The Horse with a Halo

Many years ago on Leatherwood Creek, in Clay County there appeared a large white horse with a halo. Although the members of the family who saw it described the event in different ways, there was general agreement that a glowing halo of soft light was seen above the horse wherever it went.

One evening after supper the family had gathered on the front porch of their house and were engaged in the lively pleasure of genial conversation. Then abruptly all talking stopped and everyone looked toward the highway. At some four hundred yard's distance, they saw a white horse coming up the highway. It walked with a spirited gait, its long white mane flowed back in the gentle breeze, and above it floated a halo.

When the family saw the horse turn off from the highway and start up the lane toward their house, they all ran inside and locked the door. From the windows they watched to see what the horse would do. With liveliness it came prancing up the lane alongside the whitewashed board fence. On arriving at the yard gate, it stopped momentarily; then with a toss of its head and a loud came on toward the house.

By this time the members of the family were quite excited. Some were running from one window to another to get a better view of the horse while others were looking for places to hide. Then the horse leaped, with a loud clatter, onto the front porch. It now appeared to be monstrously large, its eyes shining like coals of fire and above it was the halo.

When the horse began to stomp the front door down, the family escaped by way of the back door and ran some distance up the hill back of the house. There they hid behind some trees and waited to see what it would do.

In a short time they saw the horse back out of the house into the front yard and start to float upward in the air. Up and up it went until it passed out of sight. But the halo remained against the sky a long while after the horse had disappeared. No one has ever been able to find a rational explanation of this strange event.