10 Creepy And Mysterious Phantom Vehicles
Tuscon
Published
07/18/2013
Phantom vehicles are the ghost ships of the land (and, occasionally, air). They come in many forms—some are ghosts in their own right, some are cursed by a malevolent force, and some are merely unsolved mysteries.
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During the 60s and 70s, the people under Soviet rule had plenty to be worried about. However, there was one entity that was particularly frightening: the Black Volga. The myth of the Black Volga was widely spread throughout the vast areas of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, and Mongolia. -
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One of the strangest cases of alleged ghost vehicles is Eastern Airlines Flight 401, a Tri-Star jetliner that crashed in December, 1972 into a Florida swamp. The accident killed 101 people, including pilot Bob Loft and flight engineer Don Repo. -
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The assassination of Franz Ferdinand was the final straw in the long-building tension between various European nations, and marked the beginning of World War I. According to legend, the car a 1910 Graf Stift Double Phaeton itself was so shocked by the events that every single subsequent owner met a violent fate. -
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His fatal crash was supposedly predicted by fellow actor Alec Guinness Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy. According to legend, Dean asked Guinness what he thought of the vehicle. Guinness responded with: If you get in that Porsche, you will be dead next week. Dean died exactly seven days later. -
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Allegedly seen by many London natives between the 30s and the 90s, the Ghost Bus is a very real-looking red London double-decker, carrying the line number 7. It always appears at a certain point at 1:15 AM, thundering along the road straight toward terrified drivers. -
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No one knew where Pippo came from, what type of plane it was, or who piloted it. Even its allegiance whether it was loyal to the fascists or the Allied forces remained a mystery. Pippo came from nowhere, and it was said that it fired its machine guns at anyone foolish enough to get in its way. It was recognized by the distinctive pip-pip sound of its engines hence the name and was mostly heard at night. -
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It's always a bad sign when your car starts moving on its own. A Cape Town, South Africa family and their guests found this out the hard way when they woke up to a loud crash in the middle of the night. Hurrying outside, they found the guests Renault was jerkily jumping around the yard. -
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Stockholm, the capital of peaceful and prosperous Sweden, hides a ghastly secret in its subway system. A silvery, shining ghost train called Silverpilen the Silver Arrow lurks there, stopping at random stations at random intervals. Its interiors are sometimes completely empty, sometimes filled with ghostly passengers. -
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Perhaps one of the most famous phantom vehicles in American history, this eerie ghost steam engine is said to progress through 180 cities every April. It is essentially the ghost of the real funeral train in which Abraham Lincoln who was allegedly keenly interested in the supernatural and even encountered his own doppelganger once made his last trip. -
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German UB III class submarines managed to sink 507 enemy ships during the conflict, including the feared battleship HMS Britannia. One UB III, U-65 was particularly dangerous, both to its enemies and its crew. Its building process was a disaster: 3 builders suffocated on diesel fumes, and 2 more were crushed by a falling girder. An American captain who ambushed U65 sayed that they never had a chance to fire. According to him, U-65 exploded all by itself.
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