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It Happened to Me…

Phantom neighing

I would like to relate a very strange experience which occurred about 25 years ago in the late 1990s in rural Buckinghamshire. I and my wife were in our house watching TV one evening. It was still light enough to see outside. We lived in a semidetached house in Little Chalfont, a road called Lodge Lane which ran from Little Chalfont down towards Chalfont St Giles. Where our house was there were houses on one side of the road only, opposite farmland. There was a raised straight concrete and gravel drive from the road up to the house. Next to the house the drive continued between ours and a neighbour’s house, up to the two houses’ garages behind

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