Phantom coaches and carriages are one of the oldest recurring categories in English ghostlore, and Delamere Forest has its own modern addition to the type: a single, specifically dated sighting from Valentine's Day 2006. A driver passing the forest's Station Cafe reported a horse pulling a small, two-wheeled carriage along the road ahead, dimly lit by what appeared to be lanterns, with the figure driving it sitting entirely motionless as the witness's car drew level and passed.
No further detail survives in the source about who the driver might have been or any historical event the sighting could be tied to, and the report rests on this one witness. It's included here as a specific, dated single-report sighting rather than a long-standing named tradition, consistent with the forest's wider reputation for a scattering of individually reported strange encounters rather than one settled haunting.
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