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The Ghost Donkey Of Honing [Norfolk]

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The Ghost Donkey Of Honing
PUBLISHED: 18:00 21 November 2020
Stacia Briggs

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Reached by ancient pathways and standing like a lighthouse in the fields, the church of St Peter and St Paul in Honing boasts an unusual parishioner: a ghost donkey.

A wonderful church in a somewhat lonely position, St Peter and St Paul was built on a hilltop and gazes out across this corner of Norfolk just off the well-named Long Lane. A quiet, sacred spot: not one where you would expect to encounter a white donkey with sulphurous smoke pouring from its flared nostrils, particularly a transparent one with the ability to gallop straight through a church wall. As the witness to the strange beast’s appearance watched in amazement, the beast passed him at a pace and he realised that he could see straight through it to the hedge beyond him.

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According to the marvellous www.paranormaldatabase.com, the ghost of a donkey that was tragically beaten to death by its owner haunts the appropriately-named Donkey Inn in Tilford in Surrey while a pale donkey is spotted at Christmas at Newton Heath in Dorset at the place where its master was robbed and murdered. In Bristol, on Dead End Lane in Hallen, a large black dog has been seen climbing out of a hedge before transforming into a donkey and standing on its hind legs and in Wales at Cwn Annwn, a ghostly donkey was seen by a driver.

Full Article (including map of hauntings):
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/weird-norfolk-ghost-donkey-demon-honing-1-6938536
 
Yithian said:
The Ghost Donkey Of Honing
PUBLISHED: 18:00 21 November 2020
Stacia Briggs

[...]

Reached by ancient pathways and standing like a lighthouse in the fields, the church of St Peter and St Paul in Honing boasts an unusual parishioner: a ghost donkey.

A wonderful church in a somewhat lonely position, St Peter and St Paul was built on a hilltop and gazes out across this corner of Norfolk just off the well-named Long Lane. A quiet, sacred spot: not one where you would expect to encounter a white donkey with sulphurous smoke pouring from its flared nostrils, particularly a transparent one with the ability to gallop straight through a church wall. As the witness to the strange beast’s appearance watched in amazement, the beast passed him at a pace and he realised that he could see straight through it to the hedge beyond him.

[...]

According to the marvellous www.paranormaldatabase.com, the ghost of a donkey that was tragically beaten to death by its owner haunts the appropriately-named Donkey Inn in Tilford in Surrey while a pale donkey is spotted at Christmas at Newton Heath in Dorset at the place where its master was robbed and murdered. In Bristol, on Dead End Lane in Hallen, a large black dog has been seen climbing out of a hedge before transforming into a donkey and standing on its hind legs and in Wales at Cwn Annwn, a ghostly donkey was seen by a driver.

Full Article (including map of hauntings):
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/weird-norfolk-ghost-donkey-demon-honing-1-6938536
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I bet it's a scam, Swifty is one half of that donkey.
 
"the ghost of a donkey that was tragically beaten to death by its owner haunts the appropriately-named Donkey Inn in Tilford in Surrey"

Over the years I've been to that pub many times, but never knew the strange story behind its name.
It is quite a strange place - out in the middle of the woods and a fair distance from the village proper. It's set in a sort of cutting just off the road through the woods and down a steep drive to well below the level of the road.
If you miss the small sign bearing the pub's name, you could easily drive straight past it, as nothing of the building is visible from the level of the road.
 
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