And you probably never will, because anything a ghost could do to haunt traffic would just get blamed on “asshole drivers”
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!
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
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?
GOTTEM
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.
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.
They don’t feel liminal, which sparks the ghost stories.
Speaking of amydala, they’ll just claim yours is “calcified” from the fluoride.
Theirs are enlarged from the constant lifetime of lead exposure
Moving the goalposts
Wasn’t me, a ghost moved them!
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.
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.
There was a kid on the bike on a ride home from Canada in the middle of the night, he rode right in front of the car, I swear we went through him, but he was so close and it happened so fast. Middle of the night pitch black and just a dark corn field to the left where he would be riding, the strangest possible ghost sighting I ever had
There’s tons of haunted roads, strange to me that you haven’t heard of one!
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
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 the 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…
Whoof. Well, if anyone ever complains about the strict safety inspection and weighing regulations for semis in my state, I shall point them at this article.
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.
wouldnt that be a poltegeist. supernatural had an episode where it was a ghost truck that haunted a certain road.
And you’d think there’d be ghosts walking up and down the halls of hospitals all day long
Do you work in a hospital? I don’t, but I’m in and out all the time (EMS) and I think every hospital has its ghost stories. I was just doing a clinical shift as a student in the hospital last week and the nurses were all spooked about an incident that happened in the ER the night before where everyone in the ER heard a scream coming from a block of empty rooms and they all went running and no one was there, they said they went around to all the other rooms and out to the waiting room and no one had screamed.
I’m actually rather skeptical and 99% of things have a good non ghost explanation, but there are weird things that happen and I’ve seen people who disappeared with no possible way to do so if they were a real human. If I was going to go all in on believing in ghosts I would guess that the reason that hospitals aren’t full of ghosts is because most people are going to “leave” and go haunt somewhere they have a close emotional connection. Which would you rather, haunt some random building that you happened to die in, or haunt the house you lived in for years and feel safe in?
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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?
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.
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.
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.
The human mind is a pattern-seeking engine. Even when real patterns aren’t there, imaginary ones will be detected instead. Just look at the clouds for a while, and you’ll see what I mean. This applies to images, sounds, events, just about anything really.
Yea well some people imagine the patterns themselves, too. A shocking number of people have a tenuous grasp on reality as best.
That’s because ghosts don’t keep their cars and they can’t keep up with you if you’re driving.
