Ghost Rider IRL

On the evening of December 11th, 2002, a police department in a rural English county called Suriri started receiving all these frantic emergency calls from drivers on a heavily traffked highway called the A3. And they all were saying the same things. They had seen this totally reckless driver was weaving in and out of traffic. And then a couple of the callers said they actually saw this car go down the embankment off the side of the highway. And so it looked like they might have crashed. When the two officers got out to the A3, one of the officers spotted something deep in the woods. And as they got closer, they realized very clearly there was a car. There was a wreck in the forest. And they look inside the car and there's no driver in the driver's seat, but they looked through the car to the passenger side and they saw the front passenger door was wide open and on the ground on the other side of the car was very clearly a body. But it didn't make any sense. Now, to understand why these police officers were so caught off guard by what they were seeing, we need to go back 5 months to July 16th, 2002. On that night, a 21-year-old man named Christopher Brian Chandler finished up his beer at a pub. But, you know, as Chris is finishing up this beer, he began to feel really antsy because it turned out Christopher was actually wanted by police in London for robbery. And so, he hated staying in one place for too long. And so finally Christopher got in his car and began driving south. But Christopher never arrived at the place he was trying to go. He just sort of disappeared and nobody heard from him again. That is until 5 months later when all those drivers began calling into the police in Suri about seeing this totally reckless driver careening down the A3 who eventually crashed into a ditch. And then those two officers, they went out to that stretch of A3 and sure enough it was Christopher's car and the body on the ground was Christopher. However, there was a problem. When the two police officers walked up on Christopher's car and saw it for the first time, they were struck by how old it looked. They saw that his body was actually mostly a skeleton, which meant Christopher did not crash and die on this night, December 11th, 2002. Very likely, he crashed and died 5 months earlier, right around the time he disappeared. Now, the Suriri police, they say that this was all just one big coincidence. But remember, several of the drivers who called in that night about seeing this reckless driver on the A3, they specifically said they saw the car veer off the embankment and crash down below near the tree line. And then when the police got out and searched the exact area where this crash supposedly happened, they find Chris's car. As of today, we do not have a good explanation for how this happened.