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Ever spooked yourself while in new fields?
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Posted by ShepFL on August 09, 2006 at 21:35:43 from (148.64.163.174):
Like most everyone else I have a day job, then activities after work i.e. Scouts, Hunter Ed classes, pick kids up from band practice etc. As such I am forced to do some nighttime field work. Tonight was one such night. I needed to bushhog some newly leased land; about a 20 acre tree lined patch to get it ready for plowing and winter planting. Driving the WD and dragging 4 ft. pull type bush hog from the house I got to the new field about dusk. Since I had already walked the flat field I made a few rounds with WD to mow down the headlands. The sun quickly sank behind the trees and the sunset was soon lost in the deep dark swamp until it became night time. No worries, I had planned to bush hog by the moon tonight. Keeps the dust down and it is some quality quiet time for me just to unplug and unwind. As I began driving thru the 12' tall dog fennel and thick weeds I found myself anxiously waiting for the moon to rise, the better to see by and the sooner the better. At some point in time my mind began playing tricks on me. It was just "to quiet" and this WD does not have the same soothing rhythm of my Oliver 550 Dsl. In the tall weeds I began to see shadows and openings as I rolled by. I couldn't see in front of me due to the high weeds and it was total darkness behind me. Then I started thinking about about the original owner of my WD and his life, then ghost stories crept into my head all the while still focused on how "un-naturally" quiet it was tonight (no frogs, no owls, no bulldog buddy Hunter running next to me, absolutely nothing). As I popped out of the tall weeds I was expecting to see something on the headlands, what I don't know, but something none the less. As I would turn to re-enter the tall weeds the lightning bugs would wink and to me it looked like mysterious dog eyes off in the distance. My mind started getting the best of me so after about an hour of of this in the darkness I decided to head back home. When I pulled out of that new field tonight and onto the dirt road I breathed a sigh of relief. After about 30 min. I was greeted with a moonlit road for the remainder of the drive home, about 15 min. I am not afraid of the dark or new situations but tonight for reasons I don't understand I got spooked in that dark field. How about you? Any spooky things happen to you when doing chores or working new fields? Just curious.
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