Some familiar stories, nicely illustrated with some good imags. Can I add the following 'gen'? Some people think Stocksbridge Bypass may have disturbed a long lost plague cemetery or similar burial ground, hence the children. This is the first time I've heard the story behind the phantom lorry at Rugby, although \I've known the tale for a very long time. There is another incident connected with Blue Bell Hill - a motorist saw a car swerve across the road in front of him and plunge into the trees one night. When the police investigated they found a wreck, now some months old, lying at the base of the bank; the deceased driver, still inside, had been reported missing a while previously. And then there is the famed phantom bus of North- west London which, in the 1920s, featured in a coroner's inquest about a fatal rta. Make of them what you will.
@@theycantallbezodiac it was the Guildford bypass A3 area, can find information online re car seen going off the road. Possibly reported in the Farnham Herald Newspaper
The B4176 Bridgnorth road is supposedly haunted by men on horseback thought to be cromwells men after the siege at holbeche house, the gunpowder plots last stand. Himley wood on the same stretch of road was where Gideon grove was shot after he escaped from holbeche, there’s an article in the back country bugle from around 1974 that covers it. My dogs would always shy away from the marsh in the wood. A very eerie place even today
@@Hidden_Realms of it helps, the sightings were from the wood, over the brow of the hill, as far as the waggon and horses pub, it’s about a half mile stretch of road
I live just down the road from the A167 in county durham. i know of this spirit very well as its documented. The A167 part of the great north road that runs through my town isnt on the original route as was in fact the road used to run through Aycliffe village and the girl whos spirit hitchhikes (when she was alive) used to frequent the local pub called the Royal Telegraph which back in them days would of been a stop off inn for weary travelers on their way from London to Edinburgh. I have travlled this road many times, in all weathers, day and night in the hopes of a glimpse of her (yeah i want proof shes there). Another spirit is of a young girl who was killed in an accident near to Scotch Corner on the A1 county durham sometime in the 1960's. A few years later a man was riding his motorbike when he saw the young girl, he offered her a ride home and she gave the address as bedford street, Darlington. She got on and away they headed down what is the road to Barton and Stapelton as the actual A1 motorway had not been finished at that point. Upon crossing the road bridge at Blackwell the bike suddenly felt light and the rider looked back the girl was no longer there. He rode back to see if he could see her, then rode his bike to the address at bedford street, when he got there and knocked on the door, he apologised for the late time and explained to the lady who lived there what had happened. The lady invited him in and there was a picture of the young girl he'd just picked up at scotch corner, she explained that other people have picked her up since her death over the years. This story is semi famous in that i own a book its in and one better, my Father knew and worked with the guy who picked her up that night.
There was a Roman town called Tripontium on the A5 near Rugby. A mate of mine was told by the farmer that people have seen Roman soldiers walking next to the road but only the top half of their bodies can be seen!
I remember that "Strange But True" episode, I still watch the reruns here on TH-cam.. My mum had an encounter with phantoms on the road in Ogmore by Sea. A lady carrying a baby and dressed in a long hooded cloak ran into the road and passed straight through the car. My mum, although knowing they were ghosts was that shaken up she drove to the Police Station.
The "Hairy Hands" was to me always the creepiest British road ghost story, but I'll add another that's also memorably unsettling since I read about it about fifty years ago when I was a kid: the robed figure who haunts the Basingstoke-Kingsclere road in Wiltshire where it intersects an old Roman road. Reportedly this figure (a monk or druid?) was encountered at night, kneeling as if in prayer, only to suddenly attack a person reckless enough to pass by.
I have a vivid memory of a pencil drawing of the Hairy Hands in a book that scared me dreadfully when I was younger, but I've not been able to find it yet. And a violent ghost that leaps up at people passing by? Terrifying!! 😱
I found Hidden Realms by accident and I'm so glad I did. The stories are really interesting and it's so nice to have a "real voice" and not the terrible AI ones that are becoming depressingly common. Keep up the excellent work
I remember being an avid Misty fan growing up in the 80s. One time they wrote about Glamis Castle and I was just fascinated. They said that servants hung bedsheets from the windows and found that several windows were without sheets indicating secret rooms. Also there was something about a deformed child that was supposedly hidden away in this part of the castle. Have you ever read about Glamis or covered it?
I certainly believe in all ghost related material.. Have seen a number of things I can't explain .. But a story thats more road related was when my wife was going to collect my daughter from university, she had to pull into a fuel station to fill up ,she came back to her vehicle got in the drivers seat, but when pulling away a male figure was trying to get her attention buy trying to open the door from the other side.. Strange thing was that there was no sound atal both from the noise of the door handle and from the man who was trying to alert her about something.. She looked forward to pull away then looked back and he'd gone .. But some years before a little way along that road someone was hit by a vehicle and was killed out right.. An honest account and as truthful as I can possibly be.
People near Ipswich can go to Dobbs Grave in Dobbs Lane Kesgrave. A person buried at the boundary line of Kesgrave, Foxhall. Brightwell and Martlesham. Said to be haunted
My sister drives down eerie deserted country roads, taking me back to where I live. I always think of M. R. James, these roads have no lighting and are tree lined with fields in the background, you need the car headlights on. Very eerie, hate driving down country roads at night. 😮
I use drive a bulk tipper on scrap metal delivery to Stockbridge steel works .on one of my nights parked up in a layby winter was a bit cold so I must have woke up iput the heater on and put the kettle on opened the curtains and light a cigarette switch the lights off put my window down and smoked .After making a brew it seems to me that it has gone very quiet and that's when I heard children laughing and talking .no words could ever describe the feelings that came over me .I heard the children for10 minutes. The time was 1am I know what I heard and I have had dreams about that night 1990s this is a true story what happened to me in 1990s
I used to deliver parcels, 1 winter night if finished my last drop about 8.45 and had to go back to the m62 to go back to depot in Featherstone but quickest way on my sat nav was over the roads through the moors, that was creepy as all hell
You're right... apparently, the Doctor shouted a warning to his two children, who were in the sidecar, to jump clear before the collision. They were saved by their father, but he sadly died.
The version I heard from a man who came from Devon said that the motor cyclist had been badly injured and told the paramedics the story before he died. His version, however, identified the culprit as a single large hand which was very hairy - and known in legend as 'the hairy hand of Dartmoor.' I referenced it in one of my short stories. And here's an interesting side note. I was a naval officer cadet at Dartmouth College when I heard that story, and one day a group of six of us went on an exercise close to where it had supposedly happened. When we got back to college, five of us discovered that we were each missing a right hand glove, and circumstances precluded the possibility that the sixth might have taken the gloves as a prank. Maybe ghosts have cold hands, eh?
Always maintain that the rural roads in the UK during Autumn and Winter months are spooky as hell. I used to drive along one on a daily commute and when it got dark and foggy always felt trepidation, fear and loathing driving down that road.😮
in my old home town in south yorkshire ,me and my friends used to play in ancient woods going back to the roman times ,they were magical places and probably haunted
@@theunknownstuntman4010 my home town was Sheffield , grew up there ,the woods we played in were Called Roe woods, , in the woods there were 7 ponds ,anglers used to fish them, me and my friends would catch frogs and toads, newts,little fish called sticklebacks, frog spawn in a jam jar :} Happy days growing up in the 60`s Some of the woods still exist ,its across the rd from the Northern gen hospital .
Superb. I don't know if it has been seen in recent years but a distressed looking young woman dressed in a wartime uniform was often seen trying to flag cars down on the A15 south of Lincoln in the 1960's and up to the 80's but when people pulled up she just faded away. Another is a old crone like figure in ragged clothes in or near the road that runs past Creswell Crags in Derbyshire. I imagine there are many more Road ghosts across the UK
My brother and his friends tried to find the woman in the military uniform one night in the early 2000’s. They were unsuccessful but the story is still at least spoken about today.
Close to were I live people have seen wild horses, a group of them suddenly run on to the road and quickly disappear. There haven't been wild horses in England for centuries.
On the A3 in Surrey in 2002 a man saw a car swerve off the road and crash into the bushes. He called the police who searched the area and found nothing. The next day the police returned to the scene and searched again and found a skeleton in a car in the undergrowth. He was a 21yer old man that never returned home from London five months earlier. How strange was that.
This was a fascinating story - I remember reading about this in a newspaper at the time. It wasn’t just one report the police received but several - all saying they’d seen headlights heading off the road. If I remember correctly, the dead driver had apparently attempted to make a call on his mobile phone after the crash( presumably to ask for help) but never managed to complete his call. Maybe he got tired of waiting to be found and did something to remind everyone?
About 23 years ago on a summer's sunday afternoon I was driving along Gotham Lane between Bunny and East Leake in South Nottinghamshire. There was myself and my passenger in the car, The windows were open and about half way along the road we both heard the sound of a Motorbike it was to the right side of the car and very loud causing both myself and my passenger to duck as it seem there would be an imminent impact. As we both reacted the noise stopped instantly neither of us saw a motorbike and there was no impact. The noise of the bikes engine did not sound like a bike of the current time but a more heavy beat, like one from the 1950s or 60s. It shocked us both and we instantley questioned each other as to what we had heard and we both said the same thing motorbike and expected impact. I have traveled that road many time since and never experience it again but it always springs to mind when i'm on that road. The road is very close to the flight path for East Midlands Airport but whatever we heard it was not an aircraft.
Fortunately things have changed now as far as (Church) funerals for those who sadly suicide. It must have been something that weighed on them, when they where no doubt already depressed enough.
I was driving along a dark road in the English countryside one night, when I saw a hitch-hiker. He was a big tall fella, with an arched back and big hairy hands. He was wearing a white lab coat, which I thought was strange seeing as it was raining so heavily. I pulled alongside him, to my surprise he had a big grin on his face. I opened the door and told him to get in. We drove along in silence when I turned on the radio. He said in a deep rasping voice he doesn't like music, it makes him angry. He went on to tell me, it was the reason he got out of the last car he hitched a lift in, but it was Paranoid by Black Sabbath. I love that tune! I was singing along and I spontaneously started tapping the steering wheel to the beat, then, again he started saying how he hates it when people tap steering wheels. It makes the voices talk too much. Well, I told him I couldn't hear any voices and continued to sing along, banging the steering wheel even harder. Then I noticed the knuckles on his right hand turn white as he gripped the axe he was holding tighter. Then the music was interrupted by a news reader saying something about an escaped inmate at the lunatic asylum. Whatever you do, do not approach the man, he's extremely dangerous. The man looked visibly agitated on hearing this news, but I reassured him, the asylum was about two miles back, we're perfectly safe here. Then we had a laugh about how he matched the description. What a coincidence I said. He found this very funny. He laughed and laughed. To be honest, his laughter was getting a little tiresome, but then he stopped abruptly. Then he swung his axe which got embedded into the dashboard. With a deranged crazed look on his face, he told me I'd be his next victim and he was going to wear my head as a hat. It was then, through my careful reading of the night's events, I started to suspect something was off about him. Anyway, that's when it happened. I thought I saw the figure of a ghostly young girl in my rearview mirror, but I can't be too sure, it might have just been a trick of the light.
This was really interesting. I love ghostly tales. Try looking at the Hopton ghost (Suffolk)near Lowestoft. That’s a good one. Seen on, and near the road and possibly causing accidents. And, this narrator has such a beautiful, clear voice. Well done. I have subscribed. 😊
I have twice seen ghosts on our roads. Once, 20 years ago down a medieval lane in the middle of nowhere, an old woman on a chair and a long white dress floating across the road, hovering about 3ft off the ground, don’t know the history of the area or anyone it could be, but the other time was about 10 years ago; there on a railway bridge appeared a man, stood right in the middle of the road when I saw headlights approaching from behind; I was certain the man was gonna be hit but the car drove right through… the scariest part of this incident is that I later found out 18 years prior on that very night, a man had died falling from that very bridge under mysterious circumstances… makes my blood chill even now to this day thinking about it. These experiences I will remember until my dying day.
Saw her in fact I drove through her in an artic one night some say it was mist but half a hurricane was blowing that night so i know it wasnt mist I just saw a woman in white i couldnt say about a plastic mac or missing feet or hands no chance for me to stop but no impact so i just drove on
I seen one in1975 outside watched Somerset....I wos walking along an old b road and a fellow wos walking towards me all in white and carrying a bouquet of red roses.....never spoke..... looked round he wos gone..... unnerving
Interesting stories, most importantly accompanied by clear, concise and articulate narration.
Thank you! I love researching and writing these, but still feel weird doing the recording so I'm glad it's working! 😀
Some familiar stories, nicely illustrated with some good imags. Can I add the following 'gen'?
Some people think Stocksbridge Bypass may have disturbed a long lost plague cemetery or similar burial ground, hence the children.
This is the first time I've heard the story behind the phantom lorry at Rugby, although \I've known the tale for a very long time.
There is another incident connected with Blue Bell Hill - a motorist saw a car swerve across the road in front of him and plunge into the trees one night. When the police investigated they found a wreck, now some months old, lying at the base of the bank; the deceased driver, still inside, had been reported missing a while previously.
And then there is the famed phantom bus of North- west London which, in the 1920s, featured in a coroner's inquest about a fatal rta.
Make of them what you will.
Awesome leads... there is plenty of material on this subject. I intend to do more in future. Thank you for watching! ☺️
The incident regarding the wreckage never took place at Blue Bell hill
@@theycantallbezodiac it was the Guildford bypass A3 area, can find information online re car seen going off the road. Possibly reported in the Farnham Herald Newspaper
@@glowskulls100 yes, I know, that's why I corrected the inaccurate information. Thanks.
How sad you was in torment and you couldn't even have a proper burial. No wonder so many strange things happen. God bless them all
Thanks Hidden realms There’s a lot more to Haunted Roads than we Realise good Video 👍🏻☺️
You're an excellent narrator, and I'm happy to see the numbers of your subscribers climbing. Enjoyed your video very much.
Thanks for all your support! ☺
These are fantastic, can you do a second part?
Well, there's plenty of material ! 😉
Fantastic video and narrative. On a par with Eerie Edinburgh. Hopefully your subscribers will soon reflect this.
Wow, that's praise indeed! If I keep making videos about the stories I enjoy hopefully the subs will follow ☺️
I travel the A249 between Maidstone and Chatham and although I have not seen the girl in the wedding dress personally, I know many people who have.
The B4176 Bridgnorth road is supposedly haunted by men on horseback thought to be cromwells men after the siege at holbeche house, the gunpowder plots last stand. Himley wood on the same stretch of road was where Gideon grove was shot after he escaped from holbeche, there’s an article in the back country bugle from around 1974 that covers it. My dogs would always shy away from the marsh in the wood. A very eerie place even today
Blimey! I'll look into that stretch of road, it sounds perfect for part 2! Thank you 😊
@@Hidden_Realms of it helps, the sightings were from the wood, over the brow of the hill, as far as the waggon and horses pub, it’s about a half mile stretch of road
These souls are stuck in the “Void”.
Excellent video very well presented and put together thanks
Thank you for watching! ☺
I live just down the road from the A167 in county durham. i know of this spirit very well as its documented. The A167 part of the great north road that runs through my town isnt on the original route as was in fact the road used to run through Aycliffe village and the girl whos spirit hitchhikes (when she was alive) used to frequent the local pub called the Royal Telegraph which back in them days would of been a stop off inn for weary travelers on their way from London to Edinburgh. I have travlled this road many times, in all weathers, day and night in the hopes of a glimpse of her (yeah i want proof shes there).
Another spirit is of a young girl who was killed in an accident near to Scotch Corner on the A1 county durham sometime in the 1960's. A few years later a man was riding his motorbike when he saw the young girl, he offered her a ride home and she gave the address as bedford street, Darlington. She got on and away they headed down what is the road to Barton and Stapelton as the actual A1 motorway had not been finished at that point. Upon crossing the road bridge at Blackwell the bike suddenly felt light and the rider looked back the girl was no longer there.
He rode back to see if he could see her, then rode his bike to the address at bedford street, when he got there and knocked on the door, he apologised for the late time and explained to the lady who lived there what had happened. The lady invited him in and there was a picture of the young girl he'd just picked up at scotch corner, she explained that other people have picked her up since her death over the years. This story is semi famous in that i own a book its in and one better, my Father knew and worked with the guy who picked her up that night.
Thanks for sharing! ☺
There was a Roman town called Tripontium on the A5 near Rugby. A mate of mine was told by the farmer that people have seen Roman soldiers walking next to the road but only the top half of their bodies can be seen!
I remember that "Strange But True" episode, I still watch the reruns here on TH-cam..
My mum had an encounter with phantoms on the road in Ogmore by Sea. A lady carrying a baby and dressed in a long hooded cloak ran into the road and passed straight through the car. My mum, although knowing they were ghosts was that shaken up she drove to the Police Station.
Thanks for sharing this eerie story! ☺
@@Hidden_Realms You're welcome! I love your channel it's awesome.😃
Thank you! Welcome to the channel 😀
Very interesting. This popped up in my feed randomly. Liked and subbed.
Welcome to the channel! ☺
The "Hairy Hands" was to me always the creepiest British road ghost story, but I'll add another that's also memorably unsettling since I read about it about fifty years ago when I was a kid: the robed figure who haunts the Basingstoke-Kingsclere road in Wiltshire where it intersects an old Roman road. Reportedly this figure (a monk or druid?) was encountered at night, kneeling as if in prayer, only to suddenly attack a person reckless enough to pass by.
I have a vivid memory of a pencil drawing of the Hairy Hands in a book that scared me dreadfully when I was younger, but I've not been able to find it yet.
And a violent ghost that leaps up at people passing by? Terrifying!! 😱
Wonderfully creepy
Interesting, thank you.
I found Hidden Realms by accident and I'm so glad I did. The stories are really interesting and it's so nice to have a "real voice" and not the terrible AI ones that are becoming depressingly common. Keep up the excellent work
Thank you so much! ☺️
I remember being an avid Misty fan growing up in the 80s. One time they wrote about Glamis Castle and I was just fascinated. They said that servants hung bedsheets from the windows and found that several windows were without sheets indicating secret rooms. Also there was something about a deformed child that was supposedly hidden away in this part of the castle. Have you ever read about Glamis or covered it?
I've read about it, but not in detail and it's not featured in a video - yet!
INTERESTING video thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching! 😊
@@Hidden_Realms Your welcome
I certainly believe in all ghost related material..
Have seen a number of things I can't explain ..
But a story thats more road related was when my wife was going to collect my daughter from university, she had to pull into a fuel station to fill up ,she came back to her vehicle got in the drivers seat, but when pulling away a male figure was trying to get her attention buy trying to open the door from the other side..
Strange thing was that there was no sound atal both from the noise of the door handle and from the man who was trying to alert her about something..
She looked forward to pull away then looked back and he'd gone ..
But some years before a little way along that road someone was hit by a vehicle and was killed out right..
An honest account and as truthful as I can possibly be.
Blimey, that would have been scary! Thank you for sharing 😊
Crickey I'm just finding this out now? I used to live in Lichfield back in the 60's with my sisters and mom and dad too!
Excellent video - I love stories like this
Thank you for watching! ☺
People near Ipswich can go to Dobbs Grave in Dobbs Lane Kesgrave. A person buried at the boundary line of Kesgrave, Foxhall. Brightwell and Martlesham. Said to be haunted
Awesome video, really enjoyed this topic 🖤
Thank you for watching! ☺
My sister drives down eerie deserted country roads, taking me back to where I live. I always think of M. R. James, these roads have no lighting and are tree lined with fields in the background, you need the car headlights on. Very eerie, hate driving down country roads at night. 😮
I use drive a bulk tipper on scrap metal delivery to Stockbridge steel works .on one of my nights parked up in a layby winter was a bit cold so I must have woke up iput the heater on and put the kettle on opened the curtains and light a cigarette switch the lights off put my window down and smoked .After making a brew it seems to me that it has gone very quiet and that's when I heard children laughing and talking .no words could ever describe the feelings that came over me .I heard the children for10 minutes. The time was 1am I know what I heard and I have had dreams about that night 1990s this is a true story what happened to me in 1990s
Thank you so much for sharing. What a disturbing experience!
I experienced two big hairy hands whilst driving………..I later divorced her 😉
I used to deliver parcels, 1 winter night if finished my last drop about 8.45 and had to go back to the m62 to go back to depot in Featherstone but quickest way on my sat nav was over the roads through the moors, that was creepy as all hell
how do you know about the motorcyclist if he was killed
In one version of the story he had two sidecar passengers who told what had happened.
@@JohnDavies-cn3ro thx john
You're right... apparently, the Doctor shouted a warning to his two children, who were in the sidecar, to jump clear before the collision. They were saved by their father, but he sadly died.
The version I heard from a man who came from Devon said that the motor cyclist had been badly injured and told the paramedics the story before he died. His version, however, identified the culprit as a single large hand which was very hairy - and known in legend as 'the hairy hand of Dartmoor.' I referenced it in one of my short stories.
And here's an interesting side note. I was a naval officer cadet at Dartmouth College when I heard that story, and one day a group of six of us went on an exercise close to where it had supposedly happened. When we got back to college, five of us discovered that we were each missing a right hand glove, and circumstances precluded the possibility that the sixth might have taken the gloves as a prank. Maybe ghosts have cold hands, eh?
I saw the woman and the monk near stockbridge and layed them into different graves blessing them in the process with holy water
My daughter braked hard at around midnight on the A38 when a tall man dressed in black appeared in the road after we had just left Derby
Did she hit him?
@@Finding457 no she braked hard and then he disappeared
Don't worry kids, there's no such thing as ghosts!
Well, I suppose that depends upon what you define as a "ghost ".
They are spirits and they do exist , I know I've seen them and been touched by one. Don't tell your children lies. 😊
@@noreenclark2568 Have you taken your medication today?
Always maintain that the rural roads in the UK during Autumn and Winter months are spooky as hell. I used to drive along one on a daily commute and when it got dark and foggy always felt trepidation, fear and loathing driving down that road.😮
in my old home town in south yorkshire ,me and my friends used to play in ancient woods going back to the roman times ,they were magical places and probably haunted
Can I ask where in S.Y i grew up in Rawmarsh near Rotherham
@@theunknownstuntman4010 my home town was Sheffield , grew up there ,the woods we played in were Called Roe woods, , in the woods there were 7 ponds ,anglers used to fish them, me and my friends would catch frogs and toads, newts,little fish called sticklebacks, frog spawn in a jam jar :}
Happy days growing up in the 60`s
Some of the woods still exist ,its across the rd from the Northern gen hospital .
@MAXERNEST don't really know that area as a rotherham lad but sounds cool
Where was that?
Superb. I don't know if it has been seen in recent years but a distressed looking young woman dressed in a wartime uniform was often seen trying to flag cars down on the A15 south of Lincoln in the 1960's and up to the 80's but when people pulled up she just faded away. Another is a old crone like figure in ragged clothes in or near the road that runs past Creswell Crags in Derbyshire. I imagine there are many more Road ghosts across the UK
My brother and his friends tried to find the woman in the military uniform one night in the early 2000’s. They were unsuccessful but the story is still at least spoken about today.
Close to were I live people have seen wild horses, a group of them suddenly run on to the road and quickly disappear. There haven't been wild horses in England for centuries.
The New Forest...?
@@conorslater8295 they are not wild they have owners who round them up a couple of times a year to check them.
On the A3 in Surrey in 2002 a man saw a car swerve off the road and crash into the bushes. He called the police who searched the area and found nothing. The next day the police returned to the scene and searched again and found a skeleton in a car in the undergrowth. He was a 21yer old man that never returned home from London five months earlier. How strange was that.
😮 Blimey!
Very strange and eerie!
Yes this happened at Burpham southbound off slip.
He must have seen the crash months earlier - but didn't want to come forward at the time with the information.
This was a fascinating story - I remember reading about this in a newspaper at the time. It wasn’t just one report the police received but several - all saying they’d seen headlights heading off the road. If I remember correctly, the dead driver had apparently attempted to make a call on his mobile phone after the crash( presumably to ask for help) but never managed to complete his call. Maybe he got tired of waiting to be found and did something to remind everyone?
About 23 years ago on a summer's sunday afternoon I was driving along Gotham Lane between Bunny and East Leake in South Nottinghamshire. There was myself and my passenger in the car, The windows were open and about half way along the road we both heard the sound of a Motorbike it was to the right side of the car and very loud causing both myself and my passenger to duck as it seem there would be an imminent impact. As we both reacted the noise stopped instantly neither of us saw a motorbike and there was no impact. The noise of the bikes engine did not sound like a bike of the current time but a more heavy beat, like one from the 1950s or 60s. It shocked us both and we instantley questioned each other as to what we had heard and we both said the same thing motorbike and expected impact. I have traveled that road many time since and never experience it again but it always springs to mind when i'm on that road. The road is very close to the flight path for East Midlands Airport but whatever we heard it was not an aircraft.
Fortunately things have changed now as far as (Church) funerals for those who sadly suicide. It must have been something that weighed on them, when they where no doubt already depressed enough.
I was driving along a dark road in the English countryside one night, when I saw a hitch-hiker. He was a big tall fella, with an arched back and big hairy hands. He was wearing a white lab coat, which I thought was strange seeing as it was raining so heavily. I pulled alongside him, to my surprise he had a big grin on his face. I opened the door and told him to get in. We drove along in silence when I turned on the radio. He said in a deep rasping voice he doesn't like music, it makes him angry. He went on to tell me, it was the reason he got out of the last car he hitched a lift in, but it was Paranoid by Black Sabbath. I love that tune! I was singing along and I spontaneously started tapping the steering wheel to the beat, then, again he started saying how he hates it when people tap steering wheels. It makes the voices talk too much. Well, I told him I couldn't hear any voices and continued to sing along, banging the steering wheel even harder. Then I noticed the knuckles on his right hand turn white as he gripped the axe he was holding tighter. Then the music was interrupted by a news reader saying something about an escaped inmate at the lunatic asylum. Whatever you do, do not approach the man, he's extremely dangerous. The man looked visibly agitated on hearing this news, but I reassured him, the asylum was about two miles back, we're perfectly safe here. Then we had a laugh about how he matched the description. What a coincidence I said. He found this very funny. He laughed and laughed. To be honest, his laughter was getting a little tiresome, but then he stopped abruptly. Then he swung his axe which got embedded into the dashboard. With a deranged crazed look on his face, he told me I'd be his next victim and he was going to wear my head as a hat. It was then, through my careful reading of the night's events, I started to suspect something was off about him. Anyway, that's when it happened. I thought I saw the figure of a ghostly young girl in my rearview mirror, but I can't be too sure, it might have just been a trick of the light.
This was really interesting. I love ghostly tales. Try looking at the Hopton ghost (Suffolk)near Lowestoft. That’s a good one. Seen on, and near the road and possibly causing accidents.
And, this narrator has such a beautiful, clear voice. Well done. I have subscribed. 😊
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The story of the van driver picking up the hitchhiker was featured in an Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World episode.
I have twice seen ghosts on our roads. Once, 20 years ago down a medieval lane in the middle of nowhere, an old woman on a chair and a long white dress floating across the road, hovering about 3ft off the ground, don’t know the history of the area or anyone it could be, but the other time was about 10 years ago; there on a railway bridge appeared a man, stood right in the middle of the road when I saw headlights approaching from behind; I was certain the man was gonna be hit but the car drove right through… the scariest part of this incident is that I later found out 18 years prior on that very night, a man had died falling from that very bridge under mysterious circumstances… makes my blood chill even now to this day thinking about it. These experiences I will remember until my dying day.
A23 Handcross Hill is haunted by the girl in the white plastic mac with no hands or feet.
Saw her in fact I drove through her in an artic one night some say it was mist but half a hurricane was blowing that night so i know it wasnt mist I just saw a woman in white i couldnt say about a plastic mac or missing feet or hands no chance for me to stop but no impact so i just drove on
Mostly when heading back from the pub - and after hitting the millions of pot-holes.
Where does the woman who wants to go to Bramhope appear? I go around that area quite a bit and would be unnerved to come across her!
Try Otley Old Rd between Otley and Bramhope. Please let us all know if you see her! 😊
@@Hidden_Realmserrrrr…….I think I might avoid that road now!
I seen one in1975 outside watched Somerset....I wos walking along an old b road and a fellow wos walking towards me all in white and carrying a bouquet of red roses.....never spoke..... looked round he wos gone..... unnerving
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