Here's a thing which happened to me in the summer of (I think) about 1997 or maybe 1998.
At the time I lived in Egham, and regularly travelled down the A30 to Sandhurst to see friends. For a few weeks I was doing the journey three or four times a week.
One evening, in failing light, on the slight bends before Sunningdale, about here...
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&sourc ... 6&t=h&z=16
I saw what appeared to be a medium-sized car, upside down in the verge. I was looking at the underneath of the car as I was driving SW-bound towards it, and could clearly see the exhaust-pipe running along the underneath of the car, and all four wheels. It seemed to be a front-wheel-drive car, possibly a Mark 3 or 4 Ford Escort. It appeared to be lying on its drivers-side, and facing to the left as I approached it.
As I slowed on approach, preparing to get out and help, it resolved itself into a branch from a fallen tree.
OK. These things happen, funny old world.
I'm not sure whether I "saw" it again on the way home, from the other direction that same night, but here's the thing...
... on every subsequent trip over the next few weeks, and in both directions I would approach the same place thinking "here's where that strange rolled-car effect occurs...
Oh No! It's really happened! A car has rolled! I had a premonition, and now it's happened!!"
Except that it would be the same-old fallen tree.
It 'worked' from the other direction as well, so the 'angles' must have been right.
Now clearly it must just have been a particularly strange fallen-tree effect, but usually these things only "work" the first time, and this was utterly convincing EVERY time, and even though I was "ready" for it, every time, up to the point where I should have been blase about it, but still went "oh no! this time it's REAL!"
After a few weeks I stopped doing the trip regularly. I've returned subsequently, and I can point out where it was, but cannot now seen the effect, or what may have cause the effect.
I never saw an actual crashed car in the location, nor any sign of one, although I never stopped to get out to investigate.
Funny eh?
At the time I lived in Egham, and regularly travelled down the A30 to Sandhurst to see friends. For a few weeks I was doing the journey three or four times a week.
One evening, in failing light, on the slight bends before Sunningdale, about here...
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&sourc ... 6&t=h&z=16
I saw what appeared to be a medium-sized car, upside down in the verge. I was looking at the underneath of the car as I was driving SW-bound towards it, and could clearly see the exhaust-pipe running along the underneath of the car, and all four wheels. It seemed to be a front-wheel-drive car, possibly a Mark 3 or 4 Ford Escort. It appeared to be lying on its drivers-side, and facing to the left as I approached it.
As I slowed on approach, preparing to get out and help, it resolved itself into a branch from a fallen tree.
OK. These things happen, funny old world.
I'm not sure whether I "saw" it again on the way home, from the other direction that same night, but here's the thing...
... on every subsequent trip over the next few weeks, and in both directions I would approach the same place thinking "here's where that strange rolled-car effect occurs...
Oh No! It's really happened! A car has rolled! I had a premonition, and now it's happened!!"
Except that it would be the same-old fallen tree.
It 'worked' from the other direction as well, so the 'angles' must have been right.
Now clearly it must just have been a particularly strange fallen-tree effect, but usually these things only "work" the first time, and this was utterly convincing EVERY time, and even though I was "ready" for it, every time, up to the point where I should have been blase about it, but still went "oh no! this time it's REAL!"
After a few weeks I stopped doing the trip regularly. I've returned subsequently, and I can point out where it was, but cannot now seen the effect, or what may have cause the effect.
I never saw an actual crashed car in the location, nor any sign of one, although I never stopped to get out to investigate.
Funny eh?