COTTINGHAM'S GHOSTLY CYCLIST

In their book Ghosts and Hauntings in Beverley and the East Riding (Hutton Press, 1987), the authors Peter Robinson and Paul Hesp narrate the following ghostly goings on at Cottingham, a lovely little village just outside of Hull. They tell us that one early Autumn morning in the 1980's, Rose McIntrye was cycling home through the village  streets when she decided to take a short cut  down a narrow passageway between Link Road and Newgate Street.
        Upon entering the passageway, however, Rose noticed up ahead a woman dressed in black sedately riding an old-fashioned 'sit up and beg' type of cycle. A little irritated at having her shortcut home blocked, Rose resigned herself to having to wait for the sedate cyclist to pass down the narrow passageway first. Upon stopping and looking again, however, Rose was suddenly surprised to find the passageway ahead clear - the sedate cyclist evidently having disappeared into thin air.