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A "haunted truck" at a Halloween event

In ghostlore, a phantom vehicleis a purportedly ghostly or haunted vehicle, common

in urban legendsand entertainment. The stories often describe cars that operate with no
visible driver.

Contents

 1Types of phantom vehicles

o 1.1Cars and trucks
o 1.2Trains
o 1.3Aeroplanes
o 1.4Boats and ships
 2Popular culture
 3See also
 4References

Types of phantom vehicles[edit]

Cars and trucks[edit]

 In 1982, two people in Lanikai, Hawaii reported seeing a mysterious black car which
disappeared and reappeared again a second later.[1]
 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.[2]
 2004, In Cape Town, South Africa, a Renault Mégane[3] 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".[4]
 Clinton Road of Passaic County, New Jersey is said to be host to numerous
paranormal phenomena, including phantom pickup trucks and floating headlights that
pursue drivers and then disappear.
 In the mid-1980s, three people in a sedan reported seeing a gray van heading straight
towards them. Then suddenly the van vanished.[5]
 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.[6]
 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.[7]
 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.[8]
 Early 1980s - a British motorist crashed his car in order to avoid a truck that suddenly
appeared coming straight towards him and then vanished.[9]
 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.[10]
 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[edit]
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".[11]
 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.[12]
 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.[13]
 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.[citation needed]
Aeroplanes[edit]

 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.[14]
Boats and ships[edit]
Main article: List of ghost 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[edit]
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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)[15]
 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 – 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[edit]
 Haunted highway
 Boy Scout Lane
 Clinton Road
 Ghost rockets
 Vanishing hitchhiker

References[edit]
1. ^ "Ghost Car In Lanikai". Castle of Spirits. Archived from the original on 2016-03-13.
Retrieved 14 November 2010.
2. ^ "Ghost Car in Broad Daylight Afternoon". Castle of Spirits. Archived from the original on
2017-02-02. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
3. ^ 'Ghost car' mystery revealed http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Ghost-car-
mystery-revealed-20041213-2
4. ^ Carin Smith (21 November 2004). "'Haunted' car goes haywire". News24. Somerset West.
Archived from the original on 8 December 2004. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
5. ^ "The Ghost Car". Your True Tales. October 2003. p. 22.
6. ^ Curse of James Dean Archived 2005-12-10 at the Wayback Machine
7. ^ "Wreck ignition for 'ghost car' that started on its own". Cape Times. Kempten, Germany. 7
November 2005. Archived from the original on 27 April 2006. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
8. ^ The Old Rusty Ghost truck
9. ^ "Coventry and Warwickshire - Places - Spooky tales to chill your spine". BBC Online. 10
September 2003. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
10. ^ Jeffrey, Martin. "The Ghost Bus of Ladbroke Grove". Haunted Britain. Mystery magazine.
Archived from the original on 3 February 2009. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
11. ^ af Klintberg, Bengt, Råttan i pizzan. Stockholm: Norstedts Förlag, 1992. ISBN 91-1-
893831-0
12. ^ Yanko, Dave. "Mystery Solved?". Virtual Saskatchewan. Retrieved 21 November 2010.
13. ^ "Abe Lincoln's Ghost Train". HallowFreaks. Archived from the originalon 5 October 2006.
Retrieved 14 November 2010.
14. ^ Phantom Plane Crashes
15. ^ Blades on IMDb

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