The Mystery of the Escaping Dogs

So our dogs have an amazing Houdini like ability to escape from the back yard.

Sure, parts of the fence are dodgy and easy for anything smaller than a cow to get through. But that stretch of the fence has been completely sectioned off from them, and the rest of the fence has been lined with bricks so that they can't dig under it.

That worked.

Kind of.

It at least stopped them getting out during the day.

Except now they get at at night. Only at night.

It's because that they were only getting out at night that at first we were inclined to believe that some local neighbourhood shits were letting them out through the gate. Probably just for laughs (losers).

So naturally, we chained and locked the gates so that this wouldn't happen anymore.

It didn't help.

As soon as it got dark, the dogs were magically out of the yard.

The others were still inclined to blame the local neighbourhood shits ... after a couple more extensive searches of the backyard to locate any holes that may have been missed the first few times around (there weren't any).

So the local neighbourhood shits were the likely culprit.

However, I don't believe it's them.

There's another explanation. And it's much more likely than the local neighbourhood shits looking for laughs.

It has to be Horry.

I should probably explain who Horry is for this to make sense.

Horry is the ghost that haunts our house. He has been haunting our house since Halloween 2009. Apparently we pissed him off when we went to the cemetary and tried doing a seonce (his grave was one of a few just chosen at random). To encourage him to show himself to us, we offered him some punch (I don't really blame him for getting pissed at us; it was horrible punch). When that didn't work, we gave him some more punch to try and appease him for disturbing his rest.

It didn't work, and now we have Horry's angry spirit haunting us.

And it would seem that he gets his kicks by letting the dogs out of the yard at night. Maybe he's hoping that they'll get hit by a car or something.

But it's the only thing that really explains how the dogs are only getting out when it's dark.

I'm not really a great ghost buff, but I'm pretty certain that ghosts are stronger at night, which makes sense, since it probably requires a bit of effort to magically (or ghostically) move them from one side of the fence to the other. Horry probably can't do that sort of thing during the day. Plus, it might give his little game away if he does it during the day and gets spotted.

And if it was local neighbourhood shits letting the dogs out, they would probably unchain the dogs and then run. Or at least leave the gate open and/or just starting taunting the dogs in some way or form.

Horry, however, doesn't do anything (as far as I can tell) to the dogs while they're tied up ... although it might explain why Back-up sometimes starts carrying on for no reason at night.