urban legends ✓

the black ghost of the blue mountains ☹

A black clad female apparition has been stalking Victoria Pass for more than a century with truckies still reporting sightings of the woman on the descent from Mt Victoria to Little Hartley on the current Great Western Highway.

The woman is said to be the ghost of child bride Caroline Collett, beaten to death by her ex-boyfriend John Walsh in 1842 and left to spend an eternity of cold nights haunting travellers.

The road has been upgraded and widened since the original was built by convicts in the 1830s, but she is said to still puts in an occasional appearance for motorists, usually on the coldest of nights when black ice forces drivers to slow down.