Contemporary account
The Suffolk church storm
A same-year pamphlet reports the black creature at Bungay and Blythburgh.
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Chronological view
Encounters and their sources
The date of a meeting may differ from the date when it was first written down. This timeline keeps encounters, publications and later retellings in their proper order.
Historical report
Old Shock and the East Norfolk notices
Two distinct records, separated by twenty-one years, are kept together in one dossier: Amelia Opie’s journal account and the later Notes and Queries notice.
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The Blickling drawing room
An estate paper records a current tale of a black dog haunting the room.
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The Hell Hound in print
An undated Suffolk marsh tradition describes a black dog enforcing one of two paths.
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The Tolleshunt D’Arcy midwife
A later report remembers a silent hound keeping pace with a midwife’s bicycle through the Essex lanes.
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The Ditchingham road
Ernest Whiteland meets a shaggy black dog which vanishes as it comes level with him.
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William Fell’s road
Near Salcott crossroads, a black hound is said to have followed a horse and cart for half a mile.
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The Stour boundary in print
Newman and Wilson record a black dog running between Middleton in Essex and Boxford in Suffolk.
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The old western road in print
Wentworth Day's book supplies the earliest present lead for Black Shuck upon Peddars Way, which reaches the coast at Holme near Hunstanton.
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The Littleport defender in print
Barrett publishes the tale of a great black dog that died defending a young woman beside the mere.
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The Littleport road collected
Enid Porter publishes the Fen black-dog tradition gathered around Littleport and Brandon Creek.
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Hounds reported upon the sands
The untraced 1970 Great Yarmouth report is kept apart from Graham Grant's named 1972 Gorleston account.
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The Woodbridge pursuit
A black hound keeps pace with Keith Flory's motorcycle along Old Barrack Road.
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Across the A12 at Blythburgh
Craig Jenkins reports a huge shaggy dog crossing the road and running into mist over the marshes.
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The record remains open
Earlier papers are still sought. Dates will be revised when the evidence requires it.
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