( I got it from a web forum)
This happened about a month ago, just outside a little town in the
bayou country of Louisiana, and while it sounds like an Alfred Hitchbird
tale or Stephen King story, it's real.
A stranded man was standing on the side of the road hoping to catch a ride on a terribly dark night while in the middle of a raging thunderstorm.
Time passed slowly as he realized no cars were going to go by.
It was raining so hard he could scarcely see his hand in front of his
face, when suddenly he saw a car moving slowly, approaching him and
appearing so very ghostlike in the rain.
The car slowly crept toward him and lurched to a stop.
Wanting a ride so very badly, the fellow quickly jumped into the car
and closed the door.
It was only then that he realized there was no driver behind the wheel.
The car slowly started moving and the stranded man became terrified, too terrified to even think of jumping out and running.
In stark terror, he saw that the car was slowly approaching a sharp
curve, with the brackish waters of the bayou just below and no
guardrail to protect him.
Still too scared to jump out, he started to pray and begged God to
spare his life. He was sure the ghost car would go off the road and
into the bayou where he would surely drown.
Then just before the curve, a hand appeared through the driver's window and gently turned the steering wheel, guiding the car safely around the bend.
Paralyzed with fear, the frightened man watched the hand reappear
every time the ghost car reached a curve.
Finally, scared near to death and with all any man could take, he
jumped out of the car and ran the rest of the way to town.
Wet and in shock, he went into a bar and with quavering voice, ordered two shots of whiskey and began to relate his story to all about his supernatural experience.
A silence enveloped the bar, patrons and everybody got goose bumps
when they realized that this guy was telling the truth and not just some drunk.
About half an hour later two guys walked into the bar and one said to the other, "Look Boudreaux, there's that idiot dat rode in our car when we was pushin it in the rain."
(I love this story!)