Shades of Death Road: Part 1
photo taken from wikipedia.org
Shades of Death Road is the name of a road in Warren County, New Jersey. The two-lane, 7-mile road runs through Liberty and Independence Townships, offering access to points of Jenny Jump State Forest along the way. Due to its unique name, many people have automatically associated the road with the paranormal.
Since the road is so old, no one knows for sure why “Shades of Death” was chosen as the name for the road. According to Wikipedia.org, here are a list of explanations:
“Some focus on the road’s southern half, where the adjoining forest with its aged trees provides much actual shade from the sun on even the brightest days. Highwaymen or other bandits would supposedly lay in wait for victims in these shadows, then often cut their throats after taking what they had, or they would engage in fights to the death among themselves over women.
Or, it is said, the local populace would take revenge against these highwaymen by lynching them and leaving the bodies dangling from low-hanging tree branches as a warning to others criminally inclined.
In the 1920s and 1930s there were three brutal murders along the road, one a robbery in which a man was hit over the head with a tire jack over some gold coins, a second in which a woman beheaded her husband and buried the head and the body on different sides of the street, and lastly one in which a local resident, Bill Cummins, was shot and buried in a mudpile. It was never solved.”
Ghost Lake is the name of the spot off of Shades of Death Road where there is believed to be paranormal activity. People who see it always claim that even if it is the middle of the night, the sky above the lake always appears to be around twilight.
There is also and old cabin across from the lake where some have said to see the ghost of a man there, possibly from murders that once took place there many years ago.
Check back in for Part II of Shades of Death Road.
