Road Ghosts, Folklore and Forteana
Catherine
Location: Moreton (Somerset) - Chew Valley Lake, B3114 road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 05 June 1999
Further Comments: A driver and two passengers spotted a lady who appeared in the middle of the road and drifted across. She was said to have long, wet wavy hair and an old style dress. The driver pulled into a nearby pub and called the police. The driver later attended a historical/paranormal meeting where around twelve other people claimed to have seen the ghostly woman. Another witness believes that the ghost could be Catherine, who drowned near the site before the lake was created.
Jacket
Location: Moreton in Marsh (Gloucestershire) - B4455
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 9 October 2005, 21:30h
Further Comments: A couple driving south on the Fosse Way witnessed the top half of a human figure run across the road in front of their car. The figure was light-grey in colour and appeared as a jacket only - no legs or head was visible. One witness said that the stance of the figure gave the appearance of a horse rider - although no horse could be seen.
Car
Location: Moretonhampton (Devon) - B3212
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This phantom car soon vanishes after being seen.
White Lady of Gymes
Location: Morton (Lincolnshire) - Riverside road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A phantom woman is said to emerge from a bottomless pit along this road, close to the Trent, and cross the countryside.
Vanishing Hitchhiker
Location: Mountrath (County Laois) - Unnamed road in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: In this version of the vanishing hitchhiker story, a woman is picked up outside the town and asks to be dropped off at the top of the road which leads to the cemetery. If the woman is followed once she steps out of vehicle that has given her a lift, she is seen entering the cemetery and fading away.
Mary Way
Location: Much Wenlock (Shropshire) - Crossroads two miles southeast of town
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Eighteenth century
Further Comments: This crossroads was said to be haunted by the ghost of Mary Way, murdered on the site. The phantom is reputedly headless and wears a shimmering white dress. A murderer was also said to be buried at the crossroads, although it is not clear whether it was Mary's killer.
Glowing Figure
Location: Muchalls (Aberdeenshire) - Road between Muchalls and Stonehaven
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1968
Further Comments: While sitting in their car one morning, a couple watched a glowing figure floating around one metre off the ground. The entity suddenly vanished.
Woman
Location: Mullagh (County Cork) - Road in the village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1880s?
Further Comments: Dan Keohane was said to have encountered a phantom woman who tried to attack him in the early hours of the morning. He managed to keep her at bay with a small piece of steel until the cock crowed and she vanished.
Running Children
Location: N4 (Greater London) - Gloucester Drive, Finsbury Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa first half of 2000s
Further Comments: The disembodied sounds of children running up and down the road and outside people's houses has been heard, though often no-one can be seen. One resident briefly spoke to the entities, which vanished after twenty seconds or so.
Man in Top Hat
Location: N6 (Greater London) - Swain's Lane
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This tall gentleman was seen by several locals, the nearby church bells ringing as he walked and disappeared into the cemetery wall. It may be the same spirit that appeared cycling uphill along the same road.
White Figure Sitting
Location: Nailsworth (Gloucestershire) - Roads east of area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Perched on a bench (it is unknown whether the chair is also spectral), the figure waits by the roadside.
Pale Woman
Location: Nannau (Gwynedd) - Mansion house driveway, and Dolgellau to Llanfachreth road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Murdered by her husband (who also killed their pet dog), this woman's ghost walks the driveway of the manor house and crosses the road to reach the park yonder.
Woman in Black
Location: Nannerch (Clwyd) - A541, near the Rising Sun Inn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: Wearing a long black gown with a hood concealing her face, this ghostly woman has been seen along this road several times of the past one hundred years. She either steps from the nearby bushes and vanishes while standing in the road or walks into the dense undergrowth.
Running Man
Location: Nant Y Caws (Dyfed) - A48, between Cross Hands and Carmarthen
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2010, late autumn, around 01:30, and January 2016
Further Comments: In 2010, a car driver was forced to break hard when travelling along this road as a man ran out in front of their vehicle. About halfway across the road, the figure vanished. A similar encounter occurred in 2016 when a witness watched a dark figure who vanished while crossing the road.
Footsteps
Location: Nantymoel (Nant-Y-Moel) (Mid Glamorgan) - Black Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1904
Further Comments: A man walking along this road could heard footsteps following him but was unable to see anyone else. He became paralysed with fear and collapsed after hearing a horrifying scream behind him. Other people apparently were aware that something haunted the area, but the details were not forthcoming.
Figures in White
Location: Naunton (Gloucestershire) - B4068 near the town
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Woman in 1998, Monk in 2000
Further Comments: This area would appear to be quite haunted; the phantom woman with dark hair seen here vanished after waving to a driver, while a ghostly monk walked out in front of a car travelling at the speed limit - the figure passed straight through the vehicle. More reports exist of a car just losing power along the road, with the occupants claiming invisible water ran over their feet...
Woman in Sleeveless Dress
Location: Naunton (Gloucestershire) - B4068 near town
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Summer 1998
Further Comments: A Doctor driving down this road pulled over to help a woman who waved his car down, but she vanished without trace as he climbed out of his vehicle. He searched the area but found nothing.
Coach and Four
Location: Nefyn (Gwynedd) - Unknown road in area
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A local legend says that a phantom coach which travels a road here forewarns of the witness's death.
Female Hiking
Location: Nether Stowey (Somerset) - Road between village and Holford
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This feminine shade walks the road connecting the two villages.
Woman in White
Location: Nettlestone (Isle of Wight) - Road near the old church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Exact date not known
Further Comments: Several motorists are said to have encountered the phantom woman dressed in white that haunts this road, reporting their sightings to the police after driving through her.
Woman with Child
Location: Neville's Cross (Durham) - Lane in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 21 December (reoccurring)
Further Comments: The lane is home to a phantom woman murdered on the site. She is said to be sometimes accompanied by a strange looking child who possesses an oversized head. During the nineteenth century she was said to appear in or on waggons and carts passing through the area.
Elizabethan Gentleman
Location: New Romney (Kent) - A259 between town and Brooklands
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late 1990s
Further Comments: A driver reported driving his car through a phantom man along this stretch of road, who had stepped out of the road in front of him. The driver stopped to look for the figure but could find nothing.
Roundheads
Location: Newbury (Berkshire) - A34
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: October 1996
Further Comments: The construction of the Newbury bypass disturbed a mass grave containing the remains of both Roundhead and Cavalier soldiers. The ghosts of these Civil War troops were reported soon after, manifesting as shadowy figures that vanished when approached.
Airman
Location: Newbury (Berkshire) - Roads around the White Swan Pub
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1955
Further Comments: A First World War airman was spotted by a driver and his passenger walking by the roadside one night. They stopped to offer the uniformed figure a ride, but he had disappeared. Both stopped at the nearby White Swan Pub and told their story, and received the distinct impression that locals knew of the airman but were unwilling to say anything more on the subject.
Ealinghearth Dobby
Location: Newby Bridge (Cumbria) - Fearing Brow (lane)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This white entity would unnerve people with its strange sounds and hitched rides upon passing carts.
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