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.
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]
Moving the goalposts
Wasn’t me, a ghost moved them!
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
There’s tons of haunted roads, strange to me that you haven’t heard of one!
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?
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.
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
And you’d think there’d be ghosts walking up and down the halls of hospitals all day long
Do you work in a hospital? I don’t, but I’m in and out all the time (EMS) and I think every hospital has its ghost stories. I was just doing a clinical shift as a student in the hospital last week and the nurses were all spooked about an incident that happened in the ER the night before where everyone in the ER heard a scream coming from a block of empty rooms and they all went running and no one was there, they said they went around to all the other rooms and out to the waiting room and no one had screamed.
I’m actually rather skeptical and 99% of things have a good non ghost explanation, but there are weird things that happen and I’ve seen people who disappeared with no possible way to do so if they were a real human. If I was going to go all in on believing in ghosts I would guess that the reason that hospitals aren’t full of ghosts is because most people are going to “leave” and go haunt somewhere they have a close emotional connection. Which would you rather, haunt some random building that you happened to die in, or haunt the house you lived in for years and feel safe in?
Wonder why so many deaths still happen? /s
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.
