HAUNTED: The GHOSTS that share our world by PINKNEY JOHN

Author:PINKNEY, JOHN [PINKNEY, JOHN]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery
Publisher: john pinkney
Published: 2011-08-24T04:00:00+00:00

Road Wraiths Reported Worldwide

As a further indication that the ‘asphalt apparition’ phenomenon is not peculiar to Australia, I quote two widely-publicised examples:

In 1990 a local council in eastern Norway erected signs warning motorists that ghosts might cause hazards on the stretch of highway ahead. Britain’s Daily Telegraph quoted a roads department official thus: ‘We’ve had dozens of multiple crashes on this seemingly safe stretch over the past year. So many drivers, tested as sober, have told police they swerved to avoid phantom figures that we’ve finally been forced to believe them.’

The report added that the ‘source of the phantoms’ was thought to be a roadside cabin in which a drunken railway worker suicided after murdering his mother and sister.

One of the world’s most notorious freeway phantom cases occurred near Petersburg in South Africa’s Transvaal. The deadly disturbance, which attracted enormous media interest, began in 1954, when 23 people died in 16 accidents on a 50-metre stretch of bitumen over a three-week period. Police investigations showed that all the vehicles had been in reasonable to excellent condition, that there were no imperfections in the road, minimal wind and no oil-slicks.

When uproar over the so-called ‘hoodoo highway’ was at its height a group of Xhosa tribesmen approached a local newspaper. The road, they said, was jinxed.

Ten days before the rash of accidents began a witchdoctor had been struck and killed by a car - and now his spirit had returned to seek revenge. When the medicine man died, the tribesmen said, his doulosses (magical animal bones) must have been scattered across the road. Until the bones were buried with him he would continue to trouble the highway.

Police searched the highway and flanking veldt, but the bones - if they existed - could not be found. The haunting continued for five years, prompting motorists to make wide detours to avoid the area.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.