The online travel guide SIXT recently listed Bedminster Township’s Birch Lane as the most haunted byway in the state and the 11th most haunted in the country, writes JD Mullane for the Bucks County Courier Times.
“Visitors have reported feeling sudden chills, hearing footsteps on the gravel when no one is near, and glimpsing fleeting shapes in the corners of their eyes,” it said.
Despite these claims, many Bedminster locals state that they’ve never experienced any mysterious events or seen apparitions near the road.
Doris Pronkowitz, who has lived on Birch Lane for the last 50 years, said she hasn’t encountered any ghosts since moving there.
SIXT created its list based on data from TikTok and Google, and internet searches of “roads” paired with the terms “haunted” and “ghost.” Birch Lane had 60,100 searches.
“The nearest cemetery is up on Keller’s Church Road, so maybe they’re wandering over here, but I’ve never seen ’em,” said resident Jack Rutherford. “When my kids were little, you’d hear things in the farmhouse, it’s an old house, you know, and I’d tell them that was the ghost. A friendly ghost. I didn’t want to scare them.”
Cpl. James Brown, a member of the Bedminster Police Department, said no locals have come to the station with reports of ghost sightings.
Read more about why Bedminster’s Birch Lane was called the most haunted road in the state in the Bucks County Courier Times.
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