Mutley the dog
© MercuryMutley the dog
Aren't dogs the best? They greet you at the door, fall asleep at the foot of your bed, and haunt you from beyond the grave.

That is according to Barry and Christine Kennedy, a 39-year-old couple from Skelmersdale in Lancashire who claim that their dog Mutley visited them two months after he was put down.

Fortunately they caught the whole thing on camera and uploaded it onto social media, where it was shared more than 134,000 times.

The footage shows what Barry says is Mutley padding along across the kitchen floor.

And they had forewarning too - apparently the house had already filled up with a smell of 'wet dog'. (Although... they do have a new dog now. Just saying.)

'I thought it was silly at first but once I saw it with my own eyes I realised it simply wasn't dust or anything like that,' Barry said.

Barry, Christine and Smirnoff
© MercuryBarry and Christine with their new dog Smirnoff, who is definitely not causing the ghostly ‘wet dog’ smell.
Even Brenda Castellano, a 'paranormal investigator' who claims to help the US police with investigations, scrutinised the footage and said there was no way it could be a hoax.

'After I viewed that video, I contacted Barry and sent it to a paranormal friend who analyses pics and videos of a paranormal nature,' she said. 'The results deemed that the video was legitimate and untouched.'

Now, naturally we at Metro.co.uk would never cast doubt on a video purporting to show a ghost dog. We're no Brenda Castellano, after all.

But we've noticed an eerie resemblance between the ghost of 'Mutley' and, um, a bunch of fish swimming downstream.

What do you think?