Investigation #0003 · Closed file
The Restless Animals of Ridge Farm
Dogs and horses near Ridge Farm refuse to settle; owners report them all facing one way.
- Where
- Ridge Farm, Tobey Ridge
- Opened
- Thursday, 23 September 1926, 08:02
- Closed
- Tuesday, 28 September 1926
- Investigators
- Arthur Wren
- Outcome
- Solved.
Afterwards: Ridge Farm has gone quiet; Wren is less sure than before what a sensible explanation looks like.
Findings
- A lock-keeper records the river running upstream for eleven minutes.
- A storm is coming; the animals feel the pressure change.
The record
Thursday, 23 September 1926
- Initial report received. Dogs and horses near Ridge Farm refuse to settle; owners report them all facing one way.
- Wren takes up the investigation.
- Wren arrives at Ridge Farm.
- Investigators move to the stream bed.
- Strong smell of woodsmoke noted.
- Stone walls under bramble noted in the ditch.
- No further findings.
- Investigators leave Ridge Farm.
Friday, 24 September 1926
- Wren arrives at Ridge Farm.
Saturday, 25 September 1926
- Wren arrives at Ridge Farm.
- Search of the stream bed for physical evidence.
- Wren arrives at Miskatonic University Library.
- Wren waits at The Blind Heron.
- Evidence compared; there is not much of it.
- Working hypothesis adopted: something in the ground.
Sunday, 26 September 1926
- Wren arrives at Ridge Farm.
- Everything is as it was left — including a cup of tea, still warm.
- Wren reports a smell of wet leaves.
- Wren notes crows in a bare tree.
- Finding: A lock-keeper records the river running upstream for eleven minutes.
- Wren leaves Ridge Farm.
- Complication: The owners refuse any further access.
Monday, 27 September 1926
- Investigation suspended for 1 day: nobody can agree what to do next.
- Wren arrives at Ridge Farm.
- Wren notes a door open that had been left shut.
- Wren reports a smell of manure.
- Finding: the explanation — A storm is coming; the animals feel the pressure change.
- Wren leaves Ridge Farm.
Tuesday, 28 September 1926
- Wren arrives at Ridge Farm.
- Wren reports a smell of the sea, a long way inland.
- Wren notes a door open that had been left shut.
- Outcome: Solved.
- Afterwards: Ridge Farm has gone quiet; Wren is less sure than before what a sensible explanation looks like.
Moments from this file
The morning after it was reported, the Arkham Gazette led with “ODD DOINGS AT RIDGE FARM”.