Drivers claim to have seen ghosts on stretch of unlit motorway that was site of two murders
Wakehurst Parkway runs along the Deep Creek Reserve in Australia and was the location of two murders including one where the victim was dismembered before being kept in a fridge
DRIVERS have reported seeing ghosts and experiencing supernatural events while driving along a stretch of remote motorway.
The unexplained occurrences include motorists blacking out, finding their windscreen wipers suddenly switching off, their car doors locking themselves, and pedestrian crossing lights flashing in the early hours of the morning with nobody around.
The area was also the site of a particularly gruesome murder that saw Stephen Dempsey shot and dismembered in 1994.
He was killed using a bow and arrow by Richard William Leonard who then kept the mutilated body in a freezer before killing another man just months later.
He stabbed taxi driver Ezzedine Bahmad to death with his girlfriend Denise Shipley but was sentenced to life imprisonment for both murders in 1997.
Another murder saw the suitcase and belongings of eight-year-old Graeme Thorne strewn across the road in 1963.
The ghosts apparently haunting the road include a nun and a woman dressed in white called 'Kelly' who drivers say appears on the backseat of their cars.
Mary Loughland, who describes herself as a psychic medium, has claimed to have encountered 'Kelly' several times while passing a church on the road.
She says that each time she does a “buzz” will crackle through her radio or her car doors lock themselves.
She said: “The first time I took the road was about six years ago. It was about 2am and I had the feeling of someone touching the back of my neck.
“It felt like a cool hand would on a cold day… She is like a white, veiled apparition of a girl in the back seat.”
Mary said she thinks 'Kelly' haunts motorists having suffered a tragic past and that her daughter had also witnessed two apparitions of her while driving on the same road at night time.
She said: “Most hauntings are in places where there has been tragedy. I feel Kelly is either lost or has a message to deliver.
“She is not an evil presence, but one that's traumatised. She is saying ‘I need a lift out of here’.”
Filmmaker Bianca Biasi is producing a documentary called Haunted Shores and said actors started behaving oddly while filming at the spot where Stephen Dempsey's body was dumped.
She said that filming became so unnerving that some crew members became physically ill and vowed never to return to the site.
A former cab driver said he saw a nun appear on his back seat while driving on the road.
Hla Oo said: “There was a grey silhouette of a thin young woman in the mirror, apparently sitting on the middle of the rear seat and sort of staring straight back at me.
“She was in a kind of white gown and head-dress like a Christian nun… I couldn't really see her face clearly, just the shape of her face and her deep green eyes, yes the sad green eyes, but she was definitely real and sitting there and staring back at me at that precise moment.”
He claimed he later heard from a passenger that a Scottish nun had died on the road some 40 years before.
Other drivers shared their experience online of cars breaking down unexpectedly before feeling a shiver run down their spines.
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