Perhaps more relevant to your experience, however, is the crossing of the A229 here of an overhead power-line. Worried for their safety, the men approached - but they disappeared as they got close, leaving no footprints at the sand-strewn site. There have also been stories of a girl who stares into the eyes of drivers as she steps out into the road, unable to stop cars crashing into her - but when a driver checks to see if she is okay, she has vanished. Ghosts have often been spotted on the road but hadn't been for quite some time - more than 20 years ago in fact. In the 1960s, author Charles Christian described how a lorry driver was left terrified when a red-eyed, hairy creature tried to smash its way through his windscreen as he drove along the isolated road.

So if you’re looking for a truly bloodcurdling experience, Hangman Hill is definitely worth a visit! Local legend has it the ghost of 22-year-old bride Suzanne Browne haunts the stretch of road that runs through the Kent countryside.In 1971, James Skene was driving home from work when a girl in her early 20s suddenly appeared in front of his car on the dual carriageway. There is another report earlier than that of 1992 with Ian Sharpe too, in 1974 a man named Maurice Goodenaugh came to the local police to say that he had left a blanket on a woman he had hit and had begged for help.

Both men reported to have given a young lady a ride however she vanished in the car or when she left the vehicle. I don’t really believe in ghosts; the persistence of human imagination in these unlikely places is what is of most importance. He immediately stopped the car and jumped out to find the young girl lying in the road with cuts to her forehead and knees.Anyway my mum went downstairs after checking on all of us the ghost turned the kettle on for her she said thanks came back upstairs and its entire contents where in neatly folded piles on the floor. Random encounters with the unusual” is a repository for the oddities that me and Mrs J have encountered on our travels, which we find interesting or amusing in some way. The 22-year-old was travelling home from her hen night, with two friends, when the car she was in span out of control and crashed.

Two spring to mind as the most often reported - a phantom lorry that appears on the wrong side of the road and a mysterious hitchhiker who disappears whilst sitting in the vehicle of the person kind enough to have stopped and given him/her (accounts vary) a lift.The stones are relative unknowns; I’d never heard of them until recently, despite growing up in Kent and being interested in ‘all that boring landscape stuff’ (my girlfriend’s phrase). All three crew – the pilot, Graham Budden, and two paramedics, Tony Richardson and Mark Darby – were killed on impact. The views from atop the moors are breathtaking, and there is a sense of achievement that comes from conquering such a challenging route.