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Has anyone else experienced the following with their horse?

There are some forestry tracks near my livery yard. Ever since we moved to this yard like two years ago, my horse has never been 100% happy hacking on aforesaid forestry tracks. She isn't wild and she will go, but she's tense, a little spooky, and it would be unwise to let her slop along on a long rein. It doesn't make for relaxed hacking. This horse has hacked out in two different countries, three states, multiple barns, on road, off road, mountains, forests, and has never been so determined to permanently dislike a certain route. She hacks out fine on other local routes (mainly on the road, which sucks, as the dodgy forestry is pretty much the only off road hacking in the immediate area).

Even I (with my limited human senses) am aware that weird sh i t certainly goes down in the forestry in question. On various hacks there, we have encountered more than one burned out car, fly-tips, piles of scrap, spent shotgun shells, bits and pieces of car engines, and that's just the stuff I was able to identify.

The horse must know something.
 
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I think lots of places give off wierd vibes there's a corner near us that's odd .
And a hall that's haunted that's got a horrible feel to it and every dog that lives there is highly strung.
At the hall it has a wierd atmosphere inside and out .
It's well known locally twenty years ago it had one wing demolished and something tried to throw one of the workmen off the roof.
A friend lived in a very remote house in the middle of nowwhere it had an old stone circle ( A henge ) in the grounds it had an amazing feel to it, the house had been originally a bothy to shelter drovers and my friend often saw ( she said) ghost cows! Once she saw I riderless horse gallop across the burn at dusk.that was an amazing place (not frightening the hall is scary ) just a heavy strong feeling like vibration .
 
I spent an hour trying to make a horse go through a stone circle nearby, (the main road runs through it, and there was no alternative without adding miles to the journey).
And there is a mound in a field nearby, that every horse we have owned believes to be inhabited by tigers - we only found out it was a mound, and not just the shape in the hillside after experiencing this, so I can discount rider expectations being responsible.
 
Horses are very perceptive, I've had numerous scenarios where horses seem to have had a 6th sense of some kind. We used to ride down an old railway line years ago and there was a bench that they would always spook at. Later on we found out that an old man had died there.
 
Trust your horse. They're saying something to you/trying to keep you safe.

Horses & animals in general but particularly dogs & cats, can pick up different "energies" to us which are around. We don't perceive it, because we've basically evolved too much, but they can sense things.

A friend of mine says that trees can pick up negative energy in particular which is maybe what your horse is sensing. Look around at the trees; look for crooked oaks as my friend says that can indicate something negative happening in the past.

I was looking at some very old maps a few years back, and on it there was something about a "battleground" on a place where I regularly ride. Down here there's a whole history of the "prayer book rebellion" (don't ask me to explain it), but there it was on this map. I'd always felt something was a bit iffy there: even on a glorious summer's day when I've ridden there years ago and didn't know about its history, there was always something about it, especially if riding solo, and my old pony who was normally a plod would always find something to spook at there.

If you can, I'd do some research: perhaps your local library would have some old maps. Or on-line??? I think you'd be very interested to find out - I reckon there's something has happened in bygone days......... would be very surprised if this wasn't the case.
 
This is quite a freaky post!

I've not really noticed anything like this, that I can recall! only one day I tried to hack passed the yard I'd bought my mare from (a couple of years late) she saw the gate leading into the yard, spun around on the spot and trotted back in the opposite direction at about 90mph! didn't try and get her back passed it again haha!

also some wood near my previous yard, had loads of tracks, we used to get lost every time but we always, always found our way to this same white gate, and once we found that we knew where we were! that was so random!!
 
The thing about trees is very true and exists in most cultures .
I lived in Turkey for a while and they have a customn of tieing rags to special trees you will driving across the Anatolian plateau dead flat nothing around and you come across at thorn tree covered in rags.
There are several special trees here
I am the least new agey person you can imagine but certain trees do have a special vibe .
 
Something happened on a hack that we often do, last month. We were going up a bridleway past a big field shelter/storage shed, and Shy just stopped dead. He wouldn't move, I couldn't back him past, and in the end I had to get off and lead him - three times. This has never happened before and I am sure he knew something was wrong (dead ?) in that shed.

Really creeped me out.
 
There's an old house near us that every animal seems to have trouble passing! It's at the beginning of a long windy track, in quite a rural area - dogs will never go past. I've seen countless walkers having to pick their dog up and physically carry them past. When we had dogs we really struggled to walk them past, I ended up doing what others did and carrying the smaller one.
Horses are very spooky around it, when I was younger we regularly rode past it and my pony was as brave as a lion and not scared of anything - however he used to spin at the entrance to the track and panic all the way past - as soon as he'd gone by he was back to his normal self. Our other horses are incredibly tense and spooky going past and there is nothing "scary" there (that we can see :wink3: ) It does "feel" a bit creepy as its an old house in a wood, but so many people have issues getting their animals to go past it property, it's very strange. People in the village say its incredibly haunted which wouldn't surprise me. They are very perceptive!

I'm sure something bad has happened in one of our fields too, but only the mares really seem to pick up on it. There's a very plain gateway separating two fields (going from the "pony paddocks" into the bigger fields with good grazing), with a stone wall on the left and just open fields/post and rail to the right - there is nothing remotely scary, it is all flat ground and there is no shadow/creepy corner. My late gelding used to be wary walking through the gate but he was always a bit odd and I didn't think anything of it. I then had a mare on loan who completely flipped every time I went to lead her through it - she had to go in those fields as she was a very poor doer, but she used to absolutely lose her mind when I tried to lead her through the gate - she'd go up on two legs, kick out at me, go into full panic and just whizz round and round kicking and kicking, and frequently bolted in fright - there was something very upsetting for her there! Put it down to her being "one of those" types, as she wasn't the calmest horse in the world and I assumed it was an intense quirk. Anyway, she went back to her "home" and a few months went by, I then bought my own mare - who could be a bit difficult to handle but on the whole was fine.
Throughout the summer she was in the smaller paddocks, but when it got a bit later in the year I moved her down to the bottom fields as she was losing condition - she went there with the boys and so wasn't alone.
However, she does EXACTLY the same thing my loan mare did, in exactly the same place. The same panicked kicking and trying to run. And it's definitely not my mind-set affecting her as I was sure my loan horses behaviour was just because she was a nutcase. I didn't expect my horse to do the same thing as there is absolutely no reason to - there is nothing remotely scary there! I'm usually quite good at picking up strange "vibes" in houses etc, but can't feel anything wrong at that gate.
I've been hacking round the fields recently too, trying to get her used to open space / grass under her toes - she merrily zooms round the fields but it's always a battle to get her through that gateway, she has tried to dump me there and run off many times.

Not sure what happened there before we lived here but I'm sure something has!! x
 
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I used to ride a lot on Ashdown Forest and the only place my almost completely non-spooky horse would get twitchy was going past the Airman's Grave, a memorial to a bomber crew who crashed there during WW2.
 
I think its more to do with the fact that horses are not forest animals, they are prey animals and naturally live in open areas where they can see predators approaching and run away quickly. Older mares are responsible for the safety of the herd, and her natural instincts to avoid danger is probably over riding her training.
 
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Something happened on a hack that we often do, last month. We were going up a bridleway past a big field shelter/storage shed, and Shy just stopped dead. He wouldn't move, I couldn't back him past, and in the end I had to get off and lead him - three times. This has never happened before and I am sure he knew something was wrong (dead ?) in that shed.

Really creeped me out.
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Thats freaky!!
 
Many years ago I used to ride along a lane where all the horses from the yard got very tense and spooky, when I mentioned it to the owner of the yard who I worked for he told me that the bodies of several of the children murdered by a local serial killer had been found there
 
honetpot said:
I think its more to do with the fact that horses are not forest animals, they are prey animals and naturally live in open areas where they can see predators approaching and run away quickly. Older mares are responsible for the safety of the herd, and her natural instincts to avoid danger is probably over riding her training.
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I think this is sensible. I tend to go along the "logical explanation" route. :)

After all, horses would have us believe flapping poly bags and certain grids are dangerous. :rolleyes3:
 
Caol Ila said:
Has anyone else experienced the following with their horse?

There are some forestry tracks near my livery yard. Ever since we moved to this yard like two years ago, my horse has never been 100% happy hacking on aforesaid forestry tracks. She isn't wild and she will go, but she's tense, a little spooky, and it would be unwise to let her slop along on a long rein. It doesn't make for relaxed hacking. This horse has hacked out in two different countries, three states, multiple barns, on road, off road, mountains, forests, and has never been so determined to permanently dislike a certain route. She hacks out fine on other local routes (mainly on the road, which sucks, as the dodgy forestry is pretty much the only off road hacking in the immediate area).

Even I (with my limited human senses) am aware that weird sh i t certainly goes down in the forestry in question. On various hacks there, we have encountered more than one burned out car, fly-tips, piles of scrap, spent shotgun shells, bits and pieces of car engines, and that's just the stuff I was able to identify.

The horse must know something.
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If you go half a mile up that road your on as if you were heading towards where I was stabled there is another more open forest thats great for a good gallop, three routes you can takes and all grass tracks ;)

If I was still at the farm Id have taken you round :)
 
honetpot said:
I think its more to do with the fact that horses are not forest animals, they are prey animals and naturally live in open areas where they can see predators approaching and run away quickly. Older mares are responsible for the safety of the herd, and her natural instincts to avoid danger is probably over riding her training.
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Ah, a bit of common sense.
 
not horsey but when i went to stay at my friends house in france after exams, we all slept in the biggest bedroom together and whilst my two friends were working out the dvd player i went upstairs to get something (think it was some sweets) and i don't know what it was but the ambients of the room just felt suddenly perfectly still and evil...i've never run downstairs so fast...we spent the rest of the week sleeping downstairs...it was one of those old houses in the middle of the countryside in Brittany and when her gfamily bought it it was completely derelict, so goodness knows what happened there.
 
Yup ! House near us looks perfectly normal not dark, no scary stuff etc and Tess is pretty unflappable (unless killer cows are about ... none here) She spooks past this house and lets to go past it in a spanking trot with her head in the air ... very unlike her. My friends cob who i have been riding whilst Tess is out of action when we hack him out( her and me so not rider input) also spooks at it very snorty and on the side. And to top it off i cycle and my dog runs beside me went that way her hackles from the tip of her head to the tip of her tail went up and her tail went between her legs. She shot off forwards nearly dragging me from the bike like something had completely frightened her.


To this day i cannot work out what it is... perhaps a smell ?
 
There is a bridleway near to me that I have never felt comfortable riding on. It branches off from a main bridleway that runs along a high hedge lined track. I have no problem with the main bridleway, but the branch runs along a track then onto an old lane up a hill. It comes out on the road at a crossroads. Something about being in the lane gives me a really uneasy feeling of being trapped. Maybe it's because it used to be open to cars (no longer is, gated now) and there is no escape except at either end, so the potential for getting trapped by a loony was there, but even now, with the gate, I still feel a sense of relief when I get out. I wonder if the crossroads was an old hangmans site!!! Funnily enough, the horses are fine!!
 
I may well try this bridle path again next week, and report back. Shyboy has never, ever refused to go forward before or since that incident, and I would like to see what happens now.
 
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