The memory of the lone horseman continues to mystify readers, and the legend was rekindled following a request to the Grimsby Telegraph.
Staff at Louth County Hospital asked the Telegraph to find out about the horseman's spirit, said to ride along the A18 Barton Street.
Louth historian Stuart Sizer went on a short ghost hunt along the road and he found the stone memorial to 16-year-old George Nelson, of Cadeby Hall, near Ludborough.
Numerous sightings of the horseman had been made since his tragic death in 1885. His family erected the memorial to the spot where their son died in the riding accident on January 16.
Mr Sizer said the clearest sighting was when a lorry driver did an emergency stop on the A18 after he claimed to have struck the horseman head-on. He has been seen galloping along the road.
About ten years ago, a driver was following another lorry at night. All of a sudden the lorry in front braked hard.
The driver behind thought the driver had braked to avoid a fox or badger.
Mr Sizer said: "When he went to talk to the driver in front he saw him frozen to his steering wheel, petrified and repeating 'I have killed him, I have killed him.'"
He said the rider had come out of the darkness and would not stop.
The driver investigated the scene but found no trace and counselled the other petrified motorist to take a look.
Mr Sizer said: "He swore blind he saw the horseman."
The driver who recounted the story to Mr Sizer said the same thing happened two weeks later – this time to him. The rider galloped straight at him.
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