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Be sure to lace up your hiking boots, and grab your flashlight, your EVP recorder, and your courage. And for good measure – your proton pack, if you have one. You just might need it! Here are 10 of the most haunted hikes in the United States.
10. Bloody Lane Trail, Maryland
Battle of Antietam
9. Long Path, New York
Letchworth Village Cemetery
Letchworth Village building in 2011
8. Iron Goat Trail, Washington
Avalanche wreckage
7. Transept Trail, Grand Canyon National Park, Utah
Portrayal of La Llorona
6. Ghost House Trail, Tennessee
Forest along the Ghost House Trail
Grave of Maston Hutcheson at Norton Cemetery
5. Manoa Falls, Oahu, Hawaii
Manoa Falls Trail
Manoa Falls
“Night Marchers”
4. Black Star Canyon, Orange County, California
Black Star Canyon Falls
Black Star Canyon “Trail” to the Falls
At this point in the hike, there is no marked trail, and you need to navigate through stream beds and boulders.
3. Bash Bish Falls, Mount Washington, Massachusetts
2. Grouse Lake & Chilnualna Falls, Yosemite National Park, California
Chilnualna Falls
Swimming hole at upper Chilnualna Falls
Grouse Lake
1. Batona Trail, New Jersey
Pine Barrens, New Jersey
Illustration of the Jersey Devil, Philadelphia Bulletin, January 1909
Honorable Mentions
Spruce Railroad Trail / Lake Crescent, Washington
Hallie Illingworth
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
Tuberculosis hut, Mammoth Cave
Corpse Rock in Mammoth Cave
Picnic Table 29, Griffith Park, California
- https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/haunted/photos/scariest-haunted-hiking-trails-us
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- https://paranormal.lovetoknow.com/ghosts-hauntings/most-haunted-hikes-america
Music credits:
- Ghost Busters, by Ray Parker Jr.
- “On the Trail,” The Grand Canyon Suite by Ferde Grofé
- All other music from the Youtube Audio Library and the Immortal Soles Podcast
