In Cali:
Mysterious “Charman” Roams Creek Road, Ojai Valley:
According to one locally-published book, the Ojai is “California’s Most Haunted Valley.”1 Situated a few scenic miles above the Pacific shoreline, the fictional childhood home of Jamie Sommers (the Bionic Woman of the mid-seventies TV show) is just far enough from the bustle of Los Angeles to make the area seem like any other small valley town. There are, however enough Halloween-caliber stories here to keep any tour company busy throughout the year: the ghost of a world-famous spiritual leader, a bridge haunted by a burn victim, an update on the headless horseman story, and even a vampire.
Another popular tale (which seems to be a local version the headless horseman) concerns the ghost of a headless motorcyclist. In the 1950s, a man was who was trying to pass a truck on the narrow mountain turns of Creek Road was decapitated by a wayward steel beam which became dislodged from the truck bed.
The incident happened with such suddenness that the motorcycle continued on, passing the startled driver, who promptly had a heart attack and crashed in a ravine. The cyclist’s ghost still rides at night, looking for his lost head. Since the Ojai was mostly settled in the 20th century, it makes sense to exchange a flesh-and-blood horse for a metal one, and some researchers swear by the tale.
Joining Charman and the unlucky biker along the lonely stretch of road are a phantom hitchhiker, and numerous reported anthropomorphic mists and shadows. One late-night motorist even claimed to have seen Bigfoot around the area where Creek Road exits highway 33. A simple late-night drive on this twisting road, lined with gnarled oak trees, is enough to spontaneously generate spook tales.
In Pennsylvania:
Gravity Roads:
A little knowledge of physics and a little personal observation will tell you the obvious: Unless something holds them up, objects tend to accelerate downwards. Gravity is a force of nature that even babies understand instinctively, and that even inanimate objects obey without question.
And yet there are places in the world in which the laws of gravity seem to be broken regularly. They go by many names: gravity hills, gravity roads, mystery spots, or spook hills. But they all work in pretty much the same way: If you put your car in neutral on one of these roads, slowly but surely, it begins to move uphill instead of down.
This phenomenon has been observed all over the world (there are gravity hills documented in Scotland, Portugal, Barbados, Australia, and Korea), but true to form, Pennsylvania offers several. And one of them is so feted that Bedford County has produced a tourist leaflet to help people find it.
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