There were often pairs of these dogs that took turns. In busy large kitchen in places such as inns and castles, there would be more than one such wheels with dogs inside. 

I never saw anything like that in World of Warcraft taverns! Popular media, films, games and comics even tend to shy away from this awful fact for not including turnspit dogs or featuring any creatures in the same sad conditions.

It was said that people liked taking turnspit dogs to church with them just to keep them warm. Churches were always so cold, and so the congregation always shivered during mass. Turnspit dogs were believed to have warmth from cook fires still on them, and were placed on laps or as foot warmers. Once in Bath, a bishop was giving a sermon and mentioned the word "wheel", which terrified all of the dogs, who ran for the door. It shows that the dogs were so traumatised. 

These dogs were also used to run around in wheels for mills to power butter churns, grain mills and water pumps.  The dogs endured extremely horrific, hard and painful conditions, while also getting burned or have things thrown at them. Later on, people became so upset by the treatment of these dogs, that an animal welfare charity was founded, which is now today known as the RSPCA.  

The turnspit dog breed became extinct at the turn of the 20th century. Kitchens no longer needed them anymore since the Industrial Revolution resulted in better cooking technology. A rather distressing piece of that cruel history displays a taxidermy of the last turnspit dog in Abergavenny Museum in Wales. While many believe this was a British eccentricity during the Middle Ages until Victorian times, there's evidence that there were similar dogs in ancient Egypt. 

A shameful part of history that allowed suffering of animals and more chilling than tales of werewolves and ghosts. In this subject, humans were the monsters here.

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April ghosts

 

April begins with the scary April Fools Day jokes. Then following that this year was Easter. I posted about the Easter Bunny sightings in a previous entry.

A frequent haunting that happens every year in Ludham, Norfolk, on 2 April are the sinister sounds made by Viking raiders. They can manifest late at night and move towards the bridge, blowing their horns.

It's believed that in Hinckley, Leicestershire, gravestones bleed! On the 12 April, every year, when poplar trees show green colour, red blood dribbles on the graves, connected to a murder from 1727. 

More on blood, in Bolton, Greater Manchester, recurring spookiness on 24 April. An area on the stone floor in Smithills Hall shows a blood stained footprint appear there. This is believed to have been to do with George Marsh, who was executed in 1555 wrongfully and has haunted the place ever since.

St Marks' Eve in a church on 24 April, a haunting occurs that happens in Haxey, Lincolnshire. Two men heard that seeing the phantoms on that night will change destiny. One of the men was wide awake when he saw spirits of people he knew. Before the year was out, everyone that he claimed to see as phantoms had died, and also himself too!      

In Burrough Green, Cambridgeshire, there is a school that has an interesting legend, on the evening of 30 April, two statues come to life. They dance and leave footsteps in the grass.

Now personal story. A user by the name of "sleep always party n" said that when she was a kid, her sister would see ghosts. One night she heard her sister say "No I can't do that, she's my sister, " The user remembers seeing her sister's face change then and looking evil then returning to her own face. 

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Easter bunny sightings

 

While Easter is a cheerful innocent time with chocolate eggs, symbols of cute chicks and bunny rabbits, there's a less mentioned creepier darker side. A lot of people have remembered seeing scary entities, in the shape of rabbits. Perhaps the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland was more eerie than first assumed, as it lured an innocent child far away into uncertain dangerous, even deadly places. I will mention some of the experiences mentioned by others.

A Reddit user named "bonafidebunnyeyed" remembers seeing a frightening thing as a child. At night the kid looked out of their bedroom window and saw something creepy further up the street. It was described as a tall rabbit shaped figure, dirty, crooked ears and very long legs with rabbit feet. It scared him so much that he hid in bed. That wasn't even it, because then the same creature appeared in the house and left a basket of sweets in the bedroom!

Another Reddit user "EldestFreeman" has a childhood memory of seeing a sinister rabbit while playing egg hunt games. There was a wooded area and the kid searched for eggs alone until he saw a strange creature. It was a very tall humanoid rabbit leaning against a tree, that turned to look at him. The kid was so scared that he ran crying to his family. Even today this memory disturbs the user and they're hoping it was a dream. 

More users have shared seeing tall rabbits with humanoid features except rabbit ears and feet. However the faces of these rabbit monsters are often left to the imagination because people don't describe them. All they've said about the rabbit entities are their faces look frightening and malicious.   

Other people remember these Easter Bunny things as looking tall and often strangely appearing in their houses, but were not people dressed up. There's something scary they remember. Often these entities show up during Easter to children and giving off an evil vibe that scares them for many years afterwards. Also described as walking with a "zombie" gait. 

Here are other personal encounters of the creepy Easter Bunny memories on Your Ghost Stories. It seems like children are witnessing a lot of Easter bunnies, although they're always big and scary, never sweet and cute. The paranormal nature of the experiences I've found posted by people sharing their encounters, might be hallucinations or something unexplained.  

Don't have nightmares! Happy Easter!

She Wolf Night 

Spooky quicks April 2026

Some very weird goings on. First I want to mention that humans were never meant to travel through space, even at longer distances. That will annoy science fiction fans, who so much want to make their dream of travelling through space and living on other planets to become a reality. 

There is Artemis II launched today, the first manned mission to the moon for half a century. I'll also remain quiet about my views concerning the earlier moon landings. This time round, they will make a flight around the moon, then return. No one will actually intend to land on the moon here, but there's future plans to set up bases on both moon and Mars. However, earlier this year an astronaut named Michael Fincke, was on ISS then had to be sent home to Earth after getting a sudden unknown illness. 

Another story for sci-fi fans is about a robot freaking out during a dinner! It was at a restaurant named Haidilao Hot Pot, in California, where customers were eating their meals. A robot arrived for entertainment and "dancing" when it became hyper, swinging its arms and crashing plates of food everywhere. Several people had to restrain it. Story from Daily Mail can be read HERE 

Also another robot was arrested in China for harassing an elderly woman in the street. Links to The Sun on arrested robot with video clips HERE

Since the beginning of March 2026 there's been a lot of huge brightly coloured meteorites falling from the sky. These are so big they look like fireballs. They've been seen in many countries. People wonder why this is happening so much now. We're told it's just natural, 

On the supernatural, a woman named Louisa Peck suffered a cardiac arrest after a drink, as someone had maliciously spiked her drink. She had a NDE (Near death experience) while unconscious, but after recovery, she found that she was able to see spirits and predict the future. 

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Tragic loss of wolves in a zoo

 Feeling very sad because of a heart breaking story I just heard about. I wanted to share it here and please beware of my emotions. 

An entire family of wolves in Wildwood Trust in Herne Common were killed on my birthday yesterday. Knowing about this made my blood run cold. It was at a zoo in Kent, a pack of Eurasian wolves lived in  an enclosure of trees. Visitors were able to see the wolves in their space and some people have even claimed they once petted them! Others felt concerned for the wolves being kept in a small confinement so all they did was pacing back and forth.

This family consisted of parents, Odin and Nuna, and their three sons Minimus, Tiberius and Maximus. No longer puppies, the young adult brothers were unable to leave the pack as nature would tell them. The only available female was their mother. The staff acknowledged a breakdown in the pack resorting to aggression among the wolves, three of them severely wounded after fighting. That could've been because these males fought over Nuna. The brothers instinctively needed to exit the enclosure and leave, travelling miles on a journey to find their own family pack. Wolves in the wild behave like this. They just don't remain at home with mum and dad during adulthood, especially not three brothers. 

No plans made to separate the lads and help them adjust to a different environment or even to meet other female wolves. The staff could have reached out to other wildlife parks, or contact wolf trusts and wolf experts. They didn't do this. The big boys only wanted to move to their own dens and become independent. This is where the anger happened. Wolves are not pets. The staff simply didn't know this! Shame on them. My blood boils now for the lives of these wolves lost to foolish neglectful people running this wild park.  

Rest and be free beautiful wolves.

She Wolf Night    

The wicked Candy Lady

 There is a sinister case about a serial killer named Clara Crane. Some of this has been interwoven with folklore and today the story is an urban legend. 

Born in Terral, Texas in 1871, Clara grew up on a farm and later met Leonard Crane, fell in love and they got married. Things turned darker when she lost a child and blamed it on her husband who became an alcoholic. Out of vengeance, she decided to kill him. She put poison over pieces of caramel, fed it to Leonard and he died shortly after eating it. It was 1895 and this murder was reported to the local sheriff Dixon. After her arrest, Clara Crane went on trial and found guilty but she was considered mentally ill, so she was sent to Terral State Mental Hospital. She suffered there, emotionally and physically by abusive staff. She was under the care of Dr Vernon Matthews and it seemed that he, as well as his staff, were involved in tormenting Clara. There was overcrowding in the psychiatric hospital, so Clara was released back home in 1903. 

It was then that mysterious gifts were placed on windowsills of certain houses across town. These contained wrapped sweets of caramels with written messages inside that said "Come out and play". Children went missing soon after. Sheriff Dixon noticed there was an eerie connection to Clara Crane, who also used caramels to kill her husband. The missing children were the very children of people who worked at Terral State Mental Hospital. 

A search party looked for Clara Crane, going through her cornfields and farm. Sheriff Dixon was later found dead in a barn. Countless more deaths followed. More evidence showed Clara was behind it all, when they found caramel wrappers containing teeth belonging to the missing children. In total 28 children had gone missing. A total of 6 sheriff's were murdered in the investigation. She disappeared and was never seen again. Today Clara Crane is known as the Candy Lady. 

This is a horrible true event mimicking warnings from many fairy tales, mostly this is like the character of the evil wicked stepmother in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". Or the cannibalistic witch in "Hansel and Gretel" with a gingerbread house made of candies to lure children. Fables can be real. The moral is don't accept gifts from strangers, and don't eat sweets from strangers. It's a creepy story that can put you off eating candy altogether.

She Wolf Night  

(Edited later to correct errors and add more).

March ghosts

March 2026 is all about St Patrick's Day and Mothering Sunday. There's nothing spooky about March, unless you live in a haunted house and experience recurring hauntings on ancient sites. There's plenty of eerie haunted buildings with spectral visitors in March, as this time includes the cursed Ides of March, with bad luck happening such as winter storms and false springs. It brings the phrase "In like a lion, out like a lamb." The phrase "March Madness" is connected to stress, fatigue and sleep disruption caused by daylight savings time change. I shall mention some ghost activities and then personal stories.   

 One of the most darkest church ruins is Saint Nonna, also called "Cathedral of the Moor" in Altarnun in Cornwall. It's a 12th century church that was originally built on an even older sacred pagan Neolithic  temple, believed to have been a place of human sacrifices. There is a well that was once part of a Medieval ritual of tormenting the sick and mentally ill. This including tying them up, giving them violent thumps across the chest and throwing them into the water. After being removed, the patients would be gathered into the church for congregation. It's believed that St. Nonna is the mother of Saint David. Every 1st March is St David's Day and this is when ghostly singing can be heard coming from the church ruins.

At Hopton Castle in Shropshire, a haunted army appears every 14th March. The soldiers are Parliamentarian forces, about 28 of them who arrived at the castle and remained there for two weeks, surrounded by enemy Royalists. Soon the Parliamentarians were attacked and slaughtered by hundreds of Royalists. Now this happens every year on that anniversary. 

17th March is the spookiest time of year at Ye Olde Ferryboat Inn, Holywell in Cambridgeshire. The tragic story goes that in the year 1050, a 17 year old girl named Juliet Tewsley fell in love with Tom Zaul. He rejected her completely when she approached him, and this made Juliet extremely upset. She took her own life, unable to cope with heartbreak. She was buried near the River Ouse. Many years passed and then Ye Olde Ferryboat Inn was built over her grave. This disturbed Juliet, who visits the inn on the anniversary of her death. She frightens guests, causes trouble and tampers with electricity. Apparently she calms down when someone says something nice to her. Today there's a memorial for her including a gravestone inside the inn itself. Poor Juliet deserves to be loved.

During the first full moon in March, a huge cat appears on the moor in Beeley, Derbyshire. Some reported it as a panther running across the road in front of cars. It's terrified walkers who fear for their lives. 

In Ottery St Mary churchyard in Devon, a male spirit haunts every 26th March. It's said he rises from the grave, or basically emerges from his tomb on that date every year. He looks around and then returns to his grave. This is John Coke who was murdered by his own brother on 26th March 1632. He gets up every anniversary to watch out for his brother. 

Now two personal stories to share. A Reddit user named Pequod47 wrote that they had a nightmare of a tall skinny man wearing a trench coat. The user often had this recurring dream of the same scary figure that just stared with creepy eyes. Then many years later, the very same entity appeared in an elevator mirror staring with the same intense gaze. 

Another from user Akatsuki_Accountant wrote about a childhood experience. Once her parents went out to a party, leaving both her and younger sister in the house for the night. Late that night, the parents were heard coming home, so she quickly turned off her computer game and got into bed, pretending to be asleep. Someone approached the bedroom and opened the door, which the user said she had her eyes partially closed. She could make out an elderly woman in a long Victorian dress, who smiled and turned off the lamp. She later found out there was an ancestor in an old Victorian photograph looking like the woman who appeared in her bedroom that night. 

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Britain's last witch trails

In 1944, two British women were tried for witchcraft. They were Helen Duncan and Jane Rebecca Yorke. Both were to become the last two people to be arrested and tried under the Witchcraft Act of 1735. It happened during the Second World War, at a time of national crisis and air raid bombings. So one might think resorting to witch mania again was the result of PTSD. Bringing back an infamous law against two citizens was enough to get even the prime minister involved. Winston Churchill said that the witch trails of Helen Duncan and Jane Rebecca Yorke was "obsolete tomfoolery" and a complete waste of wartime recourses. 

Why did this happen? It started at a meeting in a house. Helen Duncan held a séance there, as she was a well known clairvoyant. She caused officials panic when Helen was able to know secrets about naval ships. She predicted the sinking of HMS Barham and this made them prosecute her. They were worried she might know too much about their military operations including the Normandy Landings. Many have supported Helen who gave their statements validating her psychic powers, but still she was locked up in prison for nine months. 

She was also accused of being a fraud who "exploited" people during dark times. They nicknamed her "Hellish Nell". She could summon spirits of the dead during seances. Born Victoria Helen MacFarlane in Callander, Perthshire in Scotland in 1897, she could see spirits and had the gift of foresight since childhood. It made her stand out amongst other kids in school. It was then that she started using her powers after leaving school aged 14 while working in an infirmary. She married a soldier and went onto have six children. She always suffered chronic conditions including Type II diabetes but on top of this she suffered grief from having a number of miscarriages. In 1956 police raided her seance meeting and interrupted her trance, causing her ectoplasm to snap back into her system. She never recovered from this and passed away five weeks later on 6th December 1956. Official records state her cause of death was ill health and diabetes. Today her descendants often appeal to the Scottish government to clear her name but this is always rejected. A piece of Helen's ectoplasm is at a museum. 

Jane Rebecca Yorke was the next victim of the system's sudden regress back to witch mania. She worked as a psychic medium in Forest Gate, Essex. Again she was also arrested by police for the same reasons as Helen. It was almost like a sting, as police went undercover during a seance meeting, and tricked Jane into falling in their trap. They pretended to have certain relatives who died, but once she contacted her spirit guide and talked about them, the police nicked her. While Jane had been communicating with spirits of the deceased family members, who were totally made up by the police. One undercover cop invented a brother who Jane said had just been killed in the war. That was enough for the police to show that Jane was a fraud, but this was about scepticism and not actual magic.

In 1944 Jane's trail happened at the Old Bailey, and she was found guilty of seven counts against the Witchcraft Act of 1735. She was sentenced with a fine and put on a good behaviour bond for three years, making her promise she would stop organising seances. Jane never held seances again, simply out of fear from the bullying establishment and police. The Witchcraft Act appeared during the mid 18th century as a mild way of dealing with witches. It was created by more reasonable lawmakers who wanted to end the barbaric punishments of witches. The act was repealed in 1951.

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Spooky quicks March 2026

 There's a lot to mention on this post. First of all, you decide for yourself if you think any of this could be real or not. 

A mapping drone using a camera was doing a routine survey of a forested area then it picked up something no one was meant to see. A pack of large creatures resembling upright walking canines, gathered deep in a forest. This was in the Pacific Northwest, and an operator worked using aerial mapping with a drone. It was a distance of 12 miles from the position of the operator, that the drone captured a werewolf pack. Check it out for yourself on Youtube HERE.

A 2021 video clip of a UFO near Syria has been released by journalists Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp. They found the footage of a UFO filmed by US military using a drone. To have a look visit the link to Youtube. 

Anyone ever think of excuses in school about forgetting your homework such as because the dog ate it? Adults are often making up excuses for why they're committing crimes. In Florida a man speeding at 100mph in a stolen BMW crashed the car and survived, only to tell police that he "teleported" there in the driver's seat! He also thanked the police for saving his life from aliens!  There's a video of this on Youtube HERE. This is just bizarre. 

There's the frightening mystery of Spontaneous Human Combustion and now also Spontaneous Tree Explosion. There are strange frost cracking trees in the Midwest and northern plains of the United States. These trees get so cold that they burst! See the item about this by CBS Chicago HERE. 

Now a mystical phenomena of a spinning snow wind caught on camera. It was filmed in Colorado by Mandy Campbell. Check this interesting weather clip HERE.

Now someone's own personal story to share of a spooky nature. Someone by the name of Jon-the-ninja remembers a strange incident where he mentioned on Reddit. He lived in Connecticut and at 11pm during a full moon night he was going to meet a friend. He approached the friend's property and then found him already stood there outside nearer the garage adjoined to the house. In response, he called to his friend, who only appeared to be staring blankly at him. Jon-the-ninja decided to leave and proceeded to contact him on Snapchat, asking what was going on. Quickly he got a reply from his friend who said he was at a bowling alley, sending photos of him there. This happened immediately afterwards. The bowling alley was some distance away and not possible for the friend to have appeared there so quickly. He could only conclude that the guy he'd seen outside the house wasn't really his friend but looked exactly like him. Was that a double? It unnerved the poster so much that he refuses to go out at night alone. 

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Likhoradka

This is a post I was researching before becoming ill. Strange really, as the subject is about Likhoradka, an entity from Slavic mythology that gives people sickness! It's believed that Likhoradka is able to enter someone, like a form of demonic possession, and then causes the person to get very weak, ill and also perhaps bring about even death. She most of all brings misfortune and bad luck.

She's a creation of the dark sinister deity named Chernobog. This particular one, Chernobog, appears in Chronicle written by Helmold of Bosau. It says Chernobog is malignant and also represents winter. His daughter Likhoradka is one of many plague princesses and there are 12 of them in total. These are known as the 12 Likhoradka sisters. Some believe each of the female entities represent times including different days and different illnesses. 

Likhoradka is understood to team up with demons and enters homes as they can. People in places like Serbia call this creature Milosnice, or Milosnitsy and other different traditions in various Slavic countries have many stories about her. People tend to use charms, religious symbols and practices to ward her evil away. 

Was there a connection to me getting very ill soon after I considered looking into this entity? Before then I didn't know about this legendary figure. It's always best to be certain and respectful. Don't scoff at folklore and always be prepared.  

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February ghosts

While February is most all about sending love letters, Valentine's gifts and romance, it's got hauntings too with some of the most tragic stories attached to them. I will list a few of these here.

A 17 year old girl was executed by beheading and her ghost haunts the Tower of London, always on the anniversary of death, the 12th February. Her name was Lady Jane Grey and she was also known as the "Nine Days Queen". She became queen of England because her brother, Edward VI, passed away and he wrote in his will that he chose Jane to succeed him to the throne and not his older sister Mary. After he died, Jane succeeded to the throne. She was reluctant to take the crown as it was, but due to such political pressure she gave up the throne to her popular and ambitious sister Mary. This led to Jane's arrest and imprisonment in the Tower of London. Jane's father led a rebellion against Queen Mary, which resulted in Lady Jane's end. Her spirit has been witnessed multiple times, especially by tower guards during the 1950's who reported the royal apparition.

More tragedy as slaughter of about 38 members of the same family in 1692 still haunt the area of Glencoe on 13th February. These hauntings recur every February and they're the shades of slaughtered people from Clan MacDonald. They were murdered by Scottish forces in what is now known as the Glencoe Massacre. Screaming, wailing pale ghosts witnessed in the ruins of Inverigan and Coire Gabhail of the Hidden Valley. It's also believed that a local witch named Corrag predicted the massacre before it happened.

A strange hole in the ground makes otherworldly screams. The Shrieking Pit is found in the area of Hungry Hill in Northrepps, Norfolk. Every 24th February near a lane, sounds of screams come from the pit and is believed to be the ghost of a woman that took her own life. Others think it's something darker and hopes to lure people down there. 

It's believed the spirit of Charlotte Bronte appears as the ghostly white lady spectre in a vicarage, located in Hathersage, Derbyshire. It's a regular haunting every late February on the 28th. A white spirit seen around opening a door, and once reported in a 1927 newspaper that a family dog was upset by the ghost. Why her return? It's believed she stayed there a little while and was in love with a Reverend Henry Nussey, inspiring her to write Jane Eyre. However the vicar J H Brookbank at the time of the news report denied such things as ghosts.

Back to royalty, Mary Queen of Scots haunts the Talbot Hotel in Oundle, Northamptonshire. This occurs every February, only because the staircase in the hotel was what was used by Mary during her execution at the Great Hall of Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire in 1587. The refurbishment happened in 1626 and this carried traces of Mary's energy, as her ghost brought along from the stairs to wander the hotel, appear in bedrooms and look out of windows. Her portrait on the wall often falls down on the anniversary. 

Now to finish with a nice tale. Magical waters of the Loch Monar in the Highlands is believed to have healing powers. First Monday of February is to enter the water three times at midnight, then sip some of the water and throw in a coin as payment for healing. The sick should leave the water before sunrise or the magic would wear off. Is this true? There is a lot of legends and therapies around healing waters so yes this might be very true.

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Happy Valentine's Day

She Wolf Night here and recovered a lot. Thanks everyone for the well wishes and kind hearted warm comments. Special thanks to Violet Dark for making posts here at this blog and keeping it active, especially doing the Spooky Quicks this month. Lots of hugs and kisses to those who've been there. 

Anyway I will try to remember what I was planning to post about! Since we're near the 14th February it's going to be a holiday themed entry, which is easier for me to think of a subject. I've been talking about the origins of Valentines Day so much now so this time I wanted to mention a humorous side to this lovely time of year. 

In Victorian times, most people used to send love letters just as we do now. These were written either plain, perfumed or included small amounts of dried flowers. But also there were some who wanted to play mischief. They sent something offensive and silly to others! They might coat letters in unpleasant smells or tell crude jokes, insults and name calling. They also liked to send Vinegar Valentines cards. These were rude cards, designed to insult and mock someone. The recipient would open their mail and find a cruel Vinegar Valentine card instead of something sweet and romantic. That is just vicious. 

For images of these Vinegar Valentines cards, visit Pinterest HERE 

Wishing everyone a Happy Valentines Day!

She Wolf Night 

Prayers for flying foxes (fruit bats) in Australia's heatwave

This blog should really be about werewolves and lycanthropy all the time, but it's not always. It delves into other aspects of folklore, including paranormal legends and even descriptions of unknown creature/cryptid sightings. It's never posted about anything else much. She Wolf Night's main owner and founder has been unwell recently so Violet Dark, Charlotte Woods, Luna and other friends have sent healing towards her and many others. We'll post about different things in the meantime before She Wolf Night returns.

I wanted to mention the sadness of losing thousands of flying foxes (fruit bats) due to the severe heatwave in Australia in January and February 2026. It's been a shocking discovery that 80% of the bats from the Naracoorte Colony died. Hundreds of flying foxes have been rescued. Quoted from Animal Survival:

"Temperatures over 42 degrees are known to cause mortality in flying foxes, sometimes at Biblical scales,"  said Professor Justin Welbergen, of Western Sydney University and expert in flying foxes. 

This is just awful news. Fruit bats/flying foxes have got a bad reputation as superstitious people associate them with vampires. This is a myth. Flying foxes are actually vegetarians. They're sweet animals and need to be understood properly. Here are some facts on these cute animals with a link to Wild Nomads page. 

The public was advised not to attempt helping the bats alone and instead contact their local wildlife centre or a vet. Members of the public have their hearts in the right places but they're not fully aware of how to handle flying foxes/fruit bats. 

Healing sent to Australia's poor suffering animals ❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹 

Violet Dark

Spooky quicks February 2026

Everyone it's February and things are getting lighter each day gradually. Tonight is a full moon, and an important event because it's happening on the first day of the month. For those interested in the stars and astrology, this moon is happening as it aligns with Leo, giving a warm fiery glow to the winter. People born tonight will have a magical influence of the full moon and Aquarius the Water Bearer. 

Fairy rings are a very sudden sighting, as I've been observing. A perfect circle appeared on the grass in many areas not used by humans or traffic. Small garden lawns, private fields and parks get these fairy rings, often appearing quickly and mysteriously. While they're associated with the paranormal, many offer rational explanations of underground fungus, causing mushrooms to appear. It doesn't always happen in warm seasons, but in winter, due to the wet moist growth movements. And I thought it was made by dancing faerie folk. 

For the land to the sea. Fairy rings can appear in the sea also, believe it or not. Aerial cameras filmed over the Sound of Barra in the Scottish Outer Hebrides. The fairy rings are blue in colour and formed with seagrass showing them as perfect circles. Nicknamed "seagrass doughnuts" because of their shapes, it fascinates and baffles many too. 

From fairy rings to ghosts now, and recently the NHS trust staff have complained that a ghost has been scaring them. Hospice staff at Norwich wanted to call Ghost Busters... no not really, but an exorcist, to get rid of hauntings. The location is believed to have become full of energy as it used to be a children's ward, and staff are feeling afraid. They believe the spirits were once living there and have made themselves known including a small ghost in a red dress.  

Here is one chilling ghost story shared by a Reddit user online. 

A woman says that when her daughter was a baby she experienced a chilling event. While her baby daughter slept in her room, she and her husband could hear the voices of people talking on the baby monitor. The voices commented on the baby sleeping. Concerned parents rushed upstairs to check on their daughter, who was sound asleep and no one else was there. The woman said her husband is convinced that the voices on the baby monitor sounded exactly like his late grandparents. That was a story posted by Ryliesmama.  For more stories like that, visit "20 people describe their creepy ghost stories" on Ranker. 

I will stop there for now. Enjoy the weekend and have a fun Full Moon! 

Violet Dark on behalf of She Wolf Night

Wolves do get sick

 Hello,

This is Violet Dark and one of the blog's contributors. 

It's well known that colds and germs spread in winter. They can also pass around when everyone is in a crowded close setting such as a classroom or office. One of our dearest friends, owner of She Wolf Night, has become extremely unwell in the last few days, but her illness was gradual. Other conditions were a factor and now she's bedridden and fighting this horrible flu. 

The last I heard, wolves get sick too. Alaskan wolves, for example, have suffered with the coronavirus during winter months. The type infecting wolves is CCoV or Canine Coronavirus. This can infect wolves, dogs, foxes and other canids. Wolves in captivity (it's a term meaning wolves being cared for by humans) are able to get treatment and less likely to become worse. Sadly wolves and other wild canines (including stray dogs) have died from CCoV. 

The only way to help these animals (including your beloved pet dogs) if they have CCoV is to give them antibiotics. There isn't any cure or treatment for it. If your dog has CCoV, then give as much care and love. Make sure there's plenty of fresh water for hydration, then give them a bland diet of boiled chicken. Get it some probiotics. Also important is to isolate your dog from other dogs for at least two weeks as this ensures virus doesn't spread. Even more helpful is give your dog a very cosy comfortable space to rest and feel warm. 

If your dog loses their appetite then this is when you take it to the vet. Look out for internal bleeding, blood in stools, blood in vomit and in diarrhea. This is a concern. Make sure you safely clean the small space with disinfectant. Make sure dog has very clean bowls and also wash your hands regularly. 

Did you know there is a vaccine for CCoV? The vet will give these to your dogs to prevent any further infection or spreading. I want to point out that CCoV can't be passed to humans. It's not even the same as COVID-19 in humans Vice versa a human with COVID-19 can't spread this to dogs.   

Now She Wolf Night blog owner is getting a lot of medicines and care. While January is a long cold month, it's been harder for She Wolf Night. She's a Springtime born pup raised in the subtropical climes of the south. We know that winter has never been her favourite season. 

From all of us wolf pack ladies here I speak on behalf of them all (myself Violet Dark included, also Storm Valkyrie, Shadow Girl, Charlotte Woods and Luna, owner of Blood Strawberry). We send healing, prayers and blessings to She Wolf Night and her family. Please get better soon! 

Violet Dark 

Lady wolves

Horror films portray all werewolves as evil. There are known benign and intelligent werewolves that are common in many legends but less known. The werewolves of Ossory are very interesting legendary creatures. Mentioned in a book Topographia Hibernica or "The Geography of Ireland," by Gerald of Wales of the 12the century. He wrote of his travels there and highlights a story of a travelling priest who encountered werewolves including a healer and a sick female. When the priest did the viaticum rite on the dying female, it relieved the werewolves of a curse and they turned human. 

The place of Ossory is now referred to as being within the counties Kilkenny and Laois. The people living there centuries ago were cursed by Saint Natalis. Every seven years they become wolves and spend the rest of their lives as such. After seven years they would return to human form, only for other people to become wolves for seven years. These were descendants of a fabled warrior named Laignech Faelad. He was the legendary werewolf warrior of Ireland.

Most female werewolves are historically often considered witches. They've been misunderstood, attacked, butchered, shot at, killed and tried for witchcraft then executed. The Faoladh female werewolves were known for their kindness. They were protectors and guardians, who helped lost travellers through dense forests, and they cared for children. They had earned respect even from royals. 

Women in mainland Europe transformed into wolves to defend their families. Maternal instincts of female werewolves have been known for since ancient times and this is well known in the myths of Luperca, the wolf mother. She found abandoned human babies, the twin brother infants Romulus and Remus, then cared for them, nurtured, fed and raised them in her den. Soon a shepherd came upon the children and adopted them. The boys worked as shepherds and then they grew up to become fierce warriors, eventually they founded the city of Rome, named after the victorious brother Romulus. Today the city of Rome has many statues of the she-wolf Luperca, a symbol of the loving protective mother who protected human babies. Luperca is a symbol of Rome and she's part of the main city's culture, identity and heritage. 

In Native American beliefs, the legendary White Wolf Woman symbolises transformation, spiritual guidance, who appears sometimes as a human to connect both worlds. She is very wise with knowledge of nature, insight, healing, the psyche, loyalty and courage. 

Besides myth and legends, there are real life "wolf women" but these are NOT werewolves. One is Anneka Svenska, nicknamed "wolf girl," a TV presenter and conservationist. She delivers entertaining and beautifully constructed videos educating the public about wolves, dogs, foxes and other animals, bringing awareness to the wide public who should understand we share the world with other animals. Similar women includes author Clarissa Pinkola Estes whose book "Women Who Run with the Wolves" published in 1989 inspired me. There is Women For Wolves who protect endangered animals and offer sanctuary to them with a mystical "feminine connection to the natural world".  Li Weiyi is China's own "Wolf girl" an author and conservationist. Zhou Xinyue is the "Queen of Wolves" who helps wolves and has done so since very young, bringing important lessons to the public raising awareness about wolves. There are so many blessed beautiful wolf ladies around the world too many to name, who protect and guard animals, sharing their wisdom.   

The reason people fear the natural world is because they don't know anything about it. Teach them and they'll become respectful. 

She Wolf Night

January ghosts

 

January begins with New Year celebrations, then becomes a long months of dreary quiet, full of cold, darkness and snow. It's any wonder that it's filled with ghost stories. Howling winds, blizzards, icy rain, frost, heavy snow, bare trees and grey skies. It's a perfect backdrop for anything scary and haunting. I shall include some ghosts in January.

On New Year's Day, a phantom golden coach pulled by headless horses appears every year, at The Hatches in Manningford Bruce. There's a pub called The Phantom Coach, named after the haunting, which is believed to have been where a coach disappeared in wetlands, killing several people including horses. Before the area became built up, it was a swamp. Centuries ago, a speeding coach toppled over as it passed a sudden sharp bend in the road. The passengers, driver and footmen died. Their screams can still be heard, and now the ghostly coach appears there every year.

Also on New Year's Eve to New Year's Day, a magical rock goes for a walk! It's in South Glamorgan, and this rock, also called Arthur's Stone, is believed to walk down to the sea for a drink. The Gower legend comes from stories that King Arthur found the stone in his boot and flung it away, which is where it stands now. This old story suggests that King Arthur was a giant. The stone itself, also called Maen Ceti, is a Neolithic burial chamber.

The ghost of Lady Jane Grey happens each year in Newton Linford, on the bridge near the ruins of a castle that was named Bradgate House. It's believed she sits in a coach pulled by headless horses, that passes along the bridge and looks out of the window. The ruins was where she grew up, so this seems the reason for her return. It happens on the 23th January, and it's not known why this date. Legend has it there's activity on New Year's Eve. And then her ghost appears wandering around the chapel. 

A headless horseman travels along a road in Stourton, Wiltshire. It's believed that he's the ghost of a man who broke his neck after being flung from his horse. He was originally trying to get to Wincanton Market from Stourton quickly and it stressed his horse. Now sometimes his ghost often appears on the 31st January with a black dog. 

During the first new moon of the year, a ghost monk appears in Guisborough, North Yorkshire. He's also referred to as the "Black Monk" and he always appeared in the ruins of Guisborough Priory, and also linked with travelling around to what is Monks Walk. a lime tree avenue associated with monks using hidden passages. Some say a box of buried treasure guarded by a raven is somewhere hidden there.

She Wolf Night 

Island of dolls

 

La Isla de las Munecas is one of the creepiest places that will give some nightmares. It's better known as the Island of Dolls, located in Xochimilco in Mexico City. Those with a fear of dolls would try and avoid it. While this island seems to be small and there are dolls as the only inhabitants, it's got a dark history.

A caretaker living on the island made a grim discovery. He found the body of a drowned girl and her spirit haunted him while he was coming to terms with the tragedy. This was during the 1950's, long before the internet, and he started placing dolls here and there to help the spirit feel better. Soon this became a hobby, and he collected many more dolls to hang up for the ghost girl. 

One of the dolls was believed to belong to the drowned girl, which was found floating on the water of the canal. The caretaker soon grew more obsessed with locating dolls, from new to old, pristine and pretty to broken and filthy. He found dolls anywhere, sometimes in the canal, on walks, discarded dolls and even dolls left in gardens he accessed. He hung the dolls up to help the ghost girl, but soon he was helping more spirits of children become appeased. 

The man died in 2001, elderly and with a legacy. His island became legend. The strange thing was that he drowned in the exact same place that he found the deceased girl decades before. 

Today the island is a popular tourist attraction and keen paranormal research location. It's believed the spirit of the drowned girl plays with the dolls. Also it's believed the dolls whisper at night and move on their own. It could be the wind or the ghosts of the drowned girl and the caretaker. The dolls can be found hanging from all around the island.

She Wolf Night 

Spooky quicks January 2026

 Everyone, Happy New Year!

Let's start off 2026 talking about some short brief weird news and then personal stories. It's rumoured that real aliens appear in a brand new film by Steven Spielberg. It's called "Disclosure Day" and will be released in the summer 2026. Some believe it's not just for entertainment but to inform the public about UFO secrecy. Others pointed out the director wasn't going to make another UFO film unless it was something special. 

The January Wolf Moon will be the first of 13 moons this year. It's going to be a supermoon, and will appear on the 3rd January. It will also happen during a rare alignment of Earth, sun and moon in January. So the moon will be closest to Earth and we're closest to the sun. Despite the closeness of Earth, Sun and Moon, it's believed this might cause tidal havoc along coastlines and beaches. The last time such an event happened was in 1912, and people blamed the sinking of the Titanic on this event because of the pull of the sea shifting along icebergs. However, scientists don't think this was it but that will always be a mystery. 

The mysterious structure found beneath the Giza pyramids was confirmed when other satellites located it using radar. The technique is synthetic aperture radar Doppler tomography. The engineer who made it believes that the unknown city under Giza pyramids are just the "tip of the iceberg".

Occult arts using magical mirrors and scrying, could have a logical explanation, as scientists are theorising. They have suggested they've proven "time reflections" exist. It means electromagnetic waves are altered in different directions, as they made tests on light reflections at the CUNY centre in New York. The research was intended to create new technology for wireless and computers. 

Creepy news now, a man filmed a ghost in a car. In a Mendoza hospital carpark, an employee filmed someone playing around inside one of the parked cars, but the person disappeared mysteriously when he approached. This is very interesting. Watch the clip HERE on Instagram and decide for yourself if it's real or not. 

Personal experiences from people who revealed their strange sightings. A Reddit user named Jack_N_the_Box posted that on the walk home at 3am, he saw a very tall person wearing bright white clothes. The figure was about nine feet tall and walking across the lawns of houses. The unnerved witness described a sense of being watched. Another person named immortaldev saw a similar entity while driving along a frontage road at night, and then noticed a very tall amorphous white figure just standing on the side of the road. 

There will be more stories found at Graveyard Shift on Ranker.

She Wolf Night