tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974614945447984069.post4187439808161527689..comments2023-07-13T16:21:08.229+01:00Comments on Step Into The Story: The Ghost Rider!Nicola Cornickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12916076219284821820noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974614945447984069.post-61136659517774031982009-06-07T14:26:15.670+01:002009-06-07T14:26:15.670+01:00Do tell us more, Carol! I'm always open to bei...Do tell us more, Carol! I'm always open to being spooked by other people's stories. And it makes me realise how many curious incidents do go on. Jan, I love the idea of the ghostly brush of fur!Nicola Cornickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12916076219284821820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974614945447984069.post-82527407895784689192009-06-06T17:20:22.238+01:002009-06-06T17:20:22.238+01:00Nicola,
That is an amazing story, particularly as ...Nicola,<br />That is an amazing story, particularly as Monty also heard the hoofbeats. Some inexplicable things have happened to me too, but hoofbeats? Never! Not yet, anyway ;)Carol Townendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06272578445125707881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974614945447984069.post-86337594275434549882009-06-06T14:33:33.025+01:002009-06-06T14:33:33.025+01:00Oo-er, Nicola. I have no doubt that was a real gho...Oo-er, Nicola. I have no doubt that was a real ghost of one of old Nayland's customers (mind you, he could shift a bit if he managed to shoe the horse in that short space of time).<br /><br />I often feel the aura - and occasionally the weight or brush of fur - of previous cats who should be happily chasing after-life mice by now. Sometimes I think they don't realise there's a distinction between the worlds.<br /><br />I reckon that horse was telling you that you have to include the incident in a novel.Jan Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00471022034388834235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974614945447984069.post-88306137431377319892009-06-06T12:39:33.245+01:002009-06-06T12:39:33.245+01:00It is interesting how sensitive animals seem to be...It is interesting how sensitive animals seem to be to atmosphere isn't it. Intrigued by the tales of the dogs, Kate H and Amanda! I wonder what they could see or feel in those places? If only they could tell us...<br /><br />Love the idea of you running for the car in the style of Jack Sparrow, Kate T! It gave me goosebumps to read about you including incidents in your writing that you later found to be real. Seriously spooky! But then it's true we writers are very tuned in, I think. There are countless historical places that resonate for me.Nicola Cornickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12916076219284821820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974614945447984069.post-15047632887938834382009-06-06T10:43:23.042+01:002009-06-06T10:43:23.042+01:00Hope your nerves have calmed down by now Nicola. ...Hope your nerves have calmed down by now Nicola. I would have been quaking in my boots and certainly would have run back to the car probably in the manic manner of Capt Jack Sparrow.<br />As writers I believe we have an extra sense and certain places definitely resonate with us. Several times I have written scenes about a place when a specific incident or character sneaks in which I thought was my imagination. When I have later checked some historical facts I have not previously read I have discovered a similar incident did acually happen.<br /><br />This would make a great scene in a novel. Could it be that it was given to you for a reason!!!!kate tremaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10344692385418362736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974614945447984069.post-46138641923731035142009-06-05T13:45:43.478+01:002009-06-05T13:45:43.478+01:00Eeek!! Just thinking about phantom hoofbeats give...Eeek!! Just thinking about phantom hoofbeats gives me the shivers, Nicola. I do think animals are especially sensitive to such things--when I was a kid my grandparents lived in an older, reputedly haunted house. I never saw anything odd myself, but their dachshunds had a room they would never go in (and they were usually very brave dogs, LOL!)Amanda McCabe/Amanda Carmack/Laurel McKeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15575437197334661544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974614945447984069.post-87390732282865479752009-06-05T12:16:38.416+01:002009-06-05T12:16:38.416+01:00How fascinating, Nicola. Spooky, but fascinating (...How fascinating, Nicola. Spooky, but fascinating (and you MUST use it!)<br /><br />Not surprising that Monty heard it - the cottage where I grew up was haunted, and the dogs used to refuse to go into certain bits of the garden. If you threw a ball and it landed in one of those spots, they'd make big circles round it and look very sorry for themselves until you fetched it.Kate Hardyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07367918727779245526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974614945447984069.post-5311505231656319922009-06-05T11:56:06.227+01:002009-06-05T11:56:06.227+01:00Thanks, everyone - yes, it was pretty scary! Maybe...Thanks, everyone - yes, it was pretty scary! Maybe when I've calmed down I might think of a way to incorporate it into a book, Alison! And CC I think you're right. There is definitely something out there. <br /><br />I thought it was interesting that Monty heard it too, Michelle. At least I know I'm not mad! When we lived in the haunted house the cat would quite often look up as though she was watching someone cross the room. That always gave me goosebumps. <br /><br />As for the Victorian maid thing, well my poor dh gets a lot of stick about seeing that! He is "sceptical man" - he trained as a scientist and he hates stuff that can't be proved. But we were staying in the bridal suite of an old hotel in Bristol and he woke up in the middle of the night and saw a maid in what he called "upstairs downstairs uniform" standing at the bottom of the bed. Then she walked away - straight through the wall! In the morning we discovered there had once been a doorway there and that a maid had died in a fire at the hotel in the late Victorian period. What a room to put newly-weds in!Nicola Cornickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12916076219284821820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974614945447984069.post-52948069795901617482009-06-05T11:28:53.309+01:002009-06-05T11:28:53.309+01:00Yikes! I would have been running. I think what m...Yikes! I would have been running. I think what makes it spookier is that the dog heard it too; you know it wasn't just you.<br /><br />I want to hear the story of the Victorian maid! Eek.michellewillinghamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10284183437393142474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974614945447984069.post-28571243682427591952009-06-05T10:50:42.057+01:002009-06-05T10:50:42.057+01:00That's fascinating! I would be spooked to, bu...That's fascinating! I would be spooked to, but maybe you should use it as inspiration...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974614945447984069.post-83588790578759633002009-06-05T09:34:25.719+01:002009-06-05T09:34:25.719+01:00Excellent tale of the unexplained! I have had many...Excellent tale of the unexplained! I have had many ghostly encounters as well. The dead DO go on. Their presence is all around us.CC_Authorshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17493668551455592875noreply@blogger.com