Hell Hollow Road…sound like somewhere you want to be?  Don’t worry – no need to check out what haunts and stalks there, for we at FEARnet are happy to do the job for you.  Yes, we’ve got the FEARbus up and running for our trip down to Voluntown, Connecticut to see Hell Hollow Road, and it’s chock full of ghosts, dead girls, and assorted heathens. Jump on board the bus and see what awaits you!

Just how Hell Hollow Road got its name is one of the great controversies of the Voluntown area.  Less excitable locals will tell you that, like Purgatory Road, the difficulty of working the terrain led to the road and area’s demonic namesake.  But dig a little deeper, and you’ll find a darker history.  Apparently, in the early days of the town, a group of people lived in a hollow.  The local preacher tried to get those people to come to church, but when they refused (due, many think, to it being a difficult trek) he cursed the whole lot, saying that they lived in a Hell Hollow.  Some even believe it was that curse that’s led to the hauntings that appear today.

One thing everyone can agree on is the primary haunt of this area.  The story (now near myth) about a young girl named Maude still circulates, and many believe her ghost haunts this road and the surrounding land.  Maude was only two years old when she died in the late 1800s.  The details of the circumstances are sketchy at best – some believe Maude died of diphtheria, a disease that closes up the throat and results in choking and suffocation, others believe she was perhaps killed by being physically choked to death.  Maude’s grief-stricken mother refused to bury her daughter out of sight (or, as others believe, they were too snowed in for her to do so), so legend holds that she buried Maude in view of the home.  Some even contend that the following year the family went to move her body to the proper cemetery, only to find the body and casket missing!  Now, Maude’s ghost is said to haunt the area, wandering through the woods and making noises in the wild.  Popular current legend also holds that, when driving past Maude’s grave (now near impossible to pinpoint, save by chance) if one says her name, the car will either stall or, worse yet, crash!

Maude and her car-trashing tendencies aren’t the only things spooky on Hell Hollow Road.  Locals have reported seeing orbs and feeling a heaviness to the area.  Screaming ghosts (perhaps Maude, perhaps not) have been heard wailing in the area, and “Shadowmen”, man-sized apparitions that look like shadows, have passed back and forth across the road.

All that and more was enough to land Hell Hollow a top spot among our Streets of Fear.  Check out the road (and a psychic who had an extreme experience up there) in today’s Hell Hollow Road episode!