On that day, Natalya Voloshina, a financial analyst at a large bank, received a driver's license … Straight from the traffic police, the girl went to the garage, got into the car, started the engine and set off on her first independent trip around the city. The walk dragged on … The street lamps were already lit, passers-by became rare, and Natalya decided that it was time to go home …
She was driving slowly along a quiet street when she suddenly noticed a young man right on the road. He attentively and somehow strangely peered into the approaching car and did not move … "Crazy!" - thought the novice autolady and tried to go around the strange subject. But he suddenly, inexplicably, was on the hood. A man sprawled on the windshield in front of the girl's face, blocking the view. His fixed gaze rested directly on Natasha's eyes, his face was distorted either by an angry spasm, or by a grin … She screamed, let go of the steering wheel, her foot mechanically pressed the gas. The car crashed into a pole at full speed … The girl was lucky: the car was flattened, but she herself remained alive. And there were no traces of the downed guy on the hood …
Stories like this now and then appear in newspapers, on TV, on the Internet. Ghosts on the roads … Usually they are seen at night, when a driver, slightly relaxed on an empty highway, suddenly notices a human silhouette on a deserted road … He either slowly wanders, as if not seeing anything around, or, with hope peering into the approaching headlights, " votes "… The car slows down to help the late traveler. But no one is in a hurry to see her. The road is empty …
Highwaymen … This is the name of the researchers of the unknown ghosts of the road … Numerous stories about the phantoms that lie in wait for travelers, most of us cause a skeptical smile. Who is serious about myths? Is not it?
However, if you carefully listen to the stories about meetings with strange people who disappear as suddenly as they appear, you will involuntarily think: is this fiction? There is too much evidence …
Black horseman
England. Patriarchal village Todvik. Late evening. Young Whitney April drives her car to a Christmas party in Sheffield. Suddenly, near a small roadside hotel with the loud name "Red Lion", the car's path was suddenly blocked by a dark silhouette. A man riding a black horse, wearing a long cloak of a strange cut and a cocked hat. The horse and the rider rushed towards the car - and suddenly … disappeared in front of the girl who did not even have time to get scared … Friends later told her that many soldiers of the royal guard had died in these places long ago, back in the Civil War. And since then, their ethereal shadows often appear on the road … Local residents even try not to leave at nightfall unless absolutely necessary. Although for all the time the ghosts of the cavalrymen did not harm anyone …
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Guarding life
In the US state of Texas in the forties of the last century, a disaster struck at one of the railway crossings - a school bus collided with a train, killing ten children. Since then, the kids, whose life was cut short on the very takeoff, began to guard the drivers: people often say that, crossing the railway tracks, they feel how invisible hands push their cars back, as if wishing to prevent a possible accident. And the car that stopped at the crossing with the engine turned on starts to roll back by itself … Some even argue that if you sprinkle the hood of the car with some kind of powder, then prints of small children's hands remain on it …
I'll take you with me …
A resident of Ivanov, Svetlana Arkhipova, had a brother killed in an accident. As she drove to the funeral, she suddenly saw his figure wandering along the side of the road. The guy was wearing a shirt, trousers, a cap - the usual clothes that he wore during his lifetime. Svetlana fell into a stupor, and when she came to herself, she found that she was driving in the oncoming lane and a combine was rushing straight towards it. Well, I managed to unscrew the steering wheel and drove into a ditch … The combiners helped push the car back onto the road and everyone wondered how Svetlana managed to get into the oncoming lane … When she asked them if they had seen a man on the side of the road, they answered yes. Their description completely coincided with what the woman herself saw. But where he went, no one noticed …
Ghosts are avengers
At the entrance to the small town of Yuryevsk, on the highway there is a section that has the glory of a lost place. In the mid-seventies, a young girl was shot down here to death. Now, from time to time, her ghost in a black dress suddenly appears on the track in front of the cars. Drivers, trying to avoid collisions, turn the steering wheel and fly out into a deep ravine. The chances of surviving such a flight are zero …
One of the lucky few who survived the meeting with the "black bride", as the locals call the ghost - the avenger, Oleg Vaskin, has not been driving for almost 10 years - the shock he experienced was so strong. The young man was on his way to Yuryevsk to visit an army friend. In the evening twilight, a woman's silhouette suddenly appeared in front of the car on a completely empty road. Oleg did not have time to slow down and knocked down a stranger … When the car stopped, he got out on stiff legs and approached the body lying motionless on the ground. Blood ran under my head. The guy realized that medicine will no longer help here. Since he did not have a mobile phone at that time, Oleg covered the girl with his jacket and drove to the nearest traffic police post. There he told about the incident and returned to the scene with the inspectors. Needless to saythat there was no dead girl on the road. However, as well as traces of blood. Only his jacket lay on the side of the road … The middle-aged traffic policeman did not even begin to draw up the protocol of a false call - being a local resident, he knew about the existence of a ghost …