Americas 10 scariest roads revealed you wont want to drive down them alone, at night, in the dark

More like creepy Hollow.Driving at night is frightening enough on its own, but there’s some scary streets that motorists should definitely avoid after dark.Ahead of Halloween, a Florida car dealership ranked the scariest streets in America, finding that a notorious New York road topped the list.The spine-tingling roundup was compiled by the Gunther Volkswagen dealership in Delray Beach, which surveyed 3,000 drivers about which roads they’re most likely to avoid when the sun goes down.They then compiled them into a list of the nation’s 140 most petrifying stretches of pavement.Scariness in this context wasn’t defined by the probability of an accident, but rather said streets’ association with haunted tales, spooky apparitions and other paranormal phenomena.

You might “get your kicks on Route 66,” but you’ll get a chill down your spine on Route 9.This bucolic stretch was voted the scariest road in America because it takes motorists through Sleepy Hollow, the clomping grounds of the headless horseman from Washington Irving’s 1820 short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”According to the legend, this phantom cavalryman is the ghost of a Hessian Mercenary who got decapitated during the Revolutionary War and now haunts the Hudson Valley hamlet.Come the scream season, rumors of the horseman surge, as people swear they can hear the bean-bereft revenant thundering down the path in search of his lost noggin.Far more frightening is Route 9 itself, which has been dubbed the Hudson Valley’s “Autobahn” due to the preponderance of motorists who drive like they don’t have a head.Poughkeepsie’s Route 9/44/55 interchange is reportedly the site of 460 crashes per year.

Elm Street doesn’t compare to Old Ghost Road, a petrifying Peach State pathway that has become notorious for “sightings of shadowy figures that vanish when approached and strange lights flickering among the trees,” per the spooky streets list.“This road is steeped in stories o...