Massachusetts – The Bloody Pit
The Hoosac railway tunnel is almost five miles long and runs through the Hoosac mountain range in western Massachusetts. Construction lasted 24 years from the 1850’s to the 1870’s, and 200 men died while building the tunnel. This included a cave it was assumed everyone died instantly, but when they excavated it, found that at least one person had lived for sometime. This earned the tunnel the nickname “The Bloody Pit.” The tunnel is still sometimes used by freight trains. There have been weird sightings and sounds reported near the tunnel for over 150 years.
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.)