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With Halloween just around the corner, a warning needs to be issued!
A New Jersey road has raised alarms for constant reports of paranormal activity, with even car rental companies warning clients to be cautious.
Most haunted road in the world revealed
In a recent worldwide ranking by Sixt, a piece of pavement called Clinton Road in West Milford has been named the most haunted road in the world for the third year in a row.
According to the company, the road is "one of the country's most haunted roads, with a reputation built on decades of local folklore and eerie encounters".
"The 10-mile stretch of heavily forested road is particularly unsettling after dark," a representative explained, "when its dense tree canopy leaves parts of the route almost completely shrouded in darkness".
Stories behind the Clinton Road's reputation
The road has a disturbing reputation for creepy activity that dates back more than a century.
In 1905, writer J. Percy Crayon described the area as inhabited by "robbers, witches and ghosts that made their appearance in frightful forms".
In one famous story, Ghost Boy, a spirit said to linger beneath a bridge, returns coins that are tossed into the water below.
"Visitors continue to test the story, with coins still visible in the stream below Dead Man's Curve," Sixt explained, adding that the road is also associated with the appearance of "ghost lights", mysterious floating orbs or unexplained lights that appear in the darkness and sometimes surround solo drivers.
Commuters also describe seeing phantom cars, specifically, a black Camaro and an old pickup truck, that appear in their rearview mirrors before disappearing into darkness.
Legend even holds that Clinton Road is the preferred thoroughfare of the Jersey Devil, a mysterious creature of disputed origins who has been blamed for drought, crop failure, the death of livestock and even the onset of war.
"Together, these tales give Clinton Road a fascinating mix of history, folklore and roadside mystery," said Sixt.
How was the road chosen?
To determine the most haunted stretches of highway in the world, experts analysed search trends on Google and social media, then compared the results with previously published lists of haunted roads in 2023,
Clinton Road generated more than one million searches between July 2025 and July 2026.
In 2019, Clinton Road became an indie horror movie starring Ice-T, who appeared as a Garden State firefighter whose wife goes missing on the storied New Jersey road stretch.
World's second most haunted road
Sixt named the second creepiest road as Kancamagus Highway in New Hampshire, which is said to be haunted by Ruth Colbath, a lovelorn New England postal worker whose husband Thomas allegedly vanished along the road in the 1800s.
For 39 years, the ever-faithful Ruth has been said to kept an oil lamp burning and her hopes high for his return. But three years after she died, Thomas reportedly found his way home.
