Shadow dog - Norhern Stockholm

I just wanted to share with you something that happened yesterday 29 Jan 2010 at around 5.30 PM (17.30).

I live in Stockholm, Sweden in northern Europe and by this time a year it gets dark quite early (although the days are starting to get longer again). Right now there are quite a lot of snow and thus the ground is white and lights the dark up a bit.

My wife was driving home after some shopping at around 17.30 last night (it was dark already) and when she was almost home and drove into the road that leads to where we live (the road has quite a lot of houses on the lefthand-side with an open area in front of the houses where people park their cars and a small forest on the righthand-side) she had to slow down since she saw a dog on the righthand-side of the road, ie. the side where the forest is.

Now, it is quite common that dogowners take their dogs for a stroll in the forest so this wasnt unusual at all, so she slows down to let the dog pass. My wife thought the owner maybe was at the other side of the road towards the houses.

It is now she realizes that the "dog" doesnt really seem to be a dog, just shadow-like. I asked her what she meant when she told me this morning and she said that at that place there are streetlights, but she couldnt make out any feature of the "dog", it was just like shadows.

The "dog" went over the road, "almost with a floating motion", she said and went over to the left-side.

My wife had slowed down the car, but now continued on and she looked to the left for the dogowner and the dog....

...but there was NO trace AT ALL of the dog that just went over the road into the open area and of course no owner, just the empty area for parked cars.

A couple of seconds had only passed since the "dog" passed over the road.

I asked her whether it could have been a fox or similar or even a trick of the light, but she was certain that the doglike shadow passed in front of her car.

Last year a stray wolf for some reason went as far south as the northern suburbs of Stockholm and was killed by a car and we speculated that maybe this was something similar, but I am really unsure about this.

I would guess that a wolf would look like a dog of course, but then you probably would be able to see the shape, tail etc. and not just shadows.

I have no idea what this was and just wanted to share this with you to see whether anyone has seen something remotely similar, maybe in Sweden, maybe somewhere else.

Thanks,
K

[edit on 30-1-2010 by kickass]

Thats pretty wild. Thanks for sharing!

Strange tales from a strange land...good wolf/dog tale.

I have a family wolf tale...told to me by my Grandmother who has gone on.

Back in Ontario Canada...this would be my Grandmothers Grandmothers place...my Grandma was born 1910 thereabout.

So I would guess at the date of about 1875...

Anyhow my Great Great Grandmother was alone with 5 kids while the men in the area had all went out for a few days in the forest to cut lumber. It was a big event as a stove was loaded on the sled and the men set off for a few days of all cutting wood for the small community.\

During this time a lone wolf wondered into my Great great Grandmothers yard.

The dogs went nuts of course as well as the livestock so the wolf kept himself on a small rocky hill close to the farm and would howl everynight.

On the third night the wolf came to the door of the house and then howled outside the door.

This night the dogs stayed very quit and the wolf wondered around the yard not hurting any livestock or the dogs etc....but that night one of what would have been one of my great great uncles died as an infant.

The wolf never returned.



[edit on 30-1-2010 by whiteraven]