charliehands
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the beast of banbury! haha don't say that my girl is near brailes and she did a snort/scream at something up the field the other day!! weird
Just scared the c**p out of myself up the yard tonight!
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Brownmare
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There's more than one? 
Well that just proves they are breeding
Well that just proves they are breeding MochaDun
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Not with my horse in hand no, though one Boxing Day I got to the yard about 9pm after someone else had got him in for me as I was off seeing relatives. I had a cuddle and was skipping out and went round to the muckheap with the bucket. It overlooks one of the grazing fields, and from the big floodlight that lights up the muckheap you could see this really spooky low mist rolling across the field towards me at speed. It was really eerie, very cold and still, I have never moved so fast to get back to the stable, quickest check of stable door I've ever done as I can be really OCD about it and then ran off the yard back to my car. Even now the memory of it makes my spine shiver for some reason!
Abz88
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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
SCARY!
I had an odd experience also with dogs rather than horses. Me and a friend of mine were out with our two pooches, hers a black lab and mine a german shepherd. We did our usual route, round by the horse yard, and by some crop fields. Now, about 3/4 of the way round is a crop feild and an abandoned house opposite in a small wooded area (always has and always does give me the creeps - even driving past it!) and we were chatting away quite happily, sun was setting so dusk time. Anyway, suddenly both dogs stopped,....still,.....we stopped,....they both at the same time turned their heads around to where we had been, we both looked back and a horrid and strong 'RUN' feeling must have come over all of us all as without a word spoken we all, including the 2 dogs, legged it the rest fo the way home! Only after when we stopped did my friend and me explain the same 'feeling'. Odd stuff. Even now I can't drive past there on my own in the dark!!! WHUSSS!!
starryeyed
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Ooo these stories are spooky! Horses do tend to make you feel nervous when you really don't need it dont they, the amount of times my lad has frozen in terror in front of me or while i'm leading him, and then proceeded to run backwards snorting in total panic at "something" which later turns out to be an innocent rabbit or his own shadow is ridiculous!
They're clever in that they can sense things we can't though, I think. When we were at our old yard, it was in the middle of nowhere but there were a few cute cottages dotted alongside the lanes we used to ride on - there was one old & abandoned cottage which our horses refused to go past, they genuinely acted as though they were really frightened, spinning, snorting, wide eyed, trying to run for home - every time we went past it, we got this. No matter how long we spent trying to get them to go past, they were always very nervous of it, and my horse never spooked at anything! When we got my next horse we made him go first down the lane the first time we rode out down that route, because he wouldn't know about previous spooks, he did exactly the same thing. I have to admit I always felt a bit cold going past it, it had a spooky atmosphere, but the horses definitely sensed something about it.
Another weird thing - less spooky, more interesting! - when we moved house, all of the horses made a big thing of going through the gate to the track - very spooky, reluctant to go forward, mine reared at first - they hated going through that gate, though there was nothing wrong with it! We later found out that before we moved there, a huge oak tree had fallen over the track and onto the previous gate (which we later found dumped in a corner!), crushing it to the ground - so they knew about it before we did! Clever.
ps - hope it wasn't a beast!
They're clever in that they can sense things we can't though, I think. When we were at our old yard, it was in the middle of nowhere but there were a few cute cottages dotted alongside the lanes we used to ride on - there was one old & abandoned cottage which our horses refused to go past, they genuinely acted as though they were really frightened, spinning, snorting, wide eyed, trying to run for home - every time we went past it, we got this. No matter how long we spent trying to get them to go past, they were always very nervous of it, and my horse never spooked at anything! When we got my next horse we made him go first down the lane the first time we rode out down that route, because he wouldn't know about previous spooks, he did exactly the same thing. I have to admit I always felt a bit cold going past it, it had a spooky atmosphere, but the horses definitely sensed something about it.
Another weird thing - less spooky, more interesting! - when we moved house, all of the horses made a big thing of going through the gate to the track - very spooky, reluctant to go forward, mine reared at first - they hated going through that gate, though there was nothing wrong with it! We later found out that before we moved there, a huge oak tree had fallen over the track and onto the previous gate (which we later found dumped in a corner!), crushing it to the ground - so they knew about it before we did! Clever.
ps - hope it wasn't a beast!
Izzwall
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My animals always scare the living beejeebies out of me on regular occasions! My house is over 100 years old and sometimes the tvs turn on by themselves and the floor boards move in the night. One of our dogs, every night without fail, always barks in one of the upstairs rooms, barking and growling in a really defensive way, makes me jump out of my skin every time! And also in one of the downstairs rooms, was playing with the dogs and then all of a sudden they both stop and fixate on something above the table about figure height. Scares me even more when their eyes follow something invisible across the room!! The cats do it too!! And I can't stay in my house alone at night, I just end up in a shaken mess in the corner haha!
Another horrible thing happened when I was hacking my mare on the moor last year. I like to ride up onto one of the tors and watch the sunset and was heading back a little late, sun had pretty much set, full moon was out then all of a sudden my mare started snorting loudly and seemed to have grown a hand or so and was staring at something in the heather. And the image I saw still gives me the shivers now! I saw this big black animal run through the heather and it didn't run like any livestock I've seen, more like a cat or a dog and it then just crouched amongst the heather. Have to say, that was the most scared I've ever been!!! Galloped all the way home convinced it was chasing me! Nobody believed me when I got home and tried telling me it was a lost dog but I've never seen a dog with such a long black tail before with weird yellow eyes!!!
Another horrible thing happened when I was hacking my mare on the moor last year. I like to ride up onto one of the tors and watch the sunset and was heading back a little late, sun had pretty much set, full moon was out then all of a sudden my mare started snorting loudly and seemed to have grown a hand or so and was staring at something in the heather. And the image I saw still gives me the shivers now! I saw this big black animal run through the heather and it didn't run like any livestock I've seen, more like a cat or a dog and it then just crouched amongst the heather. Have to say, that was the most scared I've ever been!!! Galloped all the way home convinced it was chasing me! Nobody believed me when I got home and tried telling me it was a lost dog but I've never seen a dog with such a long black tail before with weird yellow eyes!!!
Aidey
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This thread is amazing! Eventhough i'm a huge wimp and will scare myself even by reading this thread I LOVE stuff like this
Hahaha I had to read this one a few times before it actually made sense to me! lol
I have just moved my colt into a bigger stable 'round the back' which doesn't have an outside light and is facing the fields and a looooong dark track, I am always the last one down and constantly scaring myself listening for noises, my mind doesn't half play tricks on me!
Hahaha I had to read this one a few times before it actually made sense to me! lol
I have just moved my colt into a bigger stable 'round the back' which doesn't have an outside light and is facing the fields and a looooong dark track, I am always the last one down and constantly scaring myself listening for noises, my mind doesn't half play tricks on me!
Chestnuttymare
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This thread is amazing! Eventhough i'm a huge wimp and will scare myself even by reading this thread I LOVE stuff like this
Hahaha I had to read this one a few times before it actually made sense to me! lol
I have just moved my colt into a bigger stable 'round the back' which doesn't have an outside light and is facing the fields and a looooong dark track, I am always the last one down and constantly scaring myself listening for noises, my mind doesn't half play tricks on me!
well it still doesn't make sense to me!
Archina
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So I guess you met the local big cat then?
Next time give me a call if you're scared x
Weirdly this is the exact same thought i had! That it could of being one of those rare exotic cats that live in the country, your post did make me laugh though.
Little Squirrel
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Some smart alec decided to hang one of those scream masks which glow in the dark on the bridle cleaning hook. The tack room was in off the American Barn and you had to go in and flick the light switch. I opened the door it was pitch dark and I saw that thing hanging there. I nearly had a heart attack!! Funny now though!!
Chellebean
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Weirdly this is the exact same thought i had! That it could of being one of those rare exotic cats that live in the country, your post did make me laugh though.
A friend of mine was out for a job once about 5 miles away in a different village, and she saw a rather large cat staring at her down the tow path! it stood there for a while and then ran off through a hedge
dorito
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I often used to be down the yard about 7pm after everyone else had left and was quite used to being the only person there. Was in the box with my mare one winter evening, so stable light on but yard lights off, I saw a shadowy figure just walk past a few feet outside the stable door and I KNOW I was the only person there.
I did get off home quite sharpish after that; probably just my mind playing tricks though as all the horse were perfectly ok and acting normal.
I did get off home quite sharpish after that; probably just my mind playing tricks though as all the horse were perfectly ok and acting normal.
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Piccy
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I used to be on a very old yard got there on morning about 6 am just me all the stables were in a square all facing each other I was about to feed horses moving about noise and it was like time stopped everything went silent no noise from horses no breeze nothing, freaked me out totally ran back to car locked doors and waited for someone else to arrive ended up late for work. Have also seen a large cat type creature not far from home walked across a lane in distance didn't walk like any wild animal you would expect to see
Tinsel Trouble
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A spooky thing happened on a yard I used to be on. They had a big german shepherd that lived in a run in their garden. The woman was always up at 5am and as usual went to get the dog out the run and into the house for some breakfast. she was undoing the padlock on the door and she saw a person in the next field. the dog spotted it too and flew at the caged sides barking and snarling. YO managed to get the door open the dog flew out and ran to where this person was then the person vanished and the dog suddenly chilled out and was skipping round cool as a cucumber, sniffing the ground, trotting over to the YO, looking for rabbits... as if nothing had happened.
They got a phone call at 6:30am from a nuring home saying the YOs mother in law had passed away in her sleep...!!
They got a phone call at 6:30am from a nuring home saying the YOs mother in law had passed away in her sleep...!!
Luci07
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We have had bridles chucked across the tack room when there was no one there. However as I have been at my yard for so long and whatever it is has never done anything more it doesn't scare me anymore.
Worst scare was locking up late - we are well hidden down a track when I could hear lots of voices and not see anyone. Turned out to be cyclists coming back out of the woods and freaked me out even more to the see a number of disembodied lights heading for me.
Got my own back ( by accident) as my dogs rushed barking to rescue me. Cyclists couldn't see me as all the lights were turned out and we did scare them too!
Worst scare was locking up late - we are well hidden down a track when I could hear lots of voices and not see anyone. Turned out to be cyclists coming back out of the woods and freaked me out even more to the see a number of disembodied lights heading for me.
Got my own back ( by accident) as my dogs rushed barking to rescue me. Cyclists couldn't see me as all the lights were turned out and we did scare them too!
Gracie21
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You lot have creeped me out!! I am NEVER going to be able to sleep tonight!!!
But if you can't beat 'em...join 'em!...
I used to go to France every half term to work at a château and in return get free rides on their gorgeous irish horses. It's a really old place which is surely haunted and the guy that owned it told me that when he rides in the school on one particular horse a lady stands in the gateway and watch him, then come to the side of the fence, then disappear.
He scared me to death (I was 12!!) and I would never ride in there alone. One day I was warming his horse up, he had to pop back to tack up another horse, and sure enough she was stood there, in her maids uniform watching our every move. She disappeared but when Jeff came back, he said there was a massive draft in the gateway as he walked through, before he knew I'd seen her, creeeeepy!!
She also used to sit at the top of the stairs apparently, never saw her, I used to run too fast
NEVER going to be able to sleep now!
But if you can't beat 'em...join 'em!...
I used to go to France every half term to work at a château and in return get free rides on their gorgeous irish horses. It's a really old place which is surely haunted and the guy that owned it told me that when he rides in the school on one particular horse a lady stands in the gateway and watch him, then come to the side of the fence, then disappear.
He scared me to death (I was 12!!) and I would never ride in there alone. One day I was warming his horse up, he had to pop back to tack up another horse, and sure enough she was stood there, in her maids uniform watching our every move. She disappeared but when Jeff came back, he said there was a massive draft in the gateway as he walked through, before he knew I'd seen her, creeeeepy!!
She also used to sit at the top of the stairs apparently, never saw her, I used to run too fast
NEVER going to be able to sleep now!
Faro
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At a field I rented many years ago now, OH and I were checking the gang by torchlight, one dark evening. We walked across the field towards the horses and immediately noticed that they were all on edge, heads high and alert, all with ears directed towards a certain place in the hedge. As you know, horses are so good at giving you an advance warning - so OH and I KNEW there was something potentially scary in the hedge. Being braver than usual (because there were 2 of us), we moved slowly towards the hedge - and when we got about 50 feet away, OH shone the torch up into the hedge.
And we saw....
A white skull shape with two eyes glowing red in the torchlight.
We both screamed (even OH, who is a BIG guy) and legged it down to the far end of the field, setting off the horses, who charged away with us.
A few minutes passed, nothing happened.
Eventually, heartrates beginning to slow down, we slowly and cautiously moved back towards the hedge, and OH shone the torch again.
White skull shape with glowing eyes still there.
Then it made a noise - "MOO!".
The white skull shape turned out to be the white face markings of a Fresian cow - the farmer had moved some cattle into the neighbouring field earlier that day and we hadn't known!
Phew!
And we saw....
A white skull shape with two eyes glowing red in the torchlight.
We both screamed (even OH, who is a BIG guy) and legged it down to the far end of the field, setting off the horses, who charged away with us.
A few minutes passed, nothing happened.
Eventually, heartrates beginning to slow down, we slowly and cautiously moved back towards the hedge, and OH shone the torch again.
White skull shape with glowing eyes still there.
Then it made a noise - "MOO!".
The white skull shape turned out to be the white face markings of a Fresian cow - the farmer had moved some cattle into the neighbouring field earlier that day and we hadn't known!
Phew!
Gracie21
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HAHAHAHHAHAHAAH.
You had my heart in my mouth faro!
Gotta love cows! haha!
You had my heart in my mouth faro!
Gotta love cows! haha!
lincolnlady
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loveing these stories lol.
when i went down to bring my boy in one evening in the dark (my oh usually comes when its dark but was working late) i was bobbing myself as its down a dirt track with woods all round. anyway went and got dan in was just changing him into his stable rug when he suddenly grew a few hands and snorting towards the woods next to where my car was parked. i could hear a slight wailing noise and when i got closer it sounded just like a baby crying.
so shot back to stable and got a torch heart pounding and trying not to run for the hills went and had a look got closer noise got louder but as i was getting closer it sounded like it was moving upwards so shone torch upwards and it was.............. trees!!!! they were creaking and rubbing together but it really did sound like a baby crying lol.
at my old yard it was really old and i made the habit of never ever going down late at night but one night i had no choice as yo rang n said dan was lame so went down to bring him in turned all the lights on n checked over his legs etc. then suddenly heard laughing!! ive never put dan in his stable so fast in my life n shot back to my car. the next day yo come to see me when i was sorting dan to see why he was lame (was an abcess) he asked why i had left every single light on at yard last night. explained what had happened n he said oh yeh we always hear her!!! yeh thanks for the warning!!! left few weeks later lol xx
when i went down to bring my boy in one evening in the dark (my oh usually comes when its dark but was working late) i was bobbing myself as its down a dirt track with woods all round. anyway went and got dan in was just changing him into his stable rug when he suddenly grew a few hands and snorting towards the woods next to where my car was parked. i could hear a slight wailing noise and when i got closer it sounded just like a baby crying.
so shot back to stable and got a torch heart pounding and trying not to run for the hills went and had a look got closer noise got louder but as i was getting closer it sounded like it was moving upwards so shone torch upwards and it was.............. trees!!!! they were creaking and rubbing together but it really did sound like a baby crying lol.
at my old yard it was really old and i made the habit of never ever going down late at night but one night i had no choice as yo rang n said dan was lame so went down to bring him in turned all the lights on n checked over his legs etc. then suddenly heard laughing!! ive never put dan in his stable so fast in my life n shot back to my car. the next day yo come to see me when i was sorting dan to see why he was lame (was an abcess) he asked why i had left every single light on at yard last night. explained what had happened n he said oh yeh we always hear her!!! yeh thanks for the warning!!! left few weeks later lol xx
MagicMelon
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I'm scared of the dark anyway (yes, I do sleep with the light on in the hall and my door open!). I've got lights in the yard, but I'll still carry a torch around with me just in case of a power cut. I'm actually fine in the dark with the horses around as I figure they'll tell me if there's something weird lurking about! Its when they are spooking at something up the field that its quite terrifying...!
Only once have I had a weird experience with the horses. Was riding with a friend around the fields surrounding the farm (where she kept her horses) which had a reputation as being haunted (things would go missing all the time, keys would appear in doors locked from the inside etc.). Anyway, we were riding near a tractor with those spinning hay-drying things on the back of it. Nobody was near the tractor and engine was off. The blades started to spin and got really fast. Horses planted themselves to the spot staring at it. Then suddenly after about 20 seconds, the blades stopped dead and the horses carried on. So creepy!
Only once have I had a weird experience with the horses. Was riding with a friend around the fields surrounding the farm (where she kept her horses) which had a reputation as being haunted (things would go missing all the time, keys would appear in doors locked from the inside etc.). Anyway, we were riding near a tractor with those spinning hay-drying things on the back of it. Nobody was near the tractor and engine was off. The blades started to spin and got really fast. Horses planted themselves to the spot staring at it. Then suddenly after about 20 seconds, the blades stopped dead and the horses carried on. So creepy!
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cremedemonthe
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lol, some good stories on here, like the cows one!
I haven't got a horse, just dogs, I walk them in a wood up here on the North Downs called Devil's Den, I go in there at midnight sometimes just to enjoy the peace and quiet.It is so dark that one night I misjudged the path and turned off to the right before I was supposed to and got stuck inside a large ever green bush/tree, if it hadn't been for my jack russell who's mainly white coming in to see why I was groping around in the dark and I could use him as a guide by following him out, I'd still be there!
I was in the woods one night, it was dusk and not fully dark, my lurcher was off bunny bashing somewhere in the bushes about 50 yards away and my jack russell was infront of me waddling along. I suddenly saw a brilliant white flash like a magnesium flare right down near the ground by a bush about 10 yards away, there are no houses nearby and I was the only one around as far as I knew. I clicked my light on I carry and went all round those bushes, nothing no one there and no explanation for the light, the jack russell saw it too and stood still watching the spot where it had been.
Another time in the same woods but further along them,it was very dark this time,I was about to walk up into the woods from a grass valley and suddenly, I just froze, something was stopping me and to this day I don't know what it was, felt like someone pushing me away, at the same time my lurcher started barking and growling and looking further up into the woods towards an old yew tree. I clicked my light on there was nothing there I could see but for the life of me I just could not go up that path, so I turned round and went further along the valley a hundred yards or so and went up into the woods that way instead to continue my walk.
We have had 3 hangings over in the woods one VERY recently and you have to walk past where 2 of them have done it before you can get back to your car in the car park!
My last encounter I will tell you about was many years ago near the devil's den woods at a church on the Downs called Chaldon Church, the foundations of which go back to 727 AD, scary place especially at night!
I was up there with some mates in my mispent youth, prancing round a grave that has a local legend about it that if you run round it 9 times at midnight on a full moon the devil appears. So,we rode up there on our motorbikes at 10.30 pm to have a dress rehearsal and to see if we actually had the bottle to try it. I was round the side of the grave when my 2 mates just stopped dead and were looking past me looking very scared, trouble is, what ever it was WAS behind me!
As I turned round to look I heard my 2 so called mates running for all the were worth to the gate and jumped on their bikes and left me there.
There was a eery glowing greenish light creeping across the graveyard in a meandering fashion, not a torch, naked flame or any light like I have ever seen. It was coming closer and closer, so I jumped on my bike to go, it wouldn't start!
I finally got it going after what seemed an age, the gate was behind me so if it came out it was going to be right behind me sooner or later!
I shot off down the road and my mates said I passed them at around 60-70 mph (down winding lanes!) and I didn't stop until I go to Coulsdon about 2-3 miles away, never did find out what it was!
Oz
I haven't got a horse, just dogs, I walk them in a wood up here on the North Downs called Devil's Den, I go in there at midnight sometimes just to enjoy the peace and quiet.It is so dark that one night I misjudged the path and turned off to the right before I was supposed to and got stuck inside a large ever green bush/tree, if it hadn't been for my jack russell who's mainly white coming in to see why I was groping around in the dark and I could use him as a guide by following him out, I'd still be there!
I was in the woods one night, it was dusk and not fully dark, my lurcher was off bunny bashing somewhere in the bushes about 50 yards away and my jack russell was infront of me waddling along. I suddenly saw a brilliant white flash like a magnesium flare right down near the ground by a bush about 10 yards away, there are no houses nearby and I was the only one around as far as I knew. I clicked my light on I carry and went all round those bushes, nothing no one there and no explanation for the light, the jack russell saw it too and stood still watching the spot where it had been.
Another time in the same woods but further along them,it was very dark this time,I was about to walk up into the woods from a grass valley and suddenly, I just froze, something was stopping me and to this day I don't know what it was, felt like someone pushing me away, at the same time my lurcher started barking and growling and looking further up into the woods towards an old yew tree. I clicked my light on there was nothing there I could see but for the life of me I just could not go up that path, so I turned round and went further along the valley a hundred yards or so and went up into the woods that way instead to continue my walk.
We have had 3 hangings over in the woods one VERY recently and you have to walk past where 2 of them have done it before you can get back to your car in the car park!
My last encounter I will tell you about was many years ago near the devil's den woods at a church on the Downs called Chaldon Church, the foundations of which go back to 727 AD, scary place especially at night!
I was up there with some mates in my mispent youth, prancing round a grave that has a local legend about it that if you run round it 9 times at midnight on a full moon the devil appears. So,we rode up there on our motorbikes at 10.30 pm to have a dress rehearsal and to see if we actually had the bottle to try it. I was round the side of the grave when my 2 mates just stopped dead and were looking past me looking very scared, trouble is, what ever it was WAS behind me!
As I turned round to look I heard my 2 so called mates running for all the were worth to the gate and jumped on their bikes and left me there.
There was a eery glowing greenish light creeping across the graveyard in a meandering fashion, not a torch, naked flame or any light like I have ever seen. It was coming closer and closer, so I jumped on my bike to go, it wouldn't start!
I finally got it going after what seemed an age, the gate was behind me so if it came out it was going to be right behind me sooner or later!
I shot off down the road and my mates said I passed them at around 60-70 mph (down winding lanes!) and I didn't stop until I go to Coulsdon about 2-3 miles away, never did find out what it was!
Oz
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Naryafluffy
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Didn't happen to me, but happened because of me.
Walking the dogs in the dark through the park, now I never use a torch and just tend to use the natural light to be able to see, walked down a path that connects to another part of the park not realsising that some poor bugger is walking down the same path in front of me until one of the dogs sneaks up on this poor guy and licks his hand, all I heard was the yelp from the guy.
We now walk with flashing collars and half check choke chains so that they can't sneak up on people, think the poor guy had a brown trouser moment, don't know if he ever recovered!!!!
Walking the dogs in the dark through the park, now I never use a torch and just tend to use the natural light to be able to see, walked down a path that connects to another part of the park not realsising that some poor bugger is walking down the same path in front of me until one of the dogs sneaks up on this poor guy and licks his hand, all I heard was the yelp from the guy.
We now walk with flashing collars and half check choke chains so that they can't sneak up on people, think the poor guy had a brown trouser moment, don't know if he ever recovered!!!!
MagicMelon
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Oh and forgot to add - Nothing to do with horses but apparently my office is haunted (and I'm sitting her on my own in it right now!). Its a big old Victorian building going over 3 floors and with huge space and floors / basements etc. at the back. The cleaner comes in at about 5.30/6pm every night when we've all gone home. She hates it here, she's been terrified on a number of occasions (to the point she refused to come into work the night after her last scare and she gets her daughter to help her sometimes!). We have to leave lights on for her. Last thing that happened recently was she heard the filing cabinet in the next door room open and then slam shut. A colleague who works in the room beside that one gets the occasional knock at her door and there's nobody outside...! I'd NEVER stay here overnight, and get seriously creeped out if I have to go down the back where its really cold and creepy!
cremedemonthe
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Now you see, I would love this, would be going to investigate what was going on!
I've worked in an old manor house that was turned into a hospital, as I was cleaning on the first floor I turned round to see the lower half of a child's leg going through the wall, like the owner had just walked through it. It was a greyish colour and not real looking.The lights would turn themselves on at night and one nurse was on this floor watching the tv on night shift, she nodded off and woke up to see a Victorian dressed man leaning right over her so that his face was about 15 inches away from hers, his hand was up near her face. He calmy stood upright, walked back a step and slowly faded, he too was a grey colour and we think (or like to think) he was trying to cover her up with a blanket she had over her but had slipped down as she was cold.
I have seen loads of strange things I really cannot find any explanation for, it can and does scare me sometimes but curiousoty also gets the better of me!
Oz
Elbie
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I've had the bejesus scared out of me before at the yard. NOT a ghost related one.
We have just a field so no electricity. All done in the dark with the assistance of a head torch. In winter I would take our loan horse over the road to hire the menage to school. One day I'd just come back, shut the gate and had walked down the field to the field shelter to untack. While I was halfway through untacking I heard the gate screech open. Scared the absolute **** out of me! I turned my headtorch off and was peering around the corner expecting to see an intruder! Took me about 10 minutes to pull myself together and realise I'd just not shut the gate properly. I've never mucked out the field so quickly though!
Hate it when the horses 'see' stuff in the dark. I always ask what they can see and they never tell me.
We have just a field so no electricity. All done in the dark with the assistance of a head torch. In winter I would take our loan horse over the road to hire the menage to school. One day I'd just come back, shut the gate and had walked down the field to the field shelter to untack. While I was halfway through untacking I heard the gate screech open. Scared the absolute **** out of me! I turned my headtorch off and was peering around the corner expecting to see an intruder! Took me about 10 minutes to pull myself together and realise I'd just not shut the gate properly. I've never mucked out the field so quickly though!
Hate it when the horses 'see' stuff in the dark. I always ask what they can see and they never tell me.
Gracie21
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The more I read, the less I will sleep tonight!
In our old house we used to have something sit on the end of our beds-My parents and myself experienced this. My dad would not stay in the house alone! I used to be the first home after school, and the computer in my dads office would always have the screen switched on, with the chair rocking like someone had just got out of it. We also used to hear foot steps up the stairs, that were not recognisable to our own and there was never anyone there!
*shivers*
The funniest scars are the ones where you manage to talk yourself round to a plausible explanation and then scare yourself again, creaking gates always get me jumpy!
VERY glad I am not in the office alone today!
In our old house we used to have something sit on the end of our beds-My parents and myself experienced this. My dad would not stay in the house alone! I used to be the first home after school, and the computer in my dads office would always have the screen switched on, with the chair rocking like someone had just got out of it. We also used to hear foot steps up the stairs, that were not recognisable to our own and there was never anyone there!
*shivers*
The funniest scars are the ones where you manage to talk yourself round to a plausible explanation and then scare yourself again, creaking gates always get me jumpy!
VERY glad I am not in the office alone today!
as sweet as hunni
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This happend to my friend down the same yard as me
! It was around 7pm so it was dark and she had her horse Harry out on the yard to tend to his wound and he grew about 3 hands and started snorting ! Apparently she heard movement & noises and saw a figure by the menage ( which is odd because all the horses spook in there!) so she ran up to the field turned harry out and drove home very quickly ! She was the only one there too!
! It was around 7pm so it was dark and she had her horse Harry out on the yard to tend to his wound and he grew about 3 hands and started snorting ! Apparently she heard movement & noises and saw a figure by the menage ( which is odd because all the horses spook in there!) so she ran up to the field turned harry out and drove home very quickly ! She was the only one there too!
Fairytale
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There used to be a large nursing home just opposite my yard, down a narrow dark, quiet country lane. Every month or so I used to hear a very peculiar noise in the evenings after dark, a metallic sort of noise I can't really begin to describe apart from sounding rather like a jew's harp but noisier, louder and longer.....still can't really describe it now....and it seemed to come from everywhere but nowhere in particular.
I was telling an Irish work colleague about it and she immediately identified it as the Banshee wailing; which was supposed to happen when someone died. Doing a bit of research it transpired that each time I had heard it, someone had died at the nursing home. The home has gone now and never heard the noise since.
AND.....my yard neighbour has 5 times now over the years, opened her front door to find a strange man in full war time flying kit standing on the step. He turns, walks away and disappears............ Again research has found that a fighter plan crashed during the war in the woods opposite.......
I could write pages and pages of 'things' I have seen and heard!
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I was telling an Irish work colleague about it and she immediately identified it as the Banshee wailing; which was supposed to happen when someone died. Doing a bit of research it transpired that each time I had heard it, someone had died at the nursing home. The home has gone now and never heard the noise since.
AND.....my yard neighbour has 5 times now over the years, opened her front door to find a strange man in full war time flying kit standing on the step. He turns, walks away and disappears............ Again research has found that a fighter plan crashed during the war in the woods opposite.......
I could write pages and pages of 'things' I have seen and heard!
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Tinsel Trouble
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My mum used to live in kent (in the 60s) and she used to hack along an old roman road. Occasionally, from the corner of her eye, she would see roman centurians (sp?) lazing on the side of the road. They would watch her ride past. When she turned to look back they would be gone!
Also my dad was a widower and when he met my mum for the first time (at a dinner party) his late wife was stood behind him smiling at her. It was only when she went to his house subsequently and saw a picture of her and mentioned that she was at the dinner party too but left early, Dad told told mum about his first wife dying.... Spooky!!!
Also my dad was a widower and when he met my mum for the first time (at a dinner party) his late wife was stood behind him smiling at her. It was only when she went to his house subsequently and saw a picture of her and mentioned that she was at the dinner party too but left early, Dad told told mum about his first wife dying.... Spooky!!!
QueenOfCadence
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We have an arena that I swear is haunted at the biggest showing grounds in SA (Us South African riders always joke and say that it's been built on a cemetery). ALL the horses freak in that arena and can't wait to leave it (though it's a lovely, level grass arena). All the arena's are named after the DEAD founders of the showing grounds (this one happens to be called Foxcroft). Creeps me out big time