Long Distance Lorry Driver Snaps 'Ghost Of Drowned Man’ Wandering In Rush Hour Traffic
The ‘Downton’ ghost spotted by a long distance lorry driver/Mercury Press
A long distance lorry driver claims to have photographed the ghost of a drowned man wandering into a tunnel.
The startling snapshot appears to show a slightly transparent man in an old jacket strolling across the road.
Driver George Furst’s colleague Stephen Smyth took the snap last week as they drove into a tunnel heading into Cork, Ireland.
On checking the picture, they spotted what they believe could be a ‘Downton Abbey’ period ghost.
George, 45, said: “When we looked at the picture Stephen suddenly said 'what the hell is that?’
"I couldn’t believe my eyes – it looked like an old man wearing an old tweed coat walking down the road into the tunnel.
The ghostly apparition was spotted in Ireland/ Mercury Press
"What was so striking was that it was a busy road and he wasn’t looking behind him or paying any attention to any of the cars. In fact, we must have driven right through him just after the picture was taken.”
With the tunnel having been fairly recently built, George thinks that the man could be the ghost of someone who drowned in the River Lee, which the tunnel runs under.
"He looks a bit like a butler to me, possibly from the Downton Abbey period, as if he has left a nearby manor house and gone for a walk and drowned in the river,” he said.
There’s no mistaking the ghostly figure on the road/Mercury Press
George was driving his long distance lorry back into Cork on the N40 when he asked Stephen to take pictures of the Jack Lynch Tunnel entrance so that he could send them back to his hometown of Liverpool.
He explained that he had initially wanted to send the snaps to his family, pretending it was the Mersey tunnel.
"I wanted to wind them up and say I was back home in Liverpool as the entrances to the two tunnels look similar,” said George.
"But once I saw the strange figure in the picture I realised I’d caught something a bit more special. It was quite freaky the way the figure is clearly in front of where my lorry drove only seconds later so it can’t be a human being, or I would have hit them!”
