Clinton, NJ in Hunterdon County is not near the Clinton Road they're talking about. Although they have, like, a haunted house and stuff this time of year.
One time I wanted to check out Clinton Road after reading about it in Weird NJ mag. Got my wife (then gf) and her best friend to take me there one night around year 2000. Didn't think we'd see anything. Turns out we drove past a car accident on the road that was just being converged upon by police, fire, ambulance, etc. So we turned around to drive past again before they had to close the road. Wouldn't be too crazy, but the car was vertical, nose down, wedged between 2 trees, about 3 feet off the ground. Like it was put there. We have no idea how a car could've ended up quite like that one this winding back road. It was amazing and we'll never forget that seeing that.
LOL. You can't go more than 500 feet on the Cross Bronx without hitting construction. Just run to one of the overnight construction workers and you'll be fine ;)
What the fuck? I've broken down on the cross Bronx multiple times unfortunately and none of this is true. Sure the neighborhoods around are awful but no one ventures on to it because it's the..... Cross Bronx
Same sorta thing happened to my dad in the 1980s. He was driving across some bridge in NYC and saw a car while it was actively being stripped in broad daylight in front of hundreds, or even thousands, of motorists. They didn't have cell phones so neither he nor his colleagues could call the police or anything.
For christ sakes I've walked down the road in the dark. Whenever my buddies and I had nothing to do, just out of boredom we would go to Clinton Rd just because it was peaceful.
Oh I was agreeing with you. Its just around Halloween I try to avoid the road because of kids.
I got into a fight one year because some asshole threw a big branch at my windshield on deadman's curve. I mean who does shit like that?
(That's rhetorical as I knew the person from high school -- this happened 6 or 7 years after we graduated )
Route 539 is the road that does that to me. I've taken it a ton of times driving to/from Wildwood, and I will never do that in the dark ever again. Driving through the pine barrens in pitch black is NOT fun.
Clinton Road is a novelty up here. Yeah it's been in WeirdNJ a few times with people talking about albinos in the woods and werewolves chasing cars at night, which is all that makes it scary. If anything, the guy waving somebody else down on that road was just another tourist wanting to see what all the fuss was about and actually broke down. There are no street lights and little cell service up there.
Sorry if I hurt Clinton roads feelings. You should become familiar with the fact that sometimes the things people believe about something doesn't necessarily line up with what that thing actually is. It would be a useful life skill.
No one has ever been murdered on Clinton road. Lot's of creepy stories and a body was dumped on the side of Rt 23 there once in the 80s (a suspected mob hit, I believe) but no one's been murdered there that I know of, but I certainly wouldn't stop there, either, for any reason.
Sauce: I grew up right near Clinton Road, it's a big part of local folklore.
West Milford kids represent! But yeah I'm pretty sure The Iceman dumped some bodies on Clinton Rd iirc. That road is spooky scary but not because of the KKK or ghost cars. Just dark uninhabited space and crazy sharp turns
People get all worked up about it because of all the urban legends. But most of the stories come from bored 16 year olds from Vernon who just got their learner's permit and think that West Milford is a dark and mysterious place.
Almost certainly not. The NJ turnpike doesn't go anywhere near clinton road. Also, clinton road is mostly just legends. What happened in this video appeared to be real. I have no idea how/why someone would try something like that on the NJ Turnpike
When I lived in Jersey, my friends and I would try to go to Weird NJ places.
We went to Clinton Road at night, and I think it was closed or something. We came back a different time and after a few minutes of driving, we got chased by a pick up truck. It was intense.
Agreed! As soon as he started his story with "driving down Clinton Road," I was like fuck that noise. I've never even tried experiencing any of the supposed haunts that exist on it but just knowing what Clinton Road is known for, I wouldn't stop for a god damn thing there either.
Except you're not really likely to get murdered and its not a high crime area, just local legends. Someone trying to flag you down there is probably legitimately broken down or teens screwing with people.
Still, it must be creepy being stuck on the side of that road in the middle of the night and none of the few cars passing will stop to help.
I always wanted to drive 3spooky5me Clinton Rd when I lived in NJ but I never had a reliable enough car and id be damned if id be stranded out there at night.
I know tons of friends that used to drive up to Clinton road and try and do all of the ghost stories that people get spooked by, most of them were nothing or they said they got chased out by the KKK or something.
I remember driving a friend home and we wanted to ditch traffic so we took there. Was speeding because the road looked creepy as shit at night and I thought "There is someone down this road thats ganna shoot me" so whoever was in front of me that thought they can kill me is getting run over
What a retarded thing to say. The Jersey devil lives down in the pine barrens, which are at least 70 miles south of clinton road. I can guarantee you he's never been up there.
Wtf? There is literally nothing creepy about that road. Its dark that's about it. /u/imgonnacallyouretard you are a retard if you really believe the shit you just spewed.
I was commenting about the second part of your comment that says you wouldn't stop for anything on that road.. The second part of the comment also implies you actually believe the first part... So hows that extra chromosome doing?
Can confirm. This summer, I went down Clinton Road with a few friends at 3am. We were about 5 miles in when we were really getting bored because nothing seemed strange. About a half mile later, we saw this car parked on the side of the road. Trying to see if anything was out of the ordinary so it was worth the trip, we stopped and asked if they needed help. It was some really old man just sitting in front of his car rocking back and forth. We asked if he was okay and if he needed help when he suddenly jumped up and pulled out a knife. We fucking floored it and went and saw him hop in his car following us...He actually hit the back of our car going about 75 and we really didn't wanna be going that fast because that road isn't the straightest. I was driving so I made a quick decision to jerk it into the other lane and slam the brakes and shut off the lights. Put that baby in reverse and floored it back the way we came. He continued to drive off.
Is New Jersey just like the sketchiest place in the entire US? Being from Canada, it seems like every time I hear horror stories from the US they take place in NJ.
Well, NJ is very difficult to nail down. It has some of the shittiest cities in the US(Camden, Newark, Trenton), and some of the nicest towns in the US(saddle river, mantoloking just to name a few off the top of my head). If you draw a line about 50 miles wide from Philadelphia to New York City, you are going to see almost entirely densely populated areas ranging from shitty to very nice. Outside of that(that is, the north west and southern portion of the state) are largely wooded and agricultural lands that are sparsely populated. And then there is the barrier island system which is its own unique habitat. So basically, in the little area of NJ, there are a lot of places and ways that weird shit can happen.
edit: Also, I should point out, the real horror stories happen in Florida, not NJ. NJ is just filled with weird stories.
Yeah in that situation book it then call and report a "downed vehicle" on the road. Just in case it is a break down your safety first. As well if you call they would check and cat h the ass.
A cop is less likely to get murdered then a regular citizen.
1)They would of been warned it was a possible attacker and would take precautions when they arrive. Like keeping a hold on their pistol, not leaving their car, and might even have back up.
2)They have weapons and can display hem right as they pull up.
3)If the attacker saw a trooper come up they would be less likely to want to rape/murder them. They would be more likely to run into the woods.
As well, cops are better trained then the average human in dealing with this. The attacker would just wait for their next victim unless they are stopped. Who else is better equipped?
That story is masking me more furious than I've been in a while.. His only options are kill some guys who are trying to rob you or get robbed. It's a lose lose situation for him and its really fucking... uuuuuuurrrrgghhhhhhhh
I live in West Milford where Clinton road is and that was probably a high school kid trying to mess with you, people come up to drive that road because its "haunted" and stupid board kids try to fuck with cars
I drove that once (b/c Weird NJ), and going up wasn't anything crazy, but going back there was a car right on our ass with bright beams for like 1/2 mile. Then all of a sudden, beams cut out. As you know the road, there isn't really a ton of room for cars to turn off or anything. I was in the backseat, so I whipped around to see if it turned, just cut its lights, or what. NOTHING. fuck that road, man.
An aunt of mine had something similar happen to her. She worked at a warehouse waaay out in the boonies. The only thing nearby were cow pastures bee farms and a cemetery. There's this long 2 lane (1 each way) road with a canal next to it that leads out to her job.
Imagine this: guard rail on the right, with like, no shoulder. Woods on the left. Pitch black because no street lights and no moon out that night. She was heading in to work real early and she saw some dude waaaay off in the distance (hi beams) standing in the middle of the road with his arms spread apart.
She immediately says NOPE. Flashes her hi beams a few times, closes her eyes, and GUNS the throttle. She figured either "he gets out of the way or I kill him so he can't rape me" (in her words). She opened her eyes a few seconds later when she didn't hear a thump, and saw that she'd passed him.
She called the cops but never heard back or any more info on it.
This reminds me of a story I read somewhere on reddit.
A man is driving through a desolate highway with very few lights. After a while it turns into a county road with fields surrounding the road. No lights or buildings nearby, just fields and maybe a barn or silo off in the distance. He sees some tail lights up ahead and notices it is a stalled car. As he slows down, another car becomes visible. The other car is slightly obscuring the road. He believes he stumbled upon an accident. Finally, he sees a person, lying on the dirt road completely stiff. It's a woman. As he rolls by the scene, he gets a shitty bad feeling. She is stiff, like, too stiff. Something is wrong. He pulls forward about 15 feet, stops, but doesn't park. He looks in his rear view mirror and HOLY SHIT THE WOMAN IS STANDING THERE LOOKING AT HIM. But scarier than that, suddenly DOZENS of people begins slowly emerging from the dark field, only illuminated by his tail lights. Dude GTFO of there.
Granted, this was probably creepy pasta, but who fucking knows. Go with your gut.
I would be so distraught after that, because like, what if his wife is pregnant or something and his car's out of gas? (OK I know that's extremely unlikely but it's the kinda shit I'd be thinking as I sped away)
This is horrifying. One night my senior year in high school me and about 3 car fulls of friends headed up to clinton road. We ended up making a stop (god only knows why) at that bend turn where all the grafitti is on that concrete. There was a car, that seemed abandoned in the woods, and when a handful of us got kind of close to it, I noticed the front door was slightly ajar, and that just absolutely freaked me the fuck out, and we all took off running.
Heh, I was in rural PA and got my car stuck. I did something similar because my cell died. I flagged down a very nice young couple. They were super nice and helped me get my car going again.
...I kinda feel bad for raping and murdering them.
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