The 3am girl of the Caterham bypass is notable within this register for the specificity of her described clothing, a skirt paired with either short boots or wellies, a combination distinctive and ordinary enough to suggest a genuine, if unidentified, period or personal style rather than the more generic white or grey dress attributed to many of this register's anonymous female ghosts. The consistency of the reported time, specifically around 3am, across multiple separate motorist accounts gives the sighting an unusually regular, almost schedulable quality, appearing at what is sometimes called the witching hour in English folk tradition, though no source traced for this entry makes that connection explicit.
No name, age beyond the general description of a young girl, or originating tragedy has been traced in the sources consulted for this entry, and she is reported simply wandering across the road rather than performing any more dramatic action such as running directly into traffic, distinguishing her from the more actively dangerous phantom pedestrians recorded at other Surrey and Kent sites in this register.
Recorded here as a modestly but consistently reported roadside sighting, the Caterham bypass girl adds a further figure to this stretch of Surrey's already dense concentration of road-based hauntings, alongside the A22's own cloaked figures and white woman recorded elsewhere in this register, making this small corner of Tandridge one of the more paranormally active road networks documented anywhere in this survey.
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