One night in January 1971, Steve Bond and his wife were driving home to their house in High Wycombie, along the main A404 road from Amersham, at around 15 minutes past midnight.

Along this section of the road there are wide grass verges on either side and, the long sweeping curves and good straight stretches, make it a fast road. The night was cold and clear with not much traffic about, as Steve Bond explains:

"There was not much traffic about so I was able to drive on full-beam headlights. As we negotiated one of the curves, I could see for several hundred yards ahead that the road was empty…in a instant a figure appeared standing in the side of the road half facing towards us. The appearance was so sudden that I had to swerve to avoid it …there was absolutely no cover from behind which the figure could have appeared. In the couple of seconds during which it was in full view of my headlights, it could be seen to be a figure of a stocky man in what I would describe as a sports jacket; his head was completely wrapped in bandages… but he had no face at all… just a sort of greyness. There was a car some short distance behind me and I checked my mirror to see if he too pulled out. He did not. And despite being on a curve, the figure was not as I would have expected…silhouetted.

Neither of us spoke for some time, until I asked my wife if she had seen anything; we subsequently described the same thing exactly, but were too nervous to go back for another look."

So what had Steven Bond and his wife seen, that January morning…? Was it one of 'Butcher' Harris's faceless aircrew come back to haunt the area around High Wycombie…? So many brave aircrew needlessly died during the Second World War…and this is made clear in other chapters in the Ghost Stations Series.

Over the years there have been many phantom sightings on that stretch of road near High Wycombe. The incident with Steven Bond and his wife took place about halfway between Amersham and High Wycombe, just before the B474 turning to Beaconsfield.

Another eerie incident that happened on that stretch of haunted road, was indeed very chilling. The brother-in-law of Steve Bond was following a car along the A404 road… along that same piece of road… when he noticed that the car in front appeared to have a injured person slumped in the back. The driver frequently looked over his shoulder anxiously to check his passenger. They were heading towards High Wycombe and, concerned at what he had seen, asked at the hospital in High Wycombe about the patient recently admitted…only to be told…no one had been admitted.