And you probably never will, because anything a ghost could do to haunt traffic would just get blamed on “asshole drivers”
And you’d think there’d be ghosts walking up and down the halls of hospitals all day long
There’s tons of haunted roads, strange to me that you haven’t heard of one!
That’s because ghosts don’t keep their cars and they can’t keep up with you if you’re driving.
Wonder why so many deaths still happen? /s
What? Yeah you do. The Hitchhiking ghost is one of the most common tropes!
I think OP is talking about real ghosts, not those fake ones you see in media
This comment made me exhale sharply through my nose and make a little, “hernk” sound.
Thanks
and your comment put a smile on my face after a really shitty day, so thank you for that
he was on the side of the highway with his thumb out!
Texas addition
and he was Mexican!!! oooooolé!
There’s like tons of stories where people seeing ghastly figure at roadside while on their midnight drive, i’m pretty sure truck driver used to and probably still share stories about those.
Yes you do. Ghostly hitchhikers are a common story. There’s even songs about them. There’s also stories of ghost cars and ghost trucks.
Hm ok sing me one
The Ride - David Allen Coe
Phantom 309 - Red Sovine
Ok now sing it
Yeah but I meant an ordinary roadway in like, y’know a city full of traffic. Tolls and stoplights, potholes and cops everywhere and whatnot
Not some zoinky one out in the boonies, cuz hauntings there are mega duh
Moving the goalposts
Mega duh, or just double super duh? ;)
Honestly probably because lively areas don’t feel “ghostly”. Same reason why a house where somebody was murdered doesn’t feel haunted when there’s a big house party going on. Because ghosts aren’t real and are a runaway imagination being scared of shadows. You could probably convince your amygdala to be scared at a big house party, but that sounds like a terrible plan.
Isn’t it crazy that haunted houses are the only houses that are haunted?
Ordinary suburban houses can be haunted too
Wouldn’t that make it a haunted house?
I was imagining haunted house to mean more like Haunted™ House like with dusty candelabras and cobwebby spiral staircases and whowhatsthems
That’s the usual, but The Amityville Horror was a normal, modern house.
They’re just happy to be out of traffic.
Whoa, cool username!
Usernames that are just a single word, especially that word, are gonna be ultra rare on here one day
Just spin up your own server!
Some of us have single-word usernames on the largest instance. 😎
[Cue Weird Al]
I remember slashdotters flaunting their low UIDs. :)
Mine is “only” six digits!
I think that was a point made in the TV show Ghosts.
(spoilers for episode 1)
The main character tried to move away from a haunted house and saw ghosts everywhere. Including when she was waiting for a taxi and spoke to a woman who died in a car crash on that road, and at another point saw ww2 parachuters stuck in a tree.
The Els Alfacs (Tarragona, Catalonia) road.
As you can see in the pic, it’s not the middle of nowere but a road following the coast with urbanizations around.
During the 70s, a truck transporting propylene crashed on camping wall, besides the road, exploding and killing 215 people.
Since that, drivers passing through that road, claim to see human silhouettes, besides the area of the crash, like silent witness looking at the road.
Woah, 215 is a TON of people…
Alright I’ll give you that one
Gonna have to disagree with you on that one, OP. There are plenty of supposedly haunted roadways. Please don’t be pedantic and ask for sources. You can do an internet search, too.
Edit: ESPECIALLY bridges
Isn’t the hitchhiker like one of the most famous ghost archetypes?
I’m more curious why we never see ghosts in some radical 80s and 90s attire, they’re all Victorian and shit.
Because they’re too funny, i.e. Jebediah Townhouse
Yah I was going to chime in on the same, bridges and railroad crossings, likely as a warning to others but who knows.
Auto lobbyists got it covered
How about hospitals? People die there every day. If ghosts exist, that’s the place where you should find them. Like, not just a few either. Nearly all of them. Can you think of another place that faces so much death that they had to build specific facilities for it.
Ask anyone who works in a hospital and they’ll tell you it’s haunted. Especially if it’s old.
You hear a lot about haunted morgues, but that’s of course just people projecting their icky feelings toward death: The vast majority of people don’t die in the morgue. Similarly, the vast majority of people are long dead and partly preserved before they’re in a graveyard. Kinda’… proves it’s all BS projection.
What about all the other haunted locations where only one person died? The number of corpses doesn’t seem to correlate with ghosts very well. Also, if a single dead guy is enough to make a place haunted, nearly every house should be haunted after a few centuries have passed. Guess what, there are cities where people have lived well over a thousand years. Aren’t Luxor, Beijing or Delhi super haunted by now?
Yea, there’s little correlation anywhere with anything except people hearing spooky stories or assuming spooky things. Or the rare case where there is loud sub-audible noise or EMF that makes people feel uneasy, and make up the rest.
don’t die in the morgue
Pretty sure the woman was some sort of “alive” in The Autopsy of Jane Doe. :)
Anyone who likes horror should give that movie a shot.
Sounds like a fun creative writing prompt
Stephen King did it, more than once I think. “Riding the Bullet” comes to mind. “You Know They Got a Hell of a Band” is close. A couple gets off the highway into a town populated entirely by dead rock stars and captured people.
Damn we need more people on Lemmy so we can make a creative writing doodad
They’re still mad because now they’re in ghost traffic, too busy to haunt the living.
Would you rather your ghosts be stuck in ghost traffic, or staring at you from across the train while they get to wherever they want?
