General Discussion & Chat: Spooks and ghosts and weeping ladies...oh my! Pt 2, 1 by knolan

knolan wrote:
I was just out in the shed potting up some seeds and I heard the most horrible sounds from the trees ever! Screaming! I think something was robbing a squirrel's nest. Had to be with that kind of screaming. It scared the 'you know what out of me'.

It can get pretty scary out there. I'm at a dead end and my yard backs up to a big open pasture/pecan orchard. In my back yard, the side of the house is where I keep the shed, plant hospital, horse drive-up window and butterfly cage. You can see it all in the picture. But it's very dark back there. No street lights or anything other than my shed light to let me know what's going on (thus the need for my headlamp). I like to go out there at night and do my potting but it can get creepy when all you can hear are the bugs and frogs.....and then the animal screams I heard tonight. Most of the time it's really peaceful but it sure wasn't tonight! It could have been bats or possums, I don't know. whatever it was....those poor squirrels made me cry. I kept shining my light up in those trees but it wouldn't stop.

There's a pond about 400 yards out in the pasture. We've seen baby gators out there. When there's baby gators, there's big gators not too far away. There's also this beautiful antique claw bathtub sitting out there that has been there for at least 15 years. It's not used to fill water for the horses. I want it so bad for a planting but I can;t just take it. But, boy, am I ever tempted.