Many people in our world have encountered such a phenomenon as the ghosts of dead people encountered on the roads. These could be victims of serious road accidents, or ordinary ghosts that are in no way connected with this place. A sufficient number of people have already become convinced of their existence “the hard way.” All appearances of ghosts on the roads are conditionally divided into 2 types. The first type includes short-term visions of a ghost when it appears directly in front of a car on the road. And when the driver runs out of his car in horror, thinking that he hit a real person, he does not find a body or even blood on the empty road.
The second type includes stories about ghosts waiting on the roads for passing traffic. These ghosts, like completely ordinary people, stop the car, open the door, get in, and along the way they often communicate with the driver on various topics. After this, the ghosts suddenly disappear.
...One spring night in 1977 in South Africa, a young man stopped on the side of the road near the town of Uniondale. An attractive woman stood alone on a dark road. The man decided to give her a lift, and the woman climbed into the car. He drove about seven miles, then stopped at a roadside gas station. Only then did the man notice that his companion seemed to have disappeared into thin air. It was impossible to get out of the car unnoticed, since the driver had not made any stops since he picked up the mysterious companion. Shocked by what happened, he immediately reported to the police.
The police told the man that a similar situation had occurred several years earlier with another driver. To solve such unusual cases, an expert in the field of the supernatural, Cynthia Hayend, was invited. She recognized the ghost on the road as a certain Maria, who crashed to death in the spring of 1968 exactly where both drivers saw her for the first time. Later, these witnesses recognized the late Maria from the photograph provided. However, that's not all. It's funny, but the ghost of the deceased reappeared on the road. This happens exactly once a year and approximately coincides with the date of the girl’s death. Approximately - this means that the ghost may appear on the road a few days earlier, or it may appear a few days later. But it only comes across to young unmarried men driving around in cars.
Another incident occurred at approximately 10 pm on October 14, 1979. Then English citizen R. Fulton was driving home in his own car from a dart throwing competition. On a completely empty road near Dunstable, he took with him a young guy standing on the side of the road. Outwardly, he could have been twenty years old. Dark hair and the same dark jacket, from under which a white shirt was visible. As soon as the guy settled into the back seat, Fulton asked where to take the passenger. However, he silently made a gesture to understand “go ahead.” Fulton didn't ask any more questions and stepped on the gas pedal. They drove in complete silence for about ten minutes. Having reached a populated area, the driver asked if his fellow passenger would like to smoke. Nobody answered him. Fulton turned around and was at first very surprised, and then scared to death: there was no one in the back seat! Soon the alarmed man was confusingly retelling the story that had just happened to him to the local residents.
It happens that on a given section of the road there are so many ghosts that real legends begin to circulate about it.
Take the same section of the A229 south of Chatham in the UK. Notices of inexplicable and mysterious incidents began to appear from here since 1968. The most important thing is that in this place of the road ghosts of both types according to our classification were encountered: some drivers knocked down a phantom victim, others gave a ride to a ghost companion. The root cause of this phenomenon here was probably the death of a woman in an accident near the foot of the mountain three years before the first news of the ghost on the road. Now she constantly slows down cars at the site of her death, asking drivers to give her a lift along the way.
After some time, the girl disappeared without a trace, puzzling gullible drivers. However, it happens that a ghost, instead of voting on the road, appears half a meter from a car rushing at full speed. For example, M. Godunau, driving past the ill-fated mountain in the summer of 1974, suddenly saw the silhouette of a woman appear in the headlights, and then disappeared under the wheels of his car. Beside himself with fear because of the impending responsibility for what he had done, Godunau slowed down and slowly walked out into the street. The bloody body of the woman he had hit lay on the road, completely motionless. The poor guy wrapped her in his jacket and dragged her away from the roadway. He then drove to Rochester, where he visited the first police station he came across.
Here he confessed everything. However, the police officers who went to the indicated place found nothing. The dead girl disappeared, but the same jacket in which the frightened driver wrapped her remained. And the blood at the scene of the collision seemed to evaporate. Surprised law enforcement officers went back for lack of corpus delicti. There was no reason for them to detain the shocked driver.
Here is another similar story about a ghost on the road. A section of the A-38 highway near Wellington has also been famous for some time for strange passengers. The case in which truck driver G. Ensfort participated deserves the most attention. In 1958, he repeatedly met a ghost on the road and put him in his car. For a long time he did not even notice anything unusual.
His encounter with the ghost happened on a cold morning in early May. Ensfort picked up a man of about forty, dressed in a thick jumper, by the side of the road. The passenger was a rather talkative and witty gentleman. Having reached the right place, he left the cab as if nothing had happened, good-naturedly wishing the driver good luck. The next time the driver saw this man again, slowly moving towards the city. Ensfort took him with him for the second time. And a few weeks later, history repeated itself again with stunning accuracy. And not once did Ensfort discover anything unnatural in the appearance or demeanor of his companion.
But a new meeting in mid-autumn showed him the true nature of the pleasant-looking creature.
Now the fellow traveler did not climb into the truck immediately as soon as it slowed down at the edge of the road, but asked Ensfort not to go anywhere while he went to get his things. Ensfort honestly stood by the road for half an hour, but the man never returned. The driver got tired of this and moved on. After a couple of minutes of driving, he was surprised to see on the way a man for whom he had waited so long to no avail. The man was waving a lit torch from side to side, apparently signaling the driver to slow down. It became a mystery to Ensfort how a no longer young man with a lot of luggage could get here on his own.
During all this time, not a single car or bus passed in that direction on the night road. And then the driver clearly sensed something unearthly, inhuman and unkind in this man. Realizing this, the driver chose not to brake. Meanwhile, a strange creature rushed towards his truck. A collision was inevitable. Ensfort immediately pressed as hard as he could on the brake and jumped out of the car, rightly expecting to find a pile of mutilated remains on the road. However, the road was clear! Ensfort looked around - not far from the truck on the highway, a 40-year-old man stood safe and sound and sent terrible curses at the stunned driver because he did not wait for him. The next moment, the embittered ghost disappeared. He and the truck driver never met again.
Some people suggest that motorists are imagining all this - they say they are very tired from a long journey or are generally driving drunk. But the number and variety of evidence of ghosts on the roads is so enormous that only a tenth of all cases can be explained this way. It is impossible not to notice another powerful argument that plays in favor of the authenticity of stories about road ghosts: they were often encountered many times by the same people on a certain section of the road. It is unlikely that such patterns would constrain ordinary hallucinations. What then is the secret hidden behind the encounters of ghosts on the roads? What can they lead to unlucky motorists? At the moment, this phenomenon remains beyond the understanding of the human mind.
