Ghosts and ghouls tend to keep their haunting to the usual spots - abandoned houses, old churchyards and the like.
A service station on the M62 is probably the last place you'd expect to stumble across the spectre of an old World War II pilot.
But that's exactly what a late-night radio phone in caller has claimed.
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The former bus driver, speaking to Radio 5Live's Dotun Adebayo, said he stopped in the Burtonwood Services near Warrington while travelling late at night several years ago.
And while tucking into a dish of bacon and eggs in a near-abandoned cafe, he was stunned to see a man dressed in full pilot uniform stroll across the room.
Flabbergasted, he asked the four members of staff on duty about the apparition.
They told him it was probably the world's most haunted service station.
"I was sitting there eating my bacon and eggs and suddenly this guy walks in looking like a World War II American Air Force pilot," he told the presenter Dotun Adebayo.
"He walked towards the kitchen and just went through the door without opening it and disappeared. I said to the staff 'did you see that?' and they said 'it's our resident ghost, he's a World War II pilot, we see him a lot'.
Manchester Evening News visited the service area, run by Welcome Break, to find out more about the stunning claim.
Disappointingly, most of the staff were new starters, including the manager who said: "I have heard lots of rumours, but I've never seen him myself."
A straw-poll of truckers, some of whom stop over at Burtonwood through night, also failed to find anyone who had seen the 'airman'.
However, we did discover that the roof of the cafe and shops area looks remarkably like a witch's hat.
A delve into the history of the area reveals that Burtonwood service area was built on the site of RAF Burtonwood, used by the US Air Force, but mainly on the westbound carriageway, which has been replaced by a huge warehouse.
Visitors to the service area now must weave their way round the motorway to the eastbound carriageway for their rest-stop cup of coffee.
One lorry driver said: "I stop here a lot very late at night, to use the cafe and the toilet facilities and I sometimes stay quite a while. In all honestly, I've never seen anything that looks like an airman from World War II and I hope I don't."
