I was just wondering, there are numerous stories of places around Britain where there are ghosts related to motoring. I've heard one story of a driver I think near Salsbury (could be wrong) who stops for a female hitchiker, after she says where she's going, a few minutes later, the driver looks, only to see that she's gone!
Anyone?
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Non motoring, yes i have
Motoring related, i know of a place called Airman's corner on Salisbury Plain where a pilot died between the wars, and people have spotted him.
Also a place called Dead Maids where the A36 bisects the Frome / Westbury road is reputed to be haunted.
Whilst not haunting, at the time of the Warminster UFO "thing" in the 1960's, several people reported running over people and then the "victim" disappeared, and one guy was overtaken by what he thought was a car with no lights on in the night, and follwoed it, only to be totally surprised when it left the road upwards very quickly.
Maybe shaggy dog stories, but the Warminster is fairly well documented.
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stop it now, its my bedtime, and im getting spooked ;-(
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Yeah I heard that one too, about people thinking they'd run someone over, searched the road, called the police, but nothing.
I think it was a radio 2 phone-in that I must have heard these stories.
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I live in Frome, and know of 'Dead Maid's'. Also I know Cley Hill, Warminster, well - I often walk up it. From our previous house we could see it from one of our windows - never saw anything odd. I did get cornered by a herd of cattle at Cley Hill once though!
Here's a motoring legend I've heard of - though not quite a ghost story.
The Bristol Car Company built a team of cars called the 450 LeMans, wierd looking early 50's fastback sports racers with fins down the back. They were designed to contest the Le Mans 24 hour race. After Jaguar came along with the C-type Bristol threw up their hands in defeat and gave up. The Le Mans racers were scrapped. Or were they? There's a story that a wealthy American rescued one and kept it at a secret location in the London area. Once a year he used to come over to UK and take the car out for a spin at dead of night.
I read this in a book about Bristol Cars
Cheers, Sofa Spud
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There is a ghost to be seen at Brooklands. On the Weybridge banking.
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Not exactly relevant to the post, but chilling at the time. I was awoken at 4 a.m. while in Amman in Jordan from my sleep by the voice of a close friend calling my name. Two hours later I received a call saying he had died in a traffic accident just about the time I awoke.
As Growlette continues to remind me with her oriental insights, there is more out there than we'll ever know.
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As Growlette continues to remind me with her oriental insights, there is more out there than we'll ever know.
I have always treated matters like this with a complete pinch of salt, or rather I did, until I woke up with a shock in the early hours of the morning, heart pounding like the clappers, worrying about a close friend who had crashed his car. As with G in Amman, I learned later that day that at the precise moment I awoke - I had looked at the bed side clock - he had rolled his car down an embankment on the M27, and damaged his neck (Moral, don't roll a Vx Cavalier if you are over 6' tall).
Not only this, but as his girlfriend staggered to the top of the embankment - the car was completely out of sight from the motorway - the next car past (remember this is the dead of night) was driven by another friend, who recognized her.
To my mind, the latter was pure coincidence, but the former, I'm not so sure. Why? Similar things (non motoring so not related here) have happened since. Perhaps there is indeed more out there than we'll ever know.
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Apparently there's a ghost nun who steps out into the road on Shady lane in Leicester, just outside Evington. Can't vouch for that myself but I know of someone who was scared witless by her a year or so back :)
I've personally had experience of a fair few completely inexplicable things, but they're not motoring related so I'll pass :)
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A few years ago one of my jobs as an agency driver was delivering fruit and veg in the early hours of the morning. My route to one drop included a couple of miles along a narrow tree lined country lane. The first time I did the run I was taking a gentle right hand bend at about 30mph when from my left, in my peripheral vision but out of headlamp aim was the dark figure of someone running towards the road with arms outstretched. Heart in mouth and foot over brake, but within a split second the figure had gone. The next night I'd forgotten about the incident, but there he was again, and the same instinctive response from me. Third night I took a Torch with me, there he was again, just for a second and not actually moving. I stopped and went back with the torch. Just a dark coloured home made road sign (outstretched arms) and a few nondescript drooping branches and bits of shrubbery. I never saw him again.
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Driving in the Welsh borders some years back, three out four people in the car saw a car without lights ahead of us silhouetted on the brow of a hill.
My wife to be who was the front passenger started to say something and I said "yes, I've seen him".
We reached the top of the hill a few seconds later, no car anywhere and nowhere obvious for it to go.
We went back over the route in daylight and not even an entrance to field that it could have pulled into - talked about that one for years.
Same holiday - turning right into Kington from the main road, man and a boy just standing there looking right through us, both dressed strangely.
All four people in the car saw them and commented, after about 400 yards - curiosity got the better of me and I turned round and went back, yep you guessed they weren't there.
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This is a car commercial that was never released because of a ghost, apparently, filmed in the background. You have to look close to see it. If you turn your volume up you can hear a faint noise, believed to be coming from the ghost. It took me a couple of views but I saw it.
69.0.161.17/temp/Classic_Auto_1.mpeg
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Not a ghost exactly but maybe something for Mulder & Scully.
On the flanks of Mt Makiling, a beautiful forested area a short distance from where I live, is Magnetic Hill. A much-frequented tourist attraction for the following reason.
It is a long gradual upward gradient. Stop your car. Put it in neutral. It will roll UPhill very slowly.
Grade 6 Physics class: discuss. The truth is out there somewhere.
www.eureka4you.com/magnetichillworldwide/LosBanos-...m
OK, OK it's actually an optical illusion but it's weird.
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I was just wondering, there are numerous stories of places around Britain where there are ghosts related to motoring.
Not so much a place, but apparantly the car is haunted.
www.ark666y.com/2a.htm
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my brother always reckoned that his car was haunted, and apparently he eventually proved it!.
one evening he left it running whilst he nipped back into the house to get his watch that he had left in the shower-room, two minutes later, when he returned to his car, he found that it had actually disappeared. several hours later he was informed that it had been found, (and to further strengthen the fact that it was haunted)he was told that it had passed through a solid wall,.............and was written-off in a field several miles away..
billy.
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Not strictly car related but worth thinking about:
A acquaintance of mine with a psychic gift told me that there are lots more ghosts around than people realise. The only reason you notice some ghosts is because their appearance is out of keeping with their surroundings: if you saw a teenage boy in combats and a baseball cap, you wouldn't think twice about it but if you saw a roman soldier, you'd notice the oddity.
Maybe this explains why there are so many old bangers still on the roads......
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Caution ? VERY old joke approaching!
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At a spiritualist meeting in a theatre the medium on stage asked ?Has anyone here ever seen a ghost?? Quite a few hands were raised.
He then asked if anyone had actually touched a ghost. Just a few hands went up.
Finally he asked ?This is very rare, but has anyone had sex with a ghost?? Just one hand right at the back was raised.
?That?s wonderful!? said the medium. ?Please would you come down to the stage?? So the guy comes down onto the stage.
?So? says the medium, ?Please tell us all how you were fortunate enough to have sex with a ghost?
?Ghost?? says the bloke. ?I?m sorry mate, I thought you said goat?
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Hi there Kev
Yes I have heard about this story.........wiltshire is full of great areas with regards to haunted locations.........
I go on ghost hunts a lot now and its really eye opening to say the least. Are you sensitive in this area??
I know that there is a great site that is mainly for around, melksham, calne, devizes, trowbridge, chip and salisbury etc........take a look it might be what your looking for as they are free.......for evenings only......
www.smiler-entertainment.co.uk
Have you seen any paranormal activity??
regards.....
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Do I see the hand of dalglish in the resurrection of this ancien thread?
One could rely on his remembering Growler's posting in a thread on ghosts - which would be strangely appropriate given recent sad news. The absence of capital letters in the list of place names suggests dalglish's 'house style'.
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sorry, mappy, not my doing. too many capital letters in that post.
and i can remeber many things but not to the extent you imply.
maybe the author has a possible connection with the smiler web site.
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