As with our last blog post, this is another tale concerning a ‘Road Ghost’; it was also sent in to the group following a press appeal, and – coincidentally - also has a Christmas-time association……!
This particular experience occurred on Boxing Day 1992 and involved a young woman driving past an old, Midlands airfield on her way to work one morning at 7.30 am.
As it was a cold morning, the woman concerned had switched her heater on in the car as soon as she had entered the vehicle some 10 minutes earlier. However, as she made a turning off a major, A road near to the airfield in question, she reports that the vehicle suddenly went icy-cold. Inexplicably, condensation immediately formed on the inside of the windows and she instantly became aware that there was now someone sitting, directly behind her, in the back seat of the car.
Too afraid to actually turn around, she looked in the rear view mirror and was horrified to see what she took to be the face of a man - who had evidently been badly burned - seated behind her! For whatever reason, a sense of evil seemed to assail the witness – a feeling that stayed for a few seconds, before evaporating…. along with the condensation and accompanying, icy chill. Within a brief time, the experience had passed and the man had vanished.
Due to this experience, the woman refused to use this particular road for a long time afterwards and sought an alternative, albeit longer route to work. Some two years later, however, she happened to find herself on the same stretch of road again, and – at the exact spot where the figure had previously appeared – she clearly smelled something akin to the rank, stench of ‘burning flesh’……
This smell later occurred on a further visit to the site, but there were no further experiences at the spot – despite many visits through the area - after the second of her olfactory encounter.
After the W.M.G.C. corresponded with the woman concerned – seeking further information on her encounter – she wrote back to tell us that the man had appeared to be around 40 years of age and had seemingly been staring out of the car window towards a nearby farm. She had seriously thought about contacting the occupants of the site in question, but had hesitated for the simple reason that she had no idea of how to broach such as subject, as she had wanted to enquire about, with complete strangers!!
Queries aimed at a local policeman – a friend of the witness – regarding accidents in the area, came to naught. It was noted however that a public house, situated some 2 miles distant, had burned to the ground many years earlier.
Another friend, who was in the RAF, had suggested that the womans ‘visitor’ may well have been connected to the nearby WWII airbase – the land now utilised for housing and commercial concerns – but a subsequent check of the death records associated with the site revealed no significant accidents for the time-frame in question. Despite this, our witness feels that this latter mentioned avenue is the most likely cause for her unnerving experience….
All the best,
The West Mids Ghost Club
This particular experience occurred on Boxing Day 1992 and involved a young woman driving past an old, Midlands airfield on her way to work one morning at 7.30 am.
As it was a cold morning, the woman concerned had switched her heater on in the car as soon as she had entered the vehicle some 10 minutes earlier. However, as she made a turning off a major, A road near to the airfield in question, she reports that the vehicle suddenly went icy-cold. Inexplicably, condensation immediately formed on the inside of the windows and she instantly became aware that there was now someone sitting, directly behind her, in the back seat of the car.
Too afraid to actually turn around, she looked in the rear view mirror and was horrified to see what she took to be the face of a man - who had evidently been badly burned - seated behind her! For whatever reason, a sense of evil seemed to assail the witness – a feeling that stayed for a few seconds, before evaporating…. along with the condensation and accompanying, icy chill. Within a brief time, the experience had passed and the man had vanished.
Due to this experience, the woman refused to use this particular road for a long time afterwards and sought an alternative, albeit longer route to work. Some two years later, however, she happened to find herself on the same stretch of road again, and – at the exact spot where the figure had previously appeared – she clearly smelled something akin to the rank, stench of ‘burning flesh’……
This smell later occurred on a further visit to the site, but there were no further experiences at the spot – despite many visits through the area - after the second of her olfactory encounter.
After the W.M.G.C. corresponded with the woman concerned – seeking further information on her encounter – she wrote back to tell us that the man had appeared to be around 40 years of age and had seemingly been staring out of the car window towards a nearby farm. She had seriously thought about contacting the occupants of the site in question, but had hesitated for the simple reason that she had no idea of how to broach such as subject, as she had wanted to enquire about, with complete strangers!!
Queries aimed at a local policeman – a friend of the witness – regarding accidents in the area, came to naught. It was noted however that a public house, situated some 2 miles distant, had burned to the ground many years earlier.
Another friend, who was in the RAF, had suggested that the womans ‘visitor’ may well have been connected to the nearby WWII airbase – the land now utilised for housing and commercial concerns – but a subsequent check of the death records associated with the site revealed no significant accidents for the time-frame in question. Despite this, our witness feels that this latter mentioned avenue is the most likely cause for her unnerving experience….
All the best,
The West Mids Ghost Club
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