MORE WITNESSES REPORT A595 GHOST
Published on 04/11/2006
By Jenny Barwise

Beverley Moores appeal for more witnesses to a ghost she saw on the A595
is bearing fruit.
Mrs Moore, of Hensingham, saw the ghost of a lady near the Crofton
cheese farm, near Carlisle, while driving down the road at 2am.
Following her report on this website, Paul Swailes, originally from
Whitehaven but now living in Florida, has got in touch to report a
similar sighting. He too saw the ghost in the early hours of the
morning.
He was with a friend at the time of the incident, in the late 1980s.

Paul said: "We were driving along the A595 heading to Whitehaven when my
friend was telling me about a story he had heard of a ghost of an old
lady who supposedly haunted the road. He said she was picking flowers
one evening on the side of the road when she was hit by a car and
killed.

"Just a few seconds later (the hairs on my neck are standing up now just
thinking about it again), we came to a bend in the road. If my memory
serves me right, there is a brick gateway or archway near by. Just as he
said this, we came to the bend and an old lady was bending over picking
flowers on the side of the road,it came as quite a shock and I put my
foot down and we took off as fast as we could. The fact that just
moments before he was telling me this story is what made it more wierd."

And Mrs Moore has tracked down another witness who saw the ghost shortly
before her sighting in 1994. She hopes to learn more from his sighting.
Mrs Moore said the 'old lady' was dressed in a cardigan, blouse and
tweed skirt.

If you know anything about the ghost or have seen her yourself, contact
alan.cleaver@whitehaven-news.co.uk.