VroomVroomVroom travelers all around the world have many great and wonderful experiences. The following are not those experiences! In fact, we recommend that only a traveler with a strong heart and a healthy psyche dare to visit these Nightmarish Neighborhoods and drive a rental car along these Scary Streets!
Boone County roads near Belvidere, Illinois
Apparently this area has 10 haunted roads, with sites of suicides, school bus crashes, hangings, and train accidents.
Located 12 miles (19 kilometres) east of Rockford, Belvidere is a city of about 27 thousand Americans. It is surrounded by Boone County’s haunted roadways, the worst of which is Bloods Point Road! Head south from Belvidere and a small part of the village of Cherry Valley is tucked inside the eastern boundary of Boone County. The road leads to the horribly haunted Bloods Point Cemetery. Ghost cars including everything from big rig trucks to old school buses to antique pickup trucks travel this road at all hours of night, allegedly trying malevolently to wreck other drivers on the road! And ghostly children from a fatal school bus crash still haunt the Bloods Point Bridge where they died. This railroad bridge is infamously known as the site where screaming children fought for their lives after their school bus mysteriously crashed. Some say that cries for help still come from the spirits of the small passengers on certain nights. No wind is ever heard at those times, but the sounds of suffering will greet you if you dare to visit this haunted Boone County landmark.
VroomVroomVroom Friday the 13th Rating: 5/5 Screams!
Boy Scout Lane in Stevens Point, Wisconsin
A troop of Boy Scouts some 50 years ago were supposedly attacked by their chaperone or bus driver. Were they killed in their sleep?
This area has been investigated many times by paranormal experts and ghost hunters, and is a frequent hangout for misguided local youths who think experiencing “Paranormal Activity” will be fun… the road is named for a troop of Boy Scouts killed during a camping trip. When? In the 1950s or 60s, as the story goes. Some locals will tell you the murderer was the troop’s own Scout master. Others swear it was their bus driver. A few even claim the boys started a forest fire, dooming themselves! However, the privately-owned land including Boy Scout Lane is now off limits to the general public. What do the owners have to hide?
VroomVroomVroom Friday the 13th Rating: 2/5 Screams!
Route 666 is a 200 mile-stretch of road near the borders of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. It has been renamed Route 491, as officials try to ignore the haunted asphalt and its infamous nickname: “The Devil’s Highway!”
The 666 number, you see, is known for a Satanic connotation among Christians. “666” is the Number of the Beast, a term used in Revelation 13:18. But this Biblical reference is only the beginning… Route 666 had an unusually high fatality rate, particularly in New Mexico. Many believe that the highway is cursed. (People also stole road signs from Route 666 at an alarming rate.)
VroomVroomVroom Friday the 13th Rating: 4/5 Screams!
More Horrifying Haunted Highways:
* Route 2A in Haynesville, Maine: The Haynesville Woods has this infamously treacherous road, another site of many traffic fatalities. Dick Curless even recorded a song about it, called “A Tombstone Every Mile”. 3/5 Screams!
* Clinton Road in West Milford, New Jersey: Alleged home of ghostly vehicles, a Druid ritual site (a “mini-Stonehenge”) and an old Mafia body dumping ground. 3/5 Screams!
