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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Goodenough wrapped the girl in a blanket (or rug in some versions), carried her to the roadside and drove off to get help. The two main instances of this piece of phenomena occurred in 1972 to Mr Bob Vandepeer and in 1971 to a Mr James Skeen. Neil Arnold runs Blue Bell Hill ghost tours and wrote Kent Urban Legends: The Phantom Hitchhiker and Other Stories. In 1962 Bob Vandepeer said he gave a lift to a girl on the hill only to later turn around and discover the hitchhiker had vanished in the back of the car. The road itself has been surrounded by mystery for decades, with more than 50 reported supernatural sightings in the area.

On another occasion he witnessed the pedestrians again, walking across the road, however this time a car drove straight through them. After this there are two other people that stepped forward to report it, this was listed in the tabloid “The Sun” and Joseph Chester and Tracy Boon said they had seen a woman wearing a nightgown on the road, in 1968 and in 1999. Hundreds of cars had to be abandoned on Blue Bell Hill and Detling Hill as snow lashed the north of Kent, just when people thought the county had escaped the worst. The significance of this young woman's death was the reported sightings afterwards, and the similar pattern they carried. The film first attracted attention when the casting advert appeared in September, advertising for a "very sexy" 20 to 30-year-old, with "possibly fake breasts i.In 1971 James Skene was driving home from work when a girl in her early 20s suddenly appeared in front of his car. One site, The Ghost Hunt UK, claims that Sally in the Wood has been the scene of eight fatal car crashes in the past decade, most of which remain unexplained.

we would usually drive over to see them every weekend and as any of you with any local knowledge will know this mean't driving down the A229 Bluebell Hill for part of the route. Sonya said: "I felt so strongly that I made a film about the hill, which has taken five years all in all.Choked with exhaust fumes amid the rumbling of several lanes of traffic, it takes a degree of mental effort to imagine the area as anything other than a place to drive through. Everytime we drove past the bit close to the petrol station (where there is a tunnel under the road) I used to get Pins and needles quite badly.

DRIVING down a deserted road in the dead of night can be spooky enough, but what if it truly is a highway to Hell?The case that brought the ghost of Blue Bell Hill to national prominence occurred in July 1974 when a driver reported to the police that he had hit a girl who appeared in front of his car. I’d been reading something about Julian Cope and his fascination/obsession with the megalithic period and stumbled across the name of the Kentish sites; west of the river Medway sit the Coldrum stones, Addington long barrow and Chestnuts long barrow.