Mum and daughter terrified as they spot 'ghost car' while driving down road
A mum and daughter were reportedly left terrified after a vehicle appeared to be heading toward them - and then seemed to "disappear".
The alleged sighting happened on the Riveacre Road between Overpool, Hooton, and Eastham Cheshire - and is said to be the second unusual occurrence of its type there. Both reports are being investigated by Professor Rob Gandy, from Liverpool's John Moore's University, who described the incidents as "incomprehensible".
The first took place in June 2018 and describing the incident, Professor Gandy said the mum and daughter saw a car coming towards them, with headlights on, and suddenly it turned off. He added: "They got to where it had turned off, and it was just a hedge.
The alleged sightings are being investigated (Google maps)"The car had completely disappeared, which freaked them out," he added. The same pair later witnessed another strange phenomenon on the same road, around two months later.
Dr Gandy, 72, said: "Another time (in August 2018) a bloke stepped out in front of them and they thought they had run him over. They got out, panicking. They looked around, under the car and around the car, and there was nobody and nothing there.
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"She went into the Tesco’s, white as a sheet, and the woman behind the counter said ‘You look as though you’ve seen a ghost.’ She says, ‘I have.’ Neither of them have been down the road again."
The expert, who is a statistician and health service manager, has been collecting stories of road ghosts and hitchhiker ghosts for almost a decade. He said: "From being a kid, from a Christmas Carol and all that sort of thing, I have always been interested in ghosts and mysteries. Many years ago I was reading about urban legends, and I got a book by Jan Brunvand called The Vanishing Hitchhiker."
The book tells classic folk stories gathered from across the United States of phantom hitchhikers. He continued: "It was somebody’s birthday where I worked and we went out for a drink on Friday lunchtime and I said ‘I’m reading this cracking book’ and described the story to them, and my friend and colleague said 'That sort of thing happened to me,' and he told me the story."
That story involved an elderly man sitting in the back of his friend's car as he drove across Halsall Moss, near Southport, before disappearing. In 2014, Dr Gandy appealed for witnesses with similar stories in the local newspaper. He said: "I got eight stories from that, and some of them were mindblowing. I called it the Old Man of Halsall Moss."
Dr Gandy then went on to investigate the Ruskington Horror, a famous series of ghost sightings along the A15 in Lincolnshire, popularised by Richard Madeley in a 1998 television programme. He said: "I ended up with about nine stories from that, including a 12-foot monk walking along the middle of the road near Scunthorpe, Cavaliers walking through Scunthorpe station. It is a strange place.
"It's this one stretch of road, a boring stretch of road, and you think ‘Why are there so many things that happen there?’". Dr Gandy is now looking for witnesses to South Wirral's answer to the Ruskington Horror as he hopes to collate and analyse the experiences.
He would like to stress that neither of the events he describes above are near to the memorial tree which marks the scene of a tragic accident in 2017. Each of the experiences described were on different parts of the road. He added: "I’m a statistician by trade, and I believe in data. I take it that if you don’t record these sorts of things, they just evaporate over the years into the ether."
Dr Gandy can be contacted by email at [email protected], and asks that witnesses provide their name and contact details in case of any queries. Alternatively, they can phone him on 0151 334 9248. All responses are treated in complete confidence.
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