Ships Trains Planes Following the crash of
Eastern Air Lines Flight 401, reported sightings of deceased crew members sitting aboard other L-1011s, with speculation around the refitting of salvaged parts of the flight onto other planes causing these apparitions.; A 1976
book and 1978 television film, both named
The Ghost of Flight 401, were released. The TV series
Ghost Whisperer had a two-part episode featuring ghosts that died on board an airplane.
Automobiles James Dean's car, a
Porsche 550 known as "Little Bastard" is a well known case of a "haunted car". James Dean himself died in the vehicle, and it is said to have caught fire years after his death, and it is claimed that parts taken from the car have caused crashes and accidents. The transaxle was salvaged from the car and bought by
Zak Bagans in May 2021. He spent $382,000 on the item, which he planned to showcase at his Haunted Museum in Las Vegas. Vehicles which have the been the place of assassinations or other violent deaths are often deemed haunted, such as
Archduke Franz Ferdinand's 1911 Graf, and
J.F.K.'s
Kennedy Lincoln Continental. The term "death car" has been given to vehicles such as
Jack Kevorkian's 1968
Volkswagen Type 2 that he used for
assisted suicide of his patients, and the
1934 Ford in which notorious criminals
Bonnie and Clyde were killed.
Urban legends The
Black Volga is an urban legend originating in Eastern Europe, detailing a black
GAZ-21 Volga used to abduct and murder people. Other notable urban legends include a double-decker in London and a phantom car wreck in Surrey. A
1964 Dodge 330 dubbed "The Golden Eagle" has been rumoured to be the inspiration behind
Stephen King's 1983 novel
Christine, and to have been the cause of a number of deaths.
Spaceships In
Warhammer 40k there are
space hulks, ancient and giant drifting spaceships, with life having evolved on them, sometimes forming own ecosystems. The original alien spaceship from
Alien was a crashlanded spaceship harbouring the eggs of the
Xenomorph. Another popular culture haunted spaceship is
Elysium from
Pandorum. ==In popular culture==