Hello again R. L. Stein Story Club members. I'm Ivy, your ghostly host and keeper of those strange and spooky tales from the hidden vault of R.L. Stein. Today is another chilling tale. This shaggy dog tale story club members is one of my all-time favorites

and never fails to make my skin crawl. It's one I call Rex the Ghost Dog. So you've heard

all about the ghosts of people who return to a place after physical death. If you haven't,

then you aren't tuning in enough to Ivy's chilling tales.

But what about an animal?

Many people believe, or have witnessed, that, like people, animals can become ghosts, too.

Some have claimed that beloved pets, after being long dead, have returned home in spirit form.

I covered Sally Ann Jarrett, the ghost dog that haunts Gettysburg,

but this is an entirely different kind of haunting. That's right, devoted listeners. This

dog haunting occurred during the early part of the 20th century. It happened in a place known as Sunnybank,

an estate in New Jersey that was the home of Albert Payson Terhoun, a famous author of dog stories.

Mr. Terhoun was a great dog lover. He adored Collies, but his favorite pet was a crossbreed named Rex,

who was completely and totally devoted to the writer. Rex was a large dog, the size of a Great Dane,

with a light brown coat and an angry-looking scar across his forehead.

The scar made Rex appear more ferocious than he really was.

Although Rex felt it was his duty to bark at every guest who crossed the threshold of Mr. Terhoun's home,

most of the time he could be found curled up at the author's feet.

From his resting spot, Rex would look up at

his master's face as he sat at the typewriter in his study, crafting another best-selling canine

tail. You can see why Rex was Mr. Terhoun's favorite doggo, right? Good old Rex. And then, tragedy

struck. In March 1916, Rex was killed in an accident. Greatly saddened at the

loss of his beloved and devoted pet, Mr. Terhoun wrote the story, Lad, a dog, as a tribute to the

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