Faceless Woman of Brigsteer Road
Brigsteer Road in Kendal has a spine-tingling secret. It's said that a woman was killed in a coach accident here back in the nineteenth century. Strange things started happening shortly after. A man got into a horse-drawn carriage, thinking he'd have the place to himself, but found a woman in a hooded cloak sitting beside him. When she pulled back her hood, he was shocked to see there was no head underneath. He jumped out of the moving carriage, not sticking around to find out more. That was just the beginning of the strange occurrences on this Cumbrian road.
The story of the faceless woman has been doing the rounds for years. It's rooted in a tragic event - a coach accident that claimed the life of a woman. In the 1980s, people noticed that dogs refused to pass a certain spot along the road. Many believed it was connected to the legend of the faceless woman. The image of a woman in a hooded cloak with no head is a haunting one. It's said to appear to lone travellers, leaving them shaken. The incident with the man in the horse-drawn carriage is often cited as proof that the woman's spirit still roams these parts.
The haunting is linked to a coach accident in the nineteenth century.
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