In the US state of New Jersey, there is a road called Clinton Road. Its total duration is 15 kilometers. There are many legends about this road with frightening stories. In 2019, a horror film was released about this so-called "bloody road". But how really dangerous is the road, and did anyone see those legendary ghosts on it?
A horror film released in 2019 called Clinton Road, told and showed all the main legends associated with this road. At the same time, it was stated that the motion picture is based on real events - such a fashionable and often used trick now to attract the attention of viewers. And, yes, such a road does exist. It got its name in honor of the city of Clinton, through which it once passed. Now this city no longer exists, the road passes through a continuous forest, lonely houses are rarely found along its sides.
There are also several dangerous bends along the Clinton Road that drivers should be especially careful at. More from the real facts - the "gangster" past of the road. When she came here - and this happened in the 19th century - she was a muddy and difficult road that was popular with local bandits. A few miles away was a factory producing cannonballs. Therefore, often those who went to the factory for weapons, became the object of robbery. And this is one of the few facts of violence related to Clinton Road actually recorded in historical documents.
And there are much more legends about this place than real facts. For example, in the magazine Weird NJ several times, according to eyewitnesses, events were described that allegedly happened on the road. So, stories appeared that here they met Bigfoot and aliens from other planets, ghosts-people and ghosts-machines, strange creatures resembling a hybrid of a large dog and a monkey. People's imaginations were so intense that even an ordinary smelter, built in the 18th century, they took for a temple of the Druids.
The most famous local legend tells of a little boy who once decided on a bet to stand on the edge of a bridge over the river crossed by the road. The child could not resist and fell on the stones, and, accordingly, died. This place is now called "the turn of the dead." The legend says that if a coin is thrown into the river, the boy's ghost will definitely throw it back onto the road.
Other legends tell about ghost cars, of which there are several at once. Allegedly, these cars once got into accidents on the Clintorne Road, after which they periodically appeared, then mysteriously disappeared, without causing any inconvenience to anyone.
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In addition, many stories are associated with the existence of a gang of Satanists in the local forest. Allegedly, they gathered near the once existing three-story mansion-castle and performed their rituals there. There is a story that once a bus with teenagers passing by was stopped by a man in white clothes that resembled those of the Ku Klus Klan. This man examined all the passengers, and only after making sure that there were no blacks among them, he let them go.
As for the local residents and police representatives, they all have never noticed anything like this, they consider the road to be the most ordinary, and all the legends are absolute fiction. But there is one true story among these stories. In 1983, a cyclist discovered vultures that were not typical of the area. When he followed the birds, he saw a bag with a human corpse in it. An autopsy revealed that there were ice crystals in the blood vessels near the heart. It became clear that someone had frozen the corpse. According to the investigation, the murdered was a member of a group from another district, and three years later the murderer was also caught - he turned out to be the mercenary Richard Kuklinsky, who was called the "Ice Man" - because he often froze his victims. Kuklinsky was sentenced to two life sentences and died in prison in 2006.