The bridges is in West Dunbartonshire (Picture: YouTube/DR DAVID SANDS)

More than 600 dogs have jumped from a bridge dubbed the ‘haunted suicide bridge’, with at least 50 of them leaping to their deaths.

What’s odd is that no-one has any idea why.

The bridge in question is over a century old, and lies next to the Gothic castle Overtoun House in West Dunbartonshire.

It has been suggested that something is making the dogs over-excited, while others claim that supernatural forces are at work.


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One animal behaviourist believes ‘curiosity’ is killing the dogs (Picture: YouTube/DR DAVID SANDS)

‘I was standing there two years ago when I felt a firm, hard prod that felt like a finger,’ religious and philosophy teacher Paul Owens told the Sun.



‘Something or someone was trying to push me over the bridge too, just like the dogs.’

Some locals claim the bridge is haunted by the ‘White Lady of Overtoun’, who they say lives in the manor house, but whatever the reason, owners have had to be told to keep their dogs on a lead or risk them jumping to their death.

It has been noted that all the animals have something in common.

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Nearly all dogs jumped from the same side (Picture: YouTube/DR DAVID SANDS)

Those that jumped nearly all went off the same side and had long snouts, the Mirror reports, which has led leading animal behaviourist Dr David Sands to believe that sensory overload might play a part.

‘Just me as a person, all of your sense are on fire, you can sense and smell the waterfall. I can smell the undergrowth and I can see the Gothic part of the bridge,’ he told Animal Planet.

‘It’s perfectly natural for people to want to look down and I’m wondering if it’s the same for dogs.

‘I think it’s highly likely at all of the cases that it was curiosity that killed the dog.’

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