Road Ghosts

Pelsall Road Ghost

Witness Recollection It was broad daylight as I was travelling alone on the Wolverhampton Road in Pelsall, Walsall.  I was travelling towards Pelsall from Brownhills and had gone over the last canal bridge. As I was approaching a bend in the road I saw a woman standing very close to the edge of the curb. ...

Brighton Road Ghost

Witness Recollection Liz Ball insists she was scared silly after she saw a ghost cross the road at Handcross. The spooky encounter happened as she drove home along the north stretch of the A23, at Handcross Hill, after a late night out in Brighton. The 47-year-old, of Weald Drive, Furnace Green, laughed: ‘‘After I saw...

Slyne Road Ghost

Witness Recollection Here as promised is a true account of what happened to me. November 1985 Imagine if you can a cool crisp November evening the sort of evening that the moon is close and sits low in the sky,you can see your breath but it’s not quite freezing. It was a night like this...

The Grinning Ghost

Witness Recollection – Jan 2003 Here is my true ghost story, which really did happen to me, and I am still suffering the affects of it to this day, playing the same event over in my mind. Before seeing the ghost I would have to say that I was a big skeptic, on seeing it...

Grantham Road Ghost

By Bob Harvet In 1972 I owned an MG midget which I used to drive to work in Grantham. I really enjoyed thrashing round the lanes in it, and got to know all the local byways. Several of the roads round Grantham have names: The Ramper, The High Dyke, The Four-wheel. I understand it’s to...

Half-Naked Road Ghost!

Witness Recollection On Wednesday the 27th of November my husband was working nights as a truck driver on the M62 near Whitley Bridge. When he nearly knocked over a lady walking down the hard shoulder she was dressed in a g-string and a jumper. Thinking it was someone who had possibly been attacked he pulled...

A12 Beccles Ghost

Reported Jan 2003 Me and my wife were travelling North on the A12, driving back to Lowestoft from Ipswich. It was about 10 o’clock at night on August the 9th 2001. I was approaching the Beccles turn when a cyclist pulled out right in front of me from the junction. I was travelling at 60...

The Blue Anchor Ghost

Chris, reported August 2002 Imagine if you can a cool crisp November (1985) evening the sort of evening that the moon is close and sits low in the sky, you can see your breath but it’s not quite freezing. It was a night like this that I experienced one of the most vivid and terrifying...

The TT Races Ghost

Reported August 2002 My story takes place 4 years ago on the Isle of Man. It was during the TT races week which is a motorcycling festival that takes place on the Isle of Man every June. As a bike rider myself I took the opportunity to go out for a ride around the TT...

Doctor Spooked by vanishing woman on road

From Essex Gazette 03/09/98 A doctor got the fright of his life when he stopped to help who he thought was a beautiful woman on a deserted road. But when Guy Routh got out of his car, the woman had vanished into thin air – and the shocked doctor now believes he saw a ghost....

Ghost Shocks Motorist

From West Sussex observer (20/10/99) A ghostly vision left a driver quaking at the wheel of his car as he drove towards the town in the dim light of dawn. Lee Fellick (28), who lives at Tangmere, was approaching Midhurst on the A286 at 7.50am on Tuesday when he saw a figure step out into...