Horse Swapping Ghosts
Horses being swapped from stable to stable and disembodied voices are just some of the strange occurrences that Donna Santos and her family have experienced while running their stables. Not believing that it was ghosts, they figured it was work of a prankster and had the local police stake out the place overnight. To their surprise, the horses were found swapped out of their locked stalls in the morning. The police did not see anyone go near the stables throughout the night.
What do you guys think? local pranksters? or prankster ghosts?
Full source: Register Citizen
By DAVID HUTTER
BARKHAMSTED — The horses do not mysteriously switch stalls at the Santos farm anymore.
Nor does the cat’s bowl move from one step to another step to another.
Donna Santos believed spirits were at work inside her house and inside her barn on West Hill Road. According to her, the horses moving from one stall to another and the cat’s bowl moving are the work of spirits.
“There are no more ghosts. They’re all gone,” Donna Santos said. “My horses are very happy now that the paranormal society has finished its work. They’re not scared anymore. Since they came to investigate, everything has been fine.”
Besides the horses switching stables on their own and the cat bowl moving on its own, the family’s dog growled at apparently invisible beings, Donna said in an interview this week.
Her husband Bob, son Danny, daughter Cari, and Donna became uncomfortable living in their house. Unable to find a rational explanation for these occurrences, the family began considering the notion that they lived among spirits.
“I did not move the horses. My husband did not move the horses,” Donna said. “Our children did not move the horses.”
“The horses could not unlock themselves and move on their own,” she said. “Something had to move them.”
Eventually, she heard about a group called the Northwest Connecticut Paranormal Society. Comprised of people who believe they have experienced a paranormal activity, the society scrutinizes instances in which people report suspected supernatural activities.
Donna Santos initially suspected someone broke into her barn, unlocked the horses from their stalls and then moved them around. Eventually, she called the state police and had state troopers stay outside her barn on at least one night; even then, in the morning she found the horses were in different stalls, Donna said.
John Zontok, the founder of this paranormal society, describes himself as a skeptic and a critical thinker. With its goal being to educate people, the society includes a college professor, a professional photographer, a paralegal, a business executive, a Marine, a Reiki master, college students and a dog, according to the organization.
“Something in the barn was threatening her animals,” Zontok said. “We captured several unexplainable voices.”
The team uses an array of devices in an effort to determine the source of suspected paranormal activities. Seeking an answer to people who have many questions, the paranormal society does not charge any money for its services.
“Our main goal is to find something to show that paranormal activity exists,” Zontok said. “I am a sceptic regarding the paranormal.”
As the paranormal society people investigated activities in the barn, they were filmed by Picture Shack Productions. The production company interviewed the Santos family at their farm in January and June. Picture Shack Productions documented the paranormal society’s investigation at the Santos house.
Picture Shack sold its work to Animal Planet. The television network will broadcast the piece on Sunday, Dec. 13, at 10 p.m. as part of a series called The Haunted.
Ever since the paranormal society people investigated, the unexplained phenomenon have stopped, according to Donna Santos.
Toward this end, she praised the paranormal society people for giving their time and skills.
Written by Javier Ortega - javier@ghosttheory.com
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Thanks Javier. The comments left at the link you provided help to flesh out the story. One of them states:
” I would just like to say that the reporter screwed up the story. The investigating group didn’t rid the ghosts, Tracie Shannon did. He was told that SPECIFICALLY and never even put it in the story. ”
It’s unfortunate most of the people leaving comments are making jokes at the expense of the family. And folks wonder why people are often reluctant to come forward with their own anomalous experiences.
BC,
You made a good point about people being reluctant. I have been for years about making public experiences I’ve had. And it’s just like anything else that people don’t consider “normal”. They poke fun. Donna was very strong in her comeback. You can tell she was put off by the comments that were made, but hopefully she remained strong in her gratitude and belief that the situation was taken care of. For her, proof was given and problem solved. That’s what makes this story special.
It would be great if everyone accepted everything that was presented to them and didn’thave to poke fun on other people because they can’t understand it themselves. This is an empty dream. As long as we stay true to ourselves, we will be able to surround ourselves with people who will accept us for who or what we are.
I’m really glad that Donna was able to get her problem solved. That sort of thing would usually get the police involved cause a lot of money to be spent on expensive alram systems, motion lights, and the like. I’m sure that some of that was done before she suspected it paranormal…I would have. and I’m not as skeptical as most are. Would have still wanted to debunk it though.
Another winner Javier!!!
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What a great opportunity to set up cameras for a few nights and catch all this on film! Does anyone know if they did that? I guess I’ll have to watch on Dec 13th to see.
there’s only one thing wrong with that…if the spirits are gone and leaving the horses and cat bowl alone, what would be the point of investigating it now? just seems that they would be lucky to get residuals. But who knows, maybe the spirits will want to come out and play that day.
I just meant when they went in to investigate, did they set up cameras and just observe for a few days? Could have potentially caught some really great evidence if what the owners are saying is true.
redngreen, sorry I completely forgot when I put that other post in that it was going to be spotlighted on Haunted. My mistake. Just in case any of us miss it, since I know you will be watching, let us know what they found.