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The original was posted on /r/truescarystories by /u/PresentRooster146 on 2025-06-24 22:00:18+00:00.
I must have been around 9 or 10 at the time and lived in a small village in the English countryside. It was just a normal Wednesday, i have gotten back from school, played around for a bit and ate dinner. It was then time for me to head down to my taekwondo lesson that i used to go to (it was just a basic club that was located in the next town around a 15 minute drive). My dad got ready to take me and i got in the car. we was driving down the normal road that took us to the bypass to the town where i took my lessons, i would take the same route every wednesday evening. However something strange and unexplainable happened this night as i was on my way. It got dark around 5-6 pm the time i was travelling.
The road was in between two relatively large dykes and surrounded by fields which is fairly common in English countrysides. As i was driving down the road this lady sort of jumped out waving her hand as she was trying to gain someone’s attention that happened to be me and my dad. Me and my dad were fairly took back from the situation and was pretty surprised. My dad slowed down and began to reverse the car back to where the lady was standing. My dad asked her what she was doing and if she was okay which she replied saying “i crashed my car down the dyke” my dad concerned asked if he could help which she replied saying “can you take me to my dads house which was located back towards the village. When we was stopped by the dyke i could see no visible car or any sort of sign that a car had gone down the dyke (the dyke was large not like a small one that you quite often see) There would’ve been water in the dyke and the lady was visibly wet. She got into the backseat of the car and my dad drove her to her dad’s house which was located about 5 mins from where we were back towards the village. My dad and the lady carried out some small talk where she apologised for making me late for my taekwondo lesson. We dropped the lady off and it appeared that she walked towards a house she claimed to be her dads and it looked to me as she kind of just morphed behind a metal gate (this was probably because of the darkness but i found it pretty weird at the time). We then proceeded to take me to my lesson.
On the drive there my dad was saying how weird the whole situation was and we looked at the seat behind where she was sat but what was strange was that there were no wet patch or anything to indicate someone dripping wet had been there however i recall seeing her visibly wet. The next day my dad went back to the dyke where he saw no sign of a car and no sign of a car that has lost control down the side of a dyke.
If anyone has anything to say on this please let me know. It would be great to hear your opinions on this strange encounter i had when i was younger. Am i over reacting or was this maybe something a bit more sinister.