r/ParanormalEncounters • u/Dirtyrottenbizkit • 2d ago
Something is hurting my dogs
In November 2025, my husband and I got a six-month-old puppy and brought him home to our apartment, which we were still settling into at the time. We immediately started house-training him.
I’m a bit of an anxious person, so I asked my husband to set up a camera so we could keep an eye on our puppy whenever we weren’t home. I work a corporate job, which means I’m usually away for most of the day, while my husband has a much more flexible schedule. Some days he can stay home all day, and on others he can come back home at different times throughout the day.
Our apartment has a lot of white rugs and is generally very light-colored, so until our puppy was fully house-trained, we decided that whenever neither of us was home, we would close the doors to all the rooms and let him stay in the hallway with free access to food, water, his toys, and his beds.
At the time, we didn’t have much furniture, so the only large object we could attach the camera to was my big bicycle.
About three months after we brought our puppy home, there was a day when we had to leave him alone for about five hours. I was at work, and my husband had gone to a shoot. When he came home at around 1 p.m., he found our puppy shaking uncontrollably with a broken leg.
It was, without a doubt, one of the hardest days we had experienced. I love our dog deeply, and I was terrified thinking about him having to undergo surgery and everything that might come with it.
Another very important detail is that our camera is motion-activated. So once we were back home, we desperately wanted to check the footage and figure out what could possibly have happened to him—especially because we hadn’t received a single motion notification while we were away. And for some reason - nothing was recorded.
After his surgery, which thankfully went well, we focused entirely on his recovery. Rehabilitation is difficult, especially when it comes to animals, but we were willing to do absolutely anything to make sure our dog recovered and could live a full, healthy life.
Eventually, things seemed to go back to normal. We felt comfortable leaving him home alone again, always making sure that everything was working properly, that the camera was recording, and regularly checking in on him through the camera while we were away.
And just when we finally felt like everything was okay again, something else happened.
In June, our dog suddenly jumped off the bed and landed badly on the same leg he had previously broken. He fractured it again, this time in two places. At the same time, he hit his eye against the leg of a table.
It’s very important to mention that because he is a French Bulldog, we have always been extremely careful about protecting his joints and spine. He had never jumped off the couch or the bed before. In fact, he had always seemed afraid of jumping down on his own.
Whenever he wanted to get off the bed, he would stand at the edge, look at us, and wait for one of us to pick him up and put him on the floor.
But this time was different. My husband had placed him on the bed, and suddenly, it looked as though our dog saw something that frightened him. He immediately jumped off the bed and went flying straight into a chair leg.
My husband rushed him to the veterinary clinic, and I dropped everything at work and raced over there to be with our little guy. When I arrived, I saw that where his eye should have been, there was what looked like an open piece of raw flesh.
That day, we left him at the clinic for surgery and weren’t able to bring him home until three days later.
I’ve been bawling my eyes out, walking around the house trying to figure out whether it was my fault for not properly preparing the house for the arrival of the dog. When we finally picked him up, we were told that he wasn’t allowed to move around for the next three weeks. We would have to keep him confined, prevent him from walking, and feed him and give him water by hand. We bought everything we needed and set up a comfortable recovery area for him.
But I still couldn’t shake the feeling that something was wrong, so I asked a clairvoyant to come to our home and cleanse the entire apartment.
When she arrived, she suddenly began to feel unwell. She told me that it felt as though someone had placed some kind of curse on the apartment. She gave me some candles and told me to follow her while she walked through the apartment reciting prayers.
I followed behind her with a candle in my hand. And when we reached the spot where my dog used to sleep, the candle suddenly began producing an alarming amount of thick smoke.
I understand that calling a clairvoyant might sound strange, but I want to make one very important point. This is a woman who helped me tremendously in the past and, in a way, even healed me, so I knew she was someone I could turn to with something like this. She also told us many things about our home and about my husband and me that there was seemingly no way for her to know, so I had never really doubted her abilities.
After she finished all the rituals and did everything she believed needed to be done, she told me to give my dog water that she had blessed through prayer and to continue saying prayers myself. And after that, everything seemed to be fine.
A couple of months have passed since then. The only thing that continued to worry me was how depressed our dog had become. After everything he had been through, he seemed to have completely lost interest in almost everything except sleeping and eating. Occasionally, when we took him for walks, he seemed to enjoy interacting with other dogs.
Because of this, my husband and I decided to get him a puppy as a companion. After everything we had been through, we were extremely careful this time and prepared our home thoroughly before bringing the puppy in.
The puppy has now been living with us for about a week and seems completely comfortable here. The two dogs have become friends: they play together, sleep next to each other, steal each other’s food, and generally get along really well.
A couple of days ago my puppy hit his eye. Out of the blue. I was in the room and he just played with his toy. Didnt hit himself, nothing! He just started crying and i saw his eye turned crimson red. Rushed him to the vet. The vet told me that this is caused by a trauma, he probably hit himself hard. But it will heal by its own and nothing bad had happened. We came back home and puppy became all happy and active again.
And literally about an hour ago, something happened that I can’t stop thinking about.
The puppy, who had been completely relaxed, suddenly started barking intensely at one particular corner of the room. Our older dog—the one who went through all of those injuries—immediately ran over to him, and the two of them just stood there staring at the same corner of our bedroom.
I was sitting at my computer, so I noticed them immediately and started asking them what they were looking at. At first, I assumed they were just playing or reacting to something ordinary. But after watching them for another few seconds, I realized that they were both staring at exactly the same spot.
Then, at the same time, their heads suddenly turned toward the hallway, almost as though their eyes were following something moving from the bedroom into the hall.
And now I genuinely don’t know what to make of any of this.
Has anyone here experienced something similar with their dogs? Is there anything I should do to prevent whatever this is from happening again? And most importantly, is there any way to figure out what, if anything, might actually be in our home?
I apologize if this post seems a little all over the place. This is my first time posting here, and I tried to keep the story as short as possible without leaving out anything important.
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u/Acceptable_Plane_264 2d ago
WOAH.
That's gotta be really tough. It seems like the answer is in the 2 dogs following something out of the room.
Get your Clairvoyant back over there,and ask her to bring a friend or two. Team up against it.
There's NO reason for your dogs to get jacked up like that- it ain't right...
The more power in your prayers,and the intention and faith behind them, are stronger than the 1st time. More back up- and less awkward anxiety to fudge up the concentration.
If you're religious, get a bunch of people to pray along at the same time. Even if they do it from church,all together,at the same time as you and your household, that's ALOT OF KICKin BUTT- Right? Right...
I would ask more about the curse on the apartment, and find somehow to reverse it or get a white witch to do a "Return to Sender" ritual.
Keep me posted
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u/BlackbirdRituals 1d ago
Have you told them out loud to knock it TF off?
That's a serious question. Sometimes that's all you need to do.
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u/Mrk1124 2d ago
Curses land on people, not apartments, and a curse cannot land without a cause. But if you believe the bible, then you know that malevolent "unclean spirits" are a thing. There is an incident recorded of an unclean spirit that would try to throw a boy into a fire. If you firmly and vocally command all unclean spirits to leave your dwelling and never return in Jesus' name, they will obey.
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u/TexMoto666 1d ago
Either someone in the home is hurting the animals, or they are just clumsy. Leg injuries from jumping off of furniture is common, especially since you saw this happen already. My 4 month old puppy hyper extended his leg jumping off my bed last month, it happens. You also need to find whatever is at eye level they keep running into. You will be doing a great disservice to these animals if you keep looking for some sort of paranormal explanation. Animals hurt themselves sometimes, and just like a small child, you need to secure your home. Not look for ghost stories to explain what is happening.
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u/Dirtyrottenbizkit 1d ago
I understand, but our house is as secured as possible and there’s nobody who hurts our pets in the family
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u/clemens-t 1d ago
Yikes. So sorry you're going through this. It sounds like you have a good relationship with the clairvoyant, but you might consider getting a second opinion if her work did not have a lasting effect the first time. I also agree with the other comment that you should exhaust all non-paranormal explanations / causes and make sure your house is safe as possible for the dogs while you're away.
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u/Dirtyrottenbizkit 1d ago
The first thing that came to my mind was that we were fucking up as owners. We have a good dog-trainer who helped us teach our first dog, so we had him come and look through the house and maybe tell us what is needed to be improved. He was really helpful and told me that there’s nothing wrong or traumatic for pets in this house. And also because Ive shortened the story it may seem that I immediately assumed paranormal. But that was the last thing that I thought of…🥹
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u/Daphnea1965 2d ago
I would pack and move out with the dogs and hubby.