Australian Ghost Story…

>>True Australian ‘Ghost Story’ – do not read if you have a weak
heart.
>>
>>This story happened a short while ago in Brisbane, and even though
it
>>sounds a little Alfred Hitchcock, …. it’s true.
>>
>>John Bradford, a Sydney University student, was hitch hiking about
100
>>Km’s north of Brisbane on an unlit country road and on a very dark
night
>>with a severe storm raging….Thunder, lightning, torrential rain
>>……….
>>
>>The night was rolling on and no car went by. The storm was so strong
he
>>could hardly see any more than a few feet ahead of him.
>>
>>Suddenly, in a flash of lightning, he saw a car slowly coming
towards him
>>and it suddnely stopped just afew feet from where he stood.
>>
>>John, in the dark and driving rain, desperate for shelter and
without
>>thinking about it, got in the car and closed the door.
>>
>>There was nobody behind the wheel and the engine wasn’t on!
>>
>>The car then began moving slowly.
>>
>>A little terrified by the sudden movement, without obvious human
>>interaction, John was thinking about jumping from the moving vehicle,
but
>>the storm was getting worse…here was a safe haven form the
tempest…of
>>sorts….he looked ahead at the road and saw a curve approaching.
>>
>>Scared, he started to pray, begging for his life…do I jump, he
thought
>>when suddenly, just before he hit the curve, a hand appeared through
the
>>window and turned the wheel.
>>
>>John in the dark, with only the flash of the lightning and paralysed
with
>>terror, watched how the hand appeared every time they came to a
curve.
>>
>>John saw the lights of a pub down the road so, gathering strength
>>he jumped out of the slowly moving car and ran to it. Wet and out of
>>breath, he rushed inside and asked for two shots of tequila. He then
>>started telling everybody around him the horrible experience he had
just
>>been through. A silence had enveloped everybody and then they
realized he
>>was crying and wasn’t drunk!!…………………
>>
>>About 5 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 f….ing idiot that got in the
car
>>while we were pushing it.”
>>
>>