Haunted highway or road refers to streets, roads or highways which are the subject of folklore and urban legends, including rumors and reports of ghostly apparitions, ghostly figures, phantom hitchhikers, phantom vehicles, or other paranormal phenomena.
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Annie's Road in New Jersey is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a woman killed on the road many years ago.[1]
Belchen Tunnel - Switzerland. Sightings of an old "white woman" who supposedly haunts the tunnel.[2]
Boy Scout Lane, Wisconsin, a dead-end road with no outlet. A number of ghost stories and urban legends have become associated with the road, including the fictional deaths of a troop of Boy Scouts. The area has been the subject of several paranormal investigations, and has been a 'haunt' for local youths. There are no records of fatalities or mysterious disappearances on or around Boy Scout Lane.
Clinton Road in West Milford, Passaic County, New Jersey is the subject of local folklore that includes alleged sightings of ghosts, strange creatures and gatherings of witches, Satanists and the Ku Klux Klan. Supposedly, if you go to one of the bridges at the reservoir and throw a penny into the water, within a minute it will be thrown back out to or at you by the ghost of a boy who drowned while swimming below or had fallen in while sitting on the edge of the bridge. In some tellings an apparition is seen; in others the ghost pushes the teller into the water if he or she looks over the side of the bridge in order to save him.[3]
Other claims include sightings of a ghost Camaro driven by a girl who supposedly died when she crashed it in 1988 (any mention while driving the road at night is supposed to trigger a manifestation), and the ghosts of two park rangers at Terrace Pond.
A616 road or Stockbridge Bypass - connects Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, to the M1 motorway. During its construction, security staff allegedly reported encounters with a ghostly monk believed to have been from the Hunshelf Priory.[4]
According to legend, phantom hitchhikers have been reported since the 1950s on the A38 road between Wellington and Taunton in Somerset. One tale holds that in 1958 a lorry driver named "Harry Unsworth" saw a hitchiker he'd given a ride to earlier re-appear miles down the road from where he'd dropped him off.[5]
A75 road - a major road in Scotland from Annan to Gretna Green has been called Scotland’s "most haunted road" by some authors.[6][7] According to one story, in 1957 a truck driver swerved to avoid a couple walking in the road but when he stopped to investigate the pair had "vanished".
E8 Expressway or also known as Kuala Lumpur – Karak Expressway are reportly as one of the most haunted highway in Malaysia.[8] Many people that driving at the midnight saw strange creatures and Pontianak on this road.
N9 road (South Africa). The road between Uniondale and Willowmore, in the semi-desert area of the Karoo is the subject of a story of the "Uniondale Phantom Hitchhiker", a girl named "Marie Charlotte Roux" who supposedly disappeared while she was being given a ride by drivers.[9][9]
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