Just scared the c**p out of myself up the yard tonight!

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Ok, so I took the grey beastie out this evening for a walk in hand this evening.
All was going really well and he has finally learnt to trot in hand (that's when I have enough enjoy to keep up). :rolleyes:

Any way we got to the end of the bridle path and headed back. He was impressed with troting in hand and wanted to do it on the way home, which I said no to. When I brought him to halt to focus him back on me :eek: The next thing I know, he span round to face the way he came and let out the loudest snort I have ever heard him do :( It actually sounded like he was screaming :eek:

I told him to stop being stupid and get on... now normally he does but this time he didn't!! :mad: instead he did his impression of trotting bouncing tigger! So again in a nice calm voice bring him back to halt and tell him stop being daft. Next was another of the weird snorts! So i stood there stroking him and reassuring him, as you do with most things scary.

It's the next bit that didn't help! As I stroked him I felt a presence but no idea what and then a noise over my right shoulder. OMG I have never screamed and run so fast in my life :eek: I wasn't close enough to the yard for it to be a cow, so god knows what it was :( But after 10 strides of running, other then being so unfit it nearly killed me. I realised it was doing some damage to the grey ones confidence, so I took control of the situation again.

However, I was shaken and really jumpy whilst finish him off and mucking out! Oh and I also locked my car doors on the way home lol

I feel rather silly now (after a stiff drink)!

Has anyone else scared them selves like this in the dark up the yard? Oh am I the only stupid one??
 
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Scary stuff!
We only recently had electricity put up on the yard and I was fine making B's dinner and sorting her out in the dark, but sometimes hated going back under the tarp into the feed room to put the clean bucket back. I expected a hunched figure to be lurking in the corner and it would really tighten my chest (and I'm the least scared one in my family lol).
Not as bad as the poor H&H person with the spooky image that keeps appearing on the wall (I think in their tea room), made the mistake of reading and viewing that post before bed and it freaked me out!
Hope you don't get a recurrence, spooky happenings are no joke ((hugs))
 
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Not with the horse, but with the dog!
Me and a friend were walking down a dark, lonely road, pitch black. Suddenly the dog stops and raises her hackles. She just stared. Frozen. After a moment she started wildly barking and growling, whilst walking backwards.
My friend is a ghost hunter (You may have seen him on a Channel 5 show about Lesbians and his sister is Shabby from Big Brother!)
We're sure we heard whispering, but now it's over and thinking clearly, I think it was the wind or the stream :p I literally had to drag the dog away! She kept looking back and snorting.
SCARY!
 
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HAHA made me LOL!!

I have a new job I started this week, mucking out 2 horses every morning and basically sorting the yard out, tack room etc etc... So Monday morning I am in the tackroom, completely on my own, and I want to take the saddles down for cleaning... but they are full of cobwebs, so I start to freak myself out!

I pull one out and a huge web comes with it and I am making oohhhh noises and little squeaks, I pull a bit, then leap away, and so forth until I get them all out, I then see a dead baby spider on my hand, let out a massive squeal and run outside, I didn't realise the builders were stood next to the stable wetting themselves at all my antics :eek:
 
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yep i heard noises up the yard in the dark to turn the lights on eventually and find 10 20lb turkeys which didnt make the dinner table sitting on the roof of my stable. horse was unconcerned but they were black and huge.
 
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spooky... there this spot on my old yrd where all the horses would spoke and we found out a horse had been burried there so we got the wakey lady out and she sortedit... weird stuff!!!!!!!!! gd luck tomorrow.... only kidding youll be fine:D:D:D:D:D
 
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i swear the place I work is haunted. The stables were built in the 1800's and yesterday im sure I saw a figure walk across the stable door. Also we apparently had a ghost that stood in the corner of our menage (horses would always spook at that one corner without fail). I was told to polietly ask the spirit to leave. So I did so feeling like a right tit and now horses dont spook in said corner.
 
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A while ago, when I was relatively new to my old yard I went to turn the outdoor lights on. They were on the wall of a big open outbuilding. It was very dark but I could see the outline of a tractor but as I edged towards where I thought the light switch was, I could hear something moving and then I could hear breathing. All I could see was the tractor. Scared the life out of me (too much Stephen King when I was younger), gave up on the idea of riding that evening and went home very quickly. So embarrassed the following day when I realised that the back half of the outbuilding has been converted to house one of the horses on box rest...
 
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I wonder what it was - there must be a plausible explanation :)

One dark winters evening, when I was about 12, I became convinced our Chestnut TB (who's name was Twit) said 'hello' to me!

The yard was behind our house and private, so no one should have been there. I freaked out, ran into the house. My parents searched the yard, but no one was there and I remained convinced I'd heard the horse talk. :eek:

Some time later, I heard a similar noise in the same place and it was the rustling of the tarpaulin used to cover the hay behind Twits stable!
 
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So I guess you met the local big cat then? :D And I can assure you the B & Bs went out in the car for dinner!

Next time give me a call if you're scared x
 
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Brownmare said:
So I guess you met the local big cat then? :D And I can assure you the B & Bs went out in the car for dinner!

Next time give me a call if you're scared x
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Thank god it wasn't a B&B lol

I have no idea what it was lol he froze and snorted so loudly! stood in front of me facing the village. I was surprised he didnt scream for the others to be honest and make a proper run for it.

I'm hoping it wont happen again ;)
 
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Don't even get me started at spooky goings on, I have had things move, horses being let out of stables, horses (all of them) being in some sort of trance staring at same spot, but what ever it is has also helped me, when I came off and got knocked out a dgo walker found me, apparently he never walks this way but heard a voice in his head telling him too ... either he is insane or there is something out there helping me
 
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Many years ago I kept my horse on a yard that was separated from the farmhouse by several fields. One night I had to go after work,about 9pm, to tend to a wound on my horse. It was pitch black & I was cleaning the wound when I heard some unearthly howling, I then looked up & saw it was a full moon! I packed up very quickly & went home(eg stuffed horse back in stable & scarpered!) 2 days later the farmers wife said something to me about the dog they'd got in for training that howled all night long & kept them awake!
 
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At my old yard, if the YO was away for the night, I'd make my mother (in her 70s and pretty frail) come to the yard with me to do evening stables. Far too mardy to go by myself, as I was convinced that the bogey man would get me! Poor old mother!
 
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What a funny thread, not horsey , but I passed a bus stop in Newcastle and it
started barking, I thought I'd lost the plot, no one around, my daughters didn't
believe it, but because I wouldn't admit to winding them up, they phoned a chat show on local radio, turns out it was a comp for 101 Dalmations
 
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