The former Smiths singer believes he saw the spirit of a troubled young man - naked apart from an anorak - when he drove through the area with friends one night in 1989.
Describing Saddleworth as 'the most barren, desolate, desperate place' he said he and his friends saw a frightened man run out from the moor, desperately pleading for their car to stop.
He said: "It was a boy of maybe 18 years. He was totally grey, and he had long hair in a sort of 1970s style. He wore a very small anorak and nothing else.
"He just emerged from the heather and pleaded to the lights, and we drove past because we all instinctively knew this was a spirit and because it had a history of being a place where so many bodies have been dumped and buried. It's not really the kind of place you hang around. We went to the phone box in the nearest village and called the police.
"We said, 'We have just driven down the Wessenden Road on Saddleworth Moor, and somebody has emerged from the side of the road and pleaded to the car. The police said, 'Keep an open mind'."
The next day, Morrissey drove back to the same spot to find it totally deserted, with no buildings or pathways within sight.
Gang
He said: "Was it somebody trying to ambush the car, so we'd stop to help and then suddenly a gang would emerge and take everything from us?
"Was it somebody who was being chased? Or was it the spectre of somebody who had been dumped on the moors many years ago?
"This person was not human, and it was very, very frightening."
Morrissey, who now lives in Rome, has spoken before about the deep impression left on him by the Moors Murders as a child.
The Smiths' first song, Suffer Little Children, was written about the killings by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.
Morrissey, 46, also said in his interview with the Los Angeles Weekly that he wants to return to earth from beyond the grave, and is already thinking about who he would like to spook.
He said: "It would be fascinating if one could be a spirit and observe everything. There are a few people I'd like to... unsettle, shall we say."
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Spirits? Ghosts? I think Morrissey is losing his marbles. Utter claptrap.
As somebody who lived in westmoreland street longsight and met both brady and myra? Iwas only a young lad at the time but i also go to the moors at the same place as where he says he saw the ghost?I used to talk to ian brady when he called to his mothers,This also stayed with me for years ?these are the ghosts from everybodys past.So i know where morrissey is comming from?You have to have been there at the time .it never leaves you.
A man running towards a car, wearing nothing but an anorak. No wonder poor Morrissey got the willys.
I believe it was the ghost of troubled Joe. A rush and a push and the lands was his.....
a few years ago driving along the same stretch of road my friend and I saw a young man dressed in unfashionable for the time clothes run out into the road and try to flag us down he then disappeared at the other side, we thought this was perhaps a spirit as when we got a few hundred meters further up the road there was a big patch of black ice which because we had slowed down when he ran into the road we didn't skid on, perhaps he was warning us and perhaps not but neither of us have ever forgotten the man who saved us then vanished
Yes, thanks for just driving off like that, Morrissey. After I'd wasted my time pleading to your headlights (although I've always been a rotten pleader), the least you could have done was given me a lift. I've still got that small anorak by the way. If anyone's interested, I'm listing it on eBay under the heading "Small Anorak - Mentioned by Morrissey - very light use with heather stains to rear"
Looking at Mozza these days, it's a toss up who was the most frigtened - him or the ghost. It is a very spooky place though.
I was once driving along the same stretch of road many years ago on an autumn night, surrounded by dense swirling fog, when suddenly I lost control of my vehicle on a sharp bend, I then careered into dense foliage. The car was a write-off, and I was badly shaken. I can confirm, however, that I wasn't warned of the impending calamity by a spirit incarnation, BUT was simply arrested for drink-driving and speeding.
morrisy probably just saw his own conscience pass him by.
Out of date clothes? wierdos wearing nothing but anoraks? Welcome to Saddleworth!
Ace Riley...What are you trying to say? More unintelligable crap, I'm sorry. Do you actually speak English? Because you sure as hell dont have any talent for writing it. As for Morrissey, I'll have a half of what he was on.
thanx ace riley for confirming once an for all just how deluded you really are,
Ace's comments are the best on this website so just leave him alone. whenever I log on to say something 9 time out of 10 Ace has usually already posted it. usually the people who have a go at him are the ones who can't spell or threat a decent sentence together, or have completely barmy comments to make.
Ace is a M.E.N institution (and Moz is a genius) !