LordOfTheZincs
Elite Member
Ok, I haven't told you guys this one yet but it freaked me out bad enough that I couldn't concentrate anymore and had to leave a hunt. It was a dark and stormy night about 3-4 mo. ago, I was hunting behind our local grade school up close to the building so I could see a little better. The wind was steadily howling and the rain was to move in an hr. later so I figured I would take advantage of what little light I had coming from the dim lights on the side of the building. I wasn't coming up with much, a quarter here, dime there and of course my zincs Next thing you know I hit a REAL LOUD tone and a +97 on the F2 and it was so solid it sounded like it was on top but the F2 said 1" deep so I cut a little plug and went in with the cheap Chinese pointer I had at the time.......Nothing! I stood and rescanned, nothing again! I mumbled to myself "Ghost signal?" and went back in with the pointer to double check. My pointer then beeped solid and I pulled out an old square looking nail but it was shorter than the ones I had seen used for home construction back in the day. I looked at it for a second trying to adjust my vision a little and said "Horse shoe nail?" It was at that second I heard a horse snort, as plain as day, to my right, like right in my ear, just out of my peripheral vision. I dropped the nail and pointer, spun and grabbed my digger at the same time just out of instinct I guess. I was gonna jack a horse with my digger if I had too! There was NOTHING OR NO ONE there at all. Me, on my knees, white as a sheet, heart racing. At first I told myself it was just the wind but it was just WAY to pronounced and I couldn't stop thinking about it. I told my gf that night and she reminded me that the horse stables at the fairgrounds are behind the grade school. Yes, yes they are......1/4 mile away in the direction the wind was blowing 40mph.......Nope, not buying it. A horse naying I may have heard lightly thru my ear phones but I doubt it. A horse snorting from 1/4 mile away......IMPOSSIBLE!