"Have you guys checked the list of decommissioned vehicles?" Shannon asked Will.
He was taken aback and obviously hadn't thought of that possibility. Soon enough, he instructed his colleague to cross-check the information in the decommissioned vehicles database. After a while, he received a reply.
Shock spread across Will's face as he glanced at the response. Instantly, he turned to Shannon and said, "My colleague just checked the records for scrapped vehicles and found one that was decommissioned three years ago. The model and license plate match!
"The reason for the decommissioning was a severe car accident…"
Will's face turned ashen when he read the details. After a brief silence, he explained, "Three years ago, there was a car accident at Silverwood Avenue. The driver was suspected of suicide.
"The vehicle, which had been driving normally, suddenly accelerated and crashed into the guardrail in the middle section of the road. The driver died on the spot…" He paused momentarily and hesitatingly added, "That was the driver I saw."
Before his colleague sent over the photo of the driver, he only confirmed that the driver and Tyler were not the same person. He couldn't remember the driver's face no matter how hard he tried to recall.
Yet, when the photo flashed before his eyes, he immediately recognized him as the driver he met the other day.
The driver was the deceased car owner, and the vehicle that the driver had used to transport Stacey and her child was the same car that had already been decommissioned a long time ago. He couldn't deny the fact that he had indeed… seen a ghost.
"But it wasn't even dark at that time!" A confused Will assumed ghosts only appeared at night. "Besides, why did he lie and say he's the child's father? The mother didn't deny it either."
Without waiting for Shannon to explain, Skylar chimed in. "In mystic arts, there's a saying called ghostly blindness, which refers to how a spirit's negative energy can affect a person's visual perception, causing them to overlook immediate danger.
They were ordinary people, and it was only valid that they felt terror after knowing they had encountered a ghost.
Tyler was especially anxious, gripping Stacey and their child's hands, asking, "Ms. Jensen, why… does that g-ghost claim to be the father? Was he trying to… to…"
Did the ghost driver choose them as his ghost buddies, or did he want to take over their bodies? At least that was the usual plot in most horror stories…
Noticing the panic and terror in Tyler's eyes, Shannon didn't mince her words either and comforted the couple. "Don't worry. If he had harmful intentions, he would've sought your wife and kid on the first day you guys looked for him."
Tyler was rendered speechless. Thanks, but… where was the reassurance?
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