We live in a small North Yorkshire village in a cottage dating to about 1880. It was originally the bothy cottage, next to the stables block attached to a Victorian mansion house.

Our kitchen was used to shoot the horses when there time had come.

The house is haunted by two ghosts.

One we call Fred. He lived and died here some years ago, you can occasionally see his outline passing along the hall or in the upstairs bedrooms.

We have given a description of him to one of our oldest villagers and she came up with a name for him.

The other is called black beauty, yes we believe it's the ghost of a horse.

You can occasionally smell hay and hear the very faint sound of horses hooves in the kitchen of our house.

Neither cause us any problems and we have grown accustomed to them sharing our house with us.

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