Mr. Sniffers The Ghost Horse

This story is an odd one. I couldn't find a reference to this story anywhere online, so I thought I'd share it here. I grew up in Batavia, Illinois, in the 2000s. Our family lived in a home along Deerpath road, an area full of horse farms. We had this local legend about a ghost horse named "Mr. Sniffers."

The legend goes that in the late 1980s - there was a horse who lived on a horse farm in the 2000s named "Mr. Sniffers". He wasn't a very bright horse. I think he was described as being brown with a black mane. One night, his keepers forgot to lock his pen door, and he wandered out of his pen at night. He tragically wandered into the road - and was struck by a semi truck. However, in the following nights, strange things occurred. People reported seeing a horse wandering in the road and among the trees along Deerpath Road. 911 calls were made - but no horse would be found by law enforcement. The local horse farms said all their horses were accounted for - so it couldn't be one of theirs. I'm not sure if it appeared as a normal horse at first, some say it was normal, others more ghostly. The horse kept appearing, described as being a bluish white transparent horse. It would commonly appear in the road, where drivers would see it, come to a stop, and then watch as the horse would disappear. It is believed by locals that the horse apparition is the spirit of Mr. Sniffers.

I distinctly remember actually seeing the horse around 2010. I was driving home from a friends late one night, and encountered it in the road. It was a bluish white, and only appeared for a few seconds. It wasn't moving, just standing still. I could make out the head, body, and legs. This happened about a 1/2 mile from the Nelson Lake Road and Deerpath Road intersection. I haven't seen the horse since.