The following information was posted several years ago. I thought I'd update a bit and then repost. Even though there has been a strong influx of bipedal canine sightings in recent years, there has also been a steady number of phantom black dog reports in the UK, as well as a few in the US: express - The fiery red eyes and the blood-curdling howls of ghostly Black Dogs have long haunted the pages of British literature. From Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles to the sinister Padfoot in the tales of Harry Potter, time and again nail-biting stories have been woven around the legend of mythical huge dogs.