Comments on: The Demon Dog of Valle Crucis, North Carolina an Urban Legend

By: Jeff Johnson

Jeff Johnson — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:55:05 +0000

I heard a different story while at App and it had nothing to do with a dog. I heard that the preacher committed suicide for molesting someone and at the graveyard, the preacher is said to be buried at the bottom of the hill so all his congregation would “look down on him” for eternity. While at App, I took photography and went up there one fall afternoon to take pictures of the church and gravestones. While developing the film in the darkroom, i was washing one photo of the church when, very plainly to me and all of the other students, a shadow of a live coming down out of the vestibule led to what looked exactly like a body hanging. It shook me up pretty bad. Somewhere buried in my house i still have that photo.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 03:29:44 +0000

In reply to jdmayo1983gmailcom. I visited there several times when I was at App. Never saw anything, but it is really creepy.

By: Tritone

Tritone — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 01:47:04 +0000

In reply to jdmayo1983gmailcom. Awesome, let us know when you get going. We'd love to follow it.

By: jdmayo1983gmailcom

jdmayo1983gmailcom — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 19:51:18 +0000

Thanks for this. I am inspired to make a film about this now. I am making the Facebook page for it called Spirits of the Valley. I am a film maker from Greensboro NC.

By: ezekiel kincaid

ezekiel kincaid — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 21:08:36 +0000

In reply to Linda. Hey Linda, thanks for commenting. Those are actual pictures I took of the church. I live in the area and this is the church of the legend. It is a couple of turns off Highway 194 and is the only St. John's around. From what I have read the legends are based out of this church and not Holy Cross. However, being urban legend and being a story that has been passed down, it is possible it started off at Holy Cross (though I have not read of it happening there) and moved to St. John's. All the research I did connected the story to St. John's. Thanks again for reading!

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 21:02:39 +0000

In the account I read of the two students who encountered the dog, it was a *stone* church off of Hwy. 194, with leaning gravestones. That description matches the Holy Cross Episcopal Church, at Stiles Way. I have been to both Holy Cross and St. John’s Episcopal Church, and am familiar with the stories connected to St. John’s. However, it is a wooden church, and is not right off Hwy. 194. Either the writer of the article confused the two churches in his description , or he was referring to Holy Cross, not St. John’s, in regards to the demon dog story. What do you think?