I used to think farlows was a fairly scary place to fish, especially when on your own, bt not particularily because of anything supernatural in this instance. Around the time when i was 14, some 9 yrs ago, i was fishing with a freind of mine. The lake was rarely patrolled and none of the gates were locked allowing anyone to drive a small distance behind the swims along the stretch of the banks. At the time, the side of the lake we were fishing (m25 banbk) was rumoured to be having a big problem with pikeys camped out near by and also by car theives, a number of freinds had been rumoured to have been robbed at knife point and some even thrown into the lake.! This instance it must have been around 2am we woke to a car flying up the bk of us at speed. It was also rumoured at the time that even the car theives had been causing anglers problems. Being 14 we were prety **** up as to what was going to happen, they were speeding up and dwn, handbraking at trhe end of the bank and come speeding bank. Any how the car suddenly fell silent and only the sound of people runnin away frm the scene could be heard. Hoping this was the last we would hear of them. a few moments later we were well and truely **** up when the car, parked in the space jus behind our swim blew up and was engulfed in flames. am sure a number of anglers at that time had witnessed something similar. It is such a scarier experience when you are woken to a situation like this. any one else have any problems down farlows bk in them days? id like to point out that since them yrs farlows has well and truely fixed up, all the gates are locked dead on 9pm and have never seen trpuble down there in yrs. all doin a top job down there, only problem down there these days is finding yourself a swim at the weekend due to it being so popular!