A double-decker bus driver in Manchester, UK recalls 2 young boys getting on the bus. But at the end of the route, there was no one there. There was no way that they left the bus during the ride.
The following account was forwarded to me by my friends Cam & Kyle at Expanded Perspectives:
"I am emailing you to tell you about something that happened to my grandad. This is a story he told me around Christmas time last year that happened to him, and I was spooked out!
I have known my grandad all my life and trust him more than most! He would never 'glamour' up a story to make it sound better or anything like that. When he told me this I believed it all happened how he said it did. I never took him as a man with strong beliefs about anything paranormal and he was not religious like my Gran, his wife. When he told me this, I noticed he was so normal and quiet.
It happened in the late 60s. He moved down to Manchester from Glasgow where he met my gran and got a job as a bus driver. One night he worked a late shift into the early morning hours, operating a double-decker bus. There was just him driving, and another man conducting he worked with. It was the early hours of the morning and the bus route he was taking was from Manchester City centre straight to Rochdale Town centre (around 8/9 miles). As he drove this route he stopped at a bus stop, just outside Manchester centre, and picked up 2 young boys, around 10. He also said it was strange because they shouldn't be out at this time. He described them as 'odd', but anyway he let them on and they paid and climbed upstairs to the top deck. These 2 kids were the only 2 he picked up on the route from Manchester to Rochdale.
My grandad arrived at the last stop in Rochdale and waited for these kids to get off. He waited, and nothing. So the conductor walked upstairs to get them. They were departed, there was nobody up there They checked everywhere, under the seats. And there was no way they could have left. They would have had to walk past my grandad to exit the bus door. There were no broken windows, and you couldn’t open them enough to jump out. They opened maybe around 5cm at the top to allow air in, but that’s it.
My grandad was freaked out, but the conductor was totally freaked out. He refused to stay on the bus and finish the route back to Manchester bus station with my grandad. But, the weird thing was, when they counted the money from the bus that day, the money that these 2 kids paid with wasn’t there. It didn’t add up, as if it was never there."
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