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3 Horrifying Stories Where Dogs Saved the Day - Mr. Nightmare · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Dogs are called man's best friend for a reason. They
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  Speaker 1: will sacrifice themselves if it means saving the ones they love.
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  Speaker 1: Here are three horrifying stories that would have turned out
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  Speaker 1: tragic had a dog not been around. Number three. I
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  Speaker 1: had to watch after my sister when my parents were
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  Speaker 1: out one night. I wouldn't be out anyway though. I
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  Speaker 1: was busy playing the current hit game that had just
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  Speaker 1: come out at the time. My dog Sheriff was laying
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  Speaker 1: next to me when he lifted his head up and
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  Speaker 1: his ears twitched. You know, that thing that dogs do
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  Speaker 1: when they hear something. I paused the game to see
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  Speaker 1: if I could hear what he was listening for. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't hear anything and lost interest, assuming it was someone
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  Speaker 1: walking their dog outside or something. Sheriff jumped off the
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  Speaker 1: bed and ran out the half-open door to the bedroom.
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  Speaker 1: He was barking, going crazy at something. I didn't care
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  Speaker 1: to follow him. I simply yelled at him to shut up.
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  Speaker 1: But eventually, his normal annoying barking suddenly turned crazed and defensive.
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  Speaker 1: as if he were confronting something, or someone. That's when
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  Speaker 1: I got suspicious and ran to go see what it was.
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  Speaker 1: I heard a sheriff's nail scrape the basement steps as
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  Speaker 1: he flew down the stairs. My heart sank as I
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  Speaker 1: realized he must have been chasing something. I found myself
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  Speaker 1: standing at the top of the basement steps for a
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  Speaker 1: whole minute, staring into the darkness below, gathering up the
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  Speaker 1: courage to go down there. I finally did, turning the
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  Speaker 1: light on on the way down. Sheriff was standing by
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  Speaker 1: the door to the laundry room. I didn't even dream
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  Speaker 1: of opening that door. I trusted in him enough to
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  Speaker 1: believe that someone was in there. I struggled, but eventually
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  Speaker 1: picked him up and ran with him all the way
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  Speaker 1: back upstairs. As I was about to shut the light,
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  Speaker 1: I heard the sound of the laundry room door creaking open.
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  Speaker 1: At that instant, I slammed the basement door shut and
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  Speaker 1: locked it. I listened for a few moments with my
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  Speaker 1: ear against the door, and I could hear her. barely
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  Speaker 1: over the sound of Sheriff barking, the sound of the
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  Speaker 1: steps squeaking. I dove for the phone and called the police.
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  Speaker 1: When they arrived, they caught him trying to bust out
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  Speaker 1: through the basement window. Me and my sister watched as
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  Speaker 1: the officers walked him out to the car, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: never forget the dreadful stare the man gave me as
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  Speaker 1: he was forced into the backseat of the police car.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll also never forget how grateful I was to
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  Speaker 1: have Sheriff with me that night. Number two. I used
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  Speaker 1: to have a beagle pointer mix before she passed away
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  Speaker 1: at the age of 11. Her name was Mandy, and
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  Speaker 1: she was the sweetest and most loyal dog a person
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  Speaker 1: could ask for. She would never harm a fly, but
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  Speaker 1: she did have a big, troublemaking mouth. So the story goes,
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  Speaker 1: I was 15 years old, getting ready for sleep one
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  Speaker 1: night like any other night. Mandy slept in my room,
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  Speaker 1: and when I walked into my room, finally ready to
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  Speaker 1: crash in bed, I was greeted to Mandy growling. She
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  Speaker 1: wasn't looking at anything in particular. I playfully asked her
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  Speaker 1: what was wrong, and she just made an annoyed doggy
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  Speaker 1: sound before putting her head down. I found it funny.
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  Speaker 1: For the good hour of me rolling around trying to
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  Speaker 1: fall asleep, Mandy would constantly break the silence with growling.
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  Speaker 1: I would peek at her, but she would still have
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  Speaker 1: her head down. She showed no reaction to me offering
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  Speaker 1: to take her out, so I could check that off
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  Speaker 1: the list. It quickly went from cute and funny to
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  Speaker 1: just annoying. but I eventually fell asleep. I woke up
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  Speaker 1: to see that it was 2 a.m., and Mandy was growling.
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  Speaker 1: I tried to adjust my eyes in the dark, and
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  Speaker 1: I could eventually see Mandy standing in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the room. She was looking up at my closet door.
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  Speaker 1: I felt my heart begin to race. What I was
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  Speaker 1: witnessing was flat-out disturbing. I turned on the lamp and
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  Speaker 1: watched as Mandy continued to stare up at the elevated closets.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what I was thinking, but I decided
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  Speaker 1: to open up the closet and check what she was
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  Speaker 1: barking at. I want to note right now I have
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  Speaker 1: one of those closets that lead to an attic. When
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  Speaker 1: I checked, there was nothing in the closet, but I
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  Speaker 1: noticed the attic door was cracked open. You can imagine
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  Speaker 1: the fear in my body as I ran to my
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  Speaker 1: parents' room to get my dad. He didn't seem to
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  Speaker 1: take me too seriously until he got to my room
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  Speaker 1: and saw Mandy growling and looking up at my closet.
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  Speaker 1: My dad is a big guy, so we went in
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  Speaker 1: there without a weapon. I sat there, worried for what
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  Speaker 1: was to come next. What came next was my dad
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  Speaker 1: screaming at the top of his lungs at somebody. I
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  Speaker 1: heard boxes fall over and glass shatter as my dad
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  Speaker 1: moaned in apparent pain. Somebody was rushing out of the closet.
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  Speaker 1: I hoped it was my dad, but instead, some six-foot-five
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  Speaker 1: man with a hammer in his hand jumped out from
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  Speaker 1: the closet and passed me, What happened next still surprises everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Mandy jumped up and grabbed a hold of the man's
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  Speaker 1: arm with her teeth. The scream of the unfamiliar voice
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  Speaker 1: filled the room. My dad came rushing out of the
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  Speaker 1: closet just in time to jump onto the intruder, taking
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  Speaker 1: him down. He sent my mom to fetch my little
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  Speaker 1: brother's prop handcuffs. My dad held him down while I
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  Speaker 1: handcuffed him. Thankfully, he was sent to jail. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what his intentions were, but obviously if he had
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  Speaker 1: a hammer with him, he probably wasn't just planning on
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  Speaker 1: robbing us. If we didn't have Mandy at that time,
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  Speaker 1: I could only imagine what would have happened to our family.
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  Speaker 1: Number 1. I was only 11 years old, and my
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  Speaker 1: brother was only 8. We were walking our dog Buster
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  Speaker 1: around the block in the dark. Buster was a husky-German
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  Speaker 1: shepherd mix. Upon turning the corner to the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the block, we ran into a tall man who
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  Speaker 1: greeted us with a smile. He stopped in his tracks
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  Speaker 1: and seemed to expect us to as well. It seemed
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  Speaker 1: he was trying to start a conversation, but we just
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  Speaker 1: kept walking past. My brother kept looking back, telling me
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  Speaker 1: that the man was following us. He was right. Each
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  Speaker 1: time I turned around, the man was the same distance
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  Speaker 1: from us, but he would stop looking whenever we looked.
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  Speaker 1: I motioned to my brother to walk faster. The faster
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  Speaker 1: we started to walk, it seemed the closer he got
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  Speaker 1: to us. We were approaching our house, but my heart
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  Speaker 1: stopped when I heard the muffled scream of my brother
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  Speaker 1: as he was grabbed and pulled away. Buster started barking
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  Speaker 1: like a rabid dog and I shit you not, pulled
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  Speaker 1: the leash out of my hands and sunk his teeth
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  Speaker 1: into the man's leg. I could see the blood dripping
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  Speaker 1: down his leg as his screams caught the attention of
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  Speaker 1: the people inside their houses. Our neighbor came outside and
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  Speaker 1: we explained everything while pointing at the man. The man
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  Speaker 1: began hopping away. I had to put the leash back
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  Speaker 1: on Buster to keep him from chasing him. My neighbor
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  Speaker 1: called the cops. She was a tiny little woman. She
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  Speaker 1: couldn't do anything to that guy even if she tried.
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  Speaker 1: She then walked to our door and told our parents
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  Speaker 1: what happened. Police came to question us and the neighbor.
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  Speaker 1: They caught the man limping down a sidewalk a few
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  Speaker 1: blocks over shortly after. One of the cops told us
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  Speaker 1: our dog was a hero, but we already knew that.