UPDATE: I see your Oblivion Remastered ghost horse that now looks like a happy accident or Daedric-tier trolling, and raise you this totally invisihorse I netted while investigating it

UPDATE (13/05/25, 12:30 PM GMT): An Oblivion player with the handle Famous-Escape-2491 over on Reddit has taken their own shot at mythbusting the spectral horse, and has found the combo of spells you've got to slap on an animal in order to get the visual effect shown in TaricIsNotASupport's clip.

"Looks like it is due to the glitches where spell visual effects are lingering past their expiration," they wrote, "I was able to recreate the visual using 100% chameleon, and command creature. You can see it in the video attached. I wasn't able to get the command creature (green glow) to stick simultaneously for an extended length, but it might be doable."

So, the myth looks busted. That said, Famous-Escape-2491 didn't go as far as accusing TaricIsNotASupport of being deliberately misleading, writing: "He could still genuinely be unaware. I noticed (at least with the unicorn) that a horse hit with a command creature spell sometimes acts like a horse you own. Though it doesn't last, I had maybe one fast travel with it before it wore off.

"He mentioned in his original post about it that he was playing with spell effects. I could see him making an AOE spell (rally has the same visual) and somehow causing this by accident, depending on what he was doing with spells. Mainly, this was spurred by my own curiosity of whether the horse was an actual new addition to the remaster. I don't want to add to any negativity towards the guy, especially not knowing the specifics of how his scenario occurred."

Original story follows:

Right, so, there's an Oblivion Remastered clip that's been doing the rounds on Reddit. It appears - or so its poster claims - to show a player randomly discovering a weird ghostly horse just outside of Frostcrag Spire.

Cue a whole bunch of debate as to whether it could possibly be a fresh secret in the vein of Skyrim's very real Headless Horseman that's just been uncovered, a weird bug of the kind both classic and remastered Oblivion have in infamous abundance, or just someone trolling their socks off.

The poster, a user going by TaricIsNotASupport, has certainly been pushing the first of those options in their numerous posts about this horse, which they've dubbed "Spookmane". To be fair to them, they have included videos of them approaching the horse, riding it, and even falling off a cliff on it.

"I was crafting stupid spells in Frostcrag Spire, as it’s possibly my favourite way to have fun in this game, however this time when I left the Cosy Chaos Spire that has divided this community so very much I noticed something suuuuuuper strange in the distance," TaricIsNotASupport wrote in their first post.

"I did as any of us of the right mind would do and B-lined it over there like a maniac. To my amazement was this spectral horse with no name. I have played thousands of hours of the original Oblivion - and have already sunken over a hundred hours into the Remaster - yet this is the first I have ever seen this horse."

It doesn't look like they're being forgetful - OG Oblivion to my knowledge and the knowledge of the commenters in the thread doesn't have a known unique spectral horse that just spawns in the wilds. That's not gotten this player off the hook in terms of fakery suspicions, with the fact they look to have avoided pointing their crosshair directly at the horse in the clips they've posted having led a bunch of folks to question if this is legit.

For what it's worth, TaricIsNotASupport claims to be on PS5 and therefore without access to the console commands that would enable them to look up the ID of the horse - which they claim has no display name. If true, that would also mean they've run into this map glitch from one of their previous posts without any PC manipulation too. Certainly not impossible, but starting to strain credulity a bit.

While investigating this very important issue, I ran across a comment in one of threads from a user going by SaukPuhpet, who pointed out that on PC you can replicate something similar to the spectral effect on your horse that TaricIsNotASupport's mount has by applying spell effects to your horse using the console and provided some spell IDs to try.

So, I tried this myself, reasoning that if the exact effect in the clip showed up, that'd be myth busted. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to replicate that same see-through-with-green-tinge look, but I was able to turn horses totally invisible in a fashion that just left then looking like a floating saddle and mane. I also managed to turn one into a blue/white ghost, as you can see below.

Myth not totally busted, then, despite the efforts of my Adamus Savage and his co-host Jamie Adoringfan. That said, my work wasn't done. This is VG247, so of course I've shamelessly taken advantage of this excuse to ask Bethesda and Virtuos if they've added some fresh secrets to the remaster - this article'll be updated if I get anything back.

Do you think this mysterious ghost horse is real or just an elaborate prank that's pretty much worked because no one remembers everything from 2006? Let us know below!

Also, make sure to check out our cool Oblivion Remastered mod coverage, including our recent interview with the modder who managed to make the first ever tweak to its world just one day after release.