My name is Melanie and I only remembered this just now...
I think it was one day last summer... so I guess I was half
asleep, drinking my morning coffee on the couch, and I
started watching a news show from down in California
somewhere, and they were filling up some leftover time,
you know, at the very end of the broadcast the way they do,
when something a bit peculiar happened.

At first the news anchor guy was saying, in his most solemn
voice, "We have received reports of a terrible multi-vehicle
collision on the coast highway earlier this morning. Sadly, a
number of people have suffered serious injuries, one or two
possibly fatal. Authorities tell us they have determined that
a dense layer of fog moving inland off the Pacific Ocean was
likely a contributing cause."

Then they were filling time, as I said, just before cutting to the
commercials, weirdly trying for some of that "friendly banter"
they do, I suppose, and one of the girls at the desk mentioned
that a reporter, a friend of hers who was at the scene of the
accident, had sent in a short clip of one of the accident victims,
a very tearful woman it was, who had only sustained a few minor
injuries however, and this woman was crying and saying how
she felt very upset about causing such an awful pile-up, but
she had to slam on her brakes all of a sudden when she saw
some ghosts standing around on the road up ahead of her, right
in front of her car.

The middle-aged news anchor asked the weatherman for
some sort of wrap-up comment, but the sports guy spoke up
first and louder and he goes, "Ghosts! Really? But didn`t she
know you can just drive right through them?"

02/27/2018