Utah – American Fork Canyon
American Fork Canyon is full of ghosts, apparently. To be fair, many have died here, from car accidents, suicides and unplanned falls off cliffs. There’s a cave haunted by young lovers who died tragically that even the park employees have reported experiencing strange and explainable things – hands brushing your face in the dark, whispering and approaching voices, and locking doors to the cave only to hear voices begging to be let out on the other side, but no one was there.
The trail to that cave was also haunted, having cold spots even in the middle of summer, and whispers and laughter in the early morning. A ghost of a lost little boy of about 4 years old appears on one of the trails, a man who’s not yet realized he’s dead stomps through the brush before glaring at hikers on another.
If you stay at the campground, you can supposedly summon a ghost hearse by driving your car in a circle three times. You can also possibly take an apparition home via hitchhiking ghost, that’s if he’s kind enough to stick around after your headlights have illuminated him. He usually just disappears.
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.)