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.
What each side asserts, disputes — or leaves out entirely.
Whose framing of this story rings truest to you?
