Phantom vehicle

This article is about haunted vehicles. For a vehicle which causes a traffic accident without physical contact, see Phantom vehicle (insurance).

"Ghost car" redirects here. For usage referring to an unmarked police car, see Police car § Functional types. For custom car usage for a hypothetical model, see Custom car § Language. For navigation guide, see Automotive head-up display.

A "haunted truck" at a Halloween event

A phantom vehicle is a purportedly ghostly or haunted vehicle in ghostlore, common in urban legends and entertainment. The stories often describe vehicles that operate with no visible driver.

Examples of phantom vehicles

Cars and trucks

• 2004, In Cape Town, South Africa, a Renault Mégane sedan mysteriously rolled up an embankment and hit a fence, although the handbrake was engaged and the engine was off. Some say the car was "jumping".
• December 2002, England, The Surrey Ghost Car, anonymous caller reported seeing a car swerve off the highway and crash, when the police arrive they could tell the body had been in the car for months, the car most likely crashed in July 2002.
• 2018 A dashcam recorded video footage of a supposed ghost car causing a massive crash and pile up in Singapore.
• In the mid-1980s, three people in a sedan reported seeing a gray van heading straight towards them, and then suddenly vanished.
• The Curse of "Little Bastard": the 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder in which James Dean died is said to be cursed after the accidents in which it has been later involved.
• In Germany, a car mysteriously started up by itself and rammed a wall.
• Early 1980s - a British motorist crashed his car in order to avoid a truck that suddenly appeared coming straight towards him and then vanished.
• The curved road at the junction of St. Marks Road and Cambridge Gardens in Ladbroke Grove was reported to be haunted by a phantom bus with a route marker "7" which caused numerous accidents, one of which was fatal. The reports subsided when the area of road was straightened.
• In 2021, in Montivilliers, France, two witnesses report having seen a Dacia Lodgy vanishing while overtaking a motorhome on a fast lane.

Trains

Main article: Ghost train (folklore)

• Silverpilen (Silver Arrow) is a Stockholm Metro train which features in several urban legends alleging sightings of the train's "ghost".
• The St. Louis Ghost Train, better known as the St. Louis Light, is visible at night along an old abandoned rail line between Prince Albert and St. Louis, Saskatchewan.
• A phantom funeral train is said to run regularly from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, Illinois, around the time of the annual anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's death, stopping watches and clocks in surrounding areas as it passes.

Aeroplanes

• In 1997, eyewitnesses from the eastern USA claimed they saw a single-engine aeroplane crash. But when the coast guard searched the waters off Connecticut, they could not find any wreckage or bodies. Also none of the airports reported any planes missing.

• The Dark Peak area of Derbyshire, England has been the location of many sightings of alleged ghost planes, often described as a WWII-era Douglas C-47 Skytrain.

See also

• Boy Scout Lane
• Clinton Road (New Jersey)
• Ghost rockets
• List of ghost ships
• Haunted highway
• Vanishing hitchhiker

References

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