M6 most haunted road in the UK!

[andyandy]

For the first time since ghost-hunting became an organised science, Britain's spooks and apparitions have made a motorway their favourite road to haunt.
After years of weird goings-on in lonely lanes or moorland crossings, the M6 has recorded more alleged sightings and spine-tingling feelings than any other route in the country. Roman soldiers, a distraught woman hitchhiker and a phantom lorry going the wrong way have all appeared on the six busy lanes - or out of their users' imaginations.

"We assumed Britain's spookiest road would turn out to be a dark lane near an ancient battlefield," said Tony Simmons, sightings coordinator for the survey. "But, when you think about it, these findings make sense. The M6 is one of Britain's longest roads and it travels through many counties - and therefore an immense amount of history." The eerie encounters have been recorded by a hospital consultant, lorry drivers and the hauntings expert Paul Devereux, who used a Geiger counter to test radiation levels at sites of repeated reports. Spooks, or conditions which lead 45% of all drivers to think they have seen them, occur throughout the route's 230 miles from Carlisle to Rugby.
"It's interesting that we've had more really clear sightings reported from the M6 than any other road," said Mr Simmons, whose monitoring was organised by the roadbuilding company Tarmac. The survey's results also include more traditional scenes of hauntings such as the A9 in the Highlands of Scotland, where a stagecoach with bewigged footmen has appeared to a succession of drivers. Other reports include eyes peeping out of bushes at the site of a colliery disaster in Leigh, Greater Manchester. Most of the phenomena seem benign, but several roads have a reputation for figures which appear to run into the path of traffic.

The motorway hauntings are expected to grow, according to experts like Mr Devereux, who recorded his own encounter with a phantom pick-up truck on the M6 in Fortean Times, the journal of strange phenomena. The new M6 toll section in the Midlands has already attracted a Roman cohort. Sue Cowley, from Coleshill, Warwickshire, told the survey of seeing about 20 soldiers "more like upright shadows than men walking through the tarmac as you would through water."

woooooh

 

[walthrup48]

Source?

The eerie encounters have been recorded by a hospital consultant, lorry drivers and the hauntings expert Paul Devereux, who used a Geiger counter to test radiation levels at sites of repeated reports.

Paul Devereux appeared on This Morning earlier in the year, explaining how his Zo Zo gun (a child's plastic toy gun with added occult symbols) was one of the tools he used to exorcise spirits. The bloke's on another planet.

 

[Azrael 5]

Read this somewhere today also.The A9 in Scotland isn't far behind,with a coach and horses being spotted.Also ninth was the B1403 in Doncaster,as ghostly soldier(obviously in clothes,so rule it out immediately)was spotted during a storm!!

Which scientific organisation undertook this research...Tarmac!

 

[Cuddles]

The eerie encounters have been recorded by a hospital consultant, lorry drivers and the hauntings expert Paul Devereux, who used a Geiger counter to test radiation levels at sites of repeated reports.

I assume he didn't find any radiation? If he had there would be quite some fuss about there being high radiation levels on a pretty major road. So I can only assume their "expert" didn't find any ghosts and there is nothing to worry about after all.

 

[andyandy]

Source?

oops...

it was the guardian but it seems to have disapeared...spooky!

the BBC have an article about the same "study"

It has been branded "deadly" and "frustrating" and last week was closed by floods, landslides and a bomb scare.
But now the A9's notoriety has a supernatural edge after the Highland stretch appears on a list of Britain's top 10 spookiest roads.

The main trunk route is mentioned twice at numbers two and eight.

Building materials supplier Tarmac produced the list. The M6 comes first after reported sightings of Roman soldiers and a ghostly woman.

Tarmac put the A9 in the Highlands as the second most haunted after a family reported seeing an ornate coach and horses, along with bewigged footmen.

The road appears again at number eight following a sighting of a Victorian-clad man on a horse at The Mound between Dornoch and Golspie.

Last week, the A9 in the Highlands was severely affected by flooding which also uncovered four unexploded bombs on a riverside leading to the road being closed temporarily at Alness.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/6099042.stm

 

[andyandy]

oh here it is

http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/article/0,,1935459,00.html