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For five centuries, witnesses across Suffolk and Norfolk have described the same creature: a huge black dog, eyes burning like coals, that moves in silence along hedgerows and churchyard walls. In some accounts, to see it is a death omen. In others, it is simply there — watchful, indifferent, ancient.
This episode traces the earliest written records of Black Shuck back to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, examines the 1577 Bungay incident in detail, and asks what the persistence of a single image across five hundred years of folk memory actually means.
A strange and terrible wonder wrought very late in the parish church of Bungay, a town of no great distance from the city of Norwich.
We also speak to a man from Beccles whose father swears to this day that he encountered something on the Dunwich road in 1987. It doesn’t fit any of the historical descriptions. Which is perhaps the strangest part.
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
03:20 The earliest written records
10:45 The 1577 Bungay incident
19:00 What do the accounts actually say?
26:30 A modern encounter
32:10 Why the image persists