A Weird Old Man With A Robe and a Stick Was Watching Us - Ely South Wales

I was contacted by a listener to my YouTube channel who shared a strange experience that happened to him in his local woodland.

BBR Listener: "After listening to your video earlier I wanted to report something that happened to me and a mate of mine. I had a strange experience in the woods in a place called Ely, in South Wales. I was with my mate at the time and we were walking through the woods and we came out into a small field which made an opening surrounded by the woods all around. We was crossing the field walking towards the gate at the other end of the field but as we got around half way across the field we could hear lots of trotting noises coming from the woods and they were getting closer to us.

So we sort of ran the rest of the way across the field but as we were doing that about 15-20 horses came running out of the woods and they ran across the field to the trees on the opposite side. But as they were crossing I remember me and my mate were looking over our shoulder as we made a dash for the gate and I saw someone weird. It was some old man standing just inside the woods watching us. He had a long white beard and it looked like he was wearing a robe of sorts and was holding a long stick in his hand. The stick was the sort of stick like you would use to help you walk but it was crooked like a natural stick not a walking stick you can buy from a shop? And the horses were sort of the dividing line in the field between the side the old man was standing in and the side me and my mate were on as they ran across the field.

Anyway, I seen the old man and looked towards the front of me as I was running and I did a double take to make sure I seen what I had seen, but as I done the double take the horses were just exiting into the woods on the other side of the field and the old man was gone. The double take was all in the space of about 2-3 seconds. I have no clue where he could have gone so quickly but I know what I saw. I asked my mate afterwards "Did you see that?" And he said "Yeah" and then I responded "What did you see?" Because I didn't want to say what I had seen and then him just entertain what I saw and lie. But he said he saw the exact same thing as I had seen. An Old man with a white beard, sort of balding on his head and wearing a robe and holding a long stick and had just disappeared. It wasn't night time though. It was in the day so we got a good look at him.