Trying to find a myth I heard as a kid
Hello! I'm hoping that someone on reddit can help me find this myth I remember but can't seem to find no matter how much I search for it.
The backstory is that as a teen I loved sharing and listening to scary stories so I would spend my time looking up scary stories and folklore to share with ny friends.
Theres this one myth that always stuck with me but when I try to search up what I remember about it now I can't seem to find anything.
The gist of it was that some guy was walking past a recent battlefield with all the remains still on it. He hears someone shouting to get away and hide. The voice says something about "the wild dog" is coming. The man walking turns to see the voice is from a soldier who had died on the battlefield only to then watch the soldier get eaten but a much larger more monstrous spirit (the dog he warned about). The man gets away safely and I remember the spirit specifically eats the souls of soldiers left after a battle.
The only other tidbits I remember is that I am certain it is Asian folklore, most likely Japanese, Vietnamese, or Filipino. I originally thought I had heard the story from a youtube channel called Snarled but can't find a video that matches the story I remember. I do remember most of the stories I liked from that channel being from those regions.
When looking up myths from those regions with similar vibes the closest I found was the Gashadokuro a yokai from Japanese folklore. This is a large skeleton found near battlefields and made up of the resentful spirits that died there. The skeleton catches victims on the road and bites their heads off to drink their blood.
It's very similar to the story I remember but missing the eating the ghosts of the soldiers and the references to wild dog. That name is mainly what keeps me from thinking I'm just misremembering because that 1 line about the wild dog coming has stuck with me so long.
I'm hoping someone can help me figure out what story I'm remember. Or let me know if I really am crazy.
Thank you for any help
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