Florida hiway haunted???

by Tatiana 6 Replies latest jw friends

  • Tatiana
    Tatiana

    Hey, buttlight, didn't I read that you owned a house in Fla?

    http://www.local6.com/news/13281055/detail.html

    Stretch Of I-4 Believed To Be Haunted Built Over Graves

    ORLANDO, Fla. -- A small stretch of Interstate 4 between Daytona Beach and Orlando where motorists have reported unexplained, ghostly sightings was built on top of four graves, Local 6 News reported.

    On Monday night, Local 6's Mike Holfeld reported on a stretch of road that has been the location of nearly 2,000 accidents since 1963.

    Over the years, people reported seeing strange things on the road.

    "People are claiming to see all kinds of things -- orbs floating across the highway, apparitions on the side of the road hitchhiking, phantom trucks, you name it," book author Charlie Carlson said.

    After the report aired, viewers called to learn more about a photo of a ghostly figure seen in front of a crumpled sedan that was apparently taken on the "I-4 Dead Zone."

    Carlson, who is the author of the book Weird Florida, said he received the ghostly photo via e-mail from a Melbourne reader four years ago.

    However, Holfeld has learned that the photograph or one similar to it has been circulating since 1999.

    Holfeld also said what is certain is that four graves are located beneath the stretch of I-4.

    The graves date back to the 1880s and a settlement called St. Joseph’s Catholic Colony, the report said. One of the German families fell victim to a yellow fever epidemic.

    "It is two adults and two children buried on the very spot that has been shrouded in mystery," Holfeld said.

    The family buried under the road is one of eight families found on a document, Holfeld said. The names are: Geiseker, Schlosser, Krueppel, Bauer, Forwald, Ochbosch, Yueger and Kulsch.

    "We can pretty much narrow it to one of those families for sure," Sanford historian Christine Best said.

    The Florida Highway Patrol is working with Local 6 to develop new information in the case, Holfeld reported.

  • Blueblades
    Blueblades

    Tatiana.get the book by Hans Holzer, GHOSTS. It's about true encounters with the world beyond, haunted places,houses and people.

    Blueblades

  • Jim_TX
    Jim_TX

    Wow! Cool! (or is that... spooky!)

    My wife seems to be able to see ghosts... one day at work, she walked by our boss' office and looked in - and saw a man sitting in the office chair behind the desk.

    The main light was off, and it was a bit darker in there, but she thought it was our boss... until she remembered that he was out of town, on business. She went back a second later to look - and he was gone.

    At first when she told me, "I just saw a ghost in Richard's office." I laughed, and got back to work, thinking that Richard had put up some sort of stuffed animal or something that resembled a ghost.

    When I later asked her about it - and got more details, she said it was a man, sitting there, looking straight ahead - and at her - as she looked in the room.

    I then asked her if she's ever talked to these ghosts that she sees, and she said on one occassion, one nodded to her - after she asked it a question.

    Makes one think... (hears twilight zone music)

    Regards,

    Jim TX

  • JH
    JH
    Hey, buttlight, didn't I read that you owned a house in Fla?

    Lets hope that she didn't live in too many states....

  • The wanderer
    The wanderer

    Yes, by the St. Johns River Bridge.

  • ButtLight
    ButtLight
    Hey, buttlight, didn't I read that you owned a house in Fla?

    yes, about 3 hours south of there. Did travel that road many times though......cant remeber any accidents (atleast while we were on it)

    Next time I go, maybe I should shoot some photos and videos!

  • Tatiana
    Tatiana
    On Monday night, Local 6's Mike Holfeld reported on a stretch of road that has been the location of nearly 2,000 accidents since 1963.

    Is that an outrageous figure? What are the stats on accidents per one hiway? 2000 divided by 44 years = 45.454545 per year. Damn...that does seem high.

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