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Astonishing Legends

The Phantom Horse of Greensboro

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.69.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2021

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Many of us have taken an adventurous expedition to check out some local, notorious spot to see if we could witness or sense some evidence of a past famous or infamous incident. Most of the time, one only returns with a minor anecdote or pictures of an ordinary location bereft of anything noteworthy. The more realistic purpose is not so much to find a ghoulish memento but to imagine what it must've been like to have been there when it happened. But what if such an outing starts with strange coincidences and ends with the adventurers enduring a paranormal event seemingly unrelated to the original incident? This is the sort of tale we'll hear from our good friend, graphic designer, and illustrator Tommy Beaver about the time some friends went to check out the scene of a horrific crime that happened in Summerfield, North Carolina, almost 13 miles northwest of Greensboro. On June 3, 1985, the incident in question occurred when at the end of a murder spree and police pursuit, Fritz Klenner and his first cousin, lover, and accomplice, Susie Newsome Lynch, ended their standoff detonating a bomb in their Chevrolet Blazer. Klenner and Lynch had blown themselves up along with Lynch's already deceased two sons who were in the vehicle rather than face arrest. The site of this shocking finale was what the friends were hoping to explore, but their souvenir was an unsettling experience they'll never forget. Strangely, a mysterious white horse suddenly appeared to encounter the group, except that this creature may not have been a horse at all. Many people have claimed to see a spectral white horse, and the ancient Britons believed a sacred white horse was one's ride to the afterlife. Yet these friends may forever wonder, as will we, what was the connection of this beast to the tragedy if there is one? And if this wasn't a horse as we know it, what sort of monster haunts the location of one of North Carolina's most ghastly crimes?

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Transcript

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In New York you can gaze up at the towering skyscrapers or...

0:05.0

You can sunbathe on top of one.

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In LA you can catch a neon lit rollercoaster ride on Santa Monica Pier.

0:14.0

Before catching a California catfish off Santa Monica Pier.

0:19.0

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0:26.0

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0:30.0

After...

0:31.0

Not every paranormal story fits in a neat little package.

0:35.0

From time to time we encounter a legend that goes beyond mystery,

0:40.0

transcending into a tale that almost seems to tip the hand of the universe away from its vest and in our direction.

0:47.0

And with this, it offers a glimpse into the realm that we will never be allowed to understand.

0:53.0

In seconds we realize that glimpse is only there to confuse us,

0:57.0

almost making fun of our inability to grasp the secrets of the universe.

1:02.0

Tonight's story does that too.

1:05.0

It's a campfire story really, and yes, that's a nod to our dear friend and paranormal podfather Jim Herald.

1:12.0

But this is one of those stories.

1:14.0

The kindie here from a friend or a friend of a friend,

1:17.0

but still someone that you know personally or at least you know people who do.

1:21.0

It's the kind of story that reminds you,

1:24.0

not every quiet country lane is so quiet after all.

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