Slightly Odd Fitchburg

This post was originally shared as a Facebook and Instagram "DID YOU KNOW" post. I share them and you can get in on the fun by liking my page at  Facebook.com/TheNewSlightlyOddFitchburg  and following me at  Instagram.com/SlightlyOddFitchburg ! Now onto the haunting story! DID YOU KNOW there's a hitchhiking ghost in Maine called The Girl in the Snow? Yeah, so if you’ve ever driven Route 2A through Haynesville Woods in northern Maine during the dead of winter, you know the kind of road we’re talking about here. They’re narrow, twisting, hemmed in by skeletal trees and just waiting for the next accident. It’s the sort of place where headlights feel more like flashlights in a cave than actual illumination. If you happen to be on this road in the winter, you might just meet the hitchhiker ghost that’s been terrifying truckers and travelers since the 1960s. The legend goes like that, on icy nights when the snow is blowing sideways and the thermometer has given up entirely, dri...

Watch the video above or read it in article form, below! Okay, so this post has been a long time coming. I was originally supposed to post it back in October as part of the Atlas of the Odd series. The whole concept was to give you haunted places that you could actually visit during the Halloween season, but, needless to say, that didn’t happen. I ended up coming down with COVID and that knocked me out for a month and a half. Then I came out on the other side of that just in time for the holiday season. Then I was just lazy. Anyway, here we are again in a new year and it’s finally time to visit Route 44 in Rehoboth! This is a story that you legally have to talk about if you write about ghosts and stuff. It’s pretty much been done to death, but hopefully I can give you some new information about it, or at least make it entertaining. Let’s just say that I want this post to get a big thumb up, and not just from a hitchhiking ghost! Get it? Wow, we’re off to a terrible start. Okay, let’...