ALABAMA (WDHN) — Have you ever been driving home alone late at night, and felt the hair raise on the back of your neck? Of course, you could have just been paranoid, or, maybe, you were on one of Alabama’s most haunted streets!
In a survey from Gunter Volkswagen , 3,000 drivers were asked what their spookiest street was, and Alabama showed up on the Top 100 not once, not twice, but three times.
Here’s the story behind each to get you in the spirit as we get ever closer to Halloween.
#32. AL 169 – Seale to Opelika
The stretch from Seale to Opelika along AL 169, best known as the way many take to Auburn from Dothan coming off 431, but also for connecting US 80 to Lee & Russell County, received a staggering amount of votes.
In Michelle Smith and John Mark Poe’s book, Haunted Auburn and Opelika, travelers said that along this route they had heard “disembodied cries on lonely bridges,” or phantom images of cars or people alongside the country roads.
One particular figure seems to be especially prevalent in many of the supposed sightings referenced in the book- a man atop a horse, charging towards drivers before simply disappearing!