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Doing a night anywhere in the Lee valley at the moment is pretty scary stuff, seeing if you still have all your tackle when you wake up at first light. 
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#1460 6 May 2015 at 8.07pm | | | |
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i always have bad nightmares when i do nights its always similar ones my mate as said many times who was you fighting with last night i just dont know why as never have them in the house. mind a couple of hedge hogs **** me up once my mate said they were mating f##k they make a noise
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#1458 6 May 2015 at 10.21am | | | |
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No, this was the old pit behind the cottages at Betchworth, at the base of Box Hill. Very eerie at night and bags of atmosphere.
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#1457 6 May 2015 at 8.05am | | | |
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Some brilliant story's on here has anyone got anymore?
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#1455 5 May 2015 at 2.00pm | | | |
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Was told a story by my brother about one of his friends who fished a lake near a monastery some years ago (not sure if it's Furnace Lake near East Grinstead?). This guy (who I met once) seemed to be pretty level headed but by all accounts what happened to him on this occasion left him very badly shaken. Having waited to get into his chosen swim, he'd set up and said cheerio to his mate and settled down for the evening. As it got darker, slight mist started to cover the lake at which point he nodded off. Around 3am, he was awoken by what he described as a growl and sat bolt upright. Looking out across the lake, through the mist he could see a cloaked figure drifting across the lake towards him. Suddenly his rods began to violently bounce and jump about on the bank sticks. He was so terrified he ran back to his car and drove home. By all accounts he did return for his stuff a few days after but has never fished the venue since or fished nights.
Would be interested to know if anyone else has heard this story?
Personally, scariest thing that happened to me fishing was at an old brick pit some years ago. During the early hours when it was still pitch black, I could hear something creeping though the undergrowth getting nearer to where I was fishing in a dug out swim at the bottom of a slope. When I shouted to try and scare off whatever was making the noise, silence. My policy has always been the best defence is attack, or act like a nutter and show no fear! So I grabbed my torch and a large log and heart racing ran in ready to have a go. I stopped and shone the torch around and initially saw nothing, but then suddenly saw in the torchlight a body in camo lying in the undergrowth. Really shaken now I thought I’d heard someone dumping a body and thinking the murderers still nearby when this tit stood up and apologised for alarming me but they were TA on manoeuvres and were trying to get to the lake undetected for water. After some expletives on my part, I said what do you mean we and his mate stood up right behind me. How I didn’t **** myself I’ll never know, but after telling them to get their water and **** off sharpish, I spent the rest of the night wide awake, shaken and rather pissed off. Have never been back since! And to make it worse, not even a bleep!
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#1454 5 May 2015 at 12.18pm | | | |
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My syndicate is secure,high fence all round and two locked gates to get in to the car park.i've quite often been the only one on there if I do a night mid week.
One night last year I woke up and something felt wrong,can't put my finger on it but I felt like I was in total blackness and felt really scared,suddenly the whole bivvy shook for a couple of seconds,like when it has been raining and you shake it to dry....the feeling lasted a few seconds and then passed and I honestly thought I must of imagined it.
A couple of weeks ago the mrs asked if I was going fishing that weekend and could she join me.she quite often fishes with me so it wasnt a problem.during the night I got woken by her calling out my name in a panic.i woke up and she looked absolutely terrified.she said she felt like someone was trying to pull her out of the back of the bivvy.
I went over and did Sunday night this weekend and woke during the night to the feeling that someone was standing outside the bivvy.there has been a bit of tackle theft in the area lately so i jumped out just in case but no-one was around.when I got home yesterday and told the mrs,we started searching to see what we could find out about the area.turns out that during the plague they used to bring the dead bodies from London up the river which is about half a mile away and bury them in the surrounding fields.....
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#1453 3 May 2015 at 7.55pm | | | |
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Anyone got any more of these?
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#1452 4 Feb 2015 at 12.32pm | | | |
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I've not had any experiences as scary as some of these stories but...
I joined a new club lake last year and its days only, now I got in the habit of turning up just before light and making my way around the lake in the darkness. I have never felt totally comfortable there but never had any reason behind it.
One morning, around 5am, I was setting up my rod rests in the water (have to wade out to get past the reedbeds) and out of the mist I noticed an old man walking towards me on the high bank to my left. Now normally you can see someone coming from a good 300yds away but with the mist visiblity was a bit poor. Still this old man was only around 50yds away from me when I noticed him which I thought was strange. Im pretty sure he hadnt noticed me hidden away in the reeds but I was following him with my eyes when a tree blocked my view. He never came out the other side of that tree...
I was frozen thinking that the only explanation was he had turned on a right angle and walked out of view dead in line with the tree. after about a minute I got out and ran to the top of the high bank and looked around, I couldnt see anyone at all.
Now this place is frequented by dog walkers, ramblers, joggers, etc but at 5am I was surprised to see someone appearing and disappearing infront of me.
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#1451 3 Feb 2015 at 11.02pm | | | |
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Havent bothered to read all the posts just skimmed a few pages of them, and must say I havent had any bother in nearly 40 years of night fishing. EXCEPT one night, when fishing a small syndicate lake back in '87 . I remember as it was just before the night of the big storm back then.
Anyway the water in question, (an old brick pit), is in a mature bit of forest, and like most such places doesnt get a lot of light at night even with a full moon. But its never bothered me, or it didnt till this one night, when I was awoken by something apparently pushing through the undergrowth behind my bivvy.
Since I had got full night vision by that time, (I do a lot of water watching on late Spring or Summer nights, to help with fish location), so I didnt turn on my torch, but rose and stood quietly with my back against the tree next to the bivvy and waited.
I didnt have to wait long before I relised that whatever it was was passing from my left across to my right, but I couldnt see a thing.
Just as I was about to turn on my torch and destroy my night vision something screamed, and I mean screamed! Then not 20 feet from me whatever it was crashed away deeper in to the forest leaving me shaking like a leaf.
This was my first aquaintance with a randy Vixen that was to turn up at the back of the lake quite regularly over the next few years, probably due to the proximity to a large area of Rabbit warren hidden in the brambles to the left of my swim.
Sorry its not more gripping lads, but I am sure that such screams are the origin of many a ghost story told by city folk in times past. 
BOF 
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#1450 3 Feb 2015 at 9.16pm | | | |
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Wow what an awesome thread! Just spent the last 4 and a half hours reading this from start to finsh.
Some great posts...........
Does anyone have anymore stories?
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#1449 25 Aug 2014 at 7.07am | | | |
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Wonderfull advice..... 
Words truly fail me
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#1448 25 Aug 2014 at 4.57am | | | |
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In reply to Post #1447
Thanks for that Bricktop!
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#1447 25 Aug 2014 at 2.42am | | | |
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#1446 24 Aug 2014 at 0.20am | | | |
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Had to stop readibg this or id never go fishing again !
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#1445 23 Aug 2014 at 10.18pm | | | |
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Very rare to suffer nightmares mate and got minimum stress in life. Not the best of sleepers though tbh.
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