The Ghost Girl on the Arrabassada Road

There is a ghost girl hitchhiking on the Arrabassada road in Spain. On a sharp turn in the road people claim to have picked up a vanishing hitchhiker that keeps reminding them to slow down on the dangerous road before disappearing when they have safely passed the bend.

Spain is widely known for its beautiful landscapes, rich history and delicious food, but there’s one road that has a different reputation altogether. This road in Barcelona, is infamous for its haunting presence. The road is believed to be haunted by a ghost that lingers there. This ghost has caused several accidents on the road, making it one of the scariest roads in Spain.

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This stretch of road between Sarria-Sant Gervasi and Horta-Guinardo in Barcelona are tales of a ghostly hitchhiker. This urban legend was one of the ghost stories presented in Llegendes de Barcelona by Per Joan de Déu Prats, but the core of the story would be familiar globewide.

The Girl on Revolt de la Paella

Reports about a girl passing cars have been picked up by the Revolt de la Paella, which is a sharp bend of the Arrabassada road. The girl is said to have been wearing a white dress.

According to the legend it is said that after picking up what the drivers think is a hitchhiker, she gets nervous as the car is closing in on a specific course and she tells you to be careful and slow down because it is dangerous.

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She is even said to have stopped cars and saved the driver from a crash from an oncoming vehicle. She then tells the driver that this was the place she died and she spends the rest of her afterlife trying to save others from suffering her fate.

After the drivers are able to pass the sharp bend safely, she vanishes into the thin air, her job done.

There is a ghost girl hitchhiking on the Arrabassada road in Spain. On a sharp turn in the road people claim to have picked up a vanishing hitchhiker that keeps reminding them to slow down on the dangerous road before disappearing when they have safely passed the bend. — **Revolt de la Paella:** On this sharp bend on the Arrabassada Road in Barcelona, Spain, it is said that a woman is haunting the road. In this classic vanishing hitchhiker story, a ghost is getting into cars only to mysteriously disappear.//Source: Joan Andrés de Barcelona/Wikimedia

The Vanishing Hitchhiker on Arrabassada Road

There is also the story about a young man who picked her up on Arrabassada Road, one of those thinking she was just a normal girl hitchhiking. She asked him to let her out right before they reached the curve for some reason. Although the young man didn’t understand, he followed her advice and stopped the car.

Because they stopped he was saved from a collision of a truck he would have hit if he had not stopped to drop her off.

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After this incident it is said he attended a party where the host of the party looked a bit like the girl he had picked up that night.

Turned out to be the niece of a lady that got killed in a car collision on the same curve he had been in danger of crashing himself.