Haunted Houses

[BrilliantDisguise]

I actually was just reading about this on Yahoo this morning. I haven't been here yet and honestly, I don't think I want to go either.

http://news.yahoo.com/clinton-road-j...bouchon=501,ny

Clinton Road, New Jersey: The most terrifying road in the U.S.

About seven years ago, my cousin Julie and her husband Mark moved back to New Jersey from South Carolina. After months of searching, they found a great house in West Milford, New Jersey. Julie, who I grew up with, called me and asked me to meet them at the house and let them know my opinion.
After checking out a map online, I saw the home was on a street just off Clinton Road north of Route 23. I drove up Green Pond Road, got onto Route 23, and then turned right onto Clinton Road. Almost immediately, I noticed that Clinton Road was different from almost all the roads in New Jersey.
There were no homes along the road and no connecting roads. Clinton Road was very curvy and kept winding around between different bodies of water. At one point, I saw what looked like shack off to the right along a dirt driveway, and later on, I saw an old kiln by the road. But other than that, there was nothing along Clinton Road. Isolation was the word that came to my mind to describe the road.
After about 10 miles, I reached the street off Clinton Road where the house was. The house was great, with four bedrooms, three bathrooms, and a finished basement. It was perfect for Julie, Mark, and their kids. While looking at the house, I mentioned how creepy Clinton Road was. Julie's realtor shot me a look and looked like she wanted say something not particularly nice to me, but she said nothing.
On the way home, I went down Clinton Road just as it was getting dark. I had not gone more than a couple miles down the road when headlights appeared out of nowhere behind me. The headlights came right up behind me and then backed off. I was not in a hurry, so I slowed down and put my blinker on to let the vehicle pass, but the headlights also slowed. The headlights kept following me down Clinton Road until I got near Route 23, and then suddenly, the headlights disappeared.
A few weeks later, Julie invited me and another cousin of ours, Mike, back to the house. They had made an offer on the property, and it was accepted, so they were having a little party one night after work. Mike and I drove up Clinton Road to get to the house. Within a mile of turning on Clinton Road, headlights again appeared out of nowhere and rushed up to us, but then backed off. I told Mike the same thing happened the first time on the road.
The headlights kept following us, and I was keeping an eye on them in the rearview mirror when Mike shouted, "Look out!" I hit the brakes and saw something like a giant white rabbit running off into the woods. Mike asked what it was, and I told him it was likely an albino deer. I had worked at the fenced-in Hercules complex in Roxbury, New Jersey, for a few years, and there was an albino deer on the grounds then. It would look like a lot of different things when it ran around at night.
As we finally approached some lights in the distance, the headlights behind us vanished as if they were never there. We went into the house and it was pretty cold, as the heat didn't work. Mike told everyone about the headlights and the creature that ran in front of us on Clinton Road. One of the neighbors Julie and Mark had met and invited over, John, came over at the mention of Clinton Road.
"Clinton Road," he said, "is the most haunted road in America." John told us he had lived in West Milford his whole life and that Clinton Road was to be avoided at all costs. He told us a frozen dead body had been found along the road a few years ago. Clinton Road was where the mob dumped their dead bodies. He said that Satan worshipers would also gather along the road and then row out to an island in the middle of one of the lakes and perform satanic rituals.
He also said that strange creatures lived along Clinton Road. They were the result of interbreeding between the local animals and the wild animals that escaped from Jungle Habitat, which was a wild animal amusement park located in West Milford that was run by Warner Brothers in the 1970s. After Warner Brothers closed the park in late 1976, they were rumored to have let a lot of the animals just go into the local woods rather than pay to have them transported somewhere else.
He told us the headlights we had seen were from ghosts that would appear out of nowhere and follow cars along the road at night. That's why the headlights suddenly appeared and disappeared. Mike and I laughed at what the neighbor told us, but we also asked him for another road to take out of there. He told us to take Union Valley Road, which paralleled Clinton Road and was not haunted.
When I got home that night, I went on the Internet and typed in "Clinton Road" in Google. I was amazed to find that Clinton Road was pretty famous as a haunted road. The frozen dead body story was true, the result of a serial mob killer nicknamed The Iceman who used to freeze his victims before dumping them. Jungle Habitat in West Milford was also real. I found tons of stories relating how terrifying Clinton Road is online. The Travel Channel did a show about Clinton Road, calling it the most terrifying road in America. Others have made scary videos about Clinton Road and posted them on YouTube.
In the end, Julie and Mark did not buy the house in West Milford because the home inspection turned up too many problems, including the heating problem. I was relieved to hear that because I did not want to have to travel along the most terrifying road in America, Clinton Road, to see them. But for anyone out there who wants to be scared to death, Clinton Road can be reached right off Route 23 in Newfoundland, New Jersey. The road runs about 10 miles between Newfoundland and West Milford.
If you do drive along Clinton Road though, you do so at your own risk. It is just a creepy, scary, isolated road. You have been warned by someone who has been there.

[Sundae]

I'm scared by the lack of paragraphs.
Ow! Ow! My EYES!

[Trilby]

Clinton Road - so scary it's named after a Democrat!!

that's a nice bit of Jersey lore there, BeeDee. Thanks! Love the scary this time of year!

[SamIam]

And then there's this by the side of the road I drove a couple of weeks back. http://cellar.org/attachment.php?att...1&d=1317500874

[BrilliantDisguise]

Originally Posted by Sundae

I'm scared by the lack of paragraphs.
Ow! Ow! My EYES!

Sorry...that's the way it copied.

Originally Posted by Brianna

Clinton Road - so scary it's named after a Democrat!!

that's a nice bit of Jersey lore there, BeeDee. Thanks! Love the scary this time of year!

Glad you enjoyed it. Did you know that Jersey has it's own devil too?

The Jersey Devil

The Jersey Devil, the supposed mythical creature of the New Jersey Pinelands, has haunted New Jersey and the surrounding areas for the past 260 years. This entity has been seen by over 2,000 witnesses over this period. It has terrorized towns and caused factories and schools to close down, yet many people believe that the Jersey Devil is a legend, a mythical beast, that originated from the folklore of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Others disagree with this point of view. The following text will show there is evidence to support the existence of an animal or supernatural bring known as the Jersey Devil. The evidence consists of the stories of the Jersey Devil's origin, the sightings of it, and finally, the theories on it.

More in link...
http://theshadowlands.net/jd.htm

Bruce Springsteen even has a song about it.

[Trilby]

BeeDee - are you, in some way, working for the New Jersey Tourism bureau?

[BrilliantDisguise]

Originally Posted by Brianna

BeeDee - are you, in some way, working for the New Jersey Tourism bureau?

I should with the bad rep we have! Next up, a thread about the beautiful beaches here.

[plthijinx]

done many a design job on the refineries there in jersey. some better than others but from my experience jersey is industrial. i know it's more than that but having never been....enjuneer made the field trips, going by what i know. would love to see pics of the beaches! and other stuffs!

[BrilliantDisguise]

Originally Posted by plthijinx

done many a design job on the refineries there in jersey. some better than others but from my experience jersey is industrial. i know it's more than that but having never been....enjuneer made the field trips, going by what i know. would love to see pics of the beaches! and other stuffs!

Unfortunately, that's how most people see New Jersey, especially if all they travel is the NJ Turnpike. But there really are some very beautiful areas here. I'll post up some pictures soon.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by BrilliantDisguise

But there really are some very beautiful areas here.

Absolutely, as soon as you get away from the people, its beautiful

[BrilliantDisguise]

Originally Posted by classicman

Absolutely, as soon as you get away from the people, its beautiful

[plthijinx]

dave you crack me up!

[classicman]

Sorry BDE - that was not directed at you.
I lived in central jersey for three years. Its actually a beautiful state. The northern part was ruined by the New York overflow. The southern beaches are great when the tourists (NY'ers) are gone. The oceans have been over-fished by people who just wanna catch and kill as many as they can with little regard for sport. Did I miss anything?

ETA - Oh wait - its got great gas prices!

[BrilliantDisguise]

Originally Posted by classicman

Sorry BDE - that was not directed at you.
I lived in central jersey for three years. Its actually a beautiful state. The northern part was ruined by the New York overflow. The southern beaches are great when the tourists (NY'ers) are gone. The oceans have been over-fished by people who just wanna catch and kill as many as they can with little regard for sport. Did I miss anything?

ETA - Oh wait - its got great gas prices!

Looks like you covered everything.

So we were neighbors for 3 years? I actually wish I could move further south. I would love to be at the beach all year. Maybe someday.

[plthijinx]

beach = super pics!