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Legend has it that a farmer on his way to Skegness Market tried to take his horse on a shortcut along the beach at Gibraltar Point. The day was foggy, the farmer lost his way in the mist and drowned in the rising tide. Since then, the frenzied sound of horse-hooves can supposedly be heard on that beach when the fog is thick.
The story is, sadly, unsourced. It is appended to a recollection of a supposed sighting of a ghostly horse (or rather, the sound of its hooves) by Sean, author of the Lincolnshire Gothic blog. Sean writes that he found references to this tale, ‘dating from the 1700s’, in ‘a cutting from an unspecified publication’ he chanced upon at the Lincoln public library. Sean’s full story can be found here.
Have you heard this story told or know of any additional details? Please get in touch!
ANNA MILON
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