I remember reading about this case nearly 40 years ago. The account I read stated that a bus inspector had come forward to say that he had seen the bus pull into his depot before vanishing. Furthermore, after the fatal accident the junction was amended and after that the bus was never seen again. Just thought I'd mention it.
I read the same accounts all those years ago. I'd forgotten all about the story until I chanced upon the inquest report and then it all came flooding back!
100% serious - I saw this bus with my best friend around 1993 I lived one road away. It was around 8pm the bus came at speed down St Marks Road, we looked around and saw it coming really fast. The lights were all on inside and really bright as were the headlamps. We could hear engine racing just like a speeding bus engine would. As it was coming fast we started running around the corner into Cambridge Gardens to the bus stop (that used to be there*) so we wouldn't miss it. We got to the stop (which was just around the corner and waited; the bus never came. We went back to look and there was no bus and we were baffled. Truthfully we didn't know the story of the ghost bus and found out in later years. It wasn't remotely a spooky experience - at the time we were mystified as to where the bus went and left scratching our heads.
Ooh! I used to live on St Marks Rd In the 1970s! Ive never heard of this Ghost Bus! Although my flat was at the back of a large house, i had a fire escape stairs from my kitchen door & often sat out there at night for a cigarette or if it was a warm night & you could hear traffic even in the early morning hours & the sound of a bus or large vehicle was distinct. There are so many spooky places throughout London & its suburbs My friend lived in a large house Further along St Marks Rd & she swore it was haunted. Other residents in the house also said they had seen or felt disturbances. Later on after doing abit of research , as she was a junior reporter on a Newspaper & had access to certain records, found Out that there had been an accident outside her house & a young lady had been killed but right after the accident, shed been taken into the house by the owner & the young girl had died in their front room. This was in the early 1900s. So id guess there are many phantoms in such a great metropolis! I lived in St Marks Rd for 7 years until i returned back to my Northern city home, but i was very happy in my flat & never felt at all spooked! Even my friend, in her haunted house, once she found out about her ghost, spoke to the poor young lady by name, told her she knew of her untimely demise & didnt mind her being there. Actually after that, the hauntings were less & it felt much calmer & happier there Anyway, my friend lived there A further 5 yrs until she left to get married! Thanks for this video! It intrigued me because i lived there! Peace 🇬🇧👧
Sometimes talking to the spirit will calm them, and spooky occurrences are fewer, or stop completely. When a coworker ("Sally") and her husband bought their house 40 years ago, and their two boys were young (4 and 6 years old), some weird things happened in the house, and often in the boys' bedroom. Sally & her husband knew that the man who'd built the house had died a few months before, and knew his name ("John"), so she had a talk with him. Sally told John that he'd built a beautiful house, she was sorry that he died, and that she and her family wanted the opportunity to grow in the beautiful house and make it their home. Sally told John that she didn't mind that he was there, but she wouldn't stand for him scaring her sons, so for him to stay, he had to be a peaceful presence, and not scare the boys at all. Sally and her family never had another scary thing happen again, but occasionally some odd, helpful things would happen, such as needed things would appear where they hadn't been a minute before, or if one of the boys accidentally kicked or threw a ball into the road, the ball would return to the yard as if kicked or thrown back to the boys, but no one was visibly present to kick or throw it, keeping the boys from running into the road to get the ball. The family attributed such things to John, and thanked him accordingly.
Many thanks for an excellent and interesting story. Apparently it stopped being seen after the road layout was altered in the late thirties. There's stories of a similar vehicular ghost, in the shape of a phantom blue Bedford CF van that runs people off a road as it crosses a narrow hump backed bridge, at a place called Condor Green near Lancaster. As people usually slow down for the bridge, I don't think there have been any fatalities, but a lot of very shaken drivers and bent bumpers. All very interesting.
I do believe the accounts !!! . I wonder if they are similar to a looping magnetic piece of recorded tape ???? . Or maybe generated by emotion ????? . It's "funny" but credible .........a "Blue Bedford CF Van" ............ (yeh i believe it) ............ but 90% of the people just refuse to admit it 🙂 . Way back in 1981 ..... when i left school ..... a few people saw Roman Soldiers marching and just walking into a wall on a feeder lane .................. surveyors had been "digging around" the area to widen the road !!!!!!! . I think WW11 old disused airfields have a "feelgood factor" also 🙂
Saw a large plane desperately trying to clear the end of a disused airfield once. My colleague who was stood beside me saw it too. Since closure the runway had lost a few hundred yards from one end courtesy of the M25 so it all made sense. That is until it vanished into thin air. Whatever we saw or thought we saw the pilots panic was all too evident. The wings angle of attack looked well beyond the stalling point so it definitely looked like he was trying to clear the road even if it meant crashing on the other side.
Thank you for this story. I first heard of the tale nearly 60 years ago, a kind of throwaway addition to a story about other phantom vehicles, an have always been intrigued by it. You cover it in the deepest detail and history that I've ever seen. Thanks.
Given the dates of that type of bus, has anyone looked in to a number 7 bus being destroyed during WW1, ?, there were German bombs dropped in the London area, around 1917, or maybe even during WW2, and the driver might have been a driver of the early type of bus before also doing so in the 1940's, when London was also bombed, and buses were involved back then, I recall a very famous photo of one nose down in a bomb crater, just one example, there were others.
The one in the crater was Balham High rd. The nearby tube flooded due to water and sewage pipes being ruptured and many people died. There is a plaque in the station. I think it was 1940/41 .
I know the German Zeppelins and Gotha raiders did a lot of damage - indeed, one Zepp got as far as Walsall, where they hit a tram, killing the town's Lady Mayoress. You'd need a detailed map of the afflicted areas to know if there was a connection. Also, have you though about the 'Blighty buses' that went to war in 1914, as troop transports in Flanders? They were ex LGOC B types, and their drivers went with them..... could it have been one of them, lost in France?
@@JohnDavies-cn3ro It was the largest zeppelin raid of the war; apparently they got lost in the fog, thought they were over Liverpool and dropped their bombs anyway. Our cenotaph was built on the spot where the mayoress was killed, and there's still bomb damage to be seen in nearby walls.
i was a bus driver in the 90s i got to a terminus at midnight and seen an old guy sitting up stairs at the front with a hat on so i jumped out the cab ran up stairs and he was gone
I wonder if the no. 7 ghost bus inspired J.K Rowling’s Knight Bus in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban? In Stockholm, Sweden, we use to have The Ghost Train, which actually was a silver colored prototype underground train (the regular underground trains were green at the time). The urban legend said that it passed all stations and took you to the abandoned stop Kymlinge, which was a dilapidated station that never came in use, and when you arrived you were already dead… I rode it many times at night, and thought I’m not superstitious at all you couldn’t be entirely sure. Sadly enough it was decommissioned in 1994.
If the bus turned south from Cambridge Gardens into St Mark's Road, the next right turn is Bartle Road - which, prior to being rebuilt and renamed, used to be Rillington Place, and we all know what happened there!
4:47-4:59 Pretty obvious that it's the Knight Bus, driven by Ernie Prang. Somebody performed a permanent Disillusion Charm on the interior of the bus, which only affects its driver, conductor (Stan), and the riders, which is why it appears to be empty. Everyone on it can see each other without a problem, of course. 14:28-14:38 The Phantom Bus had its 15 minutes of fame (50 years before Andy Warhol uttered his quote about it), and retired, crossing the Rainbow Bridge for buses in June 1934.
There must be an origin of this bus, as in an accident involving a bus of its type in the area? If not, then I'd say it's all in people's imaginations.
I don't know about buses but I heard rumors there was a train traveling up the country at tremendous speed, wishing people here and there day and night but that sort of thing never happens in real life, right?
There's always two ways or two reasons why the bus would would have appeared one that the driver crashed the bus nearby or passed away or it's just a recording and for whatever reason the bus materialise and and the area had ley lines is it and it was just recording I was just a recording of the bus going past nothing more
Hiya Richard, what I'm trying to say is , how can a bus be a ghost, its not a living thing, a ghost is someone who hasn't accepted the fact that their dead yet, I find it quite baffling, say Richard that's all I have to say about the Ghost bus, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumberland, England
I think it must be one of the phantom electric buses, such as the one some American community spent huge money on before they all broke down and the maker went out of business!
