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The Ghost Bus

I was turning the corner and saw a bus tearing towards mc, the motorist testified before the police: The lights of the top and bottom deck, and the headlights were full on but I could sec no sign of crew or passengers. I yanked my steering wheel hard over, and mounted the pavement (sidewalk), scraping the roadside wall. Tile bus just vanished.

The motorist who made this report to the local authorities in North Kensington, London, in the mid— 1930’s may have been drunk, hallucinating, or dream ing at the wheel when he had the accident. But if he was, so were hundreds of other motorists who com plained of being forced off the road by a phantom bus careening round the corner from St. Mark’s Road into Cambridge Gardens, near the Ladbroke Grove under ground station. After one fatal accident, the local coroner took evidence of the apparition and discovered that dozens of local residents claimed to have seen tile spectral double—decker.

In fact, there had been many ordinary accidents, several of them fatal, at the notorious junction. Even tually the local council straightened the road there, and the accident rate was greatly reduced. Thereafter there were no more reports of the ghostly red bus.