A True Australian Ghost Story … Maybe
John Bradford, a Sydney University student, was on the side of the road hitch hiking on a very dark night and in the midst of a storm. The night was rolling on and no car went by. The storm was so strong he could hardly see a few feet ahead of him.
Suddenly he saw a car slowly coming towards him and it stopped. John, desperate for shelter and without thinking about it, got in the car and closed the door, then realized there was nobody behind the wheel and the engine wasn’t on!
The car started moving slowly. John looked at the road and saw a curve approaching. Scared, he started to pray, begging for his life.
Then, just before the car hit the curve, a hand appeared through the window and turned the wheel.
John, paralyzed with terror, watched how the hand appeared out of the darkness every time they came to a curve. Soon, John saw the lights of a pub down the road so, gathering his courage, he jumped out of the car and ran toward it. Wet and out of breath, he rushed inside and asked for two shots of tequila. He then started telling everybody about the horrible experience he went through.
A silence enveloped everyone when they realized he was crying and … he wasn’t drunk.
About 15 minutes later, two guys walked into the same pub. They were also wet and out of breath.
Looking around and seeing John Bradford sobbing at the bar, one said to the other, “Look, Bruce … there’s the bloody idiot that got in the car while we were pushing it.”
