Creepy Urban Legends: The Jeepney Ride

 

Once called the King of the Road, the Jeepney can still be found on roads in the Philippines. It's usually brightly coloured, has flashy decor and is an important mode of public transportation. Some Jeepneys can carry up to 15 to 25 passengers.

The Jeepney is considered to be a Filipino National Symbol.

The Jeepney is so popular that it has an urban legend based on it too.

Now it so happens that one night, a girl got into a Jeepney all alone. She told the driver her destination and sat back to enjoy the ride.

But it wasn't long before she noticed the driver glancing at her through the rearview mirror.

She grew nervous as suspicions of the driver's intentions grew.

She told him to stop and that she wanted to get down but yeh driver paid her no heed.

Now she was absolutely certain that something untoward would happen.

She considered simply jumping out of the vehicle when the driver stopped, having arrived at her destination.

She got down quickly, relief washing over her. As she started to walk away, the driver called her back and told her to burn her clothes.

The girl looked at him in shock. She asked why he would even suggest such a ludicrous thing. And that's when the driver revealed what he saw in the rearview mirror.

He saw a woman with dark hair over her face instead of the girl's face and that quickly changed to show her without a head. The driver warned the girl that it was a bad omen and that she needed to burn her clothes because the evil spirit knew her fragrance.

Whether the girl took the driver's advice or not, remains unknown. And whether the girl was fine and alive afterwards...that too remains unknown.

Hopefully, the girl did take the driver's advice and was saved from the evil spirit who wanted to decapitate her.