About 2 weeks ago I was riding my horse in the early
evening in the purpose built menage at the stables where he
is kept. The menage is flat, floodlit and overlooks 2
fields from the next farm and 2 of the fields from the farm
where my horse is stabled. I was the only rider in the
menage, and as soon as I entered the gate my horse started
playing up - rearing, spooking, running sideways -
especially as we got to the far right hand corner which
overlooks the next farm's fields. I looked across and saw
a grey horse with a rider in dark clothes, who appeared to
be walking down a track between 2 of the fields.
I pushed my horse forward and whispered to him to calm
down, but no sooner had we got to the next corner and he
started again, only worse this time and he started snorting
and sweating. When I looked to see if the horse and rider
were scaring him, they were now at the very bottom of the
field - but there was no way on earth they could have gone
that distance in such a short space of time. The same
thing happened again and again, every time I turned the
figure had moved huge distances that no horse could have
galloped. I then realised that this 'horse' and rider were
not making any noise, and also began to wonder why they
were riding in a pitch black field. I only saw them again
once and then the vision vanished.
I decided the horse was too scared to ride so decided to
turn him out for an hour in one of the fields with 2 other
horses.
He usually hates coming in from the field, but had only
been turned out about 20 minutes when a girl whose horse
was out was bringing her horse in, and said that my horse
was acting 'nuts', trying to jump the fence out of the
field and looking terrified. I ran down to the field and
he almost jumped the gate and was galloping around looking
scared witless. Eventually I managed to catch him and put
him in his stable and he calmed down after about 30 minutes.
I mentioned what I had seen to another girl at the farm and
she asked me to show her which track I had seen the rider
and horse on as she could not recall seeing a track
recently that was still in use. The following day I took
her to the menage in daylight and pointed at the track -
which has been closed for about 2 years apparently and is
so overgrown even a tractor would struggle to get down it!
Needless to say this confirmed that what I saw was
definitely not of this world given that it made no noise and
moved at an unearthly speed.
At the time I was cautious
but not scared, but the horse most certainly was. Since
telling people at the farm this story at least 2 other
people have said their horses have acted similarly in the
same place.
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