{"id":129,"date":"2012-10-18T04:45:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T04:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2014-09-04T23:26:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T23:26:32","slug":"the-hounds-of-hells-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-hounds-of-hells-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hounds of Hells Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sunset<\/a>
\nBarking from its rocky shore
\nAt sailors passing by
\nSometimes at the death of day
\nSometimes under a noontime sky
\nThe black dog and her starving pups
\nHaunt this area the locals tell
\nThat’s known to all as Loch Hourn
\nOtherwise the Lake of Hell<\/p>\n

This remote Scottish area
\nWould make a great landscape
\nWas said for a thousand years to be
\nHome for the creature that can change shape
\nThat it desired itself to do
\nIt would form for those to see
\nThat it would lure to their death
\nIt was called the Kelpie!<\/p>\n

And among its shadowy waters
\nSometimes covered clouds dense and fogs.
\nThere lies a landmass in the middle
\nKnows as the Isle of the Wild Dogs.
\nAnd on dark and stormy nights
\nIts not just the wind… the locals know
\nBut the dark howling of the dogs who died
\nSome ninety years ago!<\/p>\n

A son to hunt rabbits went
\nDonald Cameron and his pet
\nThat was due to have puppies soon
\nTo hunt together out they set.
\nAfter sometime the dog got lost
\nAs Cameron cursed his luck
\nHis dog in a cave he found
\nThat had collapsed \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the dog was now stuck!<\/p>\n

Though he tried, to save he failed
\nAnd so back home he went
\nFor till his faithful dog was freed
\nHe would not rest content
\nBut storms were blowing stronger that day
\nAnd held for many more
\nAnd the Cameron boys were thwarted
\nEach time the storm cast them back to mainland shore.<\/p>\n

The Great War was now raging
\nAnd young Cameron got the call
\nAnd the morning he left he was his dog
\nHad freed itself from the rockfall
\nAnd it stood on its shoreline
\nLooking at its master and friend
\nWho by cruelty and mankind
\nHis country to war him did send.<\/p>\n

And when to war the boy had gone
\nHis brothers tried some more
\nThe stormy waters for to cross
\nAnd reach the islands shore
\nThe dog had her pups since then
\nThough food was in scarce supply
\nAnd temper and trust she had not for them
\nAnd to attack she was not shy.<\/p>\n

On a spring evening in 1915
\nAs her half grown pups around her played
\nShe sat upon a shoreline rock
\nAnd quite a sight she made
\nAs the sun sank behind the ocean
\nTelling end of day to beast, to man and fowl
\nHer head she threw back to the sky
\nAnd let an eerie high pitched howl!<\/p>\n

All that long night she could be heard
\nCrying to the black black sky
\nNext morning on the shore was found
\nHer corpse!for she did die!
\nSome time later the word came
\nThat on that very day
\nHer master died at war in Europe
\nRound the time she began to bay.<\/p>\n

Her pups ruled the island as their own
\nAttacked those who on it did land
\nIncluding an unfortunate yachtsman
\nWho nearly lost his like, not only his hand!
\nThe men folk from the village
\nTo organize themselves set out
\nAnd after some days were happy
\nThat the wild pack was wiped out.<\/p>\n

Some said that still a dog was seen
\nBy the shoreline, crying to the sky
\nAcross the loch from where it came
\nIn distant days gone by!
\nIn April 1930, a shepherd there slept
\nWith flock and dog for the night
\nAnd, to the baying of a pack, he rose to check
\nBut nothing of them was in sight.<\/p>\n

The flock were grazing peaceful
\nNormal all did appear
\nOnly the whimpering terror of his own dog
\nGave substance to his fear
\nIn time the island was sold
\nBy major Lewis O’ Conner it was bought
\nHis son Keven went to the isle to see
\nThough locals told him that not he aught.<\/p>\n

Shortly after he landed
\nIt is told by other men
\nCame barking loud and a cry for help
\nKevin was never seen again.
\nThe Major through the island wildly searched
\nBut nothing found at all
\nOf man or dog, that was ever there
\nNo matter where he looked or did call.<\/p>\n

As the search boats back to the mainland went
\nOne constable claimed to see
\nA Labrador black upon a rock
\nLooking out at them on the sea.
\nSo rapidly back they returned
\nAnd tracker dogs from the mainland they brought
\nThe mysterious creature had disappeared.
\nThey found not what they sought.<\/p>\n

There are people to this very day
\nWho to the isle wont go
\nFor they of the tragedy
\nAnd of the stories know.
\nShould you dear reader be so bold
\nAs your way there to make
\nSteer clear of the Isle of the Wild Dogs
\nOn Loch Hourn, in English: Hells Lake!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barking from its rocky shore At sailors passing by Sometimes at the death of day Sometimes under a noontime sky The black dog and her starving pups Haunt this area the locals tell That’s known to all as Loch Hourn Otherwise the Lake of Hell This remote Scottish area Would …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[78,222,221],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghost-stories","tag-ghost-story","tag-loch-hourne","tag-scottish-ghost-story","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-25","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":595,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-headless-horseman-rides-at-night\/","url_meta":{"origin":129,"position":0},"title":"The Headless Horseman Rides At Night","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"31st October 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The headless horseman rides at night The story the locals tell From Charleville walls is seen the sight Of the spectre from hell And by the barracks wall he gallops fast The story it is said Long by the canal and Bond store at last The Horseman his way he\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Ghost Stories"","block_context":{"text":"Ghost Stories","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/folklore-and-legend\/ghost-stories\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":545,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/dead-souls-and-black-dogs\/","url_meta":{"origin":129,"position":1},"title":"Dead Souls And Black Dogs","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"10th September 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The little old lady had lived for long, She was great of age And the time was coming along For her to exit life's stage But there were those who dwelt beside her That strange things of her said She had contact with the other world And that strange prayers\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Family Stories"","block_context":{"text":"Family Stories","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/family-stories\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2940,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/lady-of-lough-gowna\/","url_meta":{"origin":129,"position":2},"title":"Lady of Lough Gowna","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"8th July 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"An eerie cry echos the evening air The mermaids plaintive song The saying among the folk that know Is there will be a drowing before long. 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