Case file · Folklore / legend
The Black Dog of the Hanging Hills
A small black dog that leaves no footprints is said to haunt the Hanging Hills of Meriden, Connecticut: meet it once for joy, twice for sorrow, and the third time for death.
1898 CE · 41.58, -72.83 · status: legend
The account
The tale was written up by W. H. C. Pynchon in The Connecticut Quarterly in the late 1890s as a death omen linked to climbers' fatal falls. It belongs to the British and European black-dog tradition.