Due to the graphic nature of this story, listener discretion is advised.

This episode includes discussions of violence against animals, mutilation, and murder.

We advise extreme caution for children under 13.

Once upon a time, the most famous detective in all of England had a new case.

He wasn't Sherlock Holmes, but people said he came pretty close.

His name was Robert Fabian, and in 1945, he visited a small village in Workshire, England

to solve the vicious murder of a farmhand.

After a few days of investigation, the detective and the local superintendent climbed the sloped

fields, raving the frigid winter wind.

Finally, they reached the top of 637 foot neon hill.

They looked down at the view below.

Just farmland and crops as far as the eye could see, then the two men turned their attention

to neon itself.

It had bare stone walls to partition the fields, as they looked on, a dog ran down the hill,

a black dog.

Fabian thought it was an ordinary farm animal, but a few minutes later, a young boy passed

by.

When the detective asked if the loose dog belonged to him, the boy seemed confused.

He asked, dog, mister?

And then, when detective Fabian described the black dog they'd seen, the boy became spooked.

That's when the police officers realized no one else had seen it.

As the superintendent explained, the boy thought the detective had just laid eyes on a ghost.

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