Tom Slemen’s Haunted Wirral: Terrifying ghosts of the road

Tom Slemen’s Haunted Wirral: Terrifying ghosts of the road

By Tom Slemen on WirralGlobe

IN 1972, Bebington Council and Cheshire County Council discussed ways to cut out the dangerous Skew Bridge on Bromborough Road, as it had become a black spot.

It was proposed that Bebington Road should be diverted in front of the Unilever Research Laboratory and to the west of the railway before joining up with the planned diversion of Spital Road across Port Sunlight golf course.

Some weeks before the discussions about the black spot there had been a number of crashes where people had seen a “lady in white” standing near the Skew Bridge before the vehicles they were travelling in suddenly and inexplicably crashed.

One driver who sustained serious injuries in a crash on Bromborough Road said he felt the steering wheel twist as if a pair of invisible hands were turning it.

Reports of a ghost near the bridge had been reported decades before in the area, and some said the apparition looked medieval with a strange horned hat – probably a piece of female headgear known as an escoffion, which had two rounded horns and was highly popular in the Late Middle Ages (1250-1500).

The unusual thing about this white lady is the way she seems to move to different areas.

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