Taxis and ghosts

"Three ghost girls in a taxi" by Rayne

A regular job such as a taxi driver is one of the most strangest with it's encounters with the paranormal. While many taxi drivers have a lot of interesting experiences, there are some with scary memories with ghosts. I shall post some of the stories from taxi drivers and also stories of taxi drivers. 

There is a story that might either be based on a true experience from a taxi driver or it's a Creepy Pasta. The story is about a taxi driver who collected three girl passengers on a road in the city at night. They were young women who had flagged him down, and told him to take them to hospital. One of the women had severe stomach pains. The taxi driver drove to the nearest hospital, and the two other women told the driver to quickly get a doctor and they wanted to stay with their friend in the taxi. After entering the hospital the first person he spoke to was a nurse, who agreed to go and check up on the sick woman in the taxi. However, once the nurse had gone out to look, she didn't see any sign of the three women. Instead, she found only human remains in the back seat of the taxi. It turns out this belonged to three college girls who had all died in a fatal road accident, at the same place where the taxi driver found them. 

Another story on Facebook about a taxi driver who chose to be anonymous. He was finishing his shift and it was almost midnight, when a woman flagged his car down. He reconsidered picking her up, as she was all by herself so late. In his good nature he would offer her a free ride. She wanted to go to "Dimsdale Avenue off Wart Street", which he recognised as a place near where he would refuel his taxi sometimes. The drive itself was awkward as the young woman seemed very quiet and distant. Despite this, she seemed very ill looking and her eyes were very blank. When he dropped her off at the place, he noticed the graveyard there. The woman commented about herself being dead, before exiting the taxi. The unnerving experience didn't end there because the taxi driver found out that a young woman who was recently buried in that same graveyard looked exactly like his strange passenger he met that night.

While phantom hitchhikers are very common, nothing is more regular as the ghost passengers in Ishinomaki, Japan. There are countless stories of taxi drivers picking up ghosts, who look like very real living people at the time. Yuka Kudo, a sociology student of Tohoku Gakuin University researched the subject after chatting to hundreds of taxi drivers in Ishinomaki. The place itself became extremely haunted soon after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster killing thousands of people. The ghosts were wearing winter season clothes, who hailed taxis and asked to go to locations that disappeared during that horrific disaster. Many of these ghost passengers were confused and didn't realise that the places they want to go to have now gone, while some disappear into thin air., Some of these ghostly passengers become aware of being dead soon after the taxi drivers tell them their destined locations no longer exist. This is why a lot of these type of ghost stories are sad and not scary.

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