Harvest Road Haunting
Have you heard the tale?
Have you heard of the tale of the Bride that haunts Harvest Road? Apparently she has been seen walking down Harvest Road in her wedding dress.
According to the tale the lady in question lost her childhood sweetheart just before they were to marry. The groom had stumbled under the wheels of cart and horses in the dark. The bride took to her bed barely eating and was wasting away. Another marriage was arranged in the hope of bringing her to her senses. Instead she put on her wedding dress from her wedding to her sweetheart and went out and threw herself in front of the horse at last to be with her sweetheart.
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Nope. Never heard that story in my life before. But my 2 daughters and I saw a ghost at the junction of Sommes Avenue and Harvest Road in about 1988.
It must have been in winter because it was very dark and quite windy. We’d taken the dog for a long walk down the lake and back up Sommes heading for Wintergardens footpath to take us home. There was a phone box there and I said I’d call the wife from it to let her know we were about ten minutes away (no mobiles then). As we neared we all saw a lady about the same distance away as the phone box walking towards the top of Harvest Road. We seemed to be walking pace for pace but with two kids and a dog they managed to get around the corner and a bit in front of us. When we saw the phone box door open we all tutted and moaned because we’d have to wait to use the phone. We carried on walking (dawdling really) the last few yards to the phone box. When we got there the three of us (and the dog) were dumbfounded.
We all saw the shadowy figure in the dark coming around the corner, walking in front of us, opening the door to the phone box and go inside. The phone boxes used to have a light in them so when the door opened it lit the area around it up. That’s how we know they went in and not around it – because we saw them go in. We all kept our eyes on it as we walked towards it. But when we got there it was empty. We know no one left because we would have seen them. And if we didn’t see them we would have seen the light from the phone box. They really never left again.
Seriously, you try explaining that to a ten year old, a seven year old and an extremely distressed young dog. My daughters still bring it up sometimes.
Now, was she a bride?
I have no idea. It was a windy night, and the way I know that is because when I remember it I can see her clothes blowing in the wind.
I wasn’t looking for a wedding dress because I’d never heard of the legend until I read it here 😉
In about 1990 I witnessed something strange can’t remember the name of the rd and the area has been developed now but it was near Harvest Road.
On my way home from a meeting with my accountant in the evening I was travelling in a van that had windows all around and ahead I saw a figure all in white, this figure crossed the rd in front of me from right to left but as I got closer crossed back again but then crossed over again. Now by this time I was very close and I slowed as I was concerned because of her behaviour, at the time I described to my family that she was wearing a white gown that reached the floor and also covered her head. I passed her on my left hand side and stopped looking round I expected to see her standing by the van, as I turned a cold chill came over me and still does even now, there was no sign of her. Now the rd was not residential on the right was a slope up to the rear of gardens with high fences and on the left was fields, I tried looking for her but there was no sign. Driving home I had this strange feeling and could not lose it all the way home.
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