Pon a spooky night

P'on a spooky night - P'on a Spooky Road

Tis' said that in the year of Eighteen hundred and half past tea

On a cold dark and misty night

A carriage with four horses of revelers traveling to the local inn for a Guy Fawkes Night do

Did meet a flying spectre at this very corner

The horses spooked at the terrible flying vision

And galloped into the lake

Every one was drowned

No bodies or wreckage was ever found

Now on every dark misty night

The coach and horses passengers too

Travel along this road

To scare any person, horse whatever

And cause them in the lake to fall

And ride along with them

On every Dark and misty night

 

Whoooooooooooooooooo

Wild Rose October 2018

Reviews

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A fine tale and one perfectly suitable for Halloween. Very Gothic and macabre and that accompanying picture is quite impressive. I like the font here, too. Suits the theme and old time setting very well. A good read! :)

[Wild Rose]

Thank you
I have had the spoilt picture for ages (taken into a strong afternoon sun) > Some day I may be able to recover it > ???
Font > Chosen to suit the poem

And yes the poem was written for Halloween

Buttermere Valley Half an hour by road on narrow twisty roads > two lakes Crummock Water (This one) & Buttermere [Buttermere is a closed end with a 25% grad (both ways) over into Borrowdale]

[Dave Brown]

This is good stuff
Reminds me of when we were kids we always had spooky stories to scare each other with

[Wild Rose]

What you can do with dark (spoilt) photos

[Samuel Dickens]

This is great--I love spooky stories! I wonder... is there any truth to it? Oh, and the photo you used is perfect.

[Wild Rose]

Nearest truth (Recent) is an aircraft crashed into Red Pike (WWII) they had to build a section of road > Rounding a particularly sharp corner part of the plane fell off into 90ft of water (unrecovered) Praps the spooks come from here >>> Or the true story of the 'Secret Valley' from "Dooms Day Book" times > Buttermere is the only place not mentioned in it. In spite of them sending an army to register it

[light and ashes]

Spooky, but an excellent write.

[Wild Rose]

Thank you
The picture is one of those useless ones that I managed to recover (alongside Crummock Water - Buttermere Valley - Cumbria - Lake District)

[light and ashes]

It's seriously beautiful.

[Wild Rose]

It is in a national park > an SSSI > a world heritage site > 20 mins drive from home

[light and ashes]

Aren't you lucky? :)