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First off, apologies for any mistakes... I'm on my break on night shift
and on my phone...

This is a story my gran would tell of something that happened to her
when she was younger and happened some time around the mid 60s... first
a little background, the city we live in has a LOT of parks, including
many of those little fenced in gardens in the middle of squares, the
current name is based on gaelic for 'dear green place'...

Anyway, my gran worked in a theatre and after work would get the last
bus home at around midnight then walk a short distance home, past one of
these fenced in communal gardens... usually the local police man (this
was the days when people knew and were friendly with their local bobby)
would meet her off the bus..

One night she was on the bus when some sketchy guy sat next to her and
generally was being sketchy, asking her personal questions etc.. she
eventually got up and stood by the bus driver, she was a regular on the
bus and knew she could get some friendly chat from him to deter mr
sketchy.

On getting to her stop she stepped off the bus and her regular escort,
the policeman, was nowhere to be seen. To make matters worse mr sketchy
jumps up a gets off the bus at the last minute. He walks off in the
opposite direction from her, but keeps looking over his shoulder at her
as he does so.

The bus pulls away and in the middle of the road is a huge black dog. A
bit freaked out by everything she starts of for home at a fast pace..
the dog follows at a distance of about 20 feet, freaking her out even
more.

She turns a corner, to the section of her journey that takes her past
the fenced in garden. As she approaches the open gate the dog sprints
for her.. and stops about 2 feet from where she is. It then starts
growling and barking, hackles up, going mental towards the direction of
the garden. This understandably is the final straw, she sprints for home
and the dog stops it's barking and runs after but keeping a distance of
a few feet the entire time.. its not like it can't catch her, it easily
could but doesn't seem to want to. When she gets to her building it
stops and just watches her go inside. She told my granda the minute she
got into their flat and he looks out the window, no dog on the street,
nothing.

The next day my grandparents found out that the friendly local cop had
died the day before of a heart attack.. and few days later there were
reports a young woman had been attacked a few streets away from my
grandmother's route home on that night around 1am.

Tl/dr policeman reincarnated as devil dog saves granny from a raping

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