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Haunted Roads

"Haunted Road" (Russia)

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There are rumors of seemingly quite normal 30 km stretch of Russian country road, which nevertheless gets an unexplained amount of car accidents; the locals suspect underground gas seepage which causes motorists to fall asleep...

 

13 Bumps Road (USA)

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Another long dark road with a "story".  Located in Watchung (USA), its known as 13 Bumps Road.

 

A229 (England)

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This road from Sussex to Kent is considered to be one of the most haunted roads in England. There have been numerous reports of drivers seeing a young woman dressed in a white dress suddenly appear in front of their car forcing them to brake and making them certain that they had just hit her.

 

A38 (England)

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Reports of phantom hitchhikers have been reported on the A38 road between Wellington and Taunton in Somerset since the 1950s. Of particular note is a man in a grey overcoat, reported by many people including lorry driver Harry Unsworth who confessed to having given the man a lift on more than one occasion, typically in heavy rain.

 

A75 (Scotland)

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Hundreds of weird sightings and unexplained accidents have been reported in the area over the past fifty years. The 15 mile stretch of the A75 from Annan in Dumfriesshire to Gretna Green is claimed to be the most haunted road in Scotland and the Scottish Office plans to improve it but the local residents believe that it will unleash the already angry spirits.

 

Annie’s Road (USA)

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Annie's Road, located in New Jersey (USA), is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a woman who was killed on the road many many years ago. Allegedly she appears as a hitchhiker and if you pick her up she will cause you to lose control of your vehicle.

 

Balete Road (Philippines)

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Balete road, in the municipality of Balete (Philippines) is the scene of legends about mysterious appearances, particularly about the occurrence of some “white lady”, a woman with long hair, dressed in night shirt and appearing in the dark, in the way of cars passing on the road.

 

Belchen Tunnel (Switzerland)

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The Belchen Tunnel is a motorway tunnel in Switzerland, and forms part of the A2 motorway from Basel to Chiasso. It is 3.2 km long, and lies in the northern (slightly northwestern) part of Switzerland.

 

Bloodspoint Road (USA)

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In the city of Belvidere in Boone Country, Illinois there is an intersection of roads that has been the site of many hauntings, particularly the Bloodspoint Road.

 

Boy Scout Lane (USA)

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Boy Scout Lane, sometimes written "Boyscout Lane", is an isolated road located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. The road, a dead-end with no outlet, was reportedly named because of a tragic incident that resulted in the deaths of a troop of Boy Scouts.

 

Clinton Road (USA)

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Clinton Road, located in West Milford, Passaic County, New Jersey has gained notoriety as an area rife with many legends of paranormal occurrences such as sightings of ghosts, strange creatures and gatherings of witches, Satanists and the Ku Klux Klan.

 

Extraterrestrial Highway (USA)

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Nevada State Highway 375 stretches for 98 miles from US-93 in the southeast to US-6 in the northwest.

 

Kelly Road (USA)

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A one-mile section of Kelly Road, Ohioville, Pennsylvania is an area that has had numerous reports of paranormal activity and bizarre happenings.

 

M6 Motorway (England)

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In England, many people agree that the longest road is also its most haunted. Motorists making their way down this road have experienced unusual phenomena: Roman soldiers marching, an upset woman trying to hitch a ride, and lorry going the wrong way down the road!

 

Mary Angela Road (USA)

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Voodoo Village is located on Mary Angela Road in southwest Memphis (USA). According to residents, the area is home to St. Paul's Spiritual Temple and is enclosed in a huge iron fence. But the legend suggests that something other than church services are taking place there.

 

N9 road (South Africa)

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The road between Uniondale and Willowmore, in the semi-desert area of the Karoo is noted for the Uniondale Phantom Hitchhiker, a phantom hitchhiking girl called Marie Charlotte Roux.

 

Old Pali Road (USA)

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The Old Pali Road in Kailua (Hawaii) is haunted. The road has been recently replaced by Pali Highway.

 

PA 54-61 Centralia (USA)

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If you were driving north on route 61 in the heart of the Anthracite coal region in Pennsylvania in recent years, you may have come across a detour of 61 at the top of a hill in a community called Ashland. 

 

Pacheco Pass (USA)

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If you ever took a trip to Monterery, Santa Cruz, or the Bay Area there's a good chance you've taken Highway 152 through Pacheco Pass. The part of the trip from Los Banos to Gilroy is rather mundane for those who have driven it before. Or is it?

 

Roman soldiers march on M6, Britain's most haunted road

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Martin Wainwright. The Guardian, Tuesday 31 October 2006

For the first time since ghost-hunting became an organised science, Britain's spooks and apparitions have made a motorway their favourite road to haunt. 

 

Stocksbridge By-Pass (England)

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Stocksbridge By-pass is formerly part of the M67 motorway in England, it was then downgraded to a dual carriage way and today it is just a single carriage way.

 

Tuen Mun Road (China)

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Legends of this road being haunted go back hundreds of years. The Tuen Mun Road, in Hong Kong, has seen more of its fair share of tragic, fatal car accidents.

 

U.S. Route 491 (USA)

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(US 491) is a north–south U.S. Highway serving the Four Corners region of the United States. One of the newest designations in the U.S. Highway system, it was created in 2003 as a renumbering of U.S. Route 666.

 


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