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8/17/04
It should come as no surprise to anyone that this was
always one of my favorite spots. Ive made countless trips here since i started
making trips back in the summer of 03. The loop I had established through West
Milford (Demons Alley, Clinton, Jungle Habitat, the one abandoned house,
Monksville, Wanaque) Was like a weekly ritual for me, at one point coming up to
Clinton like 2-3 times a week. Used to drive all the way down to Tory, pick her
up, go all the way to Clinton, back to her house to drop her off and come home
for work. So I guess it only makes sense that what i have to say in this update
kinda saddens me.
No matter how many trips were made Clinton always had that
feeling about it. That unsettling feeling, like something wasn't right. well in
recent months this has been slipping away. The once dead silence is now replaced
with the usual nightly chatter of woods and you can see animals wander about the
road. And there's cops!? Something is definitely not right here, in the way of
things being normal again.
In all the trips I've made up till this point I've seen 2
cops, and absolutely no animals until more recent months. I've stood in the
woods at night with no cars around me and there is dead silence. Now animal
sightings, and animal noise have become commonplace.
A few months ago an excavator appeared and there were signs
of them cutting back the embankments on the sides of the road after Deadman's
Curve. Ever since this the road has had a different feel to it... a normal feel.
Well, now most of the road had been repaved. Gone are the bumps and rattles...
gone are the potholes.... and gone is whatever was trapped here.
This became very apparent on a trip on 8/13/04 (friday the
13th. I didn't realize that it was Friday the 13th or else we would have gone to
the highway instead) I was waved over by flashlight by one of two cops who had
two patrol cars stopped in the road lights on, apparently they were stopping
everyone that night. well the officer asked me a few questions and threatened to
give me a summons but I lucked out and was able to use my knowledge of street
names up there to give directions street by street back out to 287 from the
north end along with a BS story about using 23 to Clinton etc... to cut from 80
to 287. (yes it works, but it is the most ass backwards way to go, considering
80 and 287 do cross one another) Upon seeing that I knew my way around he
reluctantly had to let me go but he did make sure to have a third officer
waiting for me on the Warwick Turnpike to make sure i was headed that way.
Anyway during the rest of the drive the typical vibe that
Clinton gives wasn't there at all. Now I know its easy to assume that its not as
"creepy" with the new pavement but I sincerely believe that's not where our
explanation lies here. The road has changed ore than physically since the work
on it had started, and I for one am convinced that they disturbed whatever was
occupying the road. Now I don't claim to be an expert on the supernatural, but
the way I see it this didn't necessarily mean that they uncovered anything
physical while digging, not that I think it would be made well known if they
did, but more that the work has disturbed whatever residual was causing the
things we've felt and seen.
Either way Clinton road appears to have undergone a change.
Not one that I'd like to see, but I have to assume its for the better of
who/whatever's spirit was trapped here. Now id love to prove myself wrong here,
but after this long of a time of the road being "dormant" we feel that its time
to call this one as we see it.
R.I.P to our "man in white"
~Jay
Heh. Clinton Road. What to say on this one? More like what am I gonna try to not
forget to say.
This is easily one of the most popular spots for night rides
in NJ. And this is actually where I got my start. When I got back from college
in the spring and wanted to start touring NJ I was finally able to drag some of
my friends here (Chris Wilson and Megan) one night when we were bored.
unfortunately that first night we got lost, and never made it, but it was pretty
interesting. I had some kid step out in front of my car and try to block me in
the dead end I had just turned around in..... I almost hit him when he
sidestepped in front of me as I swerved around him.
The following night I went with the same bunch, and we
actually found it. At that point it was the scariest thing I had ever seen/done,
and I was hooked. The miles have just been piling on my car ever since. I've
made a ridiculous number of trips there, and have brought almost everyone I know
at some point.
Through my travels up and down this road I have seen allot of
things. Some cool, some weird, some scary, and some just absolutely f***ed up
I have spent allot of time exploring this road, both during
the day, and at night. One of the things that I had been looking for was the
furnace. for some odd reason no matter how hard I looked I was unable to find
it. one day we were headed northbound as usual, and out of no where I saw it. it
was still summer, so its not like the foliage had died, or any other conditions
were different, but out of no where there it was right in front of me. I still
find it odd that I had passed by it so many times and never seen it.
Another night we were there I saw a pair of headlights coming
up behind me really quickly. I knew that there wasn't much I could do if
something was to happen, and I wasn't outrunning whoever it was, so I just set
for the impact that I thought was imminent. The car swerved around me closer
than I would ever wish another car to get to me faster than id ever have the
balls to drive on that road. I have since seen the car in the area, so I know it
was just a local messing with me, but it definitely scared the crap out of me at
the time.
One night there was four of us in my car. We were headed
northbound coming form 23, when all of a sudden Tory gasped, out of the corner
of my eye I caught something.. I had a hard time getting a good look, since I
was driving, but I will say I saw this much, it was a white form, in the shape
of a human. it was off into the woods a little bit off to the right of us, but
when I caught a glimpse of us it was far enough to the side that my headlights
couldn't have lit it up so clearly. vie been in the woods at night on this
road, and I know how the visibility in them is, and how hard it is to make out
shapes, let alone have something stand out like that. Whatever the hell it was
there was something very wrong about it, and it definitely left a lasting
impression, so much so that I actually had stayed away from the road for a
little bit.
Clinton road is definitely creepy just by looks, but there is
definitely something else to the road. I'm not sure what it is, but there is
just so many weird things associated with this stretch of asphalt.
~Jay
12/8/03
Despite what everyone says about how one day I'm going to find something that i
dont want to, and despite the fact that I have found stuff I didn't want to i
keep going back here looking for things and maybe even some answers.
We were up here looking for the spot where we saw the guy I
wrote about last time, since both of us somehow couldn't remember for the lives
of us where we saw this "thing" He/it still bothers both of us, cuz it makes no
sense, but anyway.... We found what seemed to be the right spot, and
stopped the car. no one got out, but we rolled the windows down to shine lights
into the woods and get a better look at the area. in question. because the
windows were down we were able to hear something move, which is weird because
there is almost always dead silence on the road, (trust me, I was in the woods
by dead man's curve with one other person while the rest my friends drove my car
a good mile down the road, don't ask....) We tried to get a light on whatever had
moved, and we heard it again someone managed to get a light on the spot this
time just in time for all three of us to see what appeared to be the outline of
a human drop into a crouch from a standing position. As dumb as I am I wasn't
stupid enough to stay around and find out what was standing over us on the
little bit of a hill to the right of us, so we got the hell out of there fast.
Although another hasty retreat left even more questions unanswered.... although
some days I get the feeling that I don't want to know anyway....
Its at least my thought that if it was the same "thing" as
last time it would have shown itself as it had before, which leads me to believe
that there's now two unknown things out there in the middle of these woods.
~Jay
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