Paranormal record / 1127
1127. A new abbot came to Peterborough. Henry of Poitou had been imposed on the Benedictine monks by King Henry I. From the time that he came, many men saw and heard a hunt. The huntsmen were black, and huge, and loathsome. They rode black horses and black he-goats behind black, wide-eyed hounds. They ranged through the abbey's deer-park and all the woods to Stamford. At night the monks heard the horns. Men keeping watch thought there were twenty or thirty horn-blowers. It went on through Lent until Easter. A monk wrote it down as it happened. It is the earliest known English record of the Wild Hunt.
In 1127 King Henry I gave Peterborough Abbey a new abbot. Henry of Poitou, also called Henry d'Angély, was already abbot of Saint-Jean-d'Angély. The monks had not chosen him. Their abbey kept its own chronicle, the "E" manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, now known as the Peterborough Chronicle. A monk wrote up its entries as events happened.