Why do dogs keep leaping into a Scottish gorge?
Hundreds of Scots insist their pets have thrown themselves off Dumbarton’s ‘dog suicide bridge’. To try to debunk the mystery, Ceylan Yeginsu speaks to locals
www.independent.co.uk
Mackinnon is sitting huddled in the corner of a cafe with her two children, sipping hot chocolate as she describes the day three years ago when she was walking with her border collie Bonnie on Overtoun Bridge in Dumbarton, Scotland.
“Something overcame Bonnie as soon as we approached the bridge,” Mackinnon says. “At first she froze, but then she became possessed by a strange energy and ran and jumped right off the parapet.”
A bewitched dog lured to leap off a bridge by a malevolent force? It sounds like a preposterous scene straight from an old Twilight Zone episode.
But Mackinnon’s dog is one of hundreds that Scots insist have suddenly been compelled to throw themselves off the gothic stone structure since the 1950s. Many have ended up dead on the jagged rocks in the deep valley bed below.
Maybe some kind of optical illusion making dogs think it's not a drop?
Forced to consume table scraps? I mean, I sorta get it. Have you ever eaten Scottish food?
