We love to anthropomorphize our vehicles and cheer them on in their quests. The adorable Herbie captured hearts when Herbie: The Love Bug debuted in 1969, and when Cars came along in 2006, kids and adults alike were heavily invested in the hero’s journey of Lightning McQueen. But not every car can be the plucky underdog. We need a few vehicular antiheroes, too.

This is the legend of the Golden Eagle, a 1964

Dodge

330 whose purported evildoing places it firmly in the “cursed” category.

An evil car

Jalopnik

tells the story, but not without a strong warning that the sources and narrators of the story are fairly unreliable. You can decide how much you want to believe.

The Golden Eagle was once a police car, patrolling with the force in Old Orchard Beach,

Maine

. After three officers died (in apparently gruesome murder-suicides) during the course of their time driving this car, the police force decided to rid themselves of the common denominator. Ownership of the Golden Eagle was passed over to an elderly man, and then to a local family, the Allens.

The Allen family inherited a complicated legacy—their new transportation was apparently the object of local obsession. Throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s, says Jalopnik, townspeople “were keen on vandalizing the car.”

But the Golden Eagle’s would-be destroyers kept turning up dead, victims of lightning strikes or decapitation or blunt force trauma. One kid who ventured to lay a hand on the evil car in 2008 experienced an overwhelming madness that resulted in arson and murder.

The Golden Eagle had done enough damage. The evil car was chopped up and banished.

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The Golden Eagle: still anything but golden

But Wendy Allen, a self-proclaimed witch, was not ready to accept her family car’s fate. (If you weren’t already in the land of speculative fiction, you are now.) She rescued the Golden Eagle’s remnants from the junkyard and put Humpty-Dumpty back together again, a quite impressive feat of restoration. And so the Golden Eagle lives on.

Allen is still the owner of the Dodge. She says that the doors have flown upon during highway driving on a few occasions, but that’s the extent of the supernatural occurrences she’s experienced as its primary driver. Her website heavily features the Golden Eagle, decked out in a dizzying array of pinks and purples and looking quite harmless. But we know better than to get too close.

MORE: Rare Find: A Completely Untouched 1969 Dodge Super Bee

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