On the 12th October 1979, about 21:30, twenty six year old carpet fitter Roy Fulton was returning home after playing in a darts match in Leighton Buzzard. He was driving along Station Road in Stanbridge and had reached the junction with Peddars Lane when he saw a young man, about twenty years of age, wearing dark trousers, a jumper and white open necked shirt, thumbing a lift. Mr. Fulton stopped short of the man and watched as he walked towards his Mini van. The man opened the passenger door and got in without saying a word, he didn’t even speak when Mr. Fulton asked where he was going. The man simply raised his arm and indicated the general direction of Totternhoe and Dunstable.

After a mile the car was doing forty miles per hour and the man had still not uttered a word. Mr. Fulton decided to offer him a cigarette and turned round to look at the man but there was no one there. Shocked Mr. Fulton rapidly stopped the car and checked the back seat; there was no sign of his passenger. According to Mr. Fulton there was no way that the man could have got out of the car as they were doing forty miles per hour. When the man first got into the car the interior light had come on, between then and when he disappeared the light remained off so the passenger door was never opened. All of the events happened in a span of a few minutes from when Mr. Fulton picked the young man up until he discovered the man had gone.

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Stanbridge, Station Road