In a metropolitan area like the greater Munich area, there are few places where you don’t meet anyone. Unless a lockdown has been imposed due to a pandemic, this is not an area for shy people. If it then happens that there are hardly any people waiting on the platform, that there is a parking space in front of the building or a table in the restaurant without a reservation, it quickly becomes clear: something is wrong here! First thoughts: the train is cancelled, parking has recently been banned, the food doesn’t taste good. But there could also be much more sinister things behind these phenomena.
Otto Bußjäger from the Free Voters has now tracked down the ghost in Würmtal. The deputy district administrator saw ghost buses there. Express buses too. They are so scary for the local politician from Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn that he would like to stop them immediately. His Graefelfing party friend Florian Ernstberger is seriously asking himself: Who uses the buses at all? As if anyone in the district office or at the MVV knows about ghosts.
Because from a purely para-scientific point of view, the district of Munich is not a good place for ghosts. There are hardly any “lost places”, as they call abandoned, somewhat run-down places these days. The land prices are far too high for half-ruined villas and empty spooky castles. But statistically speaking, the ghost density could be in the four-digit range. In Britain, for example, where there is often fog and there is a castle behind every hill, many more people than just one deputy magistrate believe in ghosts. Experts from the “Haunted Britain” website are said to have calculated that there are five ghosts per square mile. For the district of Munich with its 664 square kilometers, this would result in 3,280 ghosts.
But the question is: What are they doing on the bus? Actually, one would have to assume that ghosts only use public transport during the witching hour. But in the district of Munich there are no longer any lines on many lines. According to a report by National Geographic The difficulty in detecting hauntings is that they tend to occur when you aren’t expecting them and are unprepared. If something is too easy to document, it is “highly likely to be a fake.” So what’s credible about Penance Hunter’s ghost story is that he didn’t photograph and post the spooky passengers. Rather, he writes: It is a constant race to adapt the timetables to the current needs of users. Ghostbuster Penitent has long since found out: ghosts prefer to leave at midnight.