10 Real Life Horror Stories That Will Freak You Out

3. Dog Suicides At Overtoun Bridge (1950-2014)

A murder mystery with a stranger than usual twist. There is a bridge located in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland that has caused numerous dogs at a rate of about one per year to commit suicide, falling about 50 feet to their deaths in the waterfalls below. Dogs who miraculously survived the fall were taken back to the top of the bridge (which boggles the mind). The dogs immediately then leapt again, attempting a suicide a second time.

This had been happening since the early 1950s. The only linking factors between the suicidal pooches that have been identified across the years were; the dogs jumped from the same side of the bridge, in clear weather and all the dogs were long snouted breeds - those that primarily use their nose as the first sense, as opposed to their vision as humans do. As the phenomenon came into the public light, the Society For The Protection Of Animals (the Scottish RSPCA) sent an animal habitat expert to the bridge to attempt to find a cause for the dog deaths.

Although he spent a series of months conducting a series of inconclusive tests, eventually, the most likely cause for the suicides was discovered. Mice and mink were found nesting on the side of the bridge, below the parapet. Not a certain answer, but the most likely cause with evidence is the potent urine of the male minks, which activates the hunting instincts of the dogs; leading them to leap to their deaths in an attempt to follow the scent. Were that not enough, a local man named Kevin Moy threw his two week old son from the bridge in 1994, believing his son to be either the anti-christ or a reincarnation of the Devil. Later, he attempted to commit suicide by leaping from the same bridge, and later by slashing his own wrists.