(COLORADO SPRINGS) — Have you ever been driving late at night and something just felt… off? A chill running through the cabin of your car, even though your heat is on? The palpable feeling of a pair of eyes on you, despite being seemingly the only car for miles? If so, you’re definitely not alone, as two roads in Colorado have been ranked as two of the most haunted roads in America. One of these is Gold Camp Road in Colorado Springs.
Rental car agency Sixt conducted a study by analyzing Google and TikTok search trends over the past year, connecting road names and related “ghost” terms, placing the Colorado Springs road as number 17 on their list of 20.
Likely, many of the searches that landed Gold Camp Road on the list are a result of the Gold Camp Road Tunnels, stemming from prevalent local folk tales that surround the aging mines. Originally, there were nine passages carved into the mountains, but as local travel moved away from railroads, three of the tunnels collapsed.
According to Atlas Obscura, a popular website dedicated to chronicling the world’s relics and roadside oddities, one of these collapses inspired prevalent local folklore of a doomed bus carrying children through one of the tunnels when it collapsed in 1988, leaving no survivors. Ever since, many who have traveled Gold Camp Road or taken a hiking or biking trip into the tunnels have reported ghostly phenomena ranging from little hand prints pressed into the dust of their cars to being grabbed and scratched by entities that simply weren’t there…