Readers Stories   Passenger From The Past My hobby is restoring and renovating old cars, and over the years I have restored many. My true story is about a car I purchased in 1962, which was a very old 1938 Rolls Royce saloon, it had been laying neglected and unused for a number of years in a barn. It was in a very bad state of neglect and repair inside and out, posing quite a challenge. The restoration took me three years to complete and when finished looked as good as new. When I first took the car out for its first test run I had a strange sense of not being alone in the car. It felt that someone or something was in the back looking looking over my shoulder, the feeling was so strong that I stopped and looked behind the seats to make sure, but as I knew, there was no one but me in the car. My dog who loved travelling in cars and who usually accompanied me on journeys, would never go near the car and would snarl and raise his hackles if tried to be persuaded to do so. Every time I took the car out for a drive the same uncomfortable feeling occurred. My girlfriend also sensed that someone or something was in the back and felt so uncomfortable about this that she eventually refused to go in it again. It was mainly due to the fact that I felt so uncomfortable about this feeling, coupled with the fact that my girlfriend would not now travel in the Rolls, that I decided to sell it. I sold it to a friend of mine who knew the reason for the sale and who had, on the odd occasion also felt he was not alone in the back of the car. He was quite unperturbed and was convinced that it had come about as he put it, by my over active imagination influencing his thinking. Soon after Rob bought the Rolls he moved as the firm he worked for had relocated to another part of the country. Some five months later Rob wrote me a letter in which he explained that since moving, he had decided to do some research into the past history of the Rolls. He informed me that he had discovered that it had originally been manufactured as hearse, which was purchased by a family firm of undertakers. After many years of trouble free use, they decided sell in order to get a new model but because it was a hearse had difficulty in getting rid of it, so they sold it to a coach-building firm who re-bodied it into a saloon. Could that feeling we all had, including my dog, have been imagination, or could its previous history have been somehow other imprinted into the vehicle? Charlie from Lincolnshire [Top][Back][Home] If page is loaded out of frames click Here This material may not be copied, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Ghost Watch UK are not held responsible for any actions taken after reading any of our pages!