Since the nineteen sixties, dogs have been jumping from the same spot on a Victorian stone bridge in Dumbarton, Scotland. The drop is fifteen metres to the rocks below. Some dogs have survived, been carried back to the top, returned to the exact same spot, and jumped again. Scientists have investigated. Warning signs have been posted. Nobody has produced an explanation that accounts for every documented case.

In this episode of 5 Minute Strange, we cover the full documented history of the Overtoun Bridge — the consistent location of every jump, the breeds most commonly involved, the scent theory that explains some of what happens and not all of it, and the ancient Celtic tradition that calls the area a thin place where the boundary between the living world and whatever lies beyond it is unusually close. The bridge is still in use. Dogs still cross it. The signs ask owners to keep their animals on leads near the parapet.

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