Jonathan Frank Tate spent years in security operations, the military, and private contracting, but it's his time as Warden for Newborough and Llanddwyn on Anglesey that gives this account its setting.
His book, Factual Supernatural, is out now on Amazon, and this episode features one of its accounts exactly as he wrote it, unaltered.
No footsteps, no growl, no chase, just a small, familiar dog trotting happily through the pines at midnight, exactly as she'd always looked, hundreds of miles from the house where she should have been sleeping.
This is Mandy.
Tate spent years patrolling Newborough and Llanddwyn after dark, along paths worn by animals rather than people, in a landscape where centuries-old storms buried a royal court beneath the dunes.
On a calm, clear night deep in the forest, Tate spots movement among the trees: a small spaniel with reddish fur, moving happily through the undergrowth. He recognises her at once as Mandy, his grandmother's dog, a dog he hadn't seen in months while working in North Wales, hundreds of miles from her home in London. She looks exactly as she always had, relaxed and pleased, moving with total confidence through a forest she has no business being in. She glances back at him once, then carries on between the trees until the dark swallows her completely. The next day, Tate learns that Mandy died peacefully at his grandparents' house in London during the night, at almost exactly the same time he saw her.
Hear the full account in this episode, and find Factual Supernatural by Jonathan Frank Tate now on Amazon.
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