Eerie 'ghost' hitch-hiker spotted by drive in chilling dashcam footage

A spooky spectral hitchhiker appears to have been caught on a bit of dashcam footage from a driver heading down a notoriously dangerous road.

With it being about 2:30am local time, it's hard to fathom who might have been walking down the road at such an hour, but Church checked his dashcam footage and it confirmed that there was indeed something by the roadside.

There were no other cars around and seemingly nobody else about, so what might this abnormal apparition be?

Perhaps it's the ghost of a hitchhiker doomed to trudge eternally down the road, never again being picked up and transported closer towards his destination, or perhaps it was some trick of the light from Church's own headlights.

If you think it's a ghost then you wouldn't be the only one, as plenty watching the frightening footage said they knew that part of the road was particularly dangerous and 'incredibly creepy, especially at night'.

One person said a traveller down the road 'claimed to have picked up a hitchhiker whose name matched someone who went missing'.

Another was convinced by the idea of this spectral sighting being a ghost, claiming 'it's an apparition of a human' while a third person declared it to be 'definitely a ghost of someone that died a violent death'.

Plenty more were absolutely certain that the late night (or very early morning) driver had managed to capture an otherworldly phenomenon on camera.

However, a few more sceptical voices suggested that the ghostly apparition was probably just some reflected light creating an 'optical illusion'.

Meanwhile, a hiker got scared after he spotted what looked like a ghost walking alongside him but was actually a rare freak weather event.

If you stand behind a cloud's upper surface with the sun behind you then your shadow on the cloud will look like there's a spooky ghost stalking your every movement.