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In ghostlore, a phantom vehicle is a purportedly ghostly or haunted vehicle, common in urban legends and entertainment. The stories often describe cars that operate with no visible driver.</p>

Types of phantom vehicles




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Cars and trucks

  • In 1982, two people in Lanikai, Hawaii reported seeing a mysterious black car which disappeared and reappeared again a second later.
  • A 1960s car that had bumper stickers; the witness passed the car but it mysteriously reappeared ahead of the witness's car at several stoplights. Also the witness noticed that the driver was a man in his teens and that he never turned his head and he never moved the steering wheel when the man drove around the "dead man's curve" the witness said.
  • 2004, In Cape Town, South Africa, a Renault Mégane sedan mysteriously rolled up an embankment and hit a fence, despite the fact that the handbrake was engaged and the engine was off. Some say the car was "jumping".
  • In the mid-1980s, three people in a sedan reported seeing a gray van heading straight towards them. Then suddenly the van 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 Australia, there is a story of the ghost truck of Kaniva where a driver was 'driven through' by a mysterious, 1940s' style big rig truck painted green.
  • In Germany, a car mysteriously started up by itself and rammed a wall.
  • In 2000, an eyewitness claimed that an old truck started up by itself and blinked at him as he walked past an old house to where some are skeptic that someone was pranking them.
  • 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.
  • Along the E8 Expressway also known as the Kuala Lumpur-Karak Expressway, in Malaysia, various supernatural phenomena have been reported, including headless ghosts, phantom hitchhikers, pontianaks (vampires), and a mysterious yellow Volkswagen beetle that follows you and disappears and reappears along the road, sometimes causing accidents.

Trains

  • 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.
  • The now abandoned Rimutaka Railway Incline in New Zealand is the setting for a number of paranormal episodes. The most famous of these is that the sound of a hard working Fell locomotive can reputedly be heard echoing through the Valley, and the sound of three short whistles can be heard some nights from Featherston. The Siberia tunnel was also the setting for a single sighting of a running male human figure carrying a child, on the anniversary of the accident on 11 September 1880.

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.

Boats and ships

  • The Flying Dutchman, a ship manned by a captain condemned to eternally sail the seas, has long been the main legend of ghost ships.
  • The Mary Celeste is perhaps the most historically famous derelict.

Popular culture


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  • My Mother the Car, a 1966 TV sitcom about the spirit of a man's mother inhabiting a restored 1928 Porter touring car
  • Duel, a 1971 made-for-TV film about a large old tanker truck that continually attempts to kill a motorist (played by Dennis Weaver). Although the truck is driven by a living person, the truck driver's face is never seen, and thus the truck itself is considered the villain.
  • An episode of The X-Files, "Triangle", concerns a ship that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle and reappeared 60 years later.
  • Supernatural features an episode in which a truck is haunted and kills people to exact revenge.
  • In Moebius (1996 film) an underground train disappears.
  • The Car
  • Christine
  • Maximum Overdrive
  • Wheels of Terror
  • "Trucks"
  • Ghost Ship
  • The Fog
  • Nightmares
  • The Wraith
  • The Ghost Train, 1923 play, and numerous film, television, and radio adaptations
  • The Haunted Car
  • The Hearse
  • Killdozer
  • Road Train
  • Wrecker
  • Super Hybrid
  • Blades (1989 film)
  • Death Car on the Freeway
  • Rubber
  • Jeepers Creepers
  • Black Cadillac
  • The Horror at 37,000 Feet
  • 7500
  • Dark Flight
  • Below
  • Death Ship
  • Heart and Souls
  • I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle
  • "The Honking", a Futurama episode in which an evil car (Project S.A.T.A.N.) attacks robots and turns them into "were-cars".
  • Herbie â€" Both Herbie and Horace (from the 1997 film The Love Bug) are possessed cars. Herbie, however is possessed by accident, when a photo of his creator Gustav Von Stumpfel's beloved Elsa fell in a vat of molten steel used for the car.
  • Phantom 309 from the song of the same name, and from the song "Big Joe, Red Sovine, & Phantom 309" (which was based upon Red Sovine's version of the song "Phantom 309"). Driven by the ghost of "Big Joe", who sometimes gives rides to hitchhikers. In the latter song, it is suggested that the ghost of Red Sovine is also riding with Big Joe in Phantom 309.
  • "Riding with Private Malone", a 2001 country song recorded by David Ball
  • The Godfather II: The Video Game, in Havana sometimes a ghost car would drive along the roads.
  • "The Ride" has the 1950s Cadillac driven by the ghost of Hank Williams, Sr. An updated version of the song involves Dale Earnheart giving the singer a ride with his NASCAR Cup car "A stock car painted black" (Earnhardt was killed in a crash during the 2001 Daytona 500 race).
  • GTA: San Andreas: The player can discover a "Glendale" (a Chrysler New Yorker) in the backwoods on occasion. Sometimes the vehicle will begin driving itself, with no NPC visible inside the vehicle. This has spawned many rumors in the GTA community. However, the true reason for the "ghost car's" existence is so that the player could work their way out of the woods if they totaled their previous vehicle. The reason that it sometimes begins to move is that the car will occasionally spawn on a hill, with the parking brake disengaged, letting the car roll forward.
  • "You Drive", an episode of The Twilight Zone that aired originally on 3 January 1964, features a 1956 Ford Fairlane whose driver is involved in a hit-and-run accident that injures a young boy. The boy later dies. The car engages in a series of "malfunctions", including blasting its own horn, blinking its headlights, and turning on its radio, that escalate until it starts itself up and follows its owner as he walks to work one day. The passenger side door opens, at which point the man gets in and the car drives him to the police station to confess.
  • Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated featured a ghost truck in the episode "Secret of the Ghost rig" that was stealing Crystal Cove's diamond doorknobs.
  • Regular Show episode Ello Govnor featured a possessed killer black British taxi.
  • R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour featured an episode starring China Anne McClain in which her irresponsible parents purchase a possessed RV that inevitably kills anyone attempting to take a road trip in it.

See also


2011 Rolls-Royce Ghost | Review | Car and Driver
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  • Haunted highway
  • Boy Scout Lane
  • Clinton Road
  • Ghost rockets
  • Vanishing hitchhiker

References


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