Ghost · Blue Bell Hill · Famous
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She waves you down on the hill. Then she isn't there.
Stand where it happened
This is a fast dual carriageway. Do NOT stop on the A229; view only from the village or a safe lay-by.
If a girl waves you down on Blue Bell Hill at night, think carefully. Drivers say she's never there when they look back.
On 19 November 1965 a car carrying four young women crashed on the old road over Blue Bell Hill, the night before one of them was due to marry. Three of them died. Within a few years drivers began to report a young woman thumbing a lift on the hill. In 1971 and 1972, motorists said they had stopped for a girl who later vanished. Other drivers have claimed they hit a woman who ran out in front of them, only to find nobody there. Kent Online notes that some sightings may go back as far as the 1930s, before the crash.