Ghost Hunting - Hits and Misses

 So I took the opportunity to take a drive down a purportedly haunted road this a.m. shortly before sunrise.  I get home and do some more research and find out that you actually have to stop your car and get out and wait in order for the apparitions to appear. 

Which I did not do. 

Dammit.




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