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Welcome to Ponyhenge—a Massive, Mysterious, and Ever-Growing Graveyard for Rocking Horses in Massachusetts
Mental Floss ^ | MICHELE DEBCZAK

Posted on 03/08/2022 7:56:56 AM PST by BenLurkin

First there was one: a toy horse discarded in a field on the side of Old Sudbury Road. Jimmy Pingeon and Elizabeth Graver, who own the pasture and live next door, told the Boston Globe in 2015 that the prop was leftover from a Headless Horseman display they had set up for Halloween. They thought a kid might find it and play it with, but they never imagined the horse would inspire a local landmark that lives on more than a decade later.

After the first equine seed was planted, other horse toys began showing up randomly in the area. Soon a herd of rocking horses, hobby horses, and horse models filled the clearing. Dozens of ponies litter the space at any given time. You can see what it looks like in the video below.

Sometimes the horses are arranged in a circle like their stone counterpart across the Atlantic, and sometimes they're lined up side by side as if preparing to race.

Though Ponyhenge sits on private property, visitors are welcome as long as they act respectfully. One couple even got married at the site in March 2020.

To get there, follow Route 117 west to Old Sudbury Road and drive down the street for about half a mile. The rocking horse graveyard will be on your left.

(Excerpt) Read more at mentalfloss.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: ponyhenge

1 posted on 03/08/2022 7:56:56 AM PST by BenLurkin
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2 posted on 03/08/2022 7:59:21 AM PST by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: BenLurkin

Humans can be the oddest creatures.


3 posted on 03/08/2022 7:59:47 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: BenLurkin

Ha, ha. Ponyhenge tour by drone!


4 posted on 03/08/2022 8:01:02 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on mycreen name for my FR home page.)
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To: BenLurkin

Hope this doesn’t give the Garden Gnome Liberation Front any ideas...


5 posted on 03/08/2022 8:02:50 AM PST by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: BenLurkin

Because Xiden voters are idiots.


6 posted on 03/08/2022 8:06:17 AM PST by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: BenLurkin

That’s pretty cool.


7 posted on 03/08/2022 8:08:26 AM PST by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: BenLurkin

bkmk


8 posted on 03/08/2022 8:12:07 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my taglin e on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: BenLurkin

That looks like a nice Harley ride when Springtime comes.

I like riding around the back roads of MA.


9 posted on 03/08/2022 8:14:24 AM PST by left that other site (A Man Without Self-Control is like a City Broken Into and Left Without Walls (Proverbs 25:28))
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To: Psalm 73

“crowd-sourced art installation”


10 posted on 03/08/2022 8:27:29 AM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: BenLurkin

I remember seeing a program about an island where there are dolls. Dolls sitting on the rocks, the ground , hanging from the trees- it’s really creepy.
This is kinda cool…

https://everythingunexplained.com/mexicos-creepy-island-of-the-dolls/

This, not so much.


11 posted on 03/08/2022 10:05:04 AM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: BenLurkin

I wonder what prompted that.


12 posted on 03/08/2022 10:05:50 AM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: telescope115

Just to be clear, the rocking horses are cool, the dolls, uh, no.


13 posted on 03/08/2022 10:07:36 AM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: telescope115

That is creepy! No way would I walk by there at night....For all I know, it could have been created by one of the characters from the movie “The Hills Have Eyes”.......


14 posted on 03/08/2022 10:10:50 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Psalm 73

Now you finally know what all of those ancient circular sites were all about.


15 posted on 03/08/2022 10:15:32 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Hot Tabasco

Rod Serling even had Twilight Zone and Night Gallery episodes about dolls that came to life, and not to do good……👿

BUT, rocking horses are kinda cool🙂


16 posted on 03/08/2022 10:29:06 AM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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