What’s left of a fading ghost haunts his modern highway just west of Denver. On July 20, 1881, a Colorado Central locomotive struck a man walking on the Ralston-to-Golden tracks near Van Bibber Creek. The impact knocked the man far into the bushes. In spite of an in-depth search, his body was never found. All the searchers found was a derby hat laying near the railroad tracks where the man was struck. Within a month of the accident, the man’s apparition started appearing at the spot where he was killed. The spirit appears wearing a derby hat and reeking of rotting flesh. He is said to manifest in trains, along the tracks, and to pople passing through the area. The spirit haunted the area for a while, but has begun to fade away with time. The tracks have been replaced by a modern highway, but the eerie presence can still be felt. The apparition shows itself now as a vaporous shape, a cloud of dust, or a just lingering sense of uneasiness.
Golden is 5 miles west of Denver, just off 1-70. The presence has been reported north of Golden, along highway 93 near Van Bibber stream.
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The phantom of a man in a top hat has haunted this road for nearly a century. If anyone stops to give him a ride, he rewards them with a present. In the early 1950s, the ghost gave a man 2 tickets to a dinner theater. Clinton is on the Mississippi River in east central Iowa, at the junction of U.S. Roads 30 and 67. Comanche Road runs east of u.s. Road 67, between Clinton and Camanche.
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This dangerous seven-mile mountain road runs between Georgetown and Lotus, parallel to Marshall Road.
In the last 150+ years, Prospectors Road has claimed many lives due to its treacherous location. The ghost of a grumpy old prospector doesnt help the situation any. Reports say that if you see the weeds along the side of the road begin to part, watch out. Once the weeds part, the old prospector floats up the embankment and confronts drivers as they pass. He points his bony finger and silently mouths the words “Get off my claim”. I wouldn’t argue with him.
This road is in northern Ohio near Pemberville and just off highway 199. I was on a trip to visit my sister who lives near Toledo and we were looking for some supposedly haunted place to check out. We did some research and found this road, which is only about 20 minutes from my sister’s house. We decided to check it out for ourselves.
The stories about this road tell of a tradegy involving a school bus accident and the death of several kids and the driver. It’s been told how you can see red eyes in the woods along with children looking at you through the trees. There have also been reports of a phantom light floating toward you if you stop and park at the entrance of the woods or that the single light may chase you out of the woods.
Well, we didn’t see any red eyes. We got there right around dusk and drove down the road the first time. We were nervous of course because we had read all the stories. As we headed toward the woods, we noticed a vehicle approaching us. Oddly enough, it was an old schoolbus. That was freaky, but it really was a bus. We watched it as it drove past us. Besides the bus, the first time we just drove through and nothing really happened. My sister snapped pictures as I drove. It was kind of funny though how when I looked in the rear view mirror I saw a single headlight behind us. When I pulled over to turn around, we were passed by a beat up old truck with a busted headlight. I guess you could say we did get followed by a light. 
The trip back was much more exciting. It was dark by this time and we decided to drive very slowly so my sister could take some pictures on the other side of the road. We were really creeped out by this point. The place is very dark and has an erie feeling about it. I was almost at a complete stop when my sister looked at a picture she has just snapped and yelled “Get the #*@! out of here!”. So I did. I wasn’t sure what was up because I had been focused on driving and didn’t see anything. She said she had seen someone looking back at her in the passenger’s side mirror. We got out of there in a hurry and didn’t bother to look back.
When we looked at the pictures, we did see some strange things. Is that a child looking at us from the woods? What is that weird green light? What exactly is that in the mirror? I have posted some pictures here. It’s really hard to see anything on the mirror picture, but you can see it if you look in the camera. I don’t know what’s up with the infamous Holcomb road, but if you’re looking to scare yourself silly, maybe you should check it out…
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The ghost of a dog-faced boy has been seen near parked cars along this street several times in the last thirty years. The boy was a deformed child who had supported himself by selling pencils and stealing from cars. History says he was murdered here in 1926 after he was caught stealing from someone’s vehicle. Reported sightings have occured on Pioneer Street and in the parking lot of Lithia Park, where the Oregon Shakespearean Festival Theater now stands.
This highway is said to be haunted by two headless ghosts. One is a construction worker who was working to build the highway. He was robbed and murdered by a fellow laborer, and his decapitated body was buried under the road. His ghost is still seen by motorists traveling the highway on a stretch of the road called Deep Cut, which lies between Cambridge and Old Washington.
The other spirit is a woman who lived in a cabin near the old trail in the late 1890s. She was beheaded by her husband during a violent argument. Soon after, her headless apparition was seen riding sidesaddle on a white horse. She has come to be known as Lady Bend. Lady Bend is seen on the highway at Lady Bend Hill on the third bend from the top.
The ghosts of 3 nuns alledgedly tortured and killed by Indains have haunted this roadway for over 100 years. Las Tres Hermanas, as they have come to be called, stand on the roadside with their arms folded, wearing black and white habits. Ortega road is located in Montecito, which is on Highway 192 in Santa Barbara County.
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