Black Shuck
Peterborough, East Anglia region England, 1127, 03:30am, Abbot Henry of Poitou,
The air was cold the sky was dark but clear,
it was a humid night, the morning dew starting to settle on the horizon as fag,
The road's where clear and the kettle whistling from the heat from the gas stove, boiling water vapour leaving the spout,
The caretaker awoke, from his well-deserved sleep on his cotton sofa made from the finest oak wood,
He sighed as he slapped his Boney hand's off of his muscle less thigh's, he looked at his grandfather clock which was dusted and polished each day, He glanced at the painting he had Commish end, impressed and proud of this fine oil painting which he hung on his wall he smiled and said "My lord, I wish I had enough currency to buy myself a boat, I'd move into the ocean and leave this world behind but alas, I must work for my keep" and he headed to the Victorian kitchen,
he poured the hot water in the sink with a rag in which he used to clean up any dishes needing washed but as he poured the water into the porcelain sink, a clatter arose beyond the grounds of the abbey, "what was that sound, was it a possum? or was it the wind blowing over the rubbish?" he wondered aloud, but decided to think naught of it but that was until the bin's got knocked over with the sound of glass moving around "What must that be?" he said before checking out side he opened the door and what he saw was nothing he turned around to go back inside and that's when a big black puma jumped out and went for him "Someone hep me please! someone call for some help? The devil sent his hound to make me forsake my faith, demon be gone" but what happened next was the Black Shuck bite down in his throat, his blood gargled in his Oesophagus as it filled his lung's, the Black Shuck with its Jaw's clamped down ripped his trachea out, his body went limb and that's when more people came out,
The Black Shuck got a fright and fled from their sight.
no more than a few weeks after that attack reports of this hound who attacked a pair of hikers who went on a walk to the closest town which at the time would have been Holbeach and Spalding if I remember rightly, but with a creature as big as this you would have expected it to make its way forward until it had found a suitable place to live, for it to live ,
there have been several sightings of this creature across the UK from Littleport, London, blthburgh, Bungay Suffolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Norfolk, Essex, and East Anglia.
Back then and even now not all the report's the police get are taken seriously.
from brutal animal's attack's or Alien abductions, the police back then would have put theses killing's to a serial killer, but description's describe a Black a four legged animal, in speed and in strength, the type of claws it had as well as a pair of reflective eye's reflecting the red orange tinted flame from their candle's and thus the creature got name The Black shuck, as a way to describe what they were seeing in which was simple a jaguar or a wild puma in which escaped the zoo or circus which was traveling at the time, Afterall it was seen in a number of different places and people would have paid through their teeth to see "The Black Shuck" caged and trained for their amusement,
you can't arrest a wild cat after all plus you got to catch it first and you get a certain kind of experience that a trainer can get, due to that people panicked and word spread of a wild black hound which killed humans and terrified towns folk,
but in one land northern and high around a dormant volcano which was surrounded by tree's, let's not forget that this was back in the latter years of magic helping human's and when the giant's lived in such high volume's that they could be found in forests and woodland's,
and unicorn's still had their horn's and still lived in high quantities that you could find at least one family consisting of seven unicorn's 2 adult's and five child unicorn's, which had also found their selves' at the mercy of the black shuck which had also decreased the numbers of unicorn's and pixie's which usually got placed in jar's and experimented with by human's who were also hunting down witches and murdering giant's, the Black shuck was incredibly fast and covered hundreds of mile's in only a short and few number of hours which only increased the village folks terror and confusion especially at the time of Jack the ripper and other crazed killers of the time, while the village people hid away after sun down while law enforcement and hunter's went forth to hunt the Black shuck and yet none could ever find the beast so no one Know's for sure on what this thing was and we today are left to speculate on this creature's existence, Left forever unsure if it was truly from hell or a rationalisation of a wild untamed black cat in which escaped a traveling circus, after all back then people feared what they didn't understand and science wasn't as good as it is in the 21st century and in a time that witches were hunted down for committing crimes like terrorizing native people, causing havoc in towns, Could one have created or summoned the Black shuck? after-all legends put Black Cat's by the side of a wicked witch and say that if you saw a black cat it was supposed to bring you bad luck, The Black Shuck brings you fear and death but within that chaos the towns leader's would have gained control over the mass population, this is now known as "martial law".