Before there were fright-inducing cars like the 1958 Plymouth Fury in Christine and the 1971 Lincoln Continental in The Car, there was a haunted automobile in Geneva, New York, terrifying mechanics. The year was 1917, and newspapers printed stories like this one about the cursed car. Happy Halloween!
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