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Road Ghosts, Folklore and Forteana

Cloaked Figure

Location: Cranbrook (Kent) - Road towards Marden
Type: Other
Date / Time: 29 September 2011
Further Comments: A driver and passenger watched as a cloaked figure jumped down from the trees in front of their car before leaping over the vehicle. The cloak could be heard 'whooshing' over the car. The figure was too tall for the driver to see the head, although the rest of the entity was described as human-like.


The strange shape wearing a hat.

Floating Hat

Location: Cranfield (Bedfordshire) - Buttercup Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1969
Further Comments: Two men walking along the lane watched a legless and armless shape wearing a large hat drifting along. They stated the entity stood just over two metres in height and changed colour from white to black.

Lady Snagge

Location: Cranfield (Bedfordshire) - Wood End Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: While riding her horse, Lady Snagge was decapitated by a thin piece of rope pulled across the road by robbers who plundered her body before leaving it. Snagge's ghost is still reported as it repeats her final journey, sometimes with head intact, and sometimes without.

Figure in a Habit

Location: Crathes (Aberdeenshire) - A93 between Banchory and Crathes
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A ghostly monk is reputed to haunt this stretch of road, upsetting drivers by walking out in front of them. The entity may be related to the monk seen on the A980, near Banchory.

Roman Soldiers

Location: Crawford (Lanarkshire) - Watling Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Cut off at the knees, ten ghostly Roman soldiers are said to walk along the street.

Tall Nun

Location: Crawley (Sussex) - Church Road, Lowfield Heath
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1989, 23:00h
Further Comments: A British Island Airways driver working the night shift spotted a tall nun standing opposite the church. The figure had a bewildered look on her face and disappeared a few moments later.

Human-faced Dog

Location: Creag an Ordain (Highland) - B869, between Stoer and Lochinver
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Early twentieth century
Further Comments: On closer examination, this shuck has the horrible face of a person, with little devil-like horns. If it barks more than two times, disaster will follow shortly.

Vanishing Woman

Location: Creenahoe (County Fermanagh) - Sligo Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 15 October 2021, 05:20h
Further Comments: A witness watched a woman walking with a dog vanish without trace.

Cloaked Figure

Location: Cremyll (Cornwall) - B3247, leading to Cremyll Ferry Terminal
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: July 2014, circa 19:00h
Further Comments: A driver and passenger watched as a dark shadow, around 1.2 metres in height, cross the road ahead of them. The shadow looked like someone wearing a cloak, although no legs were visible. The witnesses stopped and looked around for an explanation, but none were forthcoming.

Revenue Fight

Location: Crewkerne (Somerset) - Road between Chard and town
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A fight that once occurred between revenue men and smugglers can still be heard along this stretch of road - the sounds of battle slowly die away, leaving only the gasping of a dying man.

The Criffle Diamond

Location: Criffel (Dumfries and Galloway) - Exact location not known
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Pre-1890
Further Comments: It was once said that ships coming up the Solway would be able to see the glint of a large diamond coming from Criffel. If the diamond were looked for, it could never be found.

Stealth Sheep

Location: Crondall (Hampshire) - Roads in village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Never appearing, this phantom flock can be heard moving along the roads, the occasional 'baaaa' betraying their position.

Sarscowe Lady

Location: Croston (Lancashire) - Gradwell's Farm, now a museum, and nearby road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1958
Further Comments: This woman fell in love with a monk from the site and threw herself in the well after being rejected - the forty foot drop into the water below killed her. Her shade was once hit by a bus on the nearby road; the driver was convinced he had hit a real person, though no body was found.

Dashing Lady

Location: Crowborough (Sussex) - Alice Bright Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Stormy weather
Further Comments: A young woman was found drowned in a stream along this lane early in the twentieth century - now when the weather is right, her shade is seen running down the road in the conditions which lead to her accident.

Bag of Soot

Location: Crowborough (Sussex) - Jarvis Brook Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This unlikely ghost would chase unwary travellers down the road!

Old Lady

Location: Crowcombe (Somerset) - Edge of the road bypassing the village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This elderly phantom is thought to be a woman who lost her home - the cottage was demolished during the construction of the bypass, and she died of a soon after being relocated.

Funeral Procession

Location: Croxton (Norfolk) - Road between Croxton and Thetford
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: A murdered gamekeeper whose body was hidden in a ditch is said to receive a phantom procession. A phantom hearse and pallbearers emerge from where the corpse lay and travel down the road a short distance, before turning around to return the gamekeeper to his ditch.

Green Man

Location: Cryers Hill (Buckinghamshire) - Four Ashes Lane, outside the local crematorium
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: September 1986
Further Comments: This strange looking figure has been observed twice on different occasions - both reports described the entity as having no hands and being dressed in green, though while one witness said the figure had a green face and stood just over five foot high, the other stated it had no head at all and was seven feet tall.

Anne Sergison

Location: Cuckfield (Sussex) - Cuckfield Park, B2036
Type: Manifestation of the Living
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: This figure reportedly haunts her old house and the area around it - though she died in 1848 and is still seen today, reports suggest her ghost began haunting the area in 1830. The ghost has been mistaken for a real person in the past.

Bright Headlights

Location: Cuerdley (Cheshire) - Widnes Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early 2000s, around 03:00h
Further Comments: While driving back from Liverpool, a driver spotted a bright pair of headlights rapidly approaching from behind. Just as the driver thought he would be overtaken, the lights vanished. Believing that a car had crashed, the drier turned around and looked for it, but could find nothing.

Vanishing Woman

Location: Cullompton (Devon) - Forges Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late 2022
Further Comments: A woman who stepped out in front of a car vanished just prior to impact. The site is home to a tree, according to folklore, used to hang criminals; it is unclear whether the phantom woman was a victim of the hangman or a mourner.

Hearse

Location: Cutcombe (Somerset) - A396, between village and Timberscombe
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Some accidents occurring along this road have been blamed on the phantom black coach pulled by headless horses that runs wild and driverless.

Rustling Woman

Location: Cwmbran (Gwent) - Road between Llantarnam Abbey and church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1909
Further Comments: A man walking this route at midnight watched as a woman approached him. Their paths crossed under the branches of a large oak. The rustling of the woman's dress could be heard, and moments after passing the man, he turned to take another look at the woman. As the moonlight fell upon her, she vanished.

Bleeding Witch

Location: Dalarossie, Inverness (Highland) - Road towards churchyard
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Two witnesses reported seeing the shade of an old witch running away from several hunting hounds - this relates to a local legend, in which the old hag tries (unsuccessfully) to murder a huntsman.

Flitting Woman

Location: Dallinghoo (Suffolk) - Lanes in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa nineteenth century
Further Comments: A widow by the name of Shawe was said to have killed herself by slitting her throat, after which she took to the lanes in the area, flitting around without visible feet.

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