Ghost Stories Span Historic Roads, Villages, Bridges

Local legends have cast several roads and landmarks as haunted, though the stories remain unverified. Maryland’s Game Preserve Road is associated with nearly 150 years of reports, including a headless Civil War soldier and strange lights near a railroad bridge; the accounts make it a fixture of local ghost lore. In Sheffield, stories about the Stocksbridge Bypass include reports of children disappearing at a construction site and apparitions appearing beside drivers, while the road is also known as an accident blackspot. Maryland’s 1865 Jericho Covered Bridge draws tales of apparitions and a rumored history of hangings, but historians have found no documentation supporting that claim.