Maybe you've heard an urban legend about a creepy road in your hometown where if you drive with your lights on, you'll see a ghost. Or maybe you'll see phantom lights if you flash your brights. Whatever the case, there are some odd happenings taking place on dark roads around the country.
Some of these legends are a little more creepy than others. Take, for instance, the famed phantom roaming near a cemetery in Chicago or the lights of a ghostly motorcycle on an Oxford, Ohio road. Wouldn't you be taken by surprised if you happened upon any of these scenes? Or maybe you're a curious ghost hunter, looking to encounter a little creepy unexplained phenomena.
If so, read on. We've got some of the creepiest collected here just for you.
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- San Antonio Ghost Tracks
- Georgia's Old Ghost Road
- New York's Buckout Road
- Kentucky's Vanishing Hitchhiker
- Lover's Lights in Oxford, Ohio
- Mona Lisa in New Orleans
- Chicago's Resurrection Mary
- Maryland's Spook Hill
- Jersey's Shades of Death Road
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Many of these creepy roads are found in rural parts of the country, where roads run through shady woods leaving eerie shadows across the entire area. Maybe that's why so many unusual and unexplained happenings are reported in these areas -- it's a good place for ghosts and ghouls to hide.- San Antonio Ghost Tracks
- Georgia's Old Ghost Road
- New York's Buckout Road
- Kentucky's Vanishing Hitchhiker
- Lover's Lights in Oxford, Ohio
- Mona Lisa in New Orleans
- Chicago's Resurrection Mary
- Maryland's Spook Hill
- Jersey's Shades of Death Road
More Roads & Creeps
- Maps & Directions
- Travel Deals & More
- Country's Best Haunted Houses
And Halloween is the perfect time of year to explore the creepy world of the unexplained. You might get a bit of a thrill from a few of these ghost stories.
Some Halloween-enthusiasts love that thrill and even seek out ghosts and other unexplained phenomena during this time of year. Those brave souls have even investigated some of the stories that we've collected here. They've even recorded some of these odd happenings on video -- and it can be kind of chilling if you watch closely.
If you're not very interested in scary roads, maybe you'd prefer to visit a haunted house or a parade during this Halloween season. But for those who are fearless when it comes to the unexplained, be sure to click on and see all the frightening stories that await you on America's creepiest roads.
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Posted on Oct 16th 2009
By Steve Alexis Martinez
I don't know but it sounds kind of creepy. I have a big fear of ghosts. I'd die if I see them. I always pray to god.
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Posted on Oct 16th 2009
By Sunday
I love these stories about ghosts! I would love to see one. Now, I'm not saying that I wouldn't be afraid at first - but think about it, IF they exist, they can't hurt you! So cool to see someone from "the other side" LOL.
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Posted on Oct 16th 2009
By AOL MANAGER
THIS IS NOT AN ADVERTISING SITE!!! DONT USE IT AS SUCH!!!
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Posted on Oct 16th 2009
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Posted on Oct 16th 2009
By LIONEL
YEAH WHAT ABOUT THAT THERE HOLY GHOST ?
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Posted on Oct 16th 2009
By LIONEL
I ALWAYS SHOOT EM WITH A 12 GAGE , WHEN I SEE EM !
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Posted on Oct 16th 2009
By Bart
There is simply no reason to believe in ghosts. Absolutely NONE of these stories ever stands up to any serious investigation. The "Ghost Hunters" and "paranormal researchers" are so unscientific as to be laughable. And these trance mediums and so forth are a lot of heartless con artists telling people they can allow them to talk to deceased loved ones..America is apparently the most superstitious country on earth outside of Haiti.
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Posted on Oct 16th 2009
By mabel eads
Going towards Chiefland, Florida, on the side of the road where for miles was nothing but woods, my Mother-in-law all of a sudden say's to me, "look at that woman on the side of the highway!" For the next few miles, even though the side of the road was clear, I saw nothing. She described the woman as a black woman carrying a basket and had on an apron and a kerchief tied around her head like they used to do in olden times. She was just running and skipping along like she was happy. At one point she lost sight of her and then again she said, "no waiot, there she is again." I kind of wished I could have seen her. I believe when people see things like that, most of the time that was a place in or around where they might have lost thier lives.
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Posted on Oct 16th 2009
By Tom
Well there must be ghosts because seems like every few days all the money in my night stand dissappears, I keep asking my teenager but she says she has no idea, and I believe her because teenagers dont lie right?
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Posted on Oct 16th 2009
By Lynn
There's a road in NC about 15 min. from me many years ago a girls car broke down and she was trying to push it uphill to get it off the road but she was hit and killed. so now on that sec. of road you can put your car in Neutral and your car will continue to go up hill like it's being pushed. I Have tried it cause I didn't believe it. But found out it does happen.
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Posted on Oct 16th 2009
By JOE
THERE IS A STREET IN LAKE WALES FL. CALLED 'SPOOKHILL' YOU
CAN STOP YOUR CAR HALF WAY DOWN HILL PUT CAR OUT OF GEAR. THE CAR WILL ROLL BACK UP HILL.
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Posted on Oct 16th 2009
By Dan
In the country where I live there is a section of highway road that appears to be going downhill, but if you are driving in that direction and stop your car on the shoulder of the road and put it in nuetral, your car will start to roll backwards going back up the road . It has to be some optical illusion but I personally have tried it and it will actually roll uphill or what appears to be up hill.
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Posted on Oct 16th 2009
By ladyaries
i hav had an expierence also.....on a dark back road here where i live in louisiana.......i was with my mother an fater an it was late at nite we turned around in a drive way to go back the other way anout of no here head lights flashed on an chased us bak out to the main road an then the lights just turned off an there was no car in sight.......i was so freaked for te longest time afterward..........
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Posted on Oct 16th 2009
By Peter
I tell ya ....after a good glass of some Kentucky moonshine, or a puff on the ole crack pipe anything is possible
the worst thing ya could see is ....your mother-in-lawl LOL
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Posted on Oct 16th 2009
By travieza
???????
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Posted on Oct 16th 2009
By Neil Hohmann
You guys ain't seen nothing 'til you mosey up the railroad tracks from Bastrop Louisiana to Crossett, AR as follows:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWg6WFPrlIE
I took a date there one night, and she never saw me again (uh, had a date with me).
Irish Hohmann
Charlotte, NC
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Posted on Oct 16th 2009
By Brian
Check out www.woodsonlateral.net for another creepy road. This road is so creepy that a record company in Seattle was named after it and there are songs about Woodson Lateral by THE KINGS OF NEW ENGLAND and RWAKE.
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Posted on Oct 16th 2009
By Shirley
Well, my sister in law who lives in Eastern Canada, had to move out of her home in Perth Andover New Brunswick. She and her husband bought a house they didn't know was haunted. They heard kitchen cabinet doors slam in the night and a list of things that I don't have room to type here.The night the ghost SHOVED her youngest son into her bedroom they sold it. They later found out that a young man was murdered inside that house, but the realtors did not tell them... TRUE STORY.
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Posted on Oct 16th 2009
By BC
I live in Tennessee, but am from central Fl. I have been to Spook hill a couple of times. Yes it is a hill, not just an appearance, and when you stop, it does pull your vehicle back upwards. Too cool. Also, near the Cheifland area someone mentioned, where a old time dressed lady walks (or skips) on the highway, is the town of Micanopy, known to have this woman seen near the road many times. This area was thick with slaves, and has an old movie (or like documentary) of some slave families there. There are original homes and stuctures there that you can tour where these people lived and died as slaves. I truely believe in spirits that are still hanging around, for whatever reason, that have not crossed over.
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Posted on Oct 16th 2009
By Colonel
A car that appears to roll up hill is an optical illusion. Yes, the car is rolling, but only because the slope of the road is actually downward. The optical illusion that the road is an upward hill is created by the embankments, the horizon, and surrounding topography. We have a road like that in Pickens County SC. It will mess with your mind the first time someone takes you there and tells you to stop, put it in neutral, and take your foot off the brake. You start moving forward and it looks and feels like you are rolling up a hill. Most people can't figure out why it is happening and have to be told it is an optical illusion.
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