The World's Most Haunted Roads
Hitchhikers who vanish, phantom coaches, angels who warn — the atlas's collection of roads that drive back.
Balete Drive
A · Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines — A quiet street in New Manila lined — once — with balete trees, where taxi drivers still refuse to travel alone at night because a girl in white might get in, and never appear in th…
30 East Drive — The Black Monk of Pontefract
A · Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England — An ordinary 1950s council house where the Pritchard family endured Britain's most violent recorded poltergeist — still open to overnight visitors.…
Nottingham Road Hotel — Charlotte of Room 10
B · KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, South Africa — A coaching-inn-era country hotel in the KZN Midlands where the ghost of 'Charlotte' tidies rooms, rearranges flowers — and pulls sleepers' toes.…
The Karak Expressway — The Yellow Volkswagen
B · Bentong, Pahang, Malaysia — On the Kuala Lumpur-Karak expressway through the rainforest hills, Malaysia's signature road legend: a driverless yellow Volkswagen Beetle that overtakes night traffic at impossibl…
Wilkinson Road — Mama Lungi, the Woman in White
B · Freetown, Sierra Leone — The long road out of Freetown toward Lungi — in the city's contemporary ghost canon the road of Mama Lungi, a woman in white who died in the 1970s searching for a child who never c…
Fenghuang and the Xiangxi Corpse Roads — Where the Dead Walked Home
A · Fenghuang County, Xiangxi, Hunan, China — Fenghuang, the river town at the heart of Xiangxi — the Miao and Tujia highlands of western Hunan — is the capital of gan shi, the corpse-driving trade: for roughly two centuries a…
M6 Motorway — Britain's Most Haunted Road
B · Preston to Rugby (Cumbria to Warwickshire corridor), England — Britain's longest motorway — opened as the Preston Bypass on 5 December 1958 — was declared the country's most haunted road by a 2006 national sightings survey, with Roman soldiers…
A75 Kinmount Straight — Scotland's Most Haunted Road
B · Annan, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland — The Kinmount straight of the A75 near Annan was called the most haunted road in Scotland by BBC News in 2013, after decades of screaming hags, eyeless phantoms, great cats and a ph…
Clinton Road — America's Most Haunted Road
A · West Milford, Passaic County, New Jersey, United States — The ten dark miles of Clinton Road in West Milford, New Jersey — haunted by a ghost boy who returns coins thrown from the Dead Man's Curve bridge, hellhounds, phantom trucks and th…
Kancamagus Highway — Ruth Colbath's Lantern
B · Passaconaway, Albany, New Hampshire, United States — New Hampshire's 34-mile scenic stretch of Route 112 through the White Mountain National Forest carries the region's purest legend: in September 1891 Thomas Colbath stepped out of h…
A9 at Slochd — The Coach and the Bewigged Footmen
B · Slochd Summit, Highland, Scotland — Britain's main road to the far north, where it crosses the moors at Slochd Summit, was ranked the nation's second most haunted road by the Tarmac company's 2006 national survey — t…
B4293 at Devauden — The Guardian Angel's Voice
B · Devauden, Monmouthshire, Wales — A winding B-road through the wooded country of Monmouthshire between the Wye valley and the hills, ranked sixth in Britain's 2006 Tarmac survey of haunted roads for its one perfect…
Wakehurst Parkway — Kelly of the Northern Beaches
B · Seaforth to North Narrabeen, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia — Australia's most famous haunted road: a dark, winding parkway of roughly fifteen kilometres through bushland between Seaforth and North Narrabeen in Sydney's north, haunted most fa…
Shades of Death Road — Ghost Lake, New Jersey
B · Great Meadows, Independence Township, Warren County, New Jersey, United States — The most ominously named road in America: a two-lane country road through the Great Meadows of north-western New Jersey, whose very name — by rival legends the shade of malaria-kil…
Tuen Mun Road — Hong Kong's Highway of Death
B · Ting Kau stretch, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China — Hong Kong's first expressway, opened in 1978 through the hills between Tuen Mun and the city, earned the name Highway of Death through decades of crashes — and built the correspond…
10050 Cielo Drive — The House on the Hill Above Benedict Canyon
B · Cielo Drive, Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, California, United States — The address of the Manson Family's 1969 murders of Sharon Tate and four others — a house whose afterlife outgrew the crime: a decade of uneasy tenants and rumours of the dead, then…