Beasts & cryptids

The Black Dog of Lochbuie

Lochbuie shore, near Moy Castle, Mull

Said to be 19th century

The Mull Directory says it does not bark or growl, and that it is said to appear before accidents, shipwrecks or deaths within the clan. It cites a nineteenth-century diary that mentions a sighting just days before a fishing boat went down off Carsaig, and another from a year of sickness. I could not find the diary or any older printed source for the Lochbuie black dog, and the story may be a modern combination of the Hugh of the Little Head omen with the general black dog tradition, so I have tagged it dubious.

Evidence
Dubious
Access
Open ground
Location
56.356, -5.860 (Parish-level only, treat as an area)

Sources: Mull Directory, Whispers in the Mist: Folklore and Ghost Stories of the Isle of Mull [other]

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