A quiet road in the early hours.

Two armed police officers returning from a call.

And a hooded figure standing in the lane ahead.

In this Short Haunts episode from Haunted UK Podcast, Steve shares another account from retired police officer Jon Williams, whose career included military service, armed response, road policing, and years of dealing with the harder realities of life and death. Jon does not claim to believe in ghosts — but this experience, involving a close colleague on a dark road near Abergavenny, left him with questions he still cannot fully answer.

While driving through the village of Llanover at around 4:30 in the morning, Jon’s colleague suddenly shouted for him to stop, convinced they had just struck a man standing in the road. But when Jon got out to check, there was no body, no damage, no blood, and no sign of anyone at all.

His colleague described the figure as a man in a long brown hooded cloak, standing near the centre of the road like a monk. When they returned to the same stretch of road moments later, Jon saw nothing — but his colleague reacted with genuine fear, insisting the figure was now right beside Jon’s window. What followed was a sudden wave of sadness, guilt, regret, and anger that seemed to overwhelm him until they left the village behind.

Grounded, unsettling, and told through the lens of a sceptical witness, this short true paranormal story explores roadside apparitions, phantom monks, police testimony, emotional impressions, and the strange question of why one person can see something clearly while another sees nothing at all.

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