The English band Faustus created this beautiful song based around the legend of the Gurt Dog of Somerset. It was featured on their October 2016 album Death and Other Animals. The song highlights the protective nature of the Gurt Dog and tells a tale of a child that wandered at night only to be ushered home by a large, gentle canine friend.
Soundly dream, Sweetly dream, Close your ears and pray. Gurt Dog howls, On the prowl, For children who’ve run away.
A muzzle pushed into my palm, Velvet it was and warm. The hills were kind, the moor was small, I’d soon be safely home.
He galloped me up to my door, I stretched to kiss his nose. Then climbed back into my fleece-lined bed, Dry down to my clothes.
Cryptid of the Day: Javan Tiger
Description: Tigers were hunted to extinction in the mid 1970s, but only declared extinct in 2008. Despite this, reports of the tiger’s survival were recorded in that same year. Many beilve there’s a some tigers alive around Mount Merbabu National Park, in Central Java. The latest sighting was recorded in August of 2017.
North America got the massive sasquatch
Mexico got the dreaded chupacabra
Japan got ……. fat snake
A black dog spirit that guards church graveyards and is an embodiment of demonic and spectral energy.
“A thylacine painted on the ceiling of a rock shelter in Kakadu NP. They have been extinct on the mainland for >3000 years, but the artist obviously knew them in life.” - Sam Sweet
Source: Sam Sweet