Your True Tales
November 2006 - Page 1
Ghost on the Bus
by Jo
I have had many strange things happen over the years and have lived in several "haunted" houses. I even used to be a member of a London-based paranormal research group, so I am level-headed and pretty open minded. Still, this particular incident still has me scratching my head!
Many years ago, when I still lived with my parents in Essex, I worked a 15-minute or so bus ride away in a neighbouring town. Coming home one evening on a really miserable, cold and raining winter night, the bus gradually emptied as the passengers got off at each stop. Although my stop certainly wasn't at the end of the ride, by the time I pressed the bell and got up and stood by the driver, I noticed the bus was completely empty. Nobody hiding or lying down in the seats. I had passed them all as I came down the bus. I stood swaying, holding onto the pole and looking back down the empty bus, chatting to the driver. I was the last one to get off.
The bus came to a stop (just outside my parent's house) and I climbed off, but for some reason I again looked back before leaving and the bus was still empty (only one way on and off this particular type of bus, and nobody got on as I got off). As the doors closed and the bus slowly moved past me, there, sitting two seats behind where I had been sitting, was a little old man complete with flat cap on his head. I watched the bus pull away... and I still don't know how he got there!
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