Like a creepy hollow.
Driving at night is scary enough in itself, but there are some scary roads that motorists should definitely avoid after dark.
Ahead of Halloween, a Florida car dealership ranked America’s scariest roads, and found that an infamous New York street topped the list.
The spine-tingling roundup was compiled gunther volkswagen dealership in Delray Beach, which surveyed 3,000 drivers about which roads they were most likely to avoid when the sun went down.
They then compiled them into a list of the country’s 140 scariest stretches of sidewalk.
Spookiness in this context was not defined by the possibility of an accident, but by the association of streets with haunted stories, scary events, and other paranormal phenomena.
1. Route 9 (Sleepy Hollow, New York)
You might get “shock on Route 66,” but you’ll get a chill down your spine on Route 9.
This bucolic route was voted America’s Scariest Road because it takes motorists through Sleepy Hollow, the site of the headless horseman from Washington Irving’s 1820 short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
According to legend, this Phantom Horseman is the ghost of a Hessian mercenary who was beheaded during the Revolutionary War and now haunts a Hudson Valley village.
Come scream season! rumors Horseman’s boom, as people swear they can hear the bean-less ghost thundering down the path in search of his lost noggin.
Even more terrifying is Route 9 itself, which has been named ‘The Hudson Valley’s “Autoban” Due to the abundance of motorists who drive like they have no head.
Poughkeepsie has a Route 9/44/55 interchange. Allegedly site of 460 Accidents per year.
2. Old Ghost Road (Brooklette, Georgia)
Elm Street cannot be compared to Old Ghost Road, a haunted Peach State thoroughfare that has become notorious for “sightings of shadowy figures that disappear as one approaches and appear among the trees,” according to the Scary Roads list. Strange lights flicker”.
“This road is steeped in tales of wandering spirits and inexplicable events,” declares the author of Dearlership. “Passing through its serene, eerie landscape, drivers often report an overwhelming feeling of being watched.”
3. Apache Trail (Superstition Mountains, Arizona,
The Apache Trail, which runs through Arizona’s Superstition Mountains, is a gold mine for ghost hunters because of its so-called spectral apparitions and “shadowy forms that seem to emerge from the desert itself.”
This area was featured significantly Travel Channel reality show “Ghost Adventures” And the Goldfields in Apache Junction, AZ are the subject of ghost tours through Ghost Town – a recreated 1890s Wild West town.
“The Apaches had a special name for Superstition Mountain,” said Matt Mason of the Ghost Tour Company. Fear Frontier during the 2022 tour“They believed it was a literal gate to hell.”
According to Apache lore, these superstitious mountains were protected by the thunder god, who “vented his wrath upon anyone who dared trespass or disturb that sacred mountain.”
4. Haunted Highway 359, Louisiana
If there were an actual “Highway to Hell” from the AC/DC song, it would probably be Haunted Highway 359, a terrifying freeway that runs through the Bay Area of the Cajun State.
According to the list, the drivers saw “a young woman in a vintage dress silently pointing into the woods as if trying to convey a message”.
“We (the witness and her mother-in-law) were driving home from the casino one night when we saw something dark on the road, the size of a dustbin, blocking the road,” he said. an unknown alleged witnessWho has been living on the side of the highway for 30 years. “It was too late to change lanes or turn, so we were prepared for impact because we were sure we were going to hit him, but we went straight through him.”
He added: “Afterwards, we both looked at each other and said, ‘What was that!'”
5. Bayou Sale Road (Franklin, Louisiana,
Right behind it is Louisiana’s Bayou Sale Road, an atmospheric road that is reportedly “haunted by the tragic story of a mother searching for her lost child.”
“Drivers have reported seeing ghostly figures emerging from swamps and eerie fog swirling over the road, obscuring their path,” the survey said. “The dense vegetation and isolation of the area make this stretch of road particularly dangerous.”
America’s 10 scariest roads:
- Route 9 – Sleepy Hollow, New York
- Old Ghost Road – Brooklet, Georgia
- Superstition Mountain, Apache Trail, Arizona
- Haunted Highway 359, Louisiana
- Bayou Sale Road, Franklin, Louisiana
- State Road 14 (Turquoise Trail), New Mexico
- Stony Hollow Road, Burlington, Iowa
- Croison Creek Road, Salem, Oregon
- Highway 90, Gautier, Mississippi
- Highway 93, Arizona
