The Ghost Septa Bus
Jul. 12th, 2021 07:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI’ve recently been asking around about urban legends in Philadelphia, and a few people have told me about a ghostly Septa bus. According to the stories, this is how you can board it:
(1) It needs to be after dark.
(2) You need to be waiting at a bus stop.
(3) You need to be horribly, desperately lonely.
(4) You shouldn’t have a specific destination in mind.
(5) You’ll see a bus with no route number on the front display.
(6) It will slow down but not stop, so you need to chase it.
(7) The driver will let you on without asking you to pay.
Once you get on, there are three possibilities. The first is that the bus vanishes, and you’re never heard from again. The second is that you’re now trapped forever on the Septa bus along with the other desperately lonely and unlucky souls who boarded before you. The third is that the bus travels back in time, albeit to a degree limited to the lifespan of the bus, and that you can signal the driver to stop when you’ve reached your desired destination in the past.
In my mind, the third possibility seems the most likely, as no one who has vanished or become trapped on the bus would be able to tell other people how this works. Then again, it may be that a person who boards the ghost Septa bus seems to vanish or be held in stasis from the perspective of someone who’s still in our timeline. I’m not an expert on time travel. So who knows?
(1) It needs to be after dark.
(2) You need to be waiting at a bus stop.
(3) You need to be horribly, desperately lonely.
(4) You shouldn’t have a specific destination in mind.
(5) You’ll see a bus with no route number on the front display.
(6) It will slow down but not stop, so you need to chase it.
(7) The driver will let you on without asking you to pay.
Once you get on, there are three possibilities. The first is that the bus vanishes, and you’re never heard from again. The second is that you’re now trapped forever on the Septa bus along with the other desperately lonely and unlucky souls who boarded before you. The third is that the bus travels back in time, albeit to a degree limited to the lifespan of the bus, and that you can signal the driver to stop when you’ve reached your desired destination in the past.
In my mind, the third possibility seems the most likely, as no one who has vanished or become trapped on the bus would be able to tell other people how this works. Then again, it may be that a person who boards the ghost Septa bus seems to vanish or be held in stasis from the perspective of someone who’s still in our timeline. I’m not an expert on time travel. So who knows?
