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Moved from another blog……..Update: I visited this area sometime in 2019 or 2020 during the winter. It wasn’t overly cold but cool enough. It took awhile to find the old church. The directions aren’t very clear but I finally found it after going back for a second time but not before getting stuck in the mud. It is a dirt road into the church. I don’t know what happened to the pictures. I’m sure I uploaded them to facebook and when I find them I’ll post them. Valle Crucis is close to Boone NC.

I read about this demon dog(hellhound) one night while on my phone before going to sleep and it has intrigued me ever since. Not that I would want to encounter this monster but I found a detailed story that I found quite mesmerising.
I find it so intriguing that when I get back to North Carolina I’ve decided to visit the place and certainly get photographs. It is said there is an old stone church(St. Johns Episcopal) nearby and that the rivers(streams) make a cross. The church was built in the 1800’s. The name Valle Crucis means “Valley of the Cross” in latin. The legend says the demon dog along with other strange beings lurk in the area.
By far, this story of the demon dog is probably one of the most terrifying I’ve read so far.
The old stone church is located along Highway 194 on the edge of town. The Watauga river runs through Valle Crucis according to wikipedia.

Since I found this fascinating I decided to do a bit of research on hellhounds. In ancient mythology they were said to guard the world of the dead such as graveyards and burial grounds. Their duties included guarding, looking for lost souls and undertaking other duties related to the afterlife. It is said seeing a demon dog or hearing it howl is an omen that means death is imminent. They are said to be protectors of the supernatural, all kinds of supernatural creatures. They are also referred to as the black dog. My uncle once told me a story of seeing a black dog one night when he was driving through Colorado and was extremely tired and of course defined it as a hallucination. In greek mythology the hellhound belonged to the god of death Hades and guarded the gates of Hell.

In the movie Black Dog with Patrick Swayze and Randy Travis, Patrick Swayze is truck driver that talks about and describes the black dog that you may see after driving for a very long time and when you’re tired like my Uncle was.

Before I get to the story told by a couple of young men driving in the area and another story posted by someone who was seeing a hellhound on a nightly basis and was seeking to banish it I will talk a little on my thoughts about this. Especially the nightly hellhound visits. One thing the poster said was she had been given a barrier spell by a friend. Also her parents weren’t bothered. Now this makes me wonder if she is into the occult or practicing spells. If she is, this should be a word to the wise, when you practice spells whether black or white, good or evil intentions, sometimes things can slip through. Sometimes a window or door is opened to other dimensions allowing creatures, entities, etc. to get through. Whether doorways to Hell can be opened I don’t know. I don’t want to find out. Many years ago I was very much into spellcasting. Not me so much but I relied on others to cast spells for me. Now the negativity should have fallen to them but a fair amount of negativity fell to me. Another big no-no is removing things from a cemetery. That too, can bring a large amount of negativity or bad karma. I’m not sure why but I read that there is no way to know how much negative energy is attached to the object or where it has been, for that matter. One thing is for sure, I would be praying very hard for God to banish this thing.

One thing to note: In most places where such demonic, supernatural occurrences are, is that satanic rituals are often practiced. And many of these places are gathering hubs for satanists. One such place is Stull Cemetery in Kansas(which is said to be a gateway to Hell) although after visiting I didn’t find anything particularly eerie, creepy or heavy about the place. But I also didn’t go up the hill to where the old church once stood. Whether the stories of satanic rituals is true I can’t say.

All of this is folklore and sounds like an episode of the TV show Supernatural but I don’t completely discount the stories even if they are urban legends. Legends get their start somewhere.

One of the most haunted roads in America is in New Jersey and said to be home to hellhounds, animal hybrids and other strange creatures.
One stretch of highway from Monticello, Utah to Gallup, New Mexico was renumbered US Highway 666 in August 1926 and became known as the devils highway due to the large amount of stories of hellhounds, phantom hitchhikers, ghostly cars running people off the road and sign theft. Route 666 stayed in service until May 2003 when it was renumbered to US Highway 491. One story coming from that highway was that a group of motorcyclists were attacked by a pack of hellhounds and lost arms and one bitten on the face.
It is said there are many satanic symbols in places that are supposed to be inaccessible.

This is the story from northcarolinaghosts.com from two young men driving in the area. Whether true or not I can’t say. The story was told to the writer some years ago. Valle Crucis isn’t too far from Boone North Carolina.

“It happened one time that that two young men were driving along this road around midnight. It was a clear night and the moon was full, bathing the valley in an eerie white glow.

As their car turned a corner passing the old church, the two young men saw a shadow leap out from behind one of the graves and into the road in front of them. Swerving to avoid whatever had landed in the road, the driver slammed his foot on the brake and pulled off onto the side of the narrow road. Wondering what he had almost hit, he craned his head around over his shoulder to see what was in the road.

It was a dog. But not an ordinary dog. This was a dog as tall and as wide as a full-grown man, covered with bristling black fur and baring its massive, yellow teeth. And the animal’s eyes were glowing. Not reflecting light like a dog’s eyes will do, but actually glowing, burning with a smoldering red light that seemed to have about it something of the very fires of Hell.

The one young man turned to the other and asked “Do you see that?”

“No,” his friend replied, “and neither do you.”

The animal began to walk towards their parked car. By mutual and unspoken agreement the driver lifted his foot off of the brake and slammed it down on the accelerator. They roared off down the mountain road, taking the hairpin turns and twists of the road and sixty …seventy…eighty miles an hour.

It was only when the driver looked in the rear view mirror that he realized the dog was still following them.

And keeping up with them.

And even gaining on them.

Panicked, and expecting the jaws of the dog to wrap around the bumper of the car and drag it back into hell, the driver gave one final push on the accelerator, and just as the beast was about to catch them, the car leapt over the bridge the water just below where the streams meet in a cross.

And the dog stopped following them.

They watched it fade into the distance and wondered what supernatural law it was that the animal was obliged to obey that kept its territory limited by the boundaries of the water. The two young men drove into Boone and went to the local waffle house, since it was the only place around that was open twenty four hours and they both knew that neither one was going to sleep that night.”

Here is a post on a forum by someone who was supposedly stalked by a hellhound. 

“For the past three months I have been seeing this dog like thing at the bottom of my stairs. Its back is arched like a cats but twisted somewhat. It has a long rat like tail. It has black tuffed, ragged fur. Its legs are skinny like a wooden walking cane. I haven’t gotten a good look at its feet but it appears to be just it’s paw bones. It has a skinny dog face and its ears are really pointy with tuffs on top. It has a long tongue. About the length of your arm to your elbow. This thing is huge. No normal dog can be this size. And lastly it has yellow glowing eyes.

I have been seeing it for most of my life. Showing up at random times. Sometimes I would see it for a second and then it’s gone. Nothing big or too spooky until currently. It didn’t show up for a few years, but now its back.

I walked out of my room three months ago to go to the bathroom. Out of the corner of my eye I saw something at the bottom of my stairs. I turned my head and saw this thing. It was staring at me. It didn’t do anything for the next week. I would see it at after 9 o’clock at night when I left my room to go to the bathroom. Each time it would stare at me. It was creepy, but manageable at first.

The next week it moved. It started walking up my stairs. Its gaze never looking away from me. It walked strangely. Its body twisting in painful looking ways. I bolted back into my room. I closed my door and ran across my room to grab a knife. I stared at my door all night. Chills ran up my spine. I felt like I was going to vomit from fear alone. Then this wave of hate slammed into my head. Then I realized this thing was on the other side of the door, waiting. This continued for a week. The feeling of hate coming from this creature getting stronger and stronger each night that I dared go outside my room.

Another week goes by. I made the mistake of exiting my room. It walked up the stairs and sat at the other side of my door again. This time something different happened. I was trying to get a grip on myself when something slammed against the door. I jumped in front of my door and held it against the slamming. It felt and sounded like claws scratching on the door and the banging and slamming didn’t stop until hours later.

I’m at my wits end. This thing keeps getting more violent. My door hinges have had to be fixed and replaced twice and I’ve had to paint my door over and over again. What scares me the most is this thing keeps following me. I’ve lived all over California and each time I move somewhere new I see this creature sometime during the time I live there. I have seen it more then three times, but I’m not dead. It looks like a hellhound, but I’m not really sure what one would look like. So, I’m guessing and assuming from what a few close friends have told me.

I really need help on how to get this creature to leave me alone or get what it wants from me. What should I do? What is this thing? What does it want? Why is it following me?

All I know on how to calm myself down during the visits from this creature is a barrier spell a friend taught me. I’m not sure what kind of spell it is. It worked for two months, but I feel like this creature is slowly breaking the spell.

Any help and knowledge would be valued greatly.”

I find these stories quite interesting to say the least and have given my opinions at the start of the stories. 

This is a very interesting book with paranormal stories as well as murder case stories.

Here’s another interesting book Monster Hunter’s Handbook which sounds like it is straight out of the TV show Supernatural. And the Haunted Ozarks.

References: 7 Types of Hellhounds on YouTube, What Hellhounds Reveal About Humans Oldest Companion and A List of Magical Creatures, Fantasy Animals.

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