Ghosts and The Freeway Theory

To dive into an obscure and out of left field topic, even for me, I’ve decided to give you a quick run down of why I think that “haunted houses” and legends alike are a bunch of nonsense. To prove my case, I will use a personal philosophy that I like to call “The Freeway Theory”.

To summarize theory, let me first provide the report that according to the NHTSA’s Traffic Safety Facts, that every year there are over 42+ thousand automobile related deaths on major highways and byways in the United States. (this number was taken from 2 years ago, so it may be higher now).

With that being known, think about all of the unfortunate people who lived their last moments in a moving vehicle and on the roads that we drive on every day.

So my point is this: If even a fraction of ghosts are supposed to be haunting the area that they had died in, why would there not be more sightings of ghosts on freeways or even on common sidestreets? Why are these lost souls not flying around the freeways and scaring the hell out of poor suckers who are commuting to work? Why not? Is there some “ghost rule” that says they must hide out in creepy, dark, old mansions that are out in the middle of the countryside?