Some are so old and foul they can't be donated to charity.Īs soon as residents cart off the shoes, more appear. Residents now call it "Shoe Corner." It's a mysterious mishmash of footwear - sneakers, high-heels, slippers - of all sizes. Then, mysteriously, a man's boot appeared. "It started six years ago with one woman's boot at the side of the road," says Jim Ambroziak, 56. 60 miles southeast of Chicago - a mysterious pile of shoes, sometimes more than 100, accumulates on a country road near a cornfield - and no one knows how or why. In the wilds of Northern California, Bigfoot's mournful cry fills the night.Īnd in Hanover Township, Ind. The Phantom Shoe Bandit: In the Puerto Rican countryside, mysterious monsters known as "chupacabra" slaughter goats. Sweeney decided that "The Cappuccino Choker" needed a PR makeover, so she decided to rename the apparition.He's now known as Harry, and if you feel his presence there late in the evening, it's only because he's had too many refills.Ĥ. Rather than move, owner Rose Sweeney decided negotiation was better for business than outright exorcism. Reports of "The Cappuccino Choker" at Java Jive coffeehouse in Centre Hall, Pa., led to an investigation by local psychics. What do you do when a sudden, strange chill runs through your coffee shop and your employees feel unseen fingers around their throats? "Actually, the ghost is so popular, the troopers are warning ghost hunters not to get out of their cars. Is the haunted tollbooth merely a gimmick to get motorists to sign up for electronic tags for express-lane service?
"The reports started in May, as soon as the tollbooth opened, and they've continued," says Sara Cross of the Virginia Department of Transportation. The ghostly rider whoops and hollers a war cry, and sometimes carries a torch. Motorists in Richmond, Va., are reporting the milky-white specter of a Native American on horseback, chasing them as they cross the eastbound tollbooth on the Pocahontas Parkway. The Express Lane Horseman: Here's the best reason yet to travel with plenty of quarters.
That has to make for an unhappy spirit."Ī redneck ghost is just like any other, except he drinks more beer, leaves chewing tobacco canisters laying around, and may insist on midnight offerings of Cheetos.Ģ. I heard of one guy who was killed when he was hit in the head with a nail gun. "You have a lot of strange accidental deaths in trailer parks - and that's the makings of a haunting. He says he started the Web site as a joke, only to find that many trailer-park residents really believe they own a rolling haunted house that's propped up on cement blocks. "We know ghosts haunt locations - not just houses, so why not?" says Weaver. Redneck apparitions are giving a whole new meaning to "white trash," according to Larry Weaver of Durham, N.C., who lived in a trailer for seven years and founded When a real tear streams down the face of your velvet portrait of Elvis and his eyes start to move, your trailer might be haunted - and not by regular ghosts. Unhappy Campers: Is there an unnatural feeling of unrest in your doublewide? Does the simulated-wood paneling sometimes sweat blood … even when you're not drinking malt liquor? This Halloween, The Wolf Files looks at some nontraditional hauntings.ġ. Maybe if they had done more with their lives, they'd be doing more with their afterlives. Perhaps these ghosts are just underachievers - couch potatoes justifiably damned for all eternity to a McDonald's. Now, even ghosts have housing issues.īut let's not be bleeding hearts.
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