I've never heard the term "walking frame", but it would sound like what I was referring to. Just a frame made of aluminum tubing that people use like a cane, but with both hands. I think THAT and something about her overall appearance gave me the impression that the girl belonged where she was and that if I were to give her a ride down the road then her parents or guardian would be very worried and unhappy that she was out getting lost by hitchhiking.
This sort of thing, I'm assuming?
Do you think she wasn't a ghost/apparition then, but rather a physical, real person? It must have been an awfully hard thing to do to leave someone without much mobility in the pouring rain though.
I don't suppose the girl and her walking frame could actually have been some optical illusion/trick of the light affair? I mean no disrespect by asking that, just that I've read the occasional account of people thinking they saw something bizarre which turned out in actuality to be a post box / tree stump / etc that in a certain light or weather, gave off the appearance of something completely different.
Just throwing it out there as an idea, although probably quite an unlikely one
More and more crossroads seem to end up being replaced with roundabouts nowadays, so it's always nice to encounter one. (There's still a crossroads near a place I drive to regularly, don't think it has any ghostly connotations though).
Several years ago I'd read about a crossroads that used to be haunted, or to do with witches or somesuch, but it had since been replaced by the dual carriageway so it was no longer the same crossroads. All the same, apparently people would sometimes see a ghost or witch (I really can't remember the details) in the back seat of their car, or so I'd read.
Cue one time we were driving back home at the end of a holiday, I was driving the last leg while Mr Zebra slept. Very late at night/early in the morning sort of time. Almost home, trundling down the A12 when the crossroads story popped into my head and I realised I was just approaching that exact part of the road. Nothing happened, but I was absolutely terrified for the rest of the way along the road until I turned off.
I'd be rubbish if I ever actually
saw a ghost. I'm such a wuss.