The Allegedly Haunted Road That Inspired A Movie

Publish date: 2024-03-28

One of the epicenters for many of the legends surrounding New Jersey's Clinton Road is the remains of an actual castle that once stood nearby the infamous road. As Weird NJ explains, Cross Castle was built by Richard J. Cross in 1905 in the dense forests surrounding Clinton Road. The castle was a mansion with three-story-tall stone walls, and was originally named Bearfort, after the nearby mountain range of the same name. However, Cross died in 1917, and his family sold the property to the Newark city government two years later. After some time, much of the castle was consumed by fire, and the stone ruins became a popular hangout for teens and other partiers. In 1988, the graffiti-laden remnants of the castle were deemed unsafe and torn down, with only some concrete currently remaining of what once stood.

Local lore assigns Cross Castle as the location of all sorts of unholy and terrifying gatherings, including Satanists, the KKK, and apparently a secret village of albinos. Residents report stories of friends who witnessed witches' covens at the castle, as well as alleged graffiti that is said to match lines from a Satanic text. Other visitors to the ruins report becoming sick, having disturbing visions of violence and murder, going into seizures, hearing mysterious chanting and rattling of chains, and walking away with strange, unexplained bruises on their bodies. Perhaps needless to say, the legends suggest you should never get out of your car near the ruins of Cross Castle.

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