Highways are essential in many ways to our existence and we spend countless
hours travelling roads as if they were the arteries of modern civilization.
It's inevitable that stories of the paranormal also circulate these same
streets, witness to numerous accidents dark events and unexplainable happenings
creating legends of the most haunted highways in North America.
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This notoriously creepy 10 miles or 16 kilometers stretch of road in New Jersey
has more than its fair share of ghost stories and strange goings on.
So many in fact that the road has turned into a haunt for vloggers to test their nerves
against these urban legends. Being isolated and sparsely populated it makes
you wonder if the road exists solely to serve up creepypasta. One of the most
well-known tales is that of a boy who lost his life in a road accident on a
bridge over Clinton Brooke when attempting to pick up a quarter he had
seen on the ground. It is said that if you place a quarter in the middle of the
road at midnight it will be returned to you by the ghost boy. An alternative
version tells that if you look over the side of the bridge the ghost will push
you into the water in an attempt to save your life. Known as the ghost boy of dead
man's curve, who knows if this sad tale has any grain of truth, but the Internet
has given it lasting infamy. Druids have also been wrapped up in the local legend
of Clinton Road, for a conical stone structure nearby has been talked about
as the place where they performed ceremonies. Whilst it is believed that a
horrible end might lie in wait for anyone that dares disturb their rituals
it is in fact the remains of an iron smelter from 1826.
Trespassers are more likely to befall a terrible accident than witness sorcery.
Nearby are the ruins of Cross Castle, a home built by Richard J Cross in 1905,
but it fell into ruin after a fire and later it's empty stone shell was sometimes used as a teen hangout.
Visitors are said to have experienced seizures unexplained bruises and strange disturbing visions.
The fuel for such stories may be supposed nefarious goings-on, such as devil worship and a witch's coven.
Stranger still is the story of ghostly trucks that appear on the road in the middle of the night,
as well as phantom headlights seemingly unattached to any vehicle that chase drivers to the end of the road,
only to disappear. If this wasn't enough a whole myriad of creatures and cryptids
are thought to be present in the vicinity of the road, reports of which may have
origins in the closure in 1976 of a nearby attraction named Jungle Habitat.
Clinton Road has also gained a gruesome reputation for being talked about
as a location where killers dispose of bodies in the surrounding woods.
One incident supports this story. That of a body named The Iceman.
Discovered in 1983, ice crystals were discovered in blood vessels near his heart,
and his internal organs had decayed at a slower rate than his skin -
frozen to try and mislead investigators. Think twice before stopping at Clinton Road.
You can see why it's gained a reputation as America's scariest Road.