Episode 3344: Dark Enigma - Tales Of Mysterious and Deadly Hellhounds From The British Isles

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Welcome heathens welcome to the world of the weird and unexplained. I’m your host, Nicole Delacroix and together, we will be investigating stories about the things that go bump in the night, monsters lurking under your bed or deep in the forest, that unknown creature lurking just out of sight and frighteningly imagined creatures, ghosts, supernatural beings and even some unsolved mysteries. So, sit back, grab your favorite drink, and prepare to be transported to today's dark Enigma....

And on today’s Dark enigma well as you know I’m revisiting True Blood, and so I’m getting ideas from the show, and today’s no different. So, with that said, we will still be playing our drinking game and as you know, the drinking game is only for those of us that are at home and have nowhere else to go tonight. The choice of libation is yours, so choose your poison accordingly… Alright, now for the game part how about every time I say Hound in any form, that will be a single shot and every time I say United Kingdom or England, that will be a double shot. Now that the business end is out of the way we can jump headfirst into today’s dark enigma… so put on your best Kilt and head with me to the highlands as we tell Tales Of Mysterious and Deadly Hell hounds From The British Isles.

Even within the realm of cryptozoology and anomalous phenomena, there are creatures that seem to defy easy classification. There is absolutely a distinct line between the field of cryptozoology, which by definition deals with undiscovered organisms which are real, flesh and blood animals, that of paranormal phenomena, and that of folklore. While they may at times cross paths or briefly converge, typically these fields are as different as night and day, and deal with entirely different sets of phenomena with different areas of study, classifications, methods, aims and goals.

Yet there are times when the gulf between them is not clear cut, when something that on the surface appears to be an uncategorized animal evades such a simple identification. These are the times when the mystery creature in question is not easily classifiable as real animal, paranormal apparition, nor mere legend, but rather a sort of subspecies of cryptozoology wherein we have something that cannot be readily identified as flesh and blood nor something more supernatural in origin, and so it remains in a kind of limbo between the realm of the tangible flesh and blood, and the world of ghosts, demons, and inter-dimensional beings. One such enigmatic beast has surely got to be the infamous black hell hounds of the United Kingdom, a category of creature so bizarre that it transcends any attempts to safely label it.