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Index
of Haunting's A435 - Hitchhiker of Ragley Hall. Warwickshire Phantom Hitchhiker of Blue Bell Hill. Kent Roman Soldiers on the Road. Essex Jumping Ghoul of Stockbridge Bypass A51 - Ghostly Walker and Dog. Cheshire Ghostly Woman in a Taxi Pluckley (in Kent) A34 Newbury By-pass Nunney to Frome Road - Somerset Peddars Lane, Stanbridge A38 Willand to Taunton Road .............................................................................. |
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A435 - Hitchhiker of Ragley Hall. Warwickshire This ghost is known as the 'Hitchhiker of Ragley Hall'. This ghost is an elderly woman who appears outside of Ragley Hall seeking a lift. Drivers in the area have told stories of how they have picked up the woman and taken her to Dunnington Cross. Upon arrival at her destination she is said to vanish. One woman claims to have driven along the road and saw from her car window a ghostly figure gesturing for a lift. Another gentleman saw a figure hanging from a tree and upon stopping to investigate found that the figure had gone. The skeleton of an old woman was later unearthed by the roadside. |
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Hitchhiker of Blue Bell Hill.
Kent A man driving through Blue Bell Hill in 1992 saw a young girl appear and start running towards his vehicle. The girl looked straight at him as the car hit her, and then fell under his car. However on investigation the man found that no one was there. Eighteen years before this incident there was a similar occurrence on that stretch of road. In 1974 a man saw a girl (about 10) who appeared in front of his car. He then found her lying in the road bleeding, so he carried her body to the roadside and covered her with a blanket. The shocked man then returned with police and found the blanket but no girl. |
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Soldiers on the Road. Essex The ghostly spectre of a Roman Centurion has been seen marching towards the village of Peldon, and has been seen by many drivers. One witness said he had been travelling along the road in a taxi when he encountered a group of Roman soldiers in the road, who disappeared. Jumping Ghoul of Stockbridge Bypass The bypass near Stockbridge is haunted by a ghost that jumps into cars. He has caused a number of accidents and crashes on this stretch of road resulting in at least eight deaths and eighteen seriously hurt. A51 - Ghostly Walker and Dog. Cheshire Driving alone along the road Mr Pressick became lost and upon sighting a man walking along the road with his dog he drew up beside him to ask directions. Although a calm night the man appeared to be walking as if against a strong wind and Mr Pressick noted that even the dog's saliva appeared to be blowing backwards. He received no reply to his query, and so Mr Pressick again shouted his question to the man. This time the man turned his head towards him with glaring eyes. Mr Pressick became alarmed and drove off, looking behind him in the mirror he could see no sign of the man or his dog and no exits other than a straight road. Some time later a farmer informed him that a man and his dog had been killed in the lane during a stormy night. Ghostly Woman in a Taxi in 1974 Brian Mohan was driving his black taxi along the A6 through Great Moor. Knowing his cab was empty he was horrified to see in his rear view mirror the figure of an old woman sitting on the back seat. She was expressionless, dressed in black with a white blouse and black bow. He pulled over and turned to ask the woman how she had got in his cab, only to find she had disappeared. Pluckley (in Kent) A number of haunting's have been reported in the village of Pluckley. The village has a reputation as the most haunted in England, so it is perhaps not surprising that it also has a phantom hitchhiker. Raymond Breakspear a local Taxi-driver, was flagged down by a figure at the side of the road at about 3am one morning. The figure then got into the back seat. Breakspear then turned to ask the man where he would like to go, he was surprised to find no one there. |
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| A34
Newbury By-pass Ghostly figures have been reported to have been seen floating along the motorway in the Rickety Bridge area, by at least 6 people. The motorway was built over the burial grounds of Roundhead and Cavalier soldiers who had died fighting in the Battle of Newbury in 1644. "This is no laughing matter. The people who saw these things were terrified. We're certain they are the ghosts of soldiers whose graves are now being disturbed." Nunney to Frome Road - Somerset This stretch of road in Somerset was reputedly haunted in the 1970s by a man (approx 35) dressed in a check jacket and flannel trousers. The apparition has been seen hitchhiking along the road and even suddenly making shock manifestations in the back of cars. One man (Mr Evans) driving along the road picked up a hitchhiker, the man climbed in and sat in the rear of the vehicle. He complained of the cold, and when the driver replied with a question, he received no answer. Mr Evans looked round to find his passenger had vanished. On another day Mr Evans was again driving down this road when he again saw the apparition. This time the ghostly hitchhiker appeared in the middle of the road, right in front of the on-coming vehicle. This obviously caused Mr Evens to swerve and consequently crash into a tree. In 1977, a similar case arose involving an accident when a man appeared in the middle of the road and disappeared. "On one occasion a distraught motorist came into the station and said that he had given a lift to a man who had disappeared. He was so worried that the man may have fallen out of the car that we sent a team of officers to search the hedges." Police Superintendent John Lee. |
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Peddars
Lane, Stanbridge Driving down Peddars Lane at around 9pm one evening, Roy Fulton spotted a hitchhiker thumbing for a lift. The hitchhiker was about 20, and wearing dark trousers and a jumper. The man opened the door of the car and got in the vehicle without saying a word. When Fulton asked him where he was going the man didn't reply, instead he raised his arm and pointed up the road. The car continued down the road and Roy decided to offer his passenger a cigarette, but upon turning the man had vanished. Fulton reported the incident at the local police station, and said that the hitchhiker had seemed very real, and solid, but had a very pale completion. |
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| A38
Willand to Taunton Road This road is the haunt of a bedraggled figure, who wears a long grey overcoat. In 1970 Mrs Kathy Swithenbank swerved her car to avoid the hitchhiker, who was standing in the middle of the road, holding a torch. Others have had similar experiences with the figure, these include a lorry driver who thought he had run a man down and a motorcyclist who broke his leg as a result of crashing to avoid the figure. Harold Unsworth, a long distance lorry driver claimed to have a number of experiences of the figure in 1958. He said that on 3 separate occasions at about 3am on different mornings he had given a man a lift from the Blackbird Inn along the A38. Each time the hitchhiker had spoken to Unsworth and described the accidents which had taken place along the road in the past. On the third occasion of giving the man a lift, Unsworth said that the mysterious man asked him if he would wait while he collected some cases and then drop him off at another point further down the road. After waiting for 20 minutes Unswoth decided to continue on his journey alone. Three miles down the road he saw a figure in his headlights waving a torch. He was then terrified to see that this figure was in fact the man in grey, who was shaking a fist at him. The figure leapt in front of his lorry, causing Unsworth to stop and get out expecting to find that the man had been struck. However he found the man standing in the road again, shaking his fist and cursing at having been left behind. To his shock the figure then turned his back on Harold and vanished instantly. Click here to go back to the top of this page! .............................................................................. This page will be updated shortly with lots more ghost hitchhikers |
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