Alabama – Hell’s Gate, Oxford
On Old Boiling Springs Road there is an abandoned bridge where many years ago a young couple died after losing control of their car and plunging into the river below. If you stop on the bridge and turn off all the lights in your car, one of their ghosts will get into your car and leave a wet spot on your seat. Awkward.
Alternatively, if you stop on the bridge and turn around, you are no longer looking at the bridge, but into the gates of hell. The local government has deemed the bridge “unsafe”, but instead of, you know, reasonably tearing it down, they’ve just blocked it with cement barriers. But I guess that does make sense, since the backdoor to hell is probably harder to demolish than one would imagine.
You missed the boat on New Jersey! THE JERSEY DEVIL is most definitely the official haunting creature of the Garden State. Long before NJ was even a state, the legend of the Jersey Devil began. It was the 13th child of Mrs Leeds, who had no desire for another baby. According to legend, she cursed the baby even before it was born. At its birth, the creature assumed otherworldly dimension and flew up the chimney of the home. Since then, the Devil regularly haunts the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, frightening all it encounters. On the eve of a National tragedy, the Devil is said to appear at many varied places in the state to warn of evils to come (most notably in December 1941, just before Pearl Harbor.)