And you probably never will, because anything a ghost could do to haunt traffic would just get blamed on “asshole drivers”
Yeah but I meant an ordinary roadway in like, y’know a city full of traffic. Tolls and stoplights, potholes and cops everywhere and whatnot
Not some zoinky one out in the boonies, cuz hauntings there are mega duh
Mega duh, or just double super duh? ;)
Honestly probably because lively areas don’t feel “ghostly”. Same reason why a house where somebody was murdered doesn’t feel haunted when there’s a big house party going on. Because ghosts aren’t real and are a runaway imagination being scared of shadows. You could probably convince your amygdala to be scared at a big house party, but that sounds like a terrible plan.
Moving the goalposts
Wasn’t me, a ghost moved them!
They’re just happy to be out of traffic.
Whoa, cool username!
Usernames that are just a single word, especially that word, are gonna be ultra rare on here one day
Just spin up your own server!
Some of us have single-word usernames on the largest instance. 😎
[Cue Weird Al]
There’s tons of haunted roads, strange to me that you haven’t heard of one!
The Els Alfacs (Tarragona, Catalonia) road.
As you can see in the pic, it’s not the middle of nowere but a road following the coast with urbanizations around.
During the 70s, a truck transporting propylene crashed on the camping wall, besides the road, exploding and killing 215 people.
Since that, drivers passing through that road, claim to see human silhouettes, besides the area of the crash, like silent witness looking at the road.
Woah, 215 is a TON of people…
Whoof. Well, if anyone ever complains about the strict safety inspection and weighing regulations for semis in my state, I shall point them at this article.
Alright I’ll give you that one
Gonna have to disagree with you on that one, OP. There are plenty of supposedly haunted roadways. Please don’t be pedantic and ask for sources. You can do an internet search, too.
Edit: ESPECIALLY bridges
Isn’t the hitchhiker like one of the most famous ghost archetypes?
I’m more curious why we never see ghosts in some radical 80s and 90s attire, they’re all Victorian and shit.
Because they’re too funny, i.e. Jebediah Townhouse
And you’d think there’d be ghosts walking up and down the halls of hospitals all day long
Sounds like a fun creative writing prompt
Damn we need more people on Lemmy so we can make a creative writing doodad
Stephen King did it, more than once I think. “Riding the Bullet” comes to mind. “You Know They Got a Hell of a Band” is close. A couple gets off the highway into a town populated entirely by dead rock stars and captured people.
They’re still mad because now they’re in ghost traffic, too busy to haunt the living.
Would you rather your ghosts be stuck in ghost traffic, or staring at you from across the train while they get to wherever they want?
Wonder why so many deaths still happen? /s
Y’know, when you’re driving at 5mph on the freeway and your radio cuts out? That’s not the DJ messing up, that’s a ghost playing with the dials.
Hmmm maybe all the ghosts want to haunt somewhere less crowded so they can become famous.
This is now my headcanon
It certainly doesn’t help that ghosts don’t exist and are simply people lying or being overly imaginative.
Never made sense to me how people even remotely entertain the idea of ghosts. In regards to poltergeists especially, how is something that has practically no mass, since it’s either invisible or barely visible, supposed to exert these forces (and resist the counter-forces) to throw shit around? What are their biomechanics? They don’t have joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments, any of that shit. They are just a bit of gas, if that, somewhat orderly floating around.
???
Ah, but my bad, people don’t think, that’s the problem.
