Dog Boy

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In 2005, The Central Arkansas Society for Paranormal Research (CASPR) was asked to visit a house at 65 Mulberry Street in the town of Quitman, Arkansas.

It seemed the owners of the house, a couple named Weaver, were experiencing odd events, such as lights turning on and off on their own, sudden noises, cold spots, and the feeling someone else was living in the house with them. Tony Weaver told CASPR founder Karen Shillings that he finally responded to their ad in the local newspaper when he saw a man dressed as a World War I soldier staring through the foyer into the living room.

Two years earlier, a renovator named Ed Munnerlyn working in the house at night also reported seeing a “large, weird-looking man” with “long, brown hair, creepy eyes, and great big arms and hands” holding a cat in a rear sunroom. Munnerlyn reported that the man walked right in front of him, glaring, before disappearing into the hallway. Munnerlyn also noted a “cold wind” down his back when the figure passed him.

Shortly thereafter, rumors began circulating sporadically of the mysterious “Dog Boy of Quitman,” whose piercing eyes could sometimes be spotted in the upstairs window of the house late at night.