Is it just me that is scared to go into field in the dark!

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I brought my little horse who I have on trial over to the yard on Tuesday, just as I think my confidence is going up (as very nervous) I have a wobble in the isolation field because it was pitch black, wet and windy.

Is anyone else a bit nervous in the pitch black or am I being a total wimp!!!
 
Think it must be the weather! It normally dosent bother me as all mine stay out all winter, but last night i forgot my torch and i had a sudden vision of a man jumping out of a bush at me on the way back from the field. Will be investing in a bigger mag lite and will remember to take it to the yard!
 
Yes me! well sort of I have been on 2 yards in the middle of nowhere in the past and was absolutely petrified when last there and had to turn lights out and walk to car/ do gates in the dark! Strangely felt much safer in the fields! Now I am on a yard with a cottage at the end of the drive and farm people about even after the liveries have gone home and am the brave one as all the liveries (and yard managers) hate being there alone in the dark :)
 
Ive just been to get my horses in and its blowing a gale pitch black and raining, our field is about 10 acres and up a hill and down the otherside, ive whistled and called walked up the hill to the hay feeder and the bu@@ers refused to come in!! So they are still out! It wasnt as scary tonight as last night when it was really quiet and all i could hear was an owl twit twooing!!
 
My boyfriend always says he feels fine in the dark because the horses notice something long before you do, so you'd always be safe.

I HATE IT! Because the horses, particularly my youngster, are SUPER spooky in the dark and everytime they spook I think its an axe murderer!

However, bizarrely, the other day I was on my own in the dark and I thought I saw someone with a torch in my field - adrenaline kicked in, I was desperate to protect the horses and didn't think twice about ploughing on in there!!!!!!

Puzzle, my baby, also is obsessed with torches and loves running full bolt at the light!
 
No I dont like the dark much either, but I feel more scared in it when its cold and windy!..

but I have been know to be out at 1am, with torch in hand trying to catch my stallion that had escaped....strange though I that night I wasnt scared, but it was summer..

And I do have a house in the mountains in the middle of nowhere....
 
not scared at all, but you should go to your local fishing shop. i got a "baseball" cap, that has an led light on the front, it's great for going down to the stables to do horses in the evening. was only 10 euro, and it's still working 12 mths later. and you have 2 hands free, great.
 
I hate being in my (rather isolated) yard on my own after dark. So if I'm on my own for evening stables they are always in & done before darkness falls.
 
Horses at a place with no near neighbours, only stable lights (literally, no yard lights even) so fields totally pitch black (near moors so very little light from other sources). Woods with owls on one side. First two years I was bothered (as I have seen beasties about), but now am fine. Tend to walk in middle of fielsd away from hedges/trees in case anything lurking there, but as long as nice strong torch reckon I'll see anything before it gets near me so feel fine. May siound harsh but just get a big torch (not talking headlamp here) & get on with it. If you are edgy the horses will play up & everything wll be much more scary. Remember you are the top predetor!
 
The place I moved to a couple of months ago is fine. Because of my working hours, I don't get there until about 7 in the evening. I park in the farmyard and walk about 200 yards along an unlit track to the fields (mine are the only horses there). I take a headtorch with me, but I actually find it easier to see walking down the track with the torch switched off. I only use the torch to examine the horses. As others have said, the horses will quickly tell you if something isn't quite right.

I feel perfectly comfortable about that, and I was also comfortable at the place I was at for 3 years before that. However, prior to that I was at a place which was so creepy I simply couldn't do the horses on my own in the dark. I would drive there and sit in the car (there was no mains electric) until OH arrived to keep me company and we would go out and check the horses (all living out) together. We only stayed there 9 months, and later found out that it was haunted by a ghost called Jim (a previous landowner) - and I don't think Jim liked us very much!
 
Not a big fan but we're lucky enough to have security lights on the path between the field and stables. I just end up feeling a bit of a plonker prancing around to get them on again when they time out. I always have my head torch too!
 
I HAVE NO CHOICE :)
I arrive at the yard 5.30 am and turn out, about quarter off a mile down the country lanes from the yard and walk back.
Same at 5.30pm.
I don't mind the dark,wind,rain but I get so scared when the lanes are flooded. I have a real thing about water and to walk through flood water in the dark frightens the crap out off me.
 
I'm scared of the dark as well, I hate it when I'm in the field with the horses on my own in the pitch black, suddenly they'll start snorting & then gallup off into the darkness leaving me standing there alone in the darkan convinced an axe murdered is creeping up on me!
 
I'm a terrible woose. I do the horses in the evening in the dark and hate it. I only have to walk up my driveway, across a small country road and over into my yard which has loads of lighting but its just the crossing the road bit I hate. I always have this vision of a ghost of an old lady flying past me on a bike laughing! - I think I have serious issues... or I have a very overactive imagination!

I think I'm genuinely afraid of the dark though. And yes, I do sleep with the light on in the hall with my bedroom door open...
 
Maginmelon - I know the feeling, at 32 and still sleep with the light on. After a lengthy power cut on friday sitting in the middle of nowhere with nothing but a candle which caused shadows so I thought they were ghosts! Ridiculous how your mind can run away with you!!
 
When our arena lights are working they light up the front two fields as well so i can generally see ok ish as we tend to bring them into those fields over winter. My two are currently in the next field back and i can just about see the gateway, but thankfully have trained one of them from a baby to come to call so i just stand there and shout and i get them both coming over :)

When arena lights aren't working i find i can see better in the dark when i don't have a torch!
 
Luckily my horse at home comes to a whistle!
Dog is rubbish on late night walks she spins round to check nothing is behind and then gets paranoid and keeps checking...makes me speed up to say the least.
Also leccy metre ran out the other day and OH had moved the torch so was standing in the dark holding baby waiting for OH to get home and the bleeding dog walked into my legs scared the hell out of me...sack the dog!
 
I get scared too!

Both fields are only a few hundred yards from the yard and the lights, but trees surround them and so make it much darker, even on a full moon clear night!

I call the horses and they normally come to me because they know it's teatime, but all I can see are two shadows galloping towards me and that freaks me out a bit!

I need to get a headlamp...and a Rottweiler!
 
Absolutely, I had to walk around a 10 acre field alone in the pitch black last week to get horse in, on the third day I asked my partner to come with me, he was livid didn't speak to me for two days.
Apparently if I get raped and my throat cut it would be my own fault as no one else on the planet would be that stupid.
It is a risk really as it backs onto public foot paths and if I was a lunatic it would be good stomping ground I guess.

Pleased to hear it isn't just me.
 
Not long after I got my girl and we were still on livery I read Stephen King's Pet Semetary and for weeks after I was terrified!

I remember putting her out one dark morning about 6am with freezing mist swirling round, I was clinging to her walking up the path, telling her "Right Lil, if the wendigo comes for us I'm gonna attempt to vault on (yeeah right) and we're gonna gallop away for our lives!"

I'm not the greatest in the dark at the best of times! Luckily working shifts means I usually have some daylight hours to do the GG's.
 
I'm not particularly bothered about being out in the dark, but I have a thing about torches. ( sorry if this creeps anyone out) My theory is, if I am out in the dark with a torch you can see exactly where I am from quite a distance away, I however would only see the bogeyman/nutter/general dodgy person IF I shone the torch at them! Therefore I never have a torch and put us on a level footing!
Mind you I watched Paranormal Activity the other night and had the wiggins going upstairs to bed after!!
 
coen said:
Absolutely, I had to walk around a 10 acre field alone in the pitch black last week to get horse in, on the third day I asked my partner to come with me, he was livid didn't speak to me for two days.
Apparently if I get raped and my throat cut it would be my own fault as no one else on the planet would be that stupid.
It is a risk really as it backs onto public foot paths and if I was a lunatic it would be good stomping ground I guess.

Pleased to hear it isn't just me.
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Livid cause you asked him or livid cause you have been doing it on your own?
Either way he'd be feeling my foot up his backside.
 
I hate it! My horse had his feet trimmed on sat and it was dark by the time he was done. Took him down but legged it back to yard as i could hear noises from the trees around the fields!
 
I get really freaked out and last night was walking out to catch them and was completely spooked by my YOs pig which suddenly made a huge oinking noise out of no where, causing me to shreik which made my horse spin round and me to almost fall face first in the mud. not fun. need a torch.
 
I'm terrified of the dark so no, it's not just you! Everyone thinks I'm a complete wuss... my house is down a little alley way (literally like 3 metres) off a drive and if I come back in the dark, I sometimes have to phone someone!
 
our fields are totally in darkness - set away from roads and I love it - I feel safer than walking down a town centre in day, i hear the owls calling rustling in hedgerow its peaceful and i just soak in the peace and quiet - mmmmm to me busy town centre with thugs louts drunks bag snatchers etc versus a quiet dark field off the road just animals around mmmm - just stand where you feel safe and take deep breaths and enjoy the peace and take another step stop enjoy the peace another step another breath and just let yourself enjoy the peace and watch the horses in dark its great - worst happens in the light of cities xxxxx
 
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