* The former Gwyn Davies butchers which a dog has trouble walking past.
A fascinating Facebook post about a
closed-down Llangollen business has turned into a running story with ghostly overtones.
It began yesterday
afternoon when a visitor to the town posed the question on Llangollen &
District Noticeboard, above a picture of the former Gwyn Davies butchers in
Castle Street which closed about six months ago: “Why does my dog freak out walking past this old butchers shop?
“Been coming Llangollen, for years, great place,
whenever I walk the dog past this place my dog goes crazy and tries to run
away, he's done this for four years since he was a pup, has anybody else
experienced this? He's a huge mastiff and has never been spooked by anything
other than walking past here.”
* Copper, the dog that started the debate.
The question immediately sparked an intensive online
debate about the reasons behind the dog’s odd behaviour which has so far
attracted around 80 comments.
A number have been the usual mickey-taking but some
have suggested a supernatural reason for why the animal gets spooked outside
the shop, which remains unoccupied following the retirement of Gwyn Davies.
One person commented: “Senses animal death vibes/energy maybe.
Another suggested: “They can smell blood.”
And another: “All
animals are sensitive to spirits. May be coincidence it’s a butchers.”
“He feels like
he is walking past a graveyard with all the dead meat in there,” said someone
else.
Other people
related similar experiences such as: “We had a collie many years ago, when we
took her with us on holiday there was a butchers in Barmouth that she wouldn't
go past.”
Then the history of the Castle Street
shop comes in focus, with one person commenting: “Recent
historic pictures of Llangollen have shown many raw carcasses hanging outside
the shop years ago. Row upon row of sheep cows and chickens before Gwyn had it.”
Then another
person explained: “It used to be slaughterhouse and butchers.”
Later in the
comments things took a supernatural turn as someone posted: “I remember my
Uncle, old Noddy (local historian) telling me that above the shop was haunted.
Maybe that is why?”
The ghostly theme
is taken up in another comment which said: “There was a large German Shepherd
that would not enter the kitchen in our local pub, as he got to the door of the
kitchen he froze. It was said the pub was haunted.”
And someone else said: “My
father worked there when Edwards’s owned it many years ago, they used to do their
own slaughtering in those days at the rear of the premises, he may sense these
things, dogs are really intelligent/sensitive.”
There are
further ghostly suggestions with the comment: “I found at article about a
previous butcher seeing a ghost whilst walking to work in the butcher shop.”
Taking this up, another person
commented: “I worked there for Gwyn Davies a few years back in
the early 90's and heard tales that the cellar and the flat upstairs were
haunted. I never saw or heard anything though.”
Amusing but
rather unhelpful was one of the later comments, which suggested to the original
poster: “You need to call ghost butchers.”
* To see the Facebook post, go to: https://www.facebook.com/groups/220715008050894/permalink/4965354713586876/
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