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Shades of Death Road
Legend has it, that many years ago, a car of teenagers were driving down a country road in Hackettstown, NJ after the prom. The road was slippery that night and it curved sharply to the left and right, winding into the dark. The driver lost control and the car crashed into a ditch killing one of the passengers. To this day, on dark and slippery nights, you can still see the girl who died wandering that murderous curve wearing her prom dress.
The road is named, "Shades of Death Road" and is located towards Great Meadows by Jenny Jump State Park and Ghost Lake (A highly haunted area). I’ve heard that every section of the road that contains a reflective guardrail is where someone has died.
Another Version
There is a "Shades of Death Road" in Hanover Township, PA.
When you go down the road it actually inclines downward and the trees develop a natural canopy so that it’s almost dark as night during the middle of the day.
The story goes that this miserable young guy lost his girl, his job, his dog, his keys etc. so he hung himself at the lowest point of the road from one of the trees that formed the canopy. He wasn’t found for days.
Now his spirit haunts the area and if you’re driving at night make sure you don’t stop or someone or something will start chasing you. I have heard extreme cases of cars not starting in the basin, or people getting out of their car and hearing footsteps or unexplained breathing. In the 80′s and early 90′s rumors flew about devil worshipping going on there.
I know that I will NOT go down that road for anything. I don’t care how many people are with me or what time of day it is….you definitely feel something when you’re there.
Natalie Stadelman from Pittsburgh, PA
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The Shades of Death Road is really a road in Hanover NJ. I live near there and have been on the road. It is always dark and it used to be Indian burial ground. There is also a lake there where a young kid drowned. Rumor has it that if you go down the road (which is scary as hell) at night and make a turn on a side road, a black truck will come out and chase you. It is said to be the Devil. Now, in the 80s or 90s, these weird polaroids of doll-like women appeared on the side of the road. There were literally Hundreds of them. The polaroids were old and just completely creepy. These became known as the Shades of Death Polaroids.
Now, I’ve been down the road at night, and the only truck we got chased by is from the farmer that OWNS THE PROPERTY. The side road I mentioned is private property, owned by a farmer. I do not recommend going into the side road, not because the truck of Satan will chase you, but because you could be arrested for trespassing in the middle of the night.
Actually,there are Hanover Townships in Pennsylvania as well,and quite an amount,in Northhampton County,Luzurne County,Lehigh County,etc,and all over the US,like Ohio,New Jersey,etc.
…ahh…so it is really true that it’s haunted…gee!…
u are a tool its actually in great meadows independece and allamuchy ,nj not hanover and its really not that bad i walked from ghost lake to my house on hope road once at like 2 am
omg what the hell
I laughed hard at the last sentence that Lexi typed.
NO i live there it is allamuchy n.j and its not that bad.
i live on the bent in the bush come fint me
Then who the hell would ever want to drive down there….?
I’m puzzled why someone would say this road is in Hanover, NJ. It actually runs along Jenny Jump State Park, though Great Meadows, Independence, and Liberty, near Allamuchy. I’ve driven on this road many times. Usually, it’s like any other road, but there seems to be an unusual amount of mist. One night I had to keep stopping my car to move large bull frogs across the road so I wouldn’t hit them. They were crossing over from Ghost Lake. It was a little eerie.
i wanna go to the mosthaunted places in the world to see whats so scary about them and if i do then ill be sure to camp out at that road
I agree with you. That has been my life long dream.
Anonymous, I’m from Scotland and you should come over and visit Mary Janes Close in Edinburgh, it’s and underground cavern that in the days of the black death they townsfolk of Edinburgh walled up all the people alive who they thought hade contracted the black death, look for it on the net……..very scary
Actually a psycho truck driver will chase after you. When I was visiting my sister at Montclair University we attended a little Halloween gathering where students from the school told us ghost stories. Someone told us a friend and him were driving on Shades of Death Road the car stopped working and they saw a truck coming so they hid behind trees. He told us the person who got out of the truck was a big guy with combat boots (he also said he had a weapon like a bat but I am not very sure) the guy walked up to their car and said “who’s on my road” and also “I see you.” They heard the trucker coming for them so they started to run. He said that they were looking for a cabin but there was something done with it (I can’t remember what the guy said about what happened to the cabin but he said they hid somewhere around it or something like that) they waited 2 to 3 hours and eventually heard footsteps and heard a voice that said “That’s what happens when your on my road” (or something like that?. They waited until morning to go back to the car but the student said when they arrived back to the vehicle it had this big dent on the side (that is what I believe he said something about there being a huge dent on the car but I forget) and the guy found a note that said “I see you.” Even though I didn’t know the guy but I believe this is true.
Another thing on my bucketlist!
Really I live in liberty on shades of death road except for the many mature trees this road us Luke every other road
Really I live in liberty on shades of death road except for the many mature trees this road is Like every other road