The horror that is LOVE

A strange thing that happened on a trip to Greece

My fiancée and I arrived on the island of Berlini on the last ferry from the mainland. By the time we got to our cabin it was very dark and an intense storm rolled in, drenching us with rain.

I paid the taxi driver who drove us up the mountainside and ran back into the cabin to see my fiancée sitting in a large chair in the main room. The place was larger than I thought and it had some interesting works of art in the back by the fireplace. The largest being a man riding on a smallish horse.

I sank into the chair and fell asleep with my fiancée Ariana for about a half an hour. A clap of thunder woke me up, but Ariana was already awake and staring at the statue with a look of pure terror, not making a sound.

From where we sat the head of the man on the horse was staring directly at us. The horse and part of the torso of the man appeared to be bronze, but his head seemed crafted from other materials, it looked too real. I got up and studied the thing more closely, it's marble eyeballs reflected the light in such a way that it appeared to be alive. Ariana got up and stood behind me holding one of her large scarfs in her hand.

She whispered in my ear, "Put this over it's head, it's just horrible."

I put the scarf gently over the head of the weird horse rider and once I did screams emanated from the walls. Long drawn out drones and almost backwards-sounding demonic garbling accompanied the initial wailing. Ariana put her hands over her ears and also began screaming and had a wild look in her eyes. I grabbed the scarf off of the man's head, then Ariana next, and headed outside. We eventually fell asleep in the rain underneath a tree until morning.

When I went back inside the cabin in the daylight, the statue had no man riding it. It was just a smallish bronze horse.