Essex dog can see ghosts and loves everyone 'alive or dead'
The cocker spaniel's owner says she often barks when no one is there
Last updated 31st Oct 2024
An Essex man has been telling us about his dog who he believes has a sixth sense, and can see ghosts.
Matt from Chelmsford has a spaniel called Jessica, and he says she often looks as if she can see people around their home.
He told Greatest Hits Radio Jessica can be found barking at doorways and bowing to be stroked, when there is visibly no one there.
Matt told us it all started when Jessica was a puppy, and they moved into their new home, built on the site of an old maternity ward in Essex.
He said when they first moved in, they would hear "banging coming from rooms where there was no one around," but added that they soon stopped hearing that.
However, Jessica was still reacting to something in the house, and Matt told us about one occasion when Jessica "sat down in the hallway, and bowed her head as if she was waiting to be stroked."
He said he tried to call her but she refused to move, because "she didn't want to leave this person or thing she was with."
We asked Matt how Jessica might react to trick or treaters tonight (31 October), and he told us "I don't think that she's going to be scared by them.
I suspect that whoever or whatever it is that she's seeing maybe aren't themselves dressed up in those costumes, so she won't make that sort of association."
He added "I think she she she always enjoys meeting people, whether they are alive or or dead."