A History of Ghost Riding

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by False Prophet

Ghost Riding - when a person puts the car in neutral or allows it to idle and then the driver (and passengers) of a vehicle exit while it is still rolling and dance beside it [1].

Is it a sport? Not really. Is it hilarious? Of Course. By digging through youtube, I discovered a couple videos in my quest to show the history of Ghost Riding.

And so Ghost Riding is born

It began in Oakland, being a feature of a couple of rap songs, specifically Mistah F.A.B's "Ghost Ride it". Roll the tape:

Ghost Riding heads out east

After several people decide to imitate Mistah F.A.B's video, this guy from West Virginia continues the soon to be cult tradition.

Other Vehicles?

Yep. Here's a good one of somone Ghost Riding a Golf Cart:

Ghost Riding goes Terribly wrong

Here's one where this guy's car gets stolen while Ghost Riding. What an Idiot not to expect it:

A friend of Mine

So Last year, I was in San Francisco with a couple friends. When we got back from our trip and were in the airport, we had a couple hours to kill, so what do we do? Ghost ride the Luggage Cart!!! WARNING: DO NOT WATCH THIS VIDEO WITH SOUND AS THERE IS A REALLY BAD BACKFEED:

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LASportsblogAAA-er

322 days ago

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This is a pretty funny video time history of ghost riding. It goes a lil further back then Mista F.A.B and the hyphy movement is really a street thing brought to the music industry, not the otherway around like Crunk. Funny stuff.

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False ProphetAll-Star

322 days ago

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granted, and this goes for crunk as well, in order for it to spread, it had to be popularized by the Music industry. And besides, I can't find a video on youtube of anyone Ghost Riding pre- Mista F.A.B

LASportsblogAAA-er

322 days ago

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Search side shows and turning lanes, you might get something there.

False ProphetAll-Star

322 days ago

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I might find those later and write another article.

LASportsblogAAA-er

322 days ago

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Also I'll tell you why the one where the guys car is stolen is fake:

It is a crappy, really crappy Ford Escort, and the houses in the neighborhood as freaking MASSIVE! I haven't seen so many big ass houses so close to each other before.

The video is edited several times and each time they ghost ride, it's doen the

same street in the same direction everytime.

Finally, in each of their first cuts there is not white kid standing on the side of the street, and in the last cut he is just chillin on the street, waiting for the car to pass. Suspcious?

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False ProphetAll-Star

322 days ago

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I'd bet it's fake. But the neighborhood probably does exist. I know of at least 2 neighborhoods with 30 minutes of my house that are like it. It's still hilarious even if it is scripted because the guy just walks up and gets into the car and starts driving.

Manny StilesAAA-er

322 days ago

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If it wasn't a fake, it would:

1) be evidence 2) not bragged about and slo-mo'd on youtube. The victim would be too embarassed.

Also LASB; There are developments all over Maricopa County that look just like that.

One last thing - "ghostriding" is just a glossed up term for "kickstarting" where I grew up - never buy an automatic transmission!!!

LASportsblogAAA-er

322 days ago

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I know there are big house, all over, I work in Montecito Village which is like the 3rd richest zip code in the nation. My point was the houses were of high value, and the car was a piece of shit, it didn't belong in the picture. A clear indictation that it was a prop.

Manny StilesAAA-er

322 days ago

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Yeah, but houses aren't on top of each other like that in M-vill. Here they put 'em so close together to make shade (and jam more houses into a tract to make more $$$).

Either way, they're stick frame, stupidly insulated and poorly designed (to look like adobe while REAL adobe wasn't built to look cool, it was built to STAY cool) for real living- a big fake-out. Might as well build a house out of gasoline.

Put enough icing on Dogshit and people will tell you how great the cake is...

My block house (built in 1955) will be standing LONG after I move and long after those big fancy ones are destroyed.

Manny StilesAAA-er

322 days ago

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Where have you been? This started in the 1880's with the giant wheel bicycles.

Even when I was a kid in the late 70's/early 80's, we would take other kid's bikes and peddle them fast and jump off and "ghostride" them to see how far they would go/see how broken we could make them - but that was more to make them crash into things or off of ramps. Lots of dancing, but there was no jumping back on them.

Here in Arizona, cars are often ghostridden off of cliffs with the help of a brick on the gas pedal and an ensuing insurance claim.

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False ProphetAll-Star

322 days ago

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THat's called insurance fraud manny

Manny StilesAAA-er

322 days ago

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There was also a kid in a nearby high school that died while "car surfing" - riding on top while some one else tries to swerve back and forth to knock you off - in his high school parking lot.

False ProphetAll-Star

322 days ago

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and that's called stupid. To not expect him to get hurt when you try and buck him of a car is totally stupid. Ghost Riding is specifically dancing next to the car for the sake of it and NOT trying to crash/kill people

Manny StilesAAA-er

322 days ago

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It's not insurance fraud when it's stolen!

Manny StilesAAA-er

322 days ago

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OK, but how do you get your car in the club to take it dancing? Must be a hell of a cover...

False ProphetAll-Star

322 days ago

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putting a brick on the gas pedal to send it off the cliff so you can collect insurance money is defenitly insurance fraud

Manny StilesAAA-er

322 days ago

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It is? Wow, knowing really is half the battle!

Manny StilesAAA-er

322 days ago

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I half want to go listen to Wu-Tang (Ghostface Killah) and half want to watch Danny Phantom (hey, I have Nick-addicted kids)

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CoreyisarealboyMajor Leaguer

322 days ago

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Huh, and here I always thought this was the original Ghost Rider...

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Manny StilesAAA-er

322 days ago

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yeah, whoeevr thought Nick Coppola-Cage was the guy for that role was smoking very crappy PCP.

CoreyisarealboyMajor Leaguer

322 days ago

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Whoever green lighted that project must've been on something far worse...

Manny StilesAAA-er

322 days ago

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They are running out of comic books to scrape ideas from. No wonder the writers went on strike!!!

CoreyisarealboyMajor Leaguer

322 days ago

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What will Hollywood do when Stan Lee dies? It'll be like Y2K, only...you know...real.

Manny StilesAAA-er

321 days ago

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Hells yeah... I just had this very same conversation the other day: Stan Lee - King of the Nerdy and Wishingly Vindictive

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