The Ghosts of Blue Bell Hill & other Road Ghosts (The Ghosts of Blue Bell Hill: and Other Road Ghosts: A Case-Centred Study of Phantom Hitch-Hikers & Phantom Jaywalkers in Folklore and Fact)

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Ratcliffe, Derek, ed. (1977). A Nature Conservation Review. Vol.2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p.118. ISBN 0521 21403 3. But perhaps most notoriously, Blue Bell Hill, a main road which runs between Maidstone and Medway, is one of Kent's spookiest locations.

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In 1934 a young woman called Renee was riding home along Blue Bell Hill on a gloomy autumn's evening. Real life wolves roamed the wooded farmland of the East Riding of Yorkshire up until the 15th century, when they were hunted to extinction, but werewolf sightings have since been reported in the area. A new survey by Selectcarleasing shows that one third of Londoners say they’ve encountered a spectre while behind the wheel. He and his brother Francesco owned the Inn for a time as well, and after falling in love with the same woman, decided to settle matters with a duel.Four years after the accident, a man on his way home to Rochester late at night saw two pedestrians walking towards him when they suddenly disappeared. On another occasion, he witnessed the pedestrians again, walking across the road; however, a car drove straight through them this time! Maurice Goodenough, 1974 In 1971 James Skene was driving home from work when a girl in her 20s suddenly appeared in front of his car. He gave her a lift to Chatham, but when she got out she disappeared. She just ran straight in front of the car and I hit her on her left side…she was looking at me all the time. Bishop, M.C. (2014). The Secret History of the Roman Roads of Britain: And their Impact on Military History. Pen and Sword. p.140. ISBN 978-1-848-84615-9. Sightings of the unidentified boy playing on a patch of lawn have been recorded more than a dozen times in the last 300 years. Sutton Valence School in North Street. Picture: Martin Apps

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Coach driver Ian Sharpe, 56, saw the ghost only just over a week before the anniversary of the car crash: “I had come out of the Blue Bell Hill slip-road, from the village, coming down the hill. Today marks half a century since the tragic death of Susan Browne and her two friends at Blue Bell Hill. Suzanne Browne, 22, and her two friends were killed in a dramatic collision on Blue Bell Hill near Maidstone, Kent on November 19th, 1965, the eve of her wedding day Credit: Getty Images Fifty years after a car crash killed a bride-to-be on the eve of her wedding day, a group of paranormal enthusiasts gathered near the spot. Blue Bell Hill is a chalk hill between Maidstone and Rochester in the English county of Kent. It overlooks the River Medway and is part of the North Downs. Settlements on the hill include the Walderslade suburb of Chatham and the villages of Blue Bell Hill and Kit's Coty. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries much of the hill was quarried for chalk. [1]News Kent's most haunted: The terrifying tale of the Blue Bell Hill Bride and how she haunts A229 drivers Mr O’Malley added: “If you analyse some of the UK’s most famous eyewitness reports, there are some really common road ghost tropes.

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As recently as February this year one eagle-eyed driver has spotted what looks like a ghostly figure on Blue Bell Hill amid snow chaos. In 1965 on the main road linking Medway and Maidstone, Suzanne Browne and her two friends were killed in the smash. Blue Bell Hill was closed in both directions between A2045 Walderslade Woods and M20 junction 6 because of the sheer number of stranded vehicles and dangerous conditions.One involves drivers who believe they’ve accidentally collided with a pedestrian, only for the mysterious ‘casualty’ never to be found, having seemingly disappeared into thin air. In 1971 James Skene was driving home from work when a girl in her early 20s suddenly appeared in front of his car. He gave her a lift to Chatham, but when she got out she disappeared. The picture shows cars at a standstill and in the distance, what appears to be the outline of a person standing next to the central reservation. One onlooker said the figure looked like an adult with a child.