SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – On this edition of Throwback Thursday, Lori Kent with the Local Lou Podcast tells us about the haunted history of Spook Road.
“Spook Road is this three-mile stretch of windy, Tim Burtonesque road in Brandon. It used to be covered in these 100-year-old trees, these cottonwood trees. There’s no light, so it’s dark. There are tons of these bridges that you’re crossing, although one of the spooky things I hear is that you might cross five or six bridges going one way, but only four going the other way,” said Kent.
It has been called Spook Road for at least 50 years, but there was an incident in 1978 that contributed to the road’s reputation…