The Ghosts of Blue Bell Hill & other Road Ghosts (The Ghosts of Blue Bell Hill: and Other Road Ghosts: A Case-Centred Study of Phantom Hitch-Hikers & Phantom Jaywalkers in Folklore and Fact)

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The A229 is a major road running north–south through Kent from Rochester to Hawkhurst via Maidstone. It is a former Roman road that ran from Rochester to Hastings. Plan unveiled to end bridge traffic misery". Kent Online. 26 August 2005 . Retrieved 19 January 2012.

In November 1965, Suzanne Browne and her two friends tragically died in a car crash on the stretch of the A229. As we set off down the country road Paula was chirpy and chatting about life until we got to a certain lay-by - there she stopped and closed her eyes.Despite braking as hard as possible and skidding, he felt the impact as the car hit the girl. When Mr Goodenough jumped out he found the young girl lying on the road, bruised and bleeding, though not to an excessive degree. Afraid of what injuries she might have, Mr Goodenough carried the child to the side of the road, wrapped her in a blanket and left her while he drove to Rochester police station to seek help. The police joined him to return to the scene where they found only the blanket and no trace of the girl. The most common is the apparent ghost of bride-to-be Suzanne Browne, who was killed on the eve of her wedding in 1965 . a b Haughton, Brian (2011). Famous Ghost Stories: Legends and Lore. The Rosen Publishing Group. pp.93–95. ISBN 978-1-448-84840-9. A new survey by Selectcarleasing shows that one third of Londoners say they’ve encountered a spectre while behind the wheel.

She said: "I feel like I need to run straight through, is there a pathway here usually with flowers or bluebells? The spooky spot had people speculating that it could be the A229's famous ghost, which has been known to fling itself in front of vehicles. But the bride is not the only ghost of Blue Bell Hill. On 19 November 1965, three women were severely injured in a road accident at Blue Bell Hill on the A229 when their Ford Cortina collided with a Jaguar. One of the women, 22-year-old Susan Browne from Gillingham, who was due to wed RAF technician Brian Wetton, died five days later at West Kent Hospital in Maidstone; the two other females, Judith Lingham and Patricia Ferguson, died soon after the accident. [7] [8]

Several sightings of a man wearing the same clothes he is believed to have worn when he died, a coat and striped trousers, have been recorded. The two main instances of this piece of phenomena occurred in 1972 to Mr Bob Vandepeer and in 1971 to a Mr James Skeen. Both men reported to have given a young lady a ride however she vanished in the car or when she left the vehicle. To date there have been more than 50 recorded incidents of travellers on the A229 seeing a phantom woman on the road since the origin of this unnerving haunting in 1965.