Have you ever felt the feeling that you were being
watched? That slow niggling feeling crawling up the back of your neck? You cast
your eyes around behind you, willing some shape to form out of the darkness.
Something, anything to explain the sensation away. But there is nothing in the black.
No sounds alert you to the fact that you are being stalked. Still, your skin
crawls and you can't relax. The primitive anticipation of danger is especially
intense when you're alone in the country.
What is it out there? A coyote? A bob cat? A cougar? A
Sasquatch? A bad case of reading too many Lets Not Meet stories on Reddit and
being somewhat convinced that there is a deranged person living in the barn
loft that you wouldn't even know about until the jump down and attack you from
behind?
Okay, probably not those last two, but Tuesday night I definitely
knew something was off. I shrugged it off as my overactive imagination, or
perhaps being watched by an opossum. It was dark. I was at my parent's home
feeding chickens and playing the ever popular "try to count black cows in
the dark" game. I had just started pouring grain for the horses and
stepped out of the grain room to grab a bag of sweet feed when I saw her.
She peeked her head out of the inky black and into the
light of the horse barn, causing me to scream like a little girl and experience
heart palpitations. All that was visible was her white blaze, as my scream
caused her to turn tail and run. I ran from the barn to find, nothing. She had
vanished again. How 1,200lbs of horse can be COMPLETELY SILENT, and invisible
is the mystery of the week.
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Meet the creature that stalks you at night, Zippy. The
horse ninja. Schrodinger's horse.
If you put a horse in a fence, but don't see
the horse; does the horse cease to exist?
No, the fence ceases to exist. . .
Screw the cat who walks through walls. She is Zippy, the horse who
walks through fences!
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Horses are a$$hats.
