Rank your area`s 10 deadliest roads:
Martinez, CA NE thru Brentwood is “Blood Alley”; cars run into the enbankments and tip over for no apparent reason, apparently haunted. This did not happen until in the 70-80`s when they straightened the road out, probably digging over an Indian burial ground in the process.
East of San Francisco is Niles Canyon Rd. which is haunted. Strange accidents occur there as a woman in white will suddenly appear in your back seat. One of my salesman died there inexplicably when his car crashed head-on into a tree.
He always talked about seeing a woman in a white flowing transparent gown walking at night along the road, then disappearing; many crashes there.
Here in NY we have ‘Deadman`s Curve’ which after 75 years of many deaths was finally closed off.
Also there is another curve by the lake 9N where cars fly off into the lake fast while cruising at low speeds.
Another one is coming down the mountain where trucks always lose their brakes. They also straightened this road out in 1990`s, digging thru an old Indian path next to an ancient black lead warpaint site.
As you mention Martinez-Brentwood and Niles Canyon, I have to add the Pacheco Pass on Highway 152 between Gilroy and Los Banos. That place is so haunted it made me feel ill every time I drove through!
You are truly a fount of knowledge.
I haven’t thought of the Niles canyon ghost in years. My take on all the accidents was that Niles Canyon simply is traveled by rushed, frustrated, type-A people unable to pass, in a hurry to get to their expensive homes.