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The Vanishing Hitchhiker on Mulholland Drive is a haunting legend that has both fascinated and spooked Los Angeles residents and visitors for decades. This eerie tale embodies the mysterious aura of one of the city’s most famous roads, blending urban myth with paranormal intrigue. Origins of the Legend Mulholland Drive, known for its scenic views and celebrity homes, also harbors a darker…

Old St. Louis Road

Located just outside De Soto, Mo. Located off of Charter Church Road, on the east side of Highway 67. This road was used to get to St. Louis from Farmington back in the 1800’s. Many people died on this road between 1800 and 1954. Some of them now haunt this road. This includes the sound of people walking and talking in the woods,  a girl that starts screaming which begins faintly and then becomes…

This ghostly legend of a highway is one of the most talked about in the state of Arkansas. There are several stories of the vanishing hitchhiker related to this road. One story that took place near Woodson, Arkansas had a driver giving a lift to a young woman one rainy night and driving her to a house in Redfield. He got out of the car and walked around to her side of the vehicle to open the door, only to find the girl had disappeared. Bewildered, he went up to the house and was told by the man (sometimes a woman) who answered the door that his daughter had been killed on that night four years ago. On each anniversary of her death, she found an unwitting driver to bring her home. A similar one involves a coat, which is described as the young woman’s.

Then theres the girl from Batesville. In 1973 a young man picked up a woman near the bridge going to Batesville. The girl was bruised and battered, with a cut above her eye, and she told the driver she had been in an accident. When he brought her home, she disappeared. He then walked to the house and was told that his daughter had been killed one month before at the bridge and that he was not the first to bring her home. According to legend, she is still wandering the highway looking for a ride home.

Another man picked up a girl near Woodson and drove her to her home in Redfield. When the man got out of the car to open the door for the girl, she had disappeared. The man went to the door anyway, and a grieving father told him his daughter had someone drive her home every year on the anniversary of her death. The creepiest story has a man picking the girl up near a bridge in the rain. Because the girl was soaked through, he put his coat around her shoulders. When they arrived at the house where the girl said she belonged, she disappeared, taking his coat with her. After his conversation with the dead girl’s mother, the man visited the girl’s grave where he found his coat draped across her headstone.

There is more than only the girl in white, however. There is allegedly a girl who runs out in front of you, causing you to strike her. When you get out to look for the injured body, it is nowhere to be found. Some folks claim that you can stop in the middle of the highway, turn off your headlights, and honk three times to summon a ghostly motorcycle that will drive right through your car. Another hitchhiker, this time a man, speaks of the second coming and then disappears. The one thing all these stories have in common is that they take place on Highway 365, near the towns of Woodson and Redfield. Reports of creepy activity there date back to the 1950’s.

The haunted area of Highway 365 is said to run just south of Little Rock and past the towns of Woodson, Redfield and as far as Pine Bluff.

Arkansas Drive the lonely stretch of Arkansas Highway 64, especially on a rainy night, and you will be likely to sight the tormented spirit of Laura Starr Latta, who died a month before her twentieth birthday in 1899. Motorists have claimed to have seen Laura’s small, frail frame inside a white nightgown standing on the side of the road across from the cemetery where her body lies. Some old…

The 190 miles of U.S. 666 starts at Gallup, New Mexico, wends its way through 70 miles of Colorado, then ends in Monticello, Utah. According to many folks’ statistics, the ill-named highway has a incredibly high accident rate, and they know some of the reasons why this is so. According to numerous eyewitness accounts, on nights of the full moon, a black, 1930s vintage Pierce-Arrow roadster has…